Increasing metadata performance - FSx for Lustre

Increasing metadata performance

You can increase a file system's metadata performance by using the Amazon FSx console, the AWS CLI, or the Amazon FSx API.

  1. Open the Amazon FSx console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/fsx/.

  2. In the left navigation pane, choose File systems. In the File systems list, choose the FSx for Lustre file system that you want to increase metadata performance for.

  3. For Actions, choose Update Metadata IOPS. Or, in the Summary panel, choose Update next to the file system's Metadata IOPS field.

    The Update Metadata IOPS dialog box appears.

  4. Choose User-provisioned.

  5. For Desired Metadata IOPS, choose the new Metadata IOPS value. Valid values are 1500, 3000, 6000, 12000, and multiples of 12000 up to a maximum of 192000. The value you enter must be greater than or equal to the current Metadata IOPS value.

  6. Choose Update.

To increase the metadata performance for an FSx for Lustre file system, use the AWS CLI command update-file-system (UpdateFileSystem is the equivalent API action). Set the following parameters:

  • Set --file-system-id to the ID of the file system that you are updating.

  • To increase your metadata performance, use the --lustre-configuration MetadataConfiguration property. This property has two parameters, Mode and Iops.

    1. If your file system is in USER_PROVISIONED mode, using Mode is optional (if used, set Mode to USER_PROVISIONED).

      If your file system is in AUTOMATIC mode, set Mode to USER_PROVISIONED (which switches the file system mode to USER_PROVISIONED in addition to increasing the Metadata IOPS value).

    2. Set Iops to a value of 1500, 3000, 6000, 12000, or multiples of 12000 up to a maximum of 192000. The value you enter must be greater than or equal to the current Metadata IOPS value.

The following example updates the provisioned Metadata IOPS to 96000.

aws fsx update-file-system \
    --file-system-id fs-0123456789abcdef0 \
    --lustre-configuration 'MetadataConfiguration={Mode=USER_PROVISIONED,Iops=96000}'