2:38 a.m.
There seems to be a pretty severe bug with using hosted engine on gluster.
If the host that was used as the initial hosted-engine --deploy host goes away, the engine
VM wil crash and cannot be restarted until the host comes back.
This is regardless of which host the engine was currently running.
The issue seems to be buried in the bowels of VDSM and is not an issue with gluster
itself.
The gluster filesystem is still accessable from the host that was running the engine. The
issue has been submitted to bugzilla but the fix is some way off (4.1).
Can my hosted engine be converted to use NFS (using the gluster NFS server on the same
filesystem) without rebuilding my hosted engine (ie change domainType=glusterfs to
domainType=nfs)?
What effect would that have on the hosted-engine storage domain inside oVirt, ie would the
same filesystem be mounted twice or would it just break.
Will this actually fix the problem, does it have the same issue when the hosted engine is
on NFS?
Darryl
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Hi Darryl,
I'm still experimenting with my oVirt installation so I tried to
recreate the problems you've described.
My setup has three HA hosts for virtualization and three machines
for the gluster replica 3 setup.
I manually migrated the Engine from the initial install host (one)
to host three. Then shut down host one manually and interrupted the
fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down. This didn't bother the
Engine VM at all.
To make things a bit more challenging I then shut down host three
while running the Engine VM. Of course the Engine was down for some
time until host two detected the problem. It started the Engine VM
and everything seems to be running quite well without the initial
install host.
My only problem is that the HA agent on host two and three refuse to
start after a reboot due to the fact that the configuration of the
hosted engine is missing. I wrote another mail to users(a)ovirt.org
about that.
Cheers
Richard
On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl wrote:
There seems to be a pretty severe bug with using hosted engine on
glust=
er.
=20
If the host that was used as the initial hosted-engine --deploy host go=
es away,
the engine VM wil crash and cannot be restarted until the host c=
omes back.
=20
This is regardless of which host the engine was currently running.
=20
=20
The issue seems to be buried in the bowels of VDSM and is not an issue =
with
gluster itself.
=20
The gluster filesystem is still accessable from the host that was runni=
ng the
engine. The issue has been submitted to bugzilla but the fix is so=
me way off (4.1).
=20
=20
Can my hosted engine be converted to use NFS (using the gluster NFS ser=
ver on the
same filesystem) without rebuilding my hosted engine (ie chang=
e domainType=3Dglusterfs to domainType=3Dnfs)?
=20
What effect would that have on the hosted-engine storage domain inside =
oVirt, ie
would the same filesystem be mounted twice or would it just bre=
ak.
=20
=20
Will this actually fix the problem, does it have the same issue when th=
e hosted
engine is on NFS?
=20
=20
Darryl
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=20
=20
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12:11 p.m.
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Richard Neuboeck <hawk(a)tbi.univie.ac.at>
wrote:
Hi Darryl,
I'm still experimenting with my oVirt installation so I tried to
recreate the problems you've described.
My setup has three HA hosts for virtualization and three machines
for the gluster replica 3 setup.
I manually migrated the Engine from the initial install host (one)
to host three. Then shut down host one manually and interrupted the
fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down. This didn't bother the
Engine VM at all.
Did you move the host one to maintenance before shutting down?
Or is this a crash recovery test?
To make things a bit more challenging I then shut down host three
while running the Engine VM. Of course the Engine was down for some
time until host two detected the problem. It started the Engine VM
and everything seems to be running quite well without the initial
install host.
Thanks for the feedback!
My only problem is that the HA agent on host two and three refuse to
start after a reboot due to the fact that the configuration of the
hosted engine is missing. I wrote another mail to users(a)ovirt.org
about that.
This is weird. Martin, Simone can you please investigate on this?
Cheers
Richard
On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl wrote:
> There seems to be a pretty severe bug with using hosted engine on
gluster.
>
> If the host that was used as the initial hosted-engine --deploy host
goes away, the engine VM wil crash and cannot be restarted until the host
comes back.
is this an Hyperconverged setup?
>
> This is regardless of which host the engine was currently running.
>
>
> The issue seems to be buried in the bowels of VDSM and is not an issue
with gluster itself.
Sahina, can you please investigate on this?
>
> The gluster filesystem is still accessable from the host that was
running the engine. The issue has been submitted to bugzilla but the fix is
some way off (4.1).
>
>
> Can my hosted engine be converted to use NFS (using the gluster NFS
server on the same filesystem) without rebuilding my hosted engine (ie
change domainType=glusterfs to domainType=nfs)?
> What effect would that have on the hosted-engine storage domain inside
oVirt, ie would the same filesystem be mounted twice or would it just break.
>
>
> Will this actually fix the problem, does it have the same issue when the
hosted engine is on NFS?
>
>
> Darryl
>
>
>
>
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On 04/11/2016 11:11 AM, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Richard Neuboeck
<hawk(a)tbi.univie.ac.at <mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at>> wrote:
=20
Hi Darryl,
=20
I'm still experimenting with my oVirt installation so I tried to
recreate the problems you've described.
=20
My setup has three HA hosts for virtualization and three machines
for the gluster replica 3 setup.
=20
I manually migrated the Engine from the initial install host (one)
to host three. Then shut down host one manually and interrupted the=
fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down. This didn't
bother the
Engine VM at all.
=20
=20
Did you move the host one to maintenance before shutting down?
Or is this a crash recovery test?
I did not put the machine in maintenance mode. Just issued
'poweroff' on the command line. Same for host one as host three.
=20
To make things a bit more challenging I then shut down host three
while running the Engine VM. Of course the Engine was down for some=
time until host two detected the problem. It started the Engine
VM
and everything seems to be running quite well without the initial
install host.
=20
=20
Thanks for the feedback!
=20
=20
=20
=20
My only problem is that the HA agent on host two and three refuse t=
o
start after a reboot due to the fact that the configuration of
the
hosted engine is missing. I wrote another mail to
users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org>
about that.
=20
=20
This is weird. Martin, Simone can you please investigate on this?
=20
=20
=20
=20
=20
Cheers
Richard
=20
On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl wrote:
> There seems to be a pretty severe bug with using hosted engine
on gluster.
>
> If the host that was used as the initial hosted-engine
--deploy host goes away, the engine VM wil crash and cannot be
restarted until the host comes back.
=20
=20
is this an Hyperconverged setup?
=20
=20
=20
>
> This is regardless of which host the engine was currently running=
=2E
>
>
> The issue seems to be buried in the bowels of VDSM and is not
an issue with gluster itself.
=20
=20
Sahina, can you please investigate on this?
=20
=20
=20
>
> The gluster filesystem is still accessable from the host that
was running the engine. The issue has been submitted to bugzilla
but the fix is some way off (4.1).
>
>
> Can my hosted engine be converted to use NFS (using the
gluster NFS server on the same filesystem) without rebuilding my
hosted engine (ie change domainType=3Dglusterfs to domainType=3Dnfs=
)?
=20
=20
=20
>
> What effect would that have on the hosted-engine storage
domain inside oVirt, ie would the same filesystem be mounted
twice or would it just break.
>
>
> Will this actually fix the problem, does it have the same
issue when the hosted engine is on NFS?
>
>
> Darryl
>
>
>
>
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12:44 a.m.
My setup is hyperconverged. I have placed my test results in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
Short description of setup:
3 hosts with 2 disks each set up with gluster replica 3 across the 6 disks volume name
hosted-engine.
