AetherStore Update: Add Node Functionality Added
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We just put out a new release with the functionality to "Add Node" to your existing Store, check it out on your Downloads page!! If you haven't created an account yet you can do so here.
Several of you have have asked about/known this update was coming (@BRRABill @Dashrender and others) so we're looking forward to hearing what you think!
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@shannon said in AetherStore Update: Add Node Functionality Added:
We just put out a new release with the functionality to "Add Node" to your existing Store, check it out on your Downloads page!! If you haven't created an account yet you can do so here.
Received the email a bit ago. I happen to be on site where I installed my test node. Let me look at updating.
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@JaredBusch that's what we like to hear!
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Note about updating: make sure to update all of the computers in your Store so everything runs smoothly. You don't need to delete any existing Stores to transition to the update.
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Well I messed up somehow.
I logged into my set setup... check what version was on that node 2.0.80.x dismounted the store, installed the upgrade version over the top, upon launching the management node, it can only see the local node, not the rest, and my old store appears to be gone. Good thing I had no data I cared about in there.
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@shannon said in AetherStore Update: Add Node Functionality Added:
Note about updating: make sure to update all of the computers in your Store so everything runs smoothly. You don't need to delete any existing Stores to transition to the update.
I didn't delete, I only unmounted the store (i.e. no longer a mapped drive).
Going to update the software on the other 3 nodes now.
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@Dashrender once those other nodes are updated you should be able to see them and the Store! With this update machines need to be on the same version to communicate.
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@shannon said in AetherStore Update: Add Node Functionality Added:
@Dashrender once those other nodes are updated you should be able to see them and the Store! With this update machines need to be on the same version to communicate.
You seriously need to add a warning about that if it will be the case on any update. I updated and after seeing the same, assumed that is what I needed to do and the others are being updated now. But that is not intuitive.
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@shannon said in AetherStore Update: Add Node Functionality Added:
@Dashrender once those other nodes are updated you should be able to see them and the Store! With this update machines need to be on the same version to communicate.
This is what I saw. I have now updated all 4 nodes, and installed the software on a 5th.
With the 4, I saw the store come back, and was able to remount it. Then I was able to add a 5th node to the store with no issues.
The whole process was pretty painless, but was glad this was only a test, cause I did freak a bit when my store was gone after I upgraded the primary node.
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Store grown from 6 to 9 devices.
Problem, how do I manage the storage allocated per node? i thought that was changable in version 1? Been a while though, so I could be wrong.
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When adding my 5th node, It took me a bit to realize I had to tell aetherstore how much to allocate to the store when adding a machine. When I tried to allocate more than the free space, I didn't get an error per se, instead it just told me I had to indicate the amount of allocation I was giving. If you allocate more than you have free space, you should expressly tell the user what the problem is so they can more easily fix it.
In my case, I had 45 GB free, and I wasn't paying attention and told it to allocate 50 GB (oh and you have to put in 50GB, not 50 GB - pain remembering not to add the space).
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@shannon said in AetherStore Update: Add Node Functionality Added:
Note about updating: make sure to update all of the computers in your Store so everything runs smoothly. You don't need to delete any existing Stores to transition to the update.
Can we get that automated? Would be awesome if the dashboard pushed that and made it just happen.
