Creating Replicas of Local Volumes in Custom Topology Using the CLI

To set the configuration parameter for placing replicas of volumes in a topology relative to the local node, run the maprcli config save command. The value can be a:

• Positive number to indicate the number of paths to keep from the initial root (of the topology path). For example:

  maprcli config save -values {"cldb.local.volume.topology.trim.index":"1"}

• Negative number to indicate the number of paths to skip from the end of the topology path. For example:

  maprcli config save -values {"cldb.local.volume.topology.trim.index":"-2"}

For example, suppose the local volume is created on a node that is under the topology /data-center1/lab2/rack3/shelf4/10.10.20.30. To create a local volume where the replicas are restricted to /data-center1/lab2/rack3 topology, run the following command:

maprcli config save -values {"cldb.local.volume.topology.trim.index":"3"}
maprcli volume create -name egLocalVol -path /data-center1/lab2/rack3/shelf4/10.10.20.30 -localvolumehost 10.10.20.30

Alternatively, you can run the following command to specify the path for the volume from the end of the topology path:

maprcli config save -values {"cldb.local.volume.topology.trim.index":"-2"}
maprcli volume create -name egLocalVol -path /data-center1/lab2/rack3/shelf4/10.10.20.30 -localvolumehost 10.20.30.40

The replicas for containers of the volume, egLocalVol, will be created on nodes under /data-center1/lab2/rack3.