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On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Donny Davis <donny(a)cloudspin.me> wrote:
I would say you would be much better off picking two hosts to do your
HE on
and setting up drdb for the HE storage. You will have fewer problems with
your HE.
Is drdb an oVirt thing? Or are you suggesting a db backup or
replicated sql db solution that I would cut over to manually.
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 1:41 AM, Sahina Bose
<sabose(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> If you mean, creating new gluster volumes - you need to make sure the
> gluster service is enabled on the Default cluster. The cluster that HE
> creates, has only virt service enabled by default. Engine should have been
> installed in "Both" mode like Roy mentioned.
I went over those settings with limited success. I went through
multiple iterations of trying to stand up HE on gluster storage. Then
I gave up on that and tried NFS storage.
Ultimately it always came down to sanlock errors (both gluster and NFS
storage). I tried restarting the sanlock service, which would lead to
watchdog rebooting the hosts. When the host came back up it almost
seemed like things had started working. I could see begin to
see/create gluster volumes (see hosted_storage, or begin to create a
data storage domain)
But when I would try to activate the hosted_storage domain things
would start to fall apart again. sanlock as far as I can tell.
I am currently running the engine on a physical system and things are
working fine. I am considering taking a backup and attempting to use
the HE physical to VM migration method, time permitting.
> On 12/28/2015 12:43 AM, Roy Golan wrote:
>
>
> 3 way replica is the officially supported replica count for VM store use
> case. If you wish to work with replica 4, you can update the
> supported_replica_count in vdsm.conf
Thanks for that insight. I think I just experienced the bad aspects of
both quorum=auto and quorum=none. I don't like replica 3, because you
can only have one brick offline at a time. I think N+2 should be the
target for a production environment. (so you have the capacity for a
failure while doing maintenance). Would adding an arbiter effect the
quorum status? Is 3x replica and 1x arbiter considered a replica 3 or
4?
> No chicken and egg here I think. You want a volume to be used as
your
> master data domain and creating a new volume in a new gluster-cluster is
> independent of your datacenter status.
>
> You mentioned your hosts are on default cluster - so make sure your
> cluster support gluster service (you should have picked gluster as a service
> during engine install)
I chose "both" during engine-setup, although I didn't have "gluster
service" enable on the default cluster at first. Also vdsm-gluster rpm
was not installed (I sort of feel like 'hosted-engine --deploy' should
take care of that. Adding a host from my current physical engine using
the "add host" gui didn't bring it in either.
Thanks for the input!