Re: [ovirt-users] iSCSI Multipathing
Thanks for following up, Gianluca. At this point, my main question is why should I
configure iSCSI Bonds within the oVirt engine instead of or in addition to configuring
iSCSI initiators and multipathd directly in the host's OS.
The multipath.conf created by VDSM works fine with our devices, as do the stock EL6/7
kernels and drivers. We've had great success using these devices for over a decade in
various EL6/7 High-Availability server clusters, and when we configure everything manually
they seem to work great with oVirt. We're just wondering exactly what the advantage
is to taking the next step of configuring iSCSI Bonds within the oVirt engine.
For what it's worth, these are Infortrend ESDS devices with redundant controllers and
two 10GbE ports per controller. We connect each host and each controller to two separate
switches, so we can simultaneously lose both a controller and a switch without impacting
availability.
Thanks again!
Devin
On Apr 2, 2017, at 7:47 AM, Gianluca Cecchi
<gianluca.cecchi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Il 02 Apr 2017 05:20, "Devin A. Bougie" <devin.bougie(a)cornell.edu> ha
scritto:
We have a new 4.1.1 cluster up and running with OVS switches and an iSCSI hosted_storage
and VM data domain (same target, different LUN's). Everything works fine, and I can
configure iscsid and multipathd outside of the oVirt engine to ensure redundancy with our
iSCSI device. However, if I try to configure iSCSI Multipathing within the engine, all of
the hosts get stuck in the "Connecting" status and the Data Center and Storage
Domains go down. The hosted engine, however, continues to work just fine.
Before I provide excerpts from our logs and more details on what we're seeing, it
would be helpful to understand better what the advantages are of configuring iSCSI Bonds
within the oVirt engine. Is this mainly a feature for oVirt users that don't have
experience configuring and managing iscsid and multipathd directly? Or, is it important
to actually setup iSCSI Bonds within the engine instead of directly in the underlying OS?
Any advice or links to documentation I've overlooked would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Devin
What kind of iscsi storage stay are you using?