VM hanging at sustained high throughput
by David Johnson
Hi ovirt gurus,
This is an interesting issue, one I never expected to have.
When I push high volumes of writes to my NAS, I will cause VM's to go into
a paused state. I'm looking at this from a number of angles, including
upgrades on the NAS appliance.
I can reproduce this problem at will running a centos 7.9 VM on Ovirt 4.5.
*Questions:*
1. Is my analysis of the failure (below) reasonable/correct?
2. What am I looking for to validate this?
3. Is there a configuration that I can set to make it a little more robust
while I acquire the hardware to improve the NAS?
*Reproduction:*
Standard test of file write speed:
[root@cen-79-pgsql-01 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=./test bs=512k count=4096
oflag=direct
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
2147483648 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 1.68431 s, 1.3 GB/s
Give it more data
[root@cen-79-pgsql-01 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=./test bs=512k count=12228
oflag=direct
12228+0 records in
12228+0 records out
6410993664 bytes (6.4 GB) copied, 7.22078 s, 888 MB/s
The odds are about 50/50 that 6 GB will kill the VM, but 100% when I hit 8
GB.
*Analysis:*
What I think appears to be happening is that the intent cache on the NAS is
on an SSD, and my VM's are pushing data about three times as fast as the
SSD can handle. When the SSD gets queued up beyond a certain point, the NAS
(which places reliability over speed) says "Whoah Nellie!", and the VM
chokes.
*David Johnson*
1 year
Host needs to be reinstalled after configuring power management
by Andrew DeMaria
Hi,
I am running ovirt 4.3 and have found the following action item immediately
after configuring power management for a host:
Host needs to be reinstalled as important configuration changes were
applied on it.
The thing is - I've just freshly installed this host and it seems strange
that I need to reinstall it.
Is there a better way to install a host and configure power management
without having to reinstall it after?
Thanks,
Andrew
1 year, 1 month
Import an exported VM using Ansible
by paolo＠airaldi.it
Hello everybody!
I'm trying to automate a copy of a VM from one Datacenter to another using an Ansible.playbook.
I'm able to:
- Create a snapshot of the source VM
- create a clone from the snapshot
- remove the snapshot
- attach an Export Domain
- export the clone to the Export Domain
- remove the clone
- detach the Export domain from the source Datacenter and attach to the destination.
Unfortunately I cannot find a module to:
- import the VM from the Export Domain
- delete the VM image from the Export Domain.
Any hint on how to do that?
Thanks in advance. Cheers.
Paolo
PS: if someone is interested I can share the playbook.
1 year, 2 months
did 4.3.9 reset bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1590266
by kelley bryan
I am experiencing the error message in the ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-ansible-create_target_vm log
{2020-05-06 14:15:30,024-0500 ERROR ansible failed {'status': 'FAILED', 'ansible_type': 'task', 'ansible_task': u"Fail if Engine IP is different from engine's he_fqdn resolved IP", 'ansible_result': u'type: <type \'dict\'>\nstr: {\'msg\': u"Engine VM IP address is while the engine\'s he_fqdn ovirt1-engine.kelleykars.org resolves to 192.168.122.2. If you are using DHCP, check your DHCP reservation configuration", \'changed\': False, \'_ansible_no_log\': False}', 'task_duration': 1, 'ansible_host': u'localhost', 'ansible_playbook': u'/usr/share/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/ansible/trigger_role.yml'}}:Q!
The bug 1590266 says it should report the engine VM IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx while the Engines he_fqdn is xxxxxxxxx
I need to see what it thins is wrong as both dig fqdn engine name and dig -x ip return the correct information.
Now this bug looks like it may play but I don't see the failed rediness check in the this log https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4462431
or is it because the vm fails or dies or ???
1 year, 2 months
Lots of storage.MailBox.SpmMailMonitor
by Fabrice Bacchella
My vdsm log files are huge:
-rw-r--r-- 1 vdsm kvm 1.8G Nov 22 11:32 vdsm.log
And this is juste half an hour of logs:
$ head -1 vdsm.log
2018-11-22 11:01:12,132+0100 ERROR (mailbox-spm) [storage.MailBox.SpmMailMonitor] mailbox 2 checksum failed, not clearing mailbox, clearing new mail (data='...lots of data', expected='\xa4\x06\x08\x00') (mailbox:612)
I just upgraded vdsm:
$ rpm -qi vdsm
Name : vdsm
Version : 4.20.43
1 year, 2 months
How to renew vmconsole-proxy* certificates
by capelle＠labri.fr
Hi,
Since a few weeks, we are not able to connect to the vmconsole proxy:
$ ssh -t -p 2222 ovirt-vmconsole@ovirt
ovirt-vmconsole@ovirt: Permission denied (publickey).
Last successful login record: Mar 29 11:31:32
First login failure record: Mar 31 17:28:51
We tracked the issue to the following log in /var/log/ovirt-engine/engine.log:
ERROR [org.ovirt.engine.core.services.VMConsoleProxyServlet] (default task-11) [] Error validating ticket: : sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
Indeed, certificate /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/certs/vmconsole-proxy-helper.cer and others did expire:
--
# grep 'Not After' /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/certs/vmconsole-proxy-*
/etc/pki/ovirt-engine/certs/vmconsole-proxy-helper.cer: Not After : Mar 31 13:18:44 2021 GMT
/etc/pki/ovirt-engine/certs/vmconsole-proxy-host.cer: Not After : Mar 31 13:18:44 2021 GMT
/etc/pki/ovirt-engine/certs/vmconsole-proxy-user.cer: Not After : Mar 31 13:18:44 2021 GMT
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But we did not manage to found how to renew them. Any advice ?
--
Benoît
1 year, 4 months
Snapshot and disk size allocation
by jorgevisentini＠gmail.com
Hello everyone.
I would like to know how disk size and snapshot allocation works, because every time I create a new snapshot, it increases 1 GB in the VM's disk size, and when I remove the snap, that space is not returned to Domain Storage.
I'm using the oVirt 4.3.10
How do I reprovision the VM disk?
Thank you all.
1 year, 5 months
Ooops! in last step of Hyperconverged deployment
by Harry O
Hi,
In the second engine dep run in Hyperconverged deployment I get red "Ooops!" in cockpit.
I think it fails on some networking setup.
The first oVirt Node says "Hosted Engine is up!" but the other nodes is not added to HostedEngine yet.
There is no network connectivity to the Engine outside node1, I can ssh to engine from node1 on the right IP-address.
Please tell what logs I should pull.
1 year, 6 months
oVirt 4.3 DWH with Grafana
by Vrgotic, Marko
Dear oVirt,
We are currently running oVirt 4.3 and upgrade/migration to 4.4 won’t be possible for few more months.
I am looking into guidelines, how to, for setting up Grafana using DataWarehouse as data source.
Did anyone already did this, and would be willing to share the steps?
Kindly awaiting your reply.
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