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From: "Liron Aravot" <laravot@redhat.com> To: "Ryan Groten" <Ryan.Groten@stantec.com> Cc: users@ovirt.org Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2015 5:44:28 PM Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Concerns with increasing vdsTimeout value on engine?
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From: "Ryan Groten" <Ryan.Groten@stantec.com> To: users@ovirt.org Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 10:45:11 PM Subject: [ovirt-users] Concerns with increasing vdsTimeout value on engine?
When I try to attach new direct lun disks, the scan takes a very long time to complete because of the number of pvs presented to my hosts (there is already a bug on this, related to the pvcreate command taking a very long time - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217401 )
I discovered a workaround by setting the vdsTimeout value higher (it is 180 seconds by default). I changed it to 300 seconds and now the direct lun scan returns properly, but I’m hoping someone can warn me if this workaround is safe or if it’ll cause other potential issues? I made this change yesterday and so far so good.
Hi, no serious issue can be caused by that. Keep in mind though that any other operation will have that amount of time to complete before failing on timeout - which will cause delays before failing (as the timeout was increased for all executions) when not everything is operational and up as expected (as in most of the time). I'd guess that a RFE could be opened to allow increasing the timeout of specific operations if a user want to do that.
thanks, Liron.
if you have HA vms and use power management (fencing), this might cause longer downtime for HA vms if host has network timeouts: the engine will wait for 3 network failures before trying to fence the host, so in case of timeouts, and increasing it to 5mins, you should expect 15mins before engine will decide host is non-responsive and fence, so if you have HA vm on this host, this will be the vm downtime as well, as the engine will restart HA vms only after fencing. you can read more on http://www.ovirt.org/Automatic_Fencing
Thanks,
Ryan
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