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Version: 3.1

Scale up

Portworx runs as a DaemonSet in Kubernetes. Hence, when you add a node or a worker to your Kubernetes cluster, you do not need to install Portworx on it.

Add a new node

  1. Add a new node to your Kubernetes cluster.

  2. List your daemon sets while Kubernetes is adding the new node. Enter the kubectl get daemonsets command specifying the following:

    • The -n flag with the name of your namespace (this example uses kube-system)

    • The -l flag with the label of your Portworx Pods (name=portworx)

      kubectl get ds -n kube-system -l "name=portworx"
      NAME         DESIRED   CURRENT   READY     UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   NODE-SELECTOR   AGE
      portworx 6 5 5 5 5 <none> 4h
  3. Use the kubectl get pods command to display your Pods:

    kubectl get pods -n kube-system -l "name=portworx"
    NAME                                 READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
    portworx-14g3z 2/2 Running 0 4h
    portworx-ggzvz 1/2 Running 0 2m
    portworx-hhg0m 2/2 Running 0 4h
    portworx-rkdp6 2/2 Running 0 4h
    portworx-stvlt 2/2 Running 0 4h
    portworx-vxqxh 2/2 Running 0 4h
  4. Your Portworx cluster automatically scales as you scale your Kubernetes cluster. Display the status of your Portworx cluster, by entering the pxctl status command:

    pxctl status
    Status: PX is operational
    License: Trial (expires in 30 days)
    Node ID: k8s-master
    IP: 10.140.0.2
    Local Storage Pool: 1 pool
    POOL IO_PRIORITY RAID_LEVEL USABLE USED STATUS ZONE REGION
    0 MEDIUM raid0 10 GiB 471 MiB Online default default
    Local Storage Devices: 1 device
    Device Path Media Type Size Last-Scan
    0:1 /dev/sdb STORAGE_MEDIUM_SSD 10 GiB 31 Jul 17 12:59 UTC
    total - 10 GiB
    Cluster Summary
    Cluster ID: px-cluster
    Cluster UUID: d2ebd5cf-9652-47d7-ac95-d4ccbd416a6a
    IP ID Used Capacity Status
    10.140.0.7 k8s-4 266 MiB 10 GiB Online
    10.140.0.2 k8s-master 471 MiB 10 GiB Online (This node)
    10.140.0.4 k8s-2 471 MiB 10 GiB Online
    10.140.0.3 k8s-0 461 MiB 10 GiB Online
    10.140.0.5 k8s-1 369 MiB 10 GiB Online
    10.140.0.6 k8s-3 369 MiB 10 GiB Online
    Global Storage Pool
    Total Used : 2.3 GiB
    Total Capacity : 60 GiB

Scale up the Cassandra StatefulSet

  1. Display your stateful sets by entering the kubectl get statefulsets command:

    kubectl get sts cassandra
    NAME        DESIRED   CURRENT   AGE
    cassandra 4 4 4h

    In the above example output, note that the number of replicas is four.

  2. To scale up the cassandra stateful set, you must increase the number of replicas. Enter the kubectl scale statefulsets command, specifying the following:

    • The name of your stateful set (this example uses cassandra)

    • The desired number of replicas (this example creates five replicas)

      kubectl scale statefulsets cassandra --replicas=5
      statefulset "cassandra" scaled
  3. To list your Pods, enter the kubectl get pods command:

    kubectl get pods -l "app=cassandra" -w
    NAME          READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
    cassandra-0 1/1 Running 0 5h
    cassandra-1 1/1 Running 0 4h
    cassandra-2 1/1 Running 0 4h
    cassandra-3 1/1 Running 0 3h
    cassandra-4 1/1 Running 0 57s
  4. To open a shell session into one of your Pods, enter the following kubectl exec command, specifying your Pod name. This example opens the cassandra-0 Pod:

    kubectl exec -it cassandra-0 -- bash
  5. Use the nodetool status command to retrieve information about your Cassandra cluster:

    nodetool status
    Datacenter: DC1-K8Demo
    ======================
    Status=Up/Down
    |/ State=Normal/Leaving/Joining/Moving
    -- Address Load Tokens Owns (effective) Host ID Rack
    UN 10.0.128.1 84.75 KiB 32 41.4% 1c14f7dc-44f7-4174-b43a-308370c9139e Rack1-K8Demo
    UN 10.0.240.1 130.81 KiB 32 45.2% 60ebbe70-f7bc-48b0-9374-710752e8876d Rack1-K8Demo
    UN 10.0.192.2 156.84 KiB 32 41.1% 915f33ff-d105-4501-997f-7d44fb007911 Rack1-K8Demo
    UN 10.0.160.2 125.1 KiB 32 45.3% a56a6f70-d2e3-449a-8a33-08b8efb25000 Rack1-K8Demo
    UN 10.0.64.3 159.94 KiB 32 26.9% ae7e3624-175b-4676-9ac3-6e3ad4edd461 Rack1-K8Demo
  6. Terminate the shell session:

    exit
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