[Users] Data Center Non Responsive / Contending

Giorgio Bersano giorgio.bersano at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 11:10:27 EST 2014


2014-03-04 16:37 GMT+01:00 Liron Aravot <laravot at redhat.com>:
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Giorgio Bersano" <giorgio.bersano at gmail.com>
>> To: "Liron Aravot" <laravot at redhat.com>
>> Cc: "Meital Bourvine" <mbourvin at redhat.com>, "users at ovirt.org" <Users at ovirt.org>, fsimonce at redhat.com
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 5:31:01 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Users] Data Center Non Responsive / Contending
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>> 2014-03-04 16:03 GMT+01:00 Liron Aravot <laravot at redhat.com>:
>> > Hi Giorgio,
>> > Apperantly the issue is caused because there is no connectivity to the
>> > export domain and than we fail on spmStart - that's obviously a bug that
>> > shouldn't happen.
>>
>> Hi Liron,
>> we are reaching the same conclusion.
>>
>> > can you open a bug for the issue?
>> Surely I will
>>
>> > in the meanwhile, as it seems to still exist - seems to me like the way for
>> > solving it would be either to fix the connectivity issue between vdsm and
>> > the storage domain or to downgrade your vdsm version to before this issue
>> > was introduced.
>>
>>
>> I have some problems with your suggestion(s):
>> - I cannot fix the connectivity between vdsm and the storage domain
>> because, as I already said, it is exposed by a VM by this very same
>> DataCenter and if the DC doesn't goes up, the NFS server can't too.
>> - I don't understand what does it mean to downgrade the vdsm: to which
>> point in time?
>>
>> It seems I've put myself - again - in a situation of the "the egg or
>> the chicken" type, where the SD depends from THIS export domain but
>> the export domain isn't available if the DC isn't running.
>>
>> This export domain isn't that important to me. I can throw it away
>> without any problem.
>>
>> What if we edit the DB and remove any instances related to it? Any
>> adverse consequences?
>>
>
> Ok, please perform a full db backup before attempting the following:
> 1. right click on the the domain and choose "Destory"
> 2. move all hosts to maintenance
> 3. log in into the database and run the following sql command:
> update storage_pool where id = '{you id goes here}' set master_domain_version = master_domain_version + 1;
> 4. activate a host.

Ok Liron, that did the trick!

Up and running again, even that VM supposed to be the server acting as
export domain.

Now I've to run away as I'm late to a meeting but tomorrow I'll file a
bug regarding this.

Thanks to you and Meital for your assistance,
Giorgio.


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