ADSTS: Automatic Distributed Storage Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Modern distributed storage systems with the immense number of configurations, unpredictable workloads and difficult performance evaluation pose higher requirements to parameter tuning. Providing an automatic parameter tuning solution for distributed storage systems is in demand. Lots of researches have attempted to build automatic tuning systems based on deep reinforcement learning (RL). However, they have several limitations in the face of these requirements, including lack of parameter spaces processing, less advanced RL models and time-consuming and unstable training process. In this paper, we present and evaluate the ADSTS, which is an automatic distributed storage tuning system based on deep reinforcement learning. A general preprocessing guideline is first proposed to generate standardized tunable parameter domain. Thereinto, Recursive Stratified Sampling without the nonincremental nature is designed to sample huge parameter spaces and Lasso regression is adopted to identify important parameters. Besides, the twin-delayed deep deterministic policy gradient method is utilized to find the optimal values of tunable parameters. Finally, Multi-processing Training and Workload-directed Model Fine-tuning are adopted to accelerate the model convergence. ADSTS is implemented on Park and is used in the real-world system Ceph. The evaluation results show that ADSTS can recommend near-optimal configurations and improve system performance by 1.5 × ∼2.5 × with acceptable overheads.