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Ovirt legacy migration policy is missing
by ovirtand-cnj342＠yahoo.com 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Hello, We have many cases of failed migrations, and reducing the load on the respective VMs made migration possible. Using "Suspend workload when needed" did not help either with the migrations, which only worked when stopping services on the VMs, thus reducing load. I was therefore trying to tweak the migration downtime setting. The suggested way of doing this is by using the Legacy migration policy. That being said, I am unable to find the Legacy migration policy in the VM Host tab, nor in the cluster's "Migration policy" tab. I cannot find any mention of it being left out of our current version (4.3.6.1) - moreover, the setting "Use custom migration downtime" (only available when using the Legacy migration policy) does exist in the interface - but I cannot find the Legacy policy itself. The only policies present are Minimal downtime (default for cluster), Post-copy migration and Suspend workload when needed. Is there a way to make the Legacy migration policy available if it's missing? Thanks! Best regards, Andy PS. Setting DefaultMaximumMigrationDowntime=20000 as default did not have any effect, presumably because the system uses one of the 3 pre-defined policies and ignores the "default"

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Low Performance (KVM Vs VMware Hypervisor) When running multi-process application
by Ravin Ya 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Hello Everyone, Please advice. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance. Test Setup: oVirt Centos 7.8 Virtulization Host Guest VM Centos 7.8 (Mutiqueue enabled 6 vCPUs with 6 Rx Tx Queues) The vCPUs are configured for host pass through (Pinned CPU). The Guest VM runs the application in userspace. The Application consists of the parent process that reads packets in raw socket mode from the interface and forwards then to child processes (~vCPUs) via IPC (shared memory – pipes). The performance (throughput / CPU utilization) that I get with KVM is half of what I get with VMware. Any thoughts on the below observations? Any suggestions? KVM Guest VMs degraded performance when running multi-process applications. High FUTEX time (Seen on the Guest VM when passing traffic). High SY: System CPU time spent in kernel space (Seen on both Hypervisor and the Guest VMs only when running my application.) -Rav Ya

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cpu QoS doesn't work
by pub.virtualization＠gmail.com 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Hello, I set cpu QoS as 10 and applied it to VM on oVirt 4.2, but it doesn't seem to work. compared to VM without QoS, there wasn't any difference in cpu usage. Also, there wasn't any <period>...</period> or <quota>...</quota> field related to QoS in libvirt file. is it right result?? Thanks,

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Unable to create a node in oVirt 4.0
by Rodrigo G. López 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Hi there, We are trying to setup a node in the same machine where we are running the engine, and noticed that the vdsmd service fails because the supervdsmd daemon can't authenticate against libvirtd afaict. The error is the following on supervdsmd: daemonAdapter[17803]: libvirt: XML-RPC error : authentication failed: authentication failed ... and in libvirtd: Sep 15 03:34:18 ovirt-test libvirtd[17775]: 2020-09-15 07:34:18.410+0000: 17775: error : virNetSocketReadWire:1806 : End of file while reading data: Input/output error Sep 15 03:34:18 ovirt-test libvirtd[17775]: 2020-09-15 07:34:18.612+0000: 17776: error : virNetSASLSessionListMechanisms:393 : internal error: cannot list SASL mechanisms -4 (SASL(-4): no mechanism available: Internal Error -4 in server.c near line 1757) Sep 15 03:34:18 ovirt-test libvirtd[17775]: 2020-09-15 07:34:18.612+0000: 17776: error : remoteDispatchAuthSaslInit:3440 : authentication failed: authentication failed Sep 15 03:34:18 ovirt-test libvirtd[17775]: 2020-09-15 07:34:18.612+0000: 17775: error : virNetSocketReadWire:1806 : End of file while reading data: Input/output error Sep 15 03:34:18 ovirt-test libvirtd[17775]: 2020-09-15 07:34:18.814+0000: 17778: error : virNetSASLSessionListMechanisms:393 : internal error: cannot list SASL mechanisms -4 (SASL(-4): no mechanism available: Internal Error -4 in server.c near line 1757) Sep 15 03:34:18 ovirt-test libvirtd[17775]: 2020-09-15 07:34:18.814+0000: 17778: error : remoteDispatchAuthSaslInit:3440 : authentication failed: authentication failed Sep 15 03:34:18 ovirt-test libvirtd[17775]: 2020-09-15 07:34:18.815+0000: 17775: error : virNetSocketReadWire:1806 : End of file while reading data: Input/output error Sep 15 03:34:19 ovirt-test libvirtd[17775]: 2020-09-15 07:34:19.017+0000: 17780: error : virNetSASLSessionListMechanisms:393 : internal error: cannot list SASL mechanisms -4 (SASL(-4): no mechanism available: Internal Error -4 in server.c near line 1757) Sep 15 03:34:19 ovirt-test libvirtd[17775]: 2020-09-15 07:34:19.017+0000: 17780: error : remoteDispatchAuthSaslInit:3440 : authentication failed: authentication failed Sep 15 03:34:19 ovirt-test libvirtd[17775]: 2020-09-15 07:34:19.020+0000: 17775: error : virNetSocketReadWire:1806 : End of file while reading data: Input/output error Is there any way to work around that? We have working infra on top of 4.0 in CentOS 7 systems, and we would like to replicate the exact same environment for availability purposes, in case anything bad happened. Best regards, -rodri

