Rebalancing an availability zone

Data distribution across nodes in an availability zone can be rebalanced dynamically on a running system. This provides a mechanism for rebalancing work among nodes in a cluster.

[Warning]

Data distribution policies must specifically support dynamic rebalancing. Not all data distribution policies support this feature.

The Update button is used to rebalance data in an availability zone as shown in Figure 6.7, “Rebalancing an availability zone”.

Rebalancing an availability zone

Figure 6.7. Rebalancing an availability zone


Rebalancing an availability zone can also be done using this command.

epadmin --servicename=B rebalance availabilityzone --name="cluster-wide-availability-zone"