Hostname hosted-storage configured in /etc//hosts to point to the host1.
Installed hosted engine on host1 with the hosted engine storage path =
hosted-storage:/hosted-engine
Install first engine on h1 successful. Hosts h2 and h3 added to the hosted engine. All
works fine.
Additional storage and non-hosted engine hosts added etc.
Additional VMs added to hosted-engine storage (oVirt Reports VM and Cinder VM). Additional
VM's are hosted by other storage - cinder and NFS.
The system is in production.
Engine can be migrated around with the web interface.
- 3.6.4 upgrade released, follow the upgrade guide, engine is upgraded first , new Centos
kernel requires host reboot.
- Engine placed on h2 - h3 into maintenance (local) upgrade and Reboot h3 - No issues -
Local maintenance removed from h3.
- Engine placed on h3 - h2 into maintenance (local) upgrade and Reboot h2 - No issues -
Local maintenance removed from h2.
- Engine placed on h3 -h1 into mainteance (local) upgrade and reboot h1 - engine crashes
and does not start elsewhere, VM(cinder) on h3 on same gluster volume pauses.
- Host 1 takes about 5 minutes to reboot (Enterprise box with all it's normal BIOS
probing)
- Engine starts after h1 comes back and stabilises
- VM(cinder) unpauses itself, VM(reports) continued fine the whole time. I can do no
diagnosis on the 2 VMs as the engine is not available.
- Local maintenance removed from h1
I don't believe the issue is with gluster itself as the volume remains accessible on
all hosts during this time albeit with a missing server (gluster volume status) as each
gluster server is rebooted.
Gluster was upgraded as part of the process, no issues were seen here.
I have been able to duplicate the issue without the upgrade by following the same sort of
timeline.
________________________________
From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, 11 April 2016 7:11 PM
To: Richard Neuboeck; Simone Tiraboschi; Roy Golan; Martin Sivak; Sahina Bose
Cc: Bond, Darryl; users
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted engine on gluster problem
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Richard Neuboeck
<hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at<mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at>> wrote:
Hi Darryl,
I'm still experimenting with my oVirt installation so I tried to
recreate the problems you've described.
My setup has three HA hosts for virtualization and three machines
for the gluster replica 3 setup.
I manually migrated the Engine from the initial install host (one)
to host three. Then shut down host one manually and interrupted the
fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down. This didn't bother the
Engine VM at all.
Did you move the host one to maintenance before shutting down?
Or is this a crash recovery test?
To make things a bit more challenging I then shut down host three
while running the Engine VM. Of course the Engine was down for some
time until host two detected the problem. It started the Engine VM
and everything seems to be running quite well without the initial
install host.
Thanks for the feedback!
My only problem is that the HA agent on host two and three refuse to
start after a reboot due to the fact that the configuration of the
hosted engine is missing. I wrote another mail to
users@ovirt.org<mailto:users@ovirt.org>
about that.
This is weird. Martin, Simone can you please investigate on this?
Cheers
Richard
On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl wrote:
There seems to be a pretty severe bug with using hosted engine on
gluster.
If the host that was used as the initial hosted-engine --deploy host goes away, the
engine VM wil crash and cannot be restarted until the host comes back.
is this an Hyperconverged setup?
This is regardless of which host the engine was currently running.
The issue seems to be buried in the bowels of VDSM and is not an issue with gluster
itself.
Sahina, can you please investigate on this?
The gluster filesystem is still accessable from the host that was running the engine. The
issue has been submitted to bugzilla but the fix is some way off (4.1).
Can my hosted engine be converted to use NFS (using the gluster NFS server on the same
filesystem) without rebuilding my hosted engine (ie change domainType=glusterfs to
domainType=nfs)?
What effect would that have on the hosted-engine storage domain inside oVirt, ie would
the same filesystem be mounted twice or would it just break.
Will this actually fix the problem, does it have the same issue when the hosted engine is
on NFS?
Darryl
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11:03 a.m.
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Bond, Darryl <dbond(a)nrggos.com.au> wrote:
My setup is hyperconverged. I have placed my test results in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
Ok, so you're aware about the limitation of the single point of failure. If
you drop the host referenced in hosted engine configuration for the initial
setup it won't be able to connect to shared storage even if the other hosts
in the cluster are up since the entry point is down.
Note that hyperconverged deployment is not supported in 3.6.
Short description of setup:
3 hosts with 2 disks each set up with gluster replica 3 across the 6 disks
volume name hosted-engine.
Hostname hosted-storage configured in /etc//hosts to point to the host1.
Installed hosted engine on host1 with the hosted engine storage path =
hosted-storage:/hosted-engine
Install first engine on h1 successful. Hosts h2 and h3 added to the hosted
engine. All works fine.
Additional storage and non-hosted engine hosts added etc.
Additional VMs added to hosted-engine storage (oVirt Reports VM and Cinder
VM). Additional VM's are hosted by other storage - cinder and NFS.
The system is in production.
Engine can be migrated around with the web interface.
- 3.6.4 upgrade released, follow the upgrade guide, engine is upgraded
first , new Centos kernel requires host reboot.
- Engine placed on h2 - h3 into maintenance (local) upgrade and Reboot h3
- No issues - Local maintenance removed from h3.
- Engine placed on h3 - h2 into maintenance (local) upgrade and Reboot h2
- No issues - Local maintenance removed from h2.
- Engine placed on h3 -h1 into mainteance (local) upgrade and reboot h1 -
engine crashes and does not start elsewhere, VM(cinder) on h3 on same
gluster volume pauses.
- Host 1 takes about 5 minutes to reboot (Enterprise box with all it's
normal BIOS probing)
- Engine starts after h1 comes back and stabilises
- VM(cinder) unpauses itself, VM(reports) continued fine the whole time.
I can do no diagnosis on the 2 VMs as the engine is not available.
- Local maintenance removed from h1
I don't believe the issue is with gluster itself as the volume remains
accessible on all hosts during this time albeit with a missing server
(gluster volume status) as each gluster server is rebooted.
Gluster was upgraded as part of the process, no issues were seen here.
I have been able to duplicate the issue without the upgrade by following
the same sort of timeline.
________________________________
From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, 11 April 2016 7:11 PM
To: Richard Neuboeck; Simone Tiraboschi; Roy Golan; Martin Sivak; Sahina
Bose
Cc: Bond, Darryl; users
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted engine on gluster problem
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Richard Neuboeck <hawk(a)tbi.univie.ac.at
<mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at>> wrote:
Hi Darryl,
I'm still experimenting with my oVirt installation so I tried to
recreate the problems you've described.
My setup has three HA hosts for virtualization and three machines
for the gluster replica 3 setup.
I manually migrated the Engine from the initial install host (one)
to host three. Then shut down host one manually and interrupted the
fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down. This didn't bother the
Engine VM at all.
Did you move the host one to maintenance before shutting down?
Or is this a crash recovery test?
To make things a bit more challenging I then shut down host three
while running the Engine VM. Of course the Engine was down for some
time until host two detected the problem. It started the Engine VM
and everything seems to be running quite well without the initial
install host.
Thanks for the feedback!
My only problem is that the HA agent on host two and three refuse to
start after a reboot due to the fact that the configuration of the
hosted engine is missing. I wrote another mail to users(a)ovirt.org<mailto:
users(a)ovirt.org>
about that.
This is weird. Martin, Simone can you please investigate on this?
Cheers
Richard
On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl wrote:
> There seems to be a pretty severe bug with using hosted engine on
gluster.
