When multiple users or services use the same ApsaraDB for HBase cluster, the resource
preemption occurs. The reads and writes of some important online services may be adversely
affected by multiple concurrent reads and writes of offline services. ApsaraDB for
HBase provides the Group feature to isolate resources for multiple tenants. To isolate
the resources, you can assign RegionServers to different groups and host different
tables in the group. The preceding figure shows that RegionServer1 and RegionServer2 are assigned to Group1
and RegionServer3 and RegionServer4 are assigned to Group2. Table1 and Table2 are
also moved to Group1. In this case, all regions of Table1 and Table2 are distributed
to RegionServer1 and RegionServer2 in Group1. All regions of Table3 and Table4 are
distributed to RegionServer3 and RegionServer4 in Group2. Therefore, the requests
to Table1 and Table2 are sent to RegionServer1 and RegionServer2. The requests to
Table3 and Table4 are sent to RegionServer3 and RegionServer4. This mechanism helps
you to isolate resources.
ApsaraDB for HBase Performance-enhanced Edition allows you to manage groups in the Cluster Management System.
You can view the information of all groups of the current cluster on the home page. If you have not created any group, the system provides a default group. All RegionServers and tables belong to the default group.

Create a group
On the Groups page, choose More > Create Group. After a new group is created, the numbers of servers and tables in this group are both 0. You must move servers and tables to this group.


Delete a group
Click Delete in the Actions column on the home page of the Cluster Management System to delete the corresponding group. Note: Before you delete a group, you must delete all tables and servers in the group. Otherwise, the deletion fails.
Move a RegionServer to a group
By default, all RegionServers belong to the default group. You must move the servers to the required group before you use them. Follow these steps: 1. On the home page of Cluster Management System, select the RegionServer in the Cluster servers table and click Move.

2. In the dialog box that appears, select the target group from the drop-down list and click OK.

Notes:1. If you move a table to a group that does not contain any RegionServer, the region of the table cannot be accessed because no online server is available.2. We recommend that you distribute at least two RegionServers to a group. If one of the RegionServers stops responding, you can access another server in the same group. If the only RegionServer in a group stops responding, all tables in this group cannot be accessed.3. After you move a RegionServer to a group, the online regions on this RegionServer are shared among all other RegionServers in the group and requests are evenly distributed to these regions. This ensures the server load balancing.
Configure the group for a namespace


Configure a group for tables
Follow the steps to change the group of a table: 1. On the User tables page of Cluster Management System, select the table and click Move.

