st_volume_set_priority

Each volume has a priority value that determines two things:

  • how many background operations are created (relative to other volumes)
    when restoring a node or creating a snapshot
  • whether I/O operations should be preferred before operations from other volumes.
    Minimum priority is 20 and maximum is 0. The default is 10.

Mandatory parameters

Parameter name Data type Description
vid integer ID of an existing volume
prio integer New priority

Optional parameters

Parameter name Data type Description
vname string Name of an existing volume

Substitute parameters

The following table describes what parameters can be substituted for another parameter.

Parameter name Substitute parameter
vid vname
vname vid

Allowed users

The following users are allowed to run this job:

  • root

Allowed groups

The following groups are allowed to run this job:

  • root
  • exastoradm
  • exaadm

Examples

The following examples show how to run this job in a Python program using XML-RPC or on the command line using confd_client.