>
> If the host that was used as the initial hosted-engine --deploy host
goes away, the engine VM wil crash and cannot be restarted until the host
comes back.
is this an Hyperconverged setup?
>
> This is regardless of which host the engine was currently running.
>
>
> The issue seems to be buried in the bowels of VDSM and is not an issue
with gluster itself.
Sahina, can you please investigate on this?
>
> The gluster filesystem is still accessable from the host that was
running the engine. The issue has been submitted to bugzilla but the fix is
some way off (4.1).
>
>
> Can my hosted engine be converted to use NFS (using the gluster NFS
server on the same filesystem) without rebuilding my hosted engine (ie
change domainType=glusterfs to domainType=nfs)?
>
> What effect would that have on the hosted-engine storage domain inside
oVirt, ie would the same filesystem be mounted twice or would it just break.
>
>
> Will this actually fix the problem, does it have the same issue when the
hosted engine is on NFS?
>
>
> Darryl
>
>
>
>
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3:05 p.m.
Hi Sandro, I've been using gluster with 3 external hosts for a while and
things are working pretty well, however this single point of failure looks
like a simple feature to implement,but critical to anyone who wants to use
gluster on production . This is not hyperconvergency which has other
issues/implications. So , why not have this feature out on 3.6 branch? It
looks like just let vdsm use the 'backupvol-server' option when mounting
the engine domain and make the property tests.
Could you add this feature to the next release of 3.6 branch?
Thanks
Luiz
Em ter, 12 de abr de 2016 05:03, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
escreveu:
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Bond, Darryl
<dbond(a)nrggos.com.au>
wrote:
> My setup is hyperconverged. I have placed my test results in
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
>
>
Ok, so you're aware about the limitation of the single point of failure.
If you drop the host referenced in hosted engine configuration for the
initial setup it won't be able to connect to shared storage even if the
other hosts in the cluster are up since the entry point is down.
Note that hyperconverged deployment is not supported in 3.6.
>
> Short description of setup:
>
> 3 hosts with 2 disks each set up with gluster replica 3 across the 6
> disks volume name hosted-engine.
>
> Hostname hosted-storage configured in /etc//hosts to point to the host1.
>
> Installed hosted engine on host1 with the hosted engine storage path =
> hosted-storage:/hosted-engine
>
> Install first engine on h1 successful. Hosts h2 and h3 added to the
> hosted engine. All works fine.
>
> Additional storage and non-hosted engine hosts added etc.
>
> Additional VMs added to hosted-engine storage (oVirt Reports VM and
> Cinder VM). Additional VM's are hosted by other storage - cinder and NFS.
>
> The system is in production.
>
>
> Engine can be migrated around with the web interface.
>
>
> - 3.6.4 upgrade released, follow the upgrade guide, engine is upgraded
> first , new Centos kernel requires host reboot.
>
> - Engine placed on h2 - h3 into maintenance (local) upgrade and Reboot
> h3 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h3.
>
> - Engine placed on h3 - h2 into maintenance (local) upgrade and Reboot
> h2 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h2.
>
> - Engine placed on h3 -h1 into mainteance (local) upgrade and reboot h1 -
> engine crashes and does not start elsewhere, VM(cinder) on h3 on same
> gluster volume pauses.
>
> - Host 1 takes about 5 minutes to reboot (Enterprise box with all it's
> normal BIOS probing)
>
> - Engine starts after h1 comes back and stabilises
>
> - VM(cinder) unpauses itself, VM(reports) continued fine the whole time.
> I can do no diagnosis on the 2 VMs as the engine is not available.
>
> - Local maintenance removed from h1
>
>
> I don't believe the issue is with gluster itself as the volume remains
> accessible on all hosts during this time albeit with a missing server
> (gluster volume status) as each gluster server is rebooted.
>
> Gluster was upgraded as part of the process, no issues were seen here.
>
>
> I have been able to duplicate the issue without the upgrade by following
> the same sort of timeline.
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, 11 April 2016 7:11 PM
> To: Richard Neuboeck; Simone Tiraboschi; Roy Golan; Martin Sivak; Sahina
> Bose
> Cc: Bond, Darryl; users
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted engine on gluster problem
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Richard Neuboeck <hawk(a)tbi.univie.ac.at
> <mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at>> wrote:
> Hi Darryl,
>
> I'm still experimenting with my oVirt installation so I tried to
> recreate the problems you've described.
>
> My setup has three HA hosts for virtualization and three machines
> for the gluster replica 3 setup.
>
> I manually migrated the Engine from the initial install host (one)
> to host three. Then shut down host one manually and interrupted the
> fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down. This didn't bother the
> Engine VM at all.
>
> Did you move the host one to maintenance before shutting down?
> Or is this a crash recovery test?
>
>
>
> To make things a bit more challenging I then shut down host three
> while running the Engine VM. Of course the Engine was down for some
> time until host two detected the problem. It started the Engine VM
> and everything seems to be running quite well without the initial
> install host.
>
> Thanks for the feedback!
>
>
>
> My only problem is that the HA agent on host two and three refuse to
> start after a reboot due to the fact that the configuration of the
> hosted engine is missing. I wrote another mail to users(a)ovirt.org<mailto:
> users(a)ovirt.org>
> about that.
>
> This is weird. Martin, Simone can you please investigate on this?
>
>
>
>
> Cheers
> Richard
>
> On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl wrote:
> > There seems to be a pretty severe bug with using hosted engine on
> gluster.
> >
> > If the host that was used as the initial hosted-engine --deploy host
> goes away, the engine VM wil crash and cannot be restarted until the host
> comes back.
>
> is this an Hyperconverged setup?
>
>
> >
> > This is regardless of which host the engine was currently running.
> >
> >
> > The issue seems to be buried in the bowels of VDSM and is not an issue
> with gluster itself.
>
> Sahina, can you please investigate on this?
>
>
> >
> > The gluster filesystem is still accessable from the host that was
> running the engine. The issue has been submitted to bugzilla but the fix is
> some way off (4.1).
> >
> >
> > Can my hosted engine be converted to use NFS (using the gluster NFS
> server on the same filesystem) without rebuilding my hosted engine (ie
> change domainType=glusterfs to domainType=nfs)?
>
> >
> > What effect would that have on the hosted-engine storage domain inside
> oVirt, ie would the same filesystem be mounted twice or would it just break.
> >
> >
> > Will this actually fix the problem, does it have the same issue when
> the hosted engine is on NFS?
> >
> >
> > Darryl
> >
> >
> >
> >
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7:47 p.m.
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves
<luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Sandro, I've been using gluster with 3 external hosts for a
while and
things are working pretty well, however this single point of failure looks
like a simple feature to implement,but critical to anyone who wants to use
gluster on production . This is not hyperconvergency which has other
issues/implications. So , why not have this feature out on 3.6 branch? It
looks like just let vdsm use the 'backupvol-server' option when mounting the
engine domain and make the property tests.
Can you explain what is the problem, and what is the suggested solution?
Engine and vdsm already support the backupvol-server option - you can
define this option in the storage domain options when you create a gluster
storage domain. With this option vdsm should be able to connect to gluster
storage domain even if a brick is down.
If you don't have this option in engine , you probably cannot add it with hosted
engine setup, since for editing it you must put the storage domain in
maintenance
and if you do this the engine vm will be killed :-) This is is one of
the issues with
engine managing the storage domain it runs on.
