This is the second part of the mini-series Exasol on AWS. Here’s the first part.
Cloud UI is an extension to EXAoperation that makes it easy for you to
- Scale up & down
- Increase storage capacity
- Scale out by adding nodes to the cluster
Cloud UI can be reached by adding the port number 8835 to the URL of your License Server and uses the same credentials as EXAoperation.
Scale down to m5.large with Cloud UI
Depending on the load you get on your Exasol cluster, you can scale up your data nodes to more powerful EC2 instances if load is high and scale down to less expensive EC2 instances with lower user demands.
I started my little cluster with r5.large instances. Now I want to scale down to m5.large. Enter Cloud UI:
You see on the right site that scaling down to m5.large reduces both available memory and costs. I click on APPLY now and confirm the pop-up coming next with EXECUTE. The following steps the system goes through can be monitored in EXAoperation:
Notice that the database got restarted during that process.
Scale out by adding data nodes
I want to expand my present 1+0 cluster to a 2+1 cluster. First I add another active node:
As you see, this doesn’t only increase the overall avaible memory but also the compute power. Storage capacity is usually also increased when adding a node. In this particular case not, though, because I will also go from redundancy 1 to redundancy 2.
The log looks like this now:
My one node cluster did use redundancy 1, now I want to change that to redundancy 2. That step is of course not required when you started with a multi-node cluster using redundancy 2 already. See here for more details about redundancy in Exasol.
To increase redundancy, I go to the EXAstorage page of EXAoperation:
The new EC2 instance for the new data node can be renamed like this:
That makes it easier to identify the nodes, for example when associating elastic IPs to them. I do that now for n12 in the same way I did it with n11 before.
The elastic IPs of the data nodes must then be entered into the connection details of clients like DbVisualizer in this example:
After having added a new active node, that node is initially empty unless REORGANIZE operations are done. For example a REORGANIZE DATABASE:
I have a 2+0 cluster now: Mirrored segments on two active nodes but no reserve node.
Adding reserve nodes
To get a 2+1 cluster, I need to add a reserve node. Again, that’s quite easy to do with Cloud UI:
Within about 10 Minutes, the log should show something like this:
Notice that there was no database restart this time. The new node should get renamed and have a new elastic IP associated as shown before. Also that IP needs to be added to client connection details. See here if you wonder what reserve nodes are good for.
Now that I have got a 2+1 Exasol cluster running on AWS, I’m ready to demonstrate what happens if one node fails. That will be the next part of this series 🙂
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