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Removal of deprecated init-scripts (network-scripts)
by Ales Musil 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Hello, network-scripts for host networking were deprecated since oVirt 4.4. It will be removed completely in the 4.4.3 release. There is no action required for setups that did not change the configuration to use network-scripts backend (net_nmstate_enabled = false). Users that did disable nmstate should redeploy all affected hosts before 4.4.3. Also can you please tell us what was the reason to use network-scripts, if that is the case? Thank you. Best regards, Ales Musil -- Ales Musil Software Engineer - RHV Network Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com> amusil(a)redhat.com IM: amusil <https://red.ht/sig>

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Random hosts disconnects
by Anton Louw 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Hi All, I have a strange issue in my oVirt environment. I currently have a standalone manager which is running in VMware. In my oVirt environment, I have two Data Centers. The manager is currently sitting on the same subnet as DC1. Randomly, hosts in DC2 will say "Not Responding" and then 2 seconds later, the hosts will activate again. The strange thing is, when the manager was sitting on the same subnet as DC2, hosts in DC1 will randomly say "Not Responding" I have tried going through the logs, but I cannot see anything out of the ordinary regarding why the hosts would drop connection. I have attached the engine.log for anybody that would like to do a spot check. Thanks Anton Louw Cloud Engineer: Storage and Virtualization ______________________________________ D: 087 805 1572 | M: N/A A: Rutherford Estate, 1 Scott Street, Waverley, Johannesburg anton.louw(a)voxtelecom.co.za www.vox.co.za

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Enable a cluster node to run the hosted engine
by rap＠isogmbh.de 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Hi there, currently my team is evaluating oVirt and we're also testing several fail scenarios, backup and so on. One scenario was: - hyperconverged oVirt cluster with 3 nodes - self-hosted engine - simulate the break down of one of the nodes by power off - to replace it make a clean install of a new node and reintegrate it in the cluster Actually everything worked out fine. The new installed node and related bricks (vmstore, data, engine) were added to the existing Gluster storage and it was added to the oVirt cluster (as host). But there's one remaining problem: The new host doesn't have the grey crown, which means it's unable to run the hosted engine. How can I achieve that? I also found out that the ovirt-ha-agent and ovirt-ha-broker isn't started/enabled on that node. Reason is that the /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf doesn't exist. I guess this is not only a problem concerning the hosted engine, but also for HA VM's. Thank you for any advice and greetings, Marcus

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Random hosts disconnects
by anton.louw＠voxtelecom.co.za 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Hi All, I have a strange issue in my oVirt environment. I currently have a standalone manager which is running in VMware. In my oVirt environment, I have two Data Centers. The manager is currently sitting on the same subnet as DC1. Randomly, hosts in DC2 will say “Not Responding” and then 2 seconds later, the hosts will activate again. The strange thing is, when the manager was sitting on the same subnet as DC2, hosts in DC1 will randomly say “Not Responding” I have tried going through the logs, but I cannot see anything out of the ordinary regarding why the hosts would drop connection. I have attached the engine.log for anybody that would like to do a spot check. Thanks

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Disconnected Server has closed the connection.
by info＠worldhostess.com 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

It seems that the installation is all done, but I have a problem. it takes very long to open the web pages, plus it disconnect all the time. it is impossible to do anything. I can ping the hostname as I set up a sub-domain for it. to be honest, I am new to this and it took me days to get to this point. I think there are some issues with my network settings. if there are any oVirt experts that can check my installation and give me advice about how to improve it, it will be greatly appreciated. I have done an "Installing oVirt as a self-hosted engine using the Cockpit web interface"

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Gluster quorum issue on 3-node HCI with extra 5-nodes as compute and storage nodes
by thomas＠hoberg.net 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

Yes, I've also posted this on the Gluster Slack. But I am using Gluster mostly because it's part of oVirt HCI, so don't just send me away, please! Problem: GlusterD refusing to start due to quorum issues for volumes where it isn’t contributing any brick (I've had this before on a different farm, but there it was transitory. Now I have it in a more observable manner, that's why I open a new topic) In a test farm with recycled servers, I started running Gluster via oVirt 3node-HCI, because I got 3 machines originally. They were set up as group A in a 2:1 (replica:arbiter) oVirt HCI setup with 'engine', 'vmstore' and 'data' volumes, one brick on each node. I then got another five machines with hardware specs that were rather different to group A, so I set those up as group B to mostly act as compute nodes, but also to provide extra storage, mostly to be used externally as GlusterFS shares. It took a bit of fiddling with Ansible but I got these 5 nodes to serve two more Gluster volumes 'tape' and 'scratch' using dispersed bricks (4 disperse:1 redundancy), RAID5 in my mind. The two groups are in one Gluster, not because they serve bricks to the same volumes, but because oVirt doesn't like nodes to be in different Glusters (or actually, to already be in a Gluster when you add them as host node). But the two groups provide bricks to distinct volumes, there is no overlap. After setup things have been running fine for weeks, but now I needed to restart a machine from group B, which has ‘tape’ and ‘scratch’ bricks, but none from original oVirt ‘engine’, ‘vmstore’ and ‘data’ in group A. Yet the gluster daemon refuses to start, citing a loss of quorum for these three volumes, even if it has no bricks in them… which makes no sense to me. I am afraid the source of the issue is concept issues: I clearly don't really understand some design assumptions of Gluster. And I'm afraid the design assumptions of Gluster and of oVirt (even with HCI), are not as related as one might assume from the marketing materials on the oVirt home-page. But most of all I'd like to know: How do I fix this now? I can't heal 'tape' and 'scratch', which are growing ever more apart while the glusterd on this machine in group B refuses to come online for lack of a quorum on volumes where it is not contributing bricks.

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