Operational Best Practices and Maintenance

• Leverage commodity servers to deliver flexible, scalable, and high-performance storage capabilities. - with a focus on optimal hardware configurations, network setups, and performance enhancements.

For additional information, see Lightbits Cluster Deployment.

• How to replace data SSDs - including detecting failures, implications on capacity, adding healthy SSDs, etc.

For additional information, see SSD Failure Handling.

• Enabling/disabling servers.
• When to stop/start services.
• Fail in place, fail in place timeout per server, evict.

For additional information, see Lightbits Server Maintenance and Handling.

• Scaling the cluster.

For additional information, see Adding a New Server.

• Removing and disabling a server from the cluster.

For additional information, see Removing a Server from a Cluster.

• Including cluster installation failure, log artifacts collection, and cleaning Lightbits from servers or a cluster.

For additional information, see Installation Troubleshooting .

• Including disk usage, inactive nodes, and SSD device issues.

For additional information, see the Introduction.

• Lightbits memory utilization and Linux memory management on x86 servers.

For additional information, see the Lightbits Memory Utilization and Linux Memory Management on x86 Servers.

• Client-side tuning parameters impact NVMe/TCP performance with Lightbits, using a 4K 100% random read workload as the baseline.

See this blog post for additional information.