I think the best way to avoid this issue, is to add a DNS entry
providing the addresses
of all the gluster bricks, and use this address for the gluster
storage domain. This way
the glusterfs mount helper can mount the domain even if one of the
gluster bricks
are down.
Again, we will need some magic from the hosted engine developers to modify the
address of the hosted engine gluster domain on existing system.
Nir
Could you add this feature to the next release of 3.6 branch?
Thanks
Luiz
Em ter, 12 de abr de 2016 05:03, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
escreveu:
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Bond, Darryl <dbond(a)nrggos.com.au>
> wrote:
>>
>> My setup is hyperconverged. I have placed my test results in
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
>>
>
> Ok, so you're aware about the limitation of the single point of failure.
> If you drop the host referenced in hosted engine configuration for the
> initial setup it won't be able to connect to shared storage even if the
> other hosts in the cluster are up since the entry point is down.
> Note that hyperconverged deployment is not supported in 3.6.
>
>
>>
>>
>> Short description of setup:
>>
>> 3 hosts with 2 disks each set up with gluster replica 3 across the 6
>> disks volume name hosted-engine.
>>
>> Hostname hosted-storage configured in /etc//hosts to point to the host1.
>>
>> Installed hosted engine on host1 with the hosted engine storage path =
>> hosted-storage:/hosted-engine
>>
>> Install first engine on h1 successful. Hosts h2 and h3 added to the
>> hosted engine. All works fine.
>>
>> Additional storage and non-hosted engine hosts added etc.
>>
>> Additional VMs added to hosted-engine storage (oVirt Reports VM and
>> Cinder VM). Additional VM's are hosted by other storage - cinder and NFS.
>>
>> The system is in production.
>>
>>
>> Engine can be migrated around with the web interface.
>>
>>
>> - 3.6.4 upgrade released, follow the upgrade guide, engine is upgraded
>> first , new Centos kernel requires host reboot.
>>
>> - Engine placed on h2 - h3 into maintenance (local) upgrade and Reboot
>> h3 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h3.
>>
>> - Engine placed on h3 - h2 into maintenance (local) upgrade and Reboot
>> h2 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h2.
>>
>> - Engine placed on h3 -h1 into mainteance (local) upgrade and reboot h1 -
>> engine crashes and does not start elsewhere, VM(cinder) on h3 on same
>> gluster volume pauses.
>>
>> - Host 1 takes about 5 minutes to reboot (Enterprise box with all it's
>> normal BIOS probing)
>>
>> - Engine starts after h1 comes back and stabilises
>>
>> - VM(cinder) unpauses itself, VM(reports) continued fine the whole time.
>> I can do no diagnosis on the 2 VMs as the engine is not available.
>>
>> - Local maintenance removed from h1
>>
>>
>> I don't believe the issue is with gluster itself as the volume remains
>> accessible on all hosts during this time albeit with a missing server
>> (gluster volume status) as each gluster server is rebooted.
>>
>> Gluster was upgraded as part of the process, no issues were seen here.
>>
>>
>> I have been able to duplicate the issue without the upgrade by following
>> the same sort of timeline.
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>> Sent: Monday, 11 April 2016 7:11 PM
>> To: Richard Neuboeck; Simone Tiraboschi; Roy Golan; Martin Sivak; Sahina
>> Bose
>> Cc: Bond, Darryl; users
>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted engine on gluster problem
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Richard Neuboeck
>> <hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at<mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at>> wrote:
>> Hi Darryl,
>>
>> I'm still experimenting with my oVirt installation so I tried to
>> recreate the problems you've described.
>>
>> My setup has three HA hosts for virtualization and three machines
>> for the gluster replica 3 setup.
>>
>> I manually migrated the Engine from the initial install host (one)
>> to host three. Then shut down host one manually and interrupted the
>> fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down. This didn't bother the
>> Engine VM at all.
>>
>> Did you move the host one to maintenance before shutting down?
>> Or is this a crash recovery test?
>>
>>
>>
>> To make things a bit more challenging I then shut down host three
>> while running the Engine VM. Of course the Engine was down for some
>> time until host two detected the problem. It started the Engine VM
>> and everything seems to be running quite well without the initial
>> install host.
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback!
>>
>>
>>
>> My only problem is that the HA agent on host two and three refuse to
>> start after a reboot due to the fact that the configuration of the
>> hosted engine is missing. I wrote another mail to
>> users@ovirt.org<mailto:users@ovirt.org>
>> about that.
>>
>> This is weird. Martin, Simone can you please investigate on this?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Richard
>>
>> On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl wrote:
>> > There seems to be a pretty severe bug with using hosted engine on
>> > gluster.
>> >
>> > If the host that was used as the initial hosted-engine --deploy host
>> > goes away, the engine VM wil crash and cannot be restarted until the host
>> > comes back.
>>
>> is this an Hyperconverged setup?
>>
>>
>> >
>> > This is regardless of which host the engine was currently running.
>> >
>> >
>> > The issue seems to be buried in the bowels of VDSM and is not an issue
>> > with gluster itself.
>>
>> Sahina, can you please investigate on this?
>>
>>
>> >
>> > The gluster filesystem is still accessable from the host that was
>> > running the engine. The issue has been submitted to bugzilla but the fix is
>> > some way off (4.1).
>> >
>> >
>> > Can my hosted engine be converted to use NFS (using the gluster NFS
>> > server on the same filesystem) without rebuilding my hosted engine (ie
>> > change domainType=glusterfs to domainType=nfs)?
>>
>> >
>> > What effect would that have on the hosted-engine storage domain inside
>> > oVirt, ie would the same filesystem be mounted twice or would it just
break.
>> >
>> >
>> > Will this actually fix the problem, does it have the same issue when
>> > the hosted engine is on NFS?
>> >
>> >
>> > Darryl
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ________________________________
>> >
>> > The contents of this electronic message and any attachments are
>> > intended only for the addressee and may contain legally privileged,
>> > personal, sensitive or confidential information. If you are not the
intended
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>> > attachments is strictly prohibited. Any legal privilege or confidentiality
>> > attached to this message and attachments is not waived, lost or destroyed
by
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>> > received this message and are not the intended addressee you should notify
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10:15 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves
<luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sandro, I've been using gluster with 3 external hosts for a while and
> things are working pretty well, however this single point of failure
looks
> like a simple feature to implement,but critical to anyone who wants to
use
> gluster on production . This is not hyperconvergency which has other
> issues/implications. So , why not have this feature out on 3.6 branch? It
> looks like just let vdsm use the 'backupvol-server' option when mounting
the
> engine domain and make the property tests.
Can you explain what is the problem, and what is the suggested solution?
Engine and vdsm already support the backupvol-server option - you can
define this option in the storage domain options when you create a gluster
storage domain. With this option vdsm should be able to connect to gluster
storage domain even if a brick is down.
If you don't have this option in engine , you probably cannot add it with
hosted
engine setup, since for editing it you must put the storage domain in
maintenance
and if you do this the engine vm will be killed :-) This is is one of
the issues with
engine managing the storage domain it runs on.
I think the best way to avoid this issue, is to add a DNS entry
providing the addresses
of all the gluster bricks, and use this address for the gluster
storage domain. This way
the glusterfs mount helper can mount the domain even if one of the
gluster bricks
are down.
Again, we will need some magic from the hosted engine developers to modify
the
address of the hosted engine gluster domain on existing system.
