Setup for minimum disk spinup and pinned files on SSD

[Marcus]

Hi there,

 

just bought the bundle and toying around with the setup of drivepool.

 

Just a summary what i want to achieve:

 

Homeserver for Files and some Hyper-V Guests:

 

Two or more Archive Disks

Two SSDs for SSD Optimizer and the HV Guests

 

Pool\VMs (unduplicated / should always be on the SSDs)

Pool\Documents(duplicated / should on Archive Disk)

Pool\random:files (unduplicated / should on Archive Disk, as soon the SSD runs out of free Space)

Pool\Movies_Archive (unduplicated / should on Archive Disk, as soon as the balancer kicks in.)

 

First of all. Is this setup possible? If yes, how? The release notes of the SSD Optimizer says that it can´t be used with the Ordered File Placement.

 

Any thoughts or hints on this?

 

Marcus

[Christopher (Drashna)]

The Pool VMs? Absolutely. Just set up a file placement rule for the folder, and it should lock the files to those disks.  Make sure you check the "never allow placement on other drives. 

 

 

The rest ... with the SSD Optimizer, new files will be written to the "SSD" drives and then moved off to the archive drives (as per the balancing settings). By default, this means every 12 hours. 

 

As for the random files, you can specify a limit in the file placement rules so that if it's XX% full, it will allow placement on other disks. That's what you'd want to use for this. 

[Marcus]

Hi Drashna,

 

thanks for your reply and the help.

After enabling the SSD Optimizer, all the files are balanced of to the archive disk and the File Placement Rule is ignored. running the latest Beta on a Win10 VM for testing. What could be my mistake? In the File Placement Rule is selected that the data should be under any circumstances on another disk,,,

[Christopher (Drashna)]

That's odd.

 

Could you let me know how you have everything setup? The easiest way may be to take screen captures of everything and post them here.

[Marcus]

Sorry for some german, could´t find any way to change the GUI to english.

If the SSD Optimizer is disabled everthing is OK. If i enable the plugin the files are moved to the archive Disks.

Now the strange part: If i disable the SSD Optimizer again the files stay on the archive disks.

 

 

Marcus

[Marcus]

Hi Drashna,

 

just testet it in a Windows 7 Vm with the stable version of Drivepool. Same behavior for me.

 

Marcus

[Christopher (Drashna)]

You have balancing disabled (in the first image). That is most likely why you're having issues here. 

 

Please set the option to "Balance Immediately" ("sofort ausgleichen") or to "Balance every day at:" ("Jeden Tag ausgleichen um:"), and then let it balance. 

 

If that doesn't help, let me know.

 

 

 

And if it helps, you can override the language settings by using this:

http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_2.x_Advanced_Settings

Set "DrivePool_CultureOverride" to "en" and reboot the system (or restart the "StableBit DrivePool Service").

[Marcus]

Hi Drashna,

 

unfortunately that wasn´t the reason. I did this on purpose to have more control during the test. If i change it back to "Balance immediately" It will stay on the SSD as long i don´t click on Re-measure. After that the data is balaced of to the archve disks.

 

Marcus

[Christopher (Drashna)]

Could you disable all of the other balancers (aside from the SSD Optimizer, and optionally, the StableBit Scanner balancer), and uncheck just the "unless the drive is being emptied" option (the bottom one on the settings tab). 

 

See if that works better.