Hi,
since several days i try to install the hosted engine initially to an iscsi multipath device without success.
Some information on the environment:
- Version 4.3.3
- using two 10gbe interfaces as single bond for the ovirtmgmt interface
- using two 10gbe storage interfaces on each hypervisor for iscsi storage
-- each storage interface is configured without any bonding, etc
-- each storage interface lives in a separate vlan were also the iscsi Portals/target are available, the iscsi portals have 4x10ge interfaces each, (2 in vlan xx and 2 interfaces in vlan yy )
-- so; each storage interface is connected to two iscsi Portals via 4 interfaces
The documentation here is for me unclear:
>Note: To specify more than one iSCSI target, you must enable multipathing before deploying the self-hosted engine. There is also a Multipath >Helper tool that generates a script to install and configure multipath with different options.
This indicates for me that it should be possbile to install the HE directly on the /dev/mapper/mpath device which is availibale when I have prepared the host accordingly before installing the HE (log in to multiple iscsi targets, create proper multipath,conf, etc) - right ?
I login to the two iscsi portals and get in sum 8 pathes, 4 from each interface and iscsi target.
Basically I have then the mpath device on the hypervisor available and i can mount the mpath device and put data on it.
In the cockpit interface the mount can also be activated and is recognized correctly.
multipathd -ll and lsblk looks good. Everything seems to be fine.
But when I run the "hosted-engine" --deploy, the last option while running the assistant is to enter the iscsi data.
So, basically i just want to define my mpath device - when entering the data (ip, port)for the iscsi Portal I can see the 4 pathes of the single hosted Engine target,
and when i choose the path where the "lun" is finally available it fails. I think in general this option is not that what i want to have
here for using the multipath device.
I' m lost - what is the usual way to install the HE on a multipath device ?
Do i have to change the configuration of the storage interfaces or the iscsi network design?
Did I missed something obvious ?
Can I put in my multipath data into the answerfile to get rid of the last step of the assistant ?
Can I use the related ansible role for specify the Mpath device which is available when activating the multipath service ?
Is it not possible in general ?? :
Sorry in advance for the long mail .... 1!^^
br,
michael
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