Magic won't happen without a bz :-) please open one describing what's
requested.
Nir
>
> Could you add this feature to the next release of 3.6 branch?
>
> Thanks
> Luiz
>
> Em ter, 12 de abr de 2016 05:03, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
> escreveu:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Bond, Darryl <dbond(a)nrggos.com.au>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> My setup is hyperconverged. I have placed my test results in
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
>>>
>>
>> Ok, so you're aware about the limitation of the single point of failure.
>> If you drop the host referenced in hosted engine configuration for the
>> initial setup it won't be able to connect to shared storage even if the
>> other hosts in the cluster are up since the entry point is down.
>> Note that hyperconverged deployment is not supported in 3.6.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Short description of setup:
>>>
>>> 3 hosts with 2 disks each set up with gluster replica 3 across the 6
>>> disks volume name hosted-engine.
>>>
>>> Hostname hosted-storage configured in /etc//hosts to point to the
host1.
>>>
>>> Installed hosted engine on host1 with the hosted engine storage path =
>>> hosted-storage:/hosted-engine
>>>
>>> Install first engine on h1 successful. Hosts h2 and h3 added to the
>>> hosted engine. All works fine.
>>>
>>> Additional storage and non-hosted engine hosts added etc.
>>>
>>> Additional VMs added to hosted-engine storage (oVirt Reports VM and
>>> Cinder VM). Additional VM's are hosted by other storage - cinder and
NFS.
>>>
>>> The system is in production.
>>>
>>>
>>> Engine can be migrated around with the web interface.
>>>
>>>
>>> - 3.6.4 upgrade released, follow the upgrade guide, engine is upgraded
>>> first , new Centos kernel requires host reboot.
>>>
>>> - Engine placed on h2 - h3 into maintenance (local) upgrade and Reboot
>>> h3 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h3.
>>>
>>> - Engine placed on h3 - h2 into maintenance (local) upgrade and Reboot
>>> h2 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h2.
>>>
>>> - Engine placed on h3 -h1 into mainteance (local) upgrade and reboot
h1 -
>>> engine crashes and does not start elsewhere, VM(cinder) on h3 on same
>>> gluster volume pauses.
>>>
>>> - Host 1 takes about 5 minutes to reboot (Enterprise box with all it's
>>> normal BIOS probing)
>>>
>>> - Engine starts after h1 comes back and stabilises
>>>
>>> - VM(cinder) unpauses itself, VM(reports) continued fine the whole
time.
>>> I can do no diagnosis on the 2 VMs as the engine is not available.
>>>
>>> - Local maintenance removed from h1
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't believe the issue is with gluster itself as the volume remains
>>> accessible on all hosts during this time albeit with a missing server
>>> (gluster volume status) as each gluster server is rebooted.
>>>
>>> Gluster was upgraded as part of the process, no issues were seen here.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have been able to duplicate the issue without the upgrade by
following
>>> the same sort of timeline.
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, 11 April 2016 7:11 PM
>>> To: Richard Neuboeck; Simone Tiraboschi; Roy Golan; Martin Sivak;
Sahina
>>> Bose
>>> Cc: Bond, Darryl; users
>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted engine on gluster problem
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Richard Neuboeck
>>> <hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at<mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at>> wrote:
>>> Hi Darryl,
>>>
>>> I'm still experimenting with my oVirt installation so I tried to
>>> recreate the problems you've described.
>>>
>>> My setup has three HA hosts for virtualization and three machines
>>> for the gluster replica 3 setup.
>>>
>>> I manually migrated the Engine from the initial install host (one)
>>> to host three. Then shut down host one manually and interrupted the
>>> fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down. This didn't bother the
>>> Engine VM at all.
>>>
>>> Did you move the host one to maintenance before shutting down?
>>> Or is this a crash recovery test?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> To make things a bit more challenging I then shut down host three
>>> while running the Engine VM. Of course the Engine was down for some
>>> time until host two detected the problem. It started the Engine VM
>>> and everything seems to be running quite well without the initial
>>> install host.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the feedback!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> My only problem is that the HA agent on host two and three refuse to
>>> start after a reboot due to the fact that the configuration of the
>>> hosted engine is missing. I wrote another mail to
>>> users@ovirt.org<mailto:users@ovirt.org>
>>> about that.
>>>
>>> This is weird. Martin, Simone can you please investigate on this?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Richard
>>>
>>> On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl wrote:
>>> > There seems to be a pretty severe bug with using hosted engine on
>>> > gluster.
>>> >
>>> > If the host that was used as the initial hosted-engine --deploy host
>>> > goes away, the engine VM wil crash and cannot be restarted until the
host
>>> > comes back.
>>>
>>> is this an Hyperconverged setup?
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > This is regardless of which host the engine was currently running.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > The issue seems to be buried in the bowels of VDSM and is not an
issue
>>> > with gluster itself.
>>>
>>> Sahina, can you please investigate on this?
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > The gluster filesystem is still accessable from the host that was
>>> > running the engine. The issue has been submitted to bugzilla but the
fix is
>>> > some way off (4.1).
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Can my hosted engine be converted to use NFS (using the gluster NFS
>>> > server on the same filesystem) without rebuilding my hosted engine
(ie
>>> > change domainType=glusterfs to domainType=nfs)?
>>>
>>> >
>>> > What effect would that have on the hosted-engine storage domain
inside
>>> > oVirt, ie would the same filesystem be mounted twice or would it
just break.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Will this actually fix the problem, does it have the same issue when
>>> > the hosted engine is on NFS?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Darryl
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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4:34 p.m.
Nir, here is the problem:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
When you do a hosted-engine --deploy and pick "glusterfs" you don't have a
way to define the mount options, therefore, the use of the
"backupvol-server", however when you create a storage domain from the UI
you can, like the attached screen shot.
In the hosted-engine --deploy, I would expect a flow which includes not
only the "gluster" entrypoint, but also the gluster mount options which is
missing today. This option would be optional, but would remove the single
point of failure described on the Bug 1298693.
for example:
Existing entry point on the "hosted-engine --deploy" flow
gluster1.xyz.com:/engine
Missing option on the "hosted-engine --deploy" flow :
backupvolfile-server=gluster2.xyz.com
,fetch-attempts=3,log-level=WARNING,log-file=/var/log/glusterfs/gluster_engine_domain.log
Sandro, it seems to me a simple solution which can be easily fixed.
What do you think?
Regards
-Luiz
2016-04-13 4:15 GMT-03:00 Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>:
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves
> <luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Sandro, I've been using gluster with 3 external hosts for a while and
> > things are working pretty well, however this single point of failure
> looks
> > like a simple feature to implement,but critical to anyone who wants to
> use
> > gluster on production . This is not hyperconvergency which has other
> > issues/implications. So , why not have this feature out on 3.6 branch?
> It
> > looks like just let vdsm use the 'backupvol-server' option when
> mounting the
> > engine domain and make the property tests.
>
> Can you explain what is the problem, and what is the suggested solution?
>
> Engine and vdsm already support the backupvol-server option - you can
> define this option in the storage domain options when you create a gluster
> storage domain. With this option vdsm should be able to connect to gluster
> storage domain even if a brick is down.
>
> If you don't have this option in engine , you probably cannot add it with
> hosted
> engine setup, since for editing it you must put the storage domain in
> maintenance
> and if you do this the engine vm will be killed :-) This is is one of
> the issues with
> engine managing the storage domain it runs on.
>
> I think the best way to avoid this issue, is to add a DNS entry
> providing the addresses
> of all the gluster bricks, and use this address for the gluster
> storage domain. This way
> the glusterfs mount helper can mount the domain even if one of the
> gluster bricks
> are down.
>
> Again, we will need some magic from the hosted engine developers to
> modify the
> address of the hosted engine gluster domain on existing system.
>
Magic won't happen without a bz :-) please open one describing what's
requested.
>
> Nir
>
> >
> > Could you add this feature to the next release of 3.6 branch?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Luiz
> >
> > Em ter, 12 de abr de 2016 05:03, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
> > escreveu:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Bond, Darryl <dbond(a)nrggos.com.au>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> My setup is hyperconverged. I have placed my test results in
> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
> >>>
> >>
> >> Ok, so you're aware about the limitation of the single point of
> failure.
> >> If you drop the host referenced in hosted engine configuration for the
> >> initial setup it won't be able to connect to shared storage even if the
> >> other hosts in the cluster are up since the entry point is down.
> >> Note that hyperconverged deployment is not supported in 3.6.
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Short description of setup:
> >>>
> >>> 3 hosts with 2 disks each set up with gluster replica 3 across the 6
> >>> disks volume name hosted-engine.
> >>>
> >>> Hostname hosted-storage configured in /etc//hosts to point to the
> host1.
> >>>
> >>> Installed hosted engine on host1 with the hosted engine storage path =
> >>> hosted-storage:/hosted-engine
> >>>
> >>> Install first engine on h1 successful. Hosts h2 and h3 added to the
> >>> hosted engine. All works fine.
> >>>
> >>> Additional storage and non-hosted engine hosts added etc.
> >>>
> >>> Additional VMs added to hosted-engine storage (oVirt Reports VM and
> >>> Cinder VM). Additional VM's are hosted by other storage - cinder
and
> NFS.
> >>>
> >>> The system is in production.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Engine can be migrated around with the web interface.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> - 3.6.4 upgrade released, follow the upgrade guide, engine is upgraded
> >>> first , new Centos kernel requires host reboot.
> >>>
> >>> - Engine placed on h2 - h3 into maintenance (local) upgrade and
> Reboot
> >>> h3 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h3.
> >>>
> >>> - Engine placed on h3 - h2 into maintenance (local) upgrade and
> Reboot
> >>> h2 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h2.
> >>>
> >>> - Engine placed on h3 -h1 into mainteance (local) upgrade and reboot
> h1 -
> >>> engine crashes and does not start elsewhere, VM(cinder) on h3 on same
> >>> gluster volume pauses.
> >>>
> >>> - Host 1 takes about 5 minutes to reboot (Enterprise box with all
it's
> >>> normal BIOS probing)
> >>>
> >>> - Engine starts after h1 comes back and stabilises
> >>>
> >>> - VM(cinder) unpauses itself, VM(reports) continued fine the whole
> time.
> >>> I can do no diagnosis on the 2 VMs as the engine is not available.
> >>>
> >>> - Local maintenance removed from h1
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I don't believe the issue is with gluster itself as the volume
remains
> >>> accessible on all hosts during this time albeit with a missing server
> >>> (gluster volume status) as each gluster server is rebooted.
> >>>
> >>> Gluster was upgraded as part of the process, no issues were seen here.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I have been able to duplicate the issue without the upgrade by
> following
> >>> the same sort of timeline.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ________________________________
> >>> From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
> >>> Sent: Monday, 11 April 2016 7:11 PM
> >>> To: Richard Neuboeck; Simone Tiraboschi; Roy Golan; Martin Sivak;
> Sahina
> >>> Bose
> >>> Cc: Bond, Darryl; users
> >>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted engine on gluster problem
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Richard Neuboeck
> >>> <hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at<mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at>>
wrote:
> >>> Hi Darryl,
> >>>
> >>> I'm still experimenting with my oVirt installation so I tried to
> >>> recreate the problems you've described.
> >>>
> >>> My setup has three HA hosts for virtualization and three machines
> >>> for the gluster replica 3 setup.
> >>>
> >>> I manually migrated the Engine from the initial install host (one)
> >>> to host three. Then shut down host one manually and interrupted the
> >>> fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down. This didn't bother the
> >>> Engine VM at all.
> >>>
> >>> Did you move the host one to maintenance before shutting down?
> >>> Or is this a crash recovery test?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> To make things a bit more challenging I then shut down host three
> >>> while running the Engine VM. Of course the Engine was down for some
> >>> time until host two detected the problem. It started the Engine VM
> >>> and everything seems to be running quite well without the initial
> >>> install host.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the feedback!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> My only problem is that the HA agent on host two and three refuse to
> >>> start after a reboot due to the fact that the configuration of the
> >>> hosted engine is missing. I wrote another mail to
> >>> users@ovirt.org<mailto:users@ovirt.org>
> >>> about that.
> >>>
> >>> This is weird. Martin, Simone can you please investigate on this?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>> Richard
> >>>
> >>> On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl wrote:
> >>> > There seems to be a pretty severe bug with using hosted engine on
> >>> > gluster.
> >>> >
> >>> > If the host that was used as the initial hosted-engine --deploy
host
> >>> > goes away, the engine VM wil crash and cannot be restarted until
> the host
> >>> > comes back.
> >>>
> >>> is this an Hyperconverged setup?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> >
> >>> > This is regardless of which host the engine was currently running.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > The issue seems to be buried in the bowels of VDSM and is not an
> issue
> >>> > with gluster itself.
> >>>
> >>> Sahina, can you please investigate on this?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> >
> >>> > The gluster filesystem is still accessable from the host that was
> >>> > running the engine. The issue has been submitted to bugzilla but
> the fix is
> >>> > some way off (4.1).
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > Can my hosted engine be converted to use NFS (using the gluster
NFS
> >>> > server on the same filesystem) without rebuilding my hosted engine
> (ie
> >>> > change domainType=glusterfs to domainType=nfs)?
> >>>
> >>> >
> >>> > What effect would that have on the hosted-engine storage domain
> inside
> >>> > oVirt, ie would the same filesystem be mounted twice or would it
> just break.
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > Will this actually fix the problem, does it have the same issue
when
> >>> > the hosted engine is on NFS?
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > Darryl
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > ________________________________
> >>> >
> >>> > The contents of this electronic message and any attachments are
> >>> > intended only for the addressee and may contain legally
privileged,
> >>> > personal, sensitive or confidential information. If you are not
the
> intended
> >>> > addressee, and have received this email, any transmission,
> distribution,
> >>> > downloading, printing or photocopying of the contents of this
> message or
> >>> > attachments is strictly prohibited. Any legal privilege or
> confidentiality
> >>> > attached to this message and attachments is not waived, lost or
> destroyed by
> >>> > reason of delivery to any person other than intended addressee. If
> you have
> >>> > received this message and are not the intended addressee you
should
> notify
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> and any
> >>> > attachments. Unless expressly attributed, the views expressed in
> this email
> >>> > do not necessarily represent the views of the company.
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> >>> > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> >>> >
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> >>>
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> collaboration.
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> >>
> >>
> >>
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8:07 p.m.
Sandro, any word here? Btw, I'm not talking about hyperconvergency in this
case, but 3 external gluster nodes using replica 3
Regards
Luiz
Em qua, 13 de abr de 2016 10:34, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves <
luizcpg(a)gmail.com> escreveu:
Nir, here is the problem:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
When you do a hosted-engine --deploy and pick "glusterfs" you don't have a
way to define the mount options, therefore, the use of the
"backupvol-server", however when you create a storage domain from the UI
you can, like the attached screen shot.
In the hosted-engine --deploy, I would expect a flow which includes not
only the "gluster" entrypoint, but also the gluster mount options which is
missing today. This option would be optional, but would remove the single
point of failure described on the Bug 1298693.
for example:
Existing entry point on the "hosted-engine --deploy" flow
gluster1.xyz.com:/engine
Missing option on the "hosted-engine --deploy" flow :
backupvolfile-server=gluster2.xyz.com
,fetch-attempts=3,log-level=WARNING,log-file=/var/log/glusterfs/gluster_engine_domain.log
Sandro, it seems to me a simple solution which can be easily fixed.
What do you think?
Regards
-Luiz
2016-04-13 4:15 GMT-03:00 Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>:
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves
>> <luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Sandro, I've been using gluster with 3 external hosts for a while
>> and
>> > things are working pretty well, however this single point of failure
>> looks
>> > like a simple feature to implement,but critical to anyone who wants to
>> use
>> > gluster on production . This is not hyperconvergency which has other
>> > issues/implications. So , why not have this feature out on 3.6 branch?
>> It
>> > looks like just let vdsm use the 'backupvol-server' option when
>> mounting the
>> > engine domain and make the property tests.
>>
>> Can you explain what is the problem, and what is the suggested solution?
>>
>> Engine and vdsm already support the backupvol-server option - you can
>> define this option in the storage domain options when you create a
>> gluster
>> storage domain. With this option vdsm should be able to connect to
>> gluster
>> storage domain even if a brick is down.
>>
>> If you don't have this option in engine , you probably cannot add it
>> with hosted
>> engine setup, since for editing it you must put the storage domain in
>> maintenance
>> and if you do this the engine vm will be killed :-) This is is one of
>> the issues with
>> engine managing the storage domain it runs on.
>>
>> I think the best way to avoid this issue, is to add a DNS entry
>> providing the addresses
>> of all the gluster bricks, and use this address for the gluster
>> storage domain. This way
>> the glusterfs mount helper can mount the domain even if one of the
>> gluster bricks
>> are down.
>>
>> Again, we will need some magic from the hosted engine developers to
>> modify the
>> address of the hosted engine gluster domain on existing system.
>>
>
> Magic won't happen without a bz :-) please open one describing what's
> requested.
>
>
>
>>
>> Nir
>>
>> >
>> > Could you add this feature to the next release of 3.6 branch?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Luiz
>> >
>> > Em ter, 12 de abr de 2016 05:03, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com
>> >
>> > escreveu:
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Bond, Darryl
<dbond(a)nrggos.com.au>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> My setup is hyperconverged. I have placed my test results in
>> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Ok, so you're aware about the limitation of the single point of
>> failure.
>> >> If you drop the host referenced in hosted engine configuration for the
>> >> initial setup it won't be able to connect to shared storage even if
>> the
>> >> other hosts in the cluster are up since the entry point is down.
>> >> Note that hyperconverged deployment is not supported in 3.6.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Short description of setup:
>> >>>
>> >>> 3 hosts with 2 disks each set up with gluster replica 3 across the
6
>> >>> disks volume name hosted-engine.
>> >>>
>> >>> Hostname hosted-storage configured in /etc//hosts to point to the
>> host1.
>> >>>
>> >>> Installed hosted engine on host1 with the hosted engine storage
path
>> =
>> >>> hosted-storage:/hosted-engine
>> >>>
>> >>> Install first engine on h1 successful. Hosts h2 and h3 added to the
>> >>> hosted engine. All works fine.
>> >>>
>> >>> Additional storage and non-hosted engine hosts added etc.
>> >>>
>> >>> Additional VMs added to hosted-engine storage (oVirt Reports VM and
>> >>> Cinder VM). Additional VM's are hosted by other storage - cinder
and
>> NFS.
>> >>>
>> >>> The system is in production.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Engine can be migrated around with the web interface.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> - 3.6.4 upgrade released, follow the upgrade guide, engine is
>> upgraded
>> >>> first , new Centos kernel requires host reboot.
>> >>>
>> >>> - Engine placed on h2 - h3 into maintenance (local) upgrade and
>> Reboot
>> >>> h3 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h3.
>> >>>
>> >>> - Engine placed on h3 - h2 into maintenance (local) upgrade and
>> Reboot
>> >>> h2 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h2.
>> >>>
>> >>> - Engine placed on h3 -h1 into mainteance (local) upgrade and
reboot
>> h1 -
>> >>> engine crashes and does not start elsewhere, VM(cinder) on h3 on
>> same
>> >>> gluster volume pauses.
>> >>>
>> >>> - Host 1 takes about 5 minutes to reboot (Enterprise box with all
>> it's
>> >>> normal BIOS probing)
>> >>>
>> >>> - Engine starts after h1 comes back and stabilises
>> >>>
>> >>> - VM(cinder) unpauses itself, VM(reports) continued fine the whole
>> time.
>> >>> I can do no diagnosis on the 2 VMs as the engine is not available.
>> >>>
>> >>> - Local maintenance removed from h1
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I don't believe the issue is with gluster itself as the volume
>> remains
>> >>> accessible on all hosts during this time albeit with a missing
server
>> >>> (gluster volume status) as each gluster server is rebooted.
>> >>>
>> >>> Gluster was upgraded as part of the process, no issues were seen
>> here.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I have been able to duplicate the issue without the upgrade by
>> following
>> >>> the same sort of timeline.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> ________________________________
>> >>> From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>> >>> Sent: Monday, 11 April 2016 7:11 PM
>> >>> To: Richard Neuboeck; Simone Tiraboschi; Roy Golan; Martin Sivak;
>> Sahina
>> >>> Bose
>> >>> Cc: Bond, Darryl; users
>> >>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted engine on gluster problem
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Richard Neuboeck
>> >>> <hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at<mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at>>
wrote:
>> >>> Hi Darryl,
>> >>>
>> >>> I'm still experimenting with my oVirt installation so I tried
to
>> >>> recreate the problems you've described.
>> >>>
>> >>> My setup has three HA hosts for virtualization and three machines
>> >>> for the gluster replica 3 setup.
>> >>>
>> >>> I manually migrated the Engine from the initial install host (one)
>> >>> to host three. Then shut down host one manually and interrupted the
>> >>> fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down. This didn't bother
the
>> >>> Engine VM at all.
>> >>>
>> >>> Did you move the host one to maintenance before shutting down?
>> >>> Or is this a crash recovery test?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> To make things a bit more challenging I then shut down host three
>> >>> while running the Engine VM. Of course the Engine was down for some
>> >>> time until host two detected the problem. It started the Engine VM
>> >>> and everything seems to be running quite well without the initial
>> >>> install host.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks for the feedback!
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> My only problem is that the HA agent on host two and three refuse
to
>> >>> start after a reboot due to the fact that the configuration of the
>> >>> hosted engine is missing. I wrote another mail to
>> >>> users@ovirt.org<mailto:users@ovirt.org>
>> >>> about that.
>> >>>
>> >>> This is weird. Martin, Simone can you please investigate on this?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Cheers
>> >>> Richard
>> >>>
>> >>> On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl wrote:
>> >>> > There seems to be a pretty severe bug with using hosted engine
on
>> >>> > gluster.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > If the host that was used as the initial hosted-engine
--deploy
>> host
>> >>> > goes away, the engine VM wil crash and cannot be restarted
until
>> the host
>> >>> > comes back.
>> >>>
>> >>> is this an Hyperconverged setup?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> >
>> >>> > This is regardless of which host the engine was currently
running.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > The issue seems to be buried in the bowels of VDSM and is not
an
>> issue
>> >>> > with gluster itself.
>> >>>
>> >>> Sahina, can you please investigate on this?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> >
>> >>> > The gluster filesystem is still accessable from the host that
was
>> >>> > running the engine. The issue has been submitted to bugzilla
but
>> the fix is
>> >>> > some way off (4.1).
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Can my hosted engine be converted to use NFS (using the gluster
NFS
>> >>> > server on the same filesystem) without rebuilding my hosted
engine
>> (ie
>> >>> > change domainType=glusterfs to domainType=nfs)?
>> >>>
>> >>> >
>> >>> > What effect would that have on the hosted-engine storage
domain
>> inside
>> >>> > oVirt, ie would the same filesystem be mounted twice or would
it
>> just break.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Will this actually fix the problem, does it have the same
issue
>> when
>> >>> > the hosted engine is on NFS?
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Darryl
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > ________________________________
>> >>> >
>> >>> > The contents of this electronic message and any attachments
are
>> >>> > intended only for the addressee and may contain legally
privileged,
>> >>> > personal, sensitive or confidential information. If you are
not
>> the intended
>> >>> > addressee, and have received this email, any transmission,
>> distribution,
>> >>> > downloading, printing or photocopying of the contents of this
>> message or
>> >>> > attachments is strictly prohibited. Any legal privilege or
>> confidentiality
>> >>> > attached to this message and attachments is not waived, lost
or
>> destroyed by
>> >>> > reason of delivery to any person other than intended addressee.
If
>> you have
>> >>> > received this message and are not the intended addressee you
>> should notify
>> >>> > the sender by return email and destroy all copies of the
message
>> and any
>> >>> > attachments. Unless expressly attributed, the views expressed
in
>> this email
>> >>> > do not necessarily represent the views of the company.
>> >>> > _______________________________________________
>> >>> > Users mailing list
>> >>> > Users@ovirt.org<mailto:Users@ovirt.org>
>> >>> > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> /dev/null
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> _______________________________________________
>> >>> Users mailing list
>> >>> Users@ovirt.org<mailto:Users@ovirt.org>
>> >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Sandro Bonazzola
>> >>> Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community
>> collaboration.
>> >>> See how it works at redhat.com<http://redhat.com>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Sandro Bonazzola
>> >> Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community
>> collaboration.
>> >> See how it works at redhat.com
>> >> _______________________________________________
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>> >> Users(a)ovirt.org
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>> >
>> >
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>> >
>>
>
>
>
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>
9:04 a.m.
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves <
luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Sandro, any word here? Btw, I'm not talking about
hyperconvergency in this
case, but 3 external gluster nodes using replica 3
Regards
Luiz
Em qua, 13 de abr de 2016 10:34, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves <
luizcpg(a)gmail.com> escreveu:
> Nir, here is the problem:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
>
> When you do a hosted-engine --deploy and pick "glusterfs" you don't
have
> a way to define the mount options, therefore, the use of the
> "backupvol-server", however when you create a storage domain from the UI
> you can, like the attached screen shot.
>
>
> In the hosted-engine --deploy, I would expect a flow which includes not
> only the "gluster" entrypoint, but also the gluster mount options which is
> missing today. This option would be optional, but would remove the single
> point of failure described on the Bug 1298693.
>
> for example:
>
> Existing entry point on the "hosted-engine --deploy" flow
> gluster1.xyz.com:/engine
>
>
> Missing option on the "hosted-engine --deploy" flow :
> backupvolfile-server=gluster2.xyz.com
>
,fetch-attempts=3,log-level=WARNING,log-file=/var/log/glusterfs/gluster_engine_domain.log
>
> Sandro, it seems to me a simple solution which can be easily fixed.
>
> What do you think?
>
The whole integration team is currently busy and we have not enough
resources to handle this for 3.6.6 time frame.
We'll be happy to help reviewing patches but we have more urgent items to
handle right now.
> Regards
> -Luiz
>
>
>
> 2016-04-13 4:15 GMT-03:00 Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves
>>> <luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi Sandro, I've been using gluster with 3 external hosts for a
while
>>> and
>>> > things are working pretty well, however this single point of failure
>>> looks
>>> > like a simple feature to implement,but critical to anyone who wants
>>> to use
>>> > gluster on production . This is not hyperconvergency which has other
>>> > issues/implications. So , why not have this feature out on 3.6
>>> branch? It
>>> > looks like just let vdsm use the 'backupvol-server' option when
>>> mounting the
>>> > engine domain and make the property tests.
>>>
>>> Can you explain what is the problem, and what is the suggested solution?
>>>
>>> Engine and vdsm already support the backupvol-server option - you can
>>> define this option in the storage domain options when you create a
>>> gluster
>>> storage domain. With this option vdsm should be able to connect to
>>> gluster
>>> storage domain even if a brick is down.
>>>
>>> If you don't have this option in engine , you probably cannot add it
>>> with hosted
>>> engine setup, since for editing it you must put the storage domain in
>>> maintenance
>>> and if you do this the engine vm will be killed :-) This is is one of
>>> the issues with
>>> engine managing the storage domain it runs on.
>>>
>>> I think the best way to avoid this issue, is to add a DNS entry
>>> providing the addresses
>>> of all the gluster bricks, and use this address for the gluster
>>> storage domain. This way
>>> the glusterfs mount helper can mount the domain even if one of the
>>> gluster bricks
>>> are down.
>>>
>>> Again, we will need some magic from the hosted engine developers to
>>> modify the
>>> address of the hosted engine gluster domain on existing system.
>>>
>>
>> Magic won't happen without a bz :-) please open one describing what's
>> requested.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Nir
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Could you add this feature to the next release of 3.6 branch?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> > Luiz
>>> >
>>> > Em ter, 12 de abr de 2016 05:03, Sandro Bonazzola <
>>> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>>> > escreveu:
>>> >>
>>> >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Bond, Darryl
<dbond(a)nrggos.com.au>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> My setup is hyperconverged. I have placed my test results in
>>> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >> Ok, so you're aware about the limitation of the single point of
>>> failure.
>>> >> If you drop the host referenced in hosted engine configuration for
>>> the
>>> >> initial setup it won't be able to connect to shared storage even
if
>>> the
>>> >> other hosts in the cluster are up since the entry point is down.
>>> >> Note that hyperconverged deployment is not supported in 3.6.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Short description of setup:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> 3 hosts with 2 disks each set up with gluster replica 3 across
the 6
>>> >>> disks volume name hosted-engine.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Hostname hosted-storage configured in /etc//hosts to point to
the
>>> host1.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Installed hosted engine on host1 with the hosted engine storage
>>> path =
>>> >>> hosted-storage:/hosted-engine
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Install first engine on h1 successful. Hosts h2 and h3 added to
the
>>> >>> hosted engine. All works fine.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Additional storage and non-hosted engine hosts added etc.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Additional VMs added to hosted-engine storage (oVirt Reports VM
and
>>> >>> Cinder VM). Additional VM's are hosted by other storage -
cinder
>>> and NFS.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> The system is in production.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Engