Create and Deploy Replication Nodes

The final step in your configuration process is to create Replication Nodes on every node in your store. You do this using the topology create and plan deploy-topology commands in its place. The topology create command takes the following arguments:

  • topology name

    A string to identify the topology.

  • pool name

    A string to identify the pool.

  • number of partitions

    The initial configuration is based on the storage nodes specified by pool. This number is fixed once the topology is created and it cannot be changed. The command will automatically create an appropriate number of shards and replication nodes based upon the storage nodes in the pool.

    You should make sure the number of partitions you select is more than the largest number of shards you ever expect your store to contain, because the total number of partitions is static and cannot be changed. For simpler use cases, you can use the following formula to arrive at a very rough estimate for the number of partitions:
    (Total number of disks hosted by the storage nodes  /
     Replication Factor) * 10
    To get a more accurate estimate for production use see Number of Partitions.

The plan deploy-topology command requires a topology name.

Once you issue the following commands, your store is fully installed and configured:

kv-> topology create -name topo -pool BostonPool -partitions 300
Created: topo
kv-> plan deploy-topology -name topo -wait
Executed plan 6, waiting for completion...
Plan 6 ended successfully

As a final sanity check, you can confirm that all of the plans succeeded using the show plans command:

kv-> show plans
1 Deploy Zone (1)          SUCCEEDED
2 Deploy Storage Node (2)  SUCCEEDED
3 Deploy Admin Service (3) SUCCEEDED
4 Deploy Storage Node (4)  SUCCEEDED
5 Deploy Storage Node (5)  SUCCEEDED
6 Deploy-RepNodes          SUCCEEDED

Having done that, you can exit the command line interface.

kv-> exit