Uploaded image for project: 'OpenShift Specialist Platform Team'
  1. OpenShift Specialist Platform Team
  2. SPLAT-253

[aws][ebs] research/benchmark the new volume type gp3 to be used on IPI

Details

    • False
    • False
    • Undefined

    Description

       

      *USER STORY:*

      As a SPLAT engineer I would like to review if new EBS type gp3 can generate a better benefit for our customers when deploying IPI in default installation, considering performance and reliability on the control plane.

      *DESCRIPTION:*

      AWS recently launched gp3 EBS type without relation between capacity and IOPS. That option can bring us a benefit to adjust the control plane default installation using IPI, as we are using a gp2 with 128GiB (384 IOPS) o root volume.

      The default installation could bring a risk on control plane due to low IOPS available by default when we are comparing with our recommendations[1] and default installation in other providers[2], ex Azure. We also had a recent outage on vSphere CI cluster (build1)[3] running on AWS with defaults that one volume was throttling after a spikes of IO when running a update with a chain of events that happened meanwhile.

      The study case should consider the default installation of Azure and performance tests done on etcd that generates good outcomes to Azure IPI[4].

       

      *ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA:*
       
      create a doc including: * tests done with gp2, gp3, io1 with etcd on root and isolated partition;

      • cost benefits between volume types
      • mapping of changes to be done ( if applicable based on the results )

       

      *ENGINEERING DETAILS:*

        [1] Recommended etcd practices

        [2] Additional Azure configuration parameters

        [3] vSphere CI cluster outage

        [4] Separate Disk for etcd: Azure Performance Comparison

      [5] Useful references to monitor the EBS burst balance

      Attachments

        Issue Links

          Activity

            People

              rhn-support-mrbraga Marco Braga
              rhn-support-mrbraga Marco Braga
              Votes:
              0 Vote for this issue
              Watchers:
              2 Start watching this issue

              Dates

                Created:
                Updated:
                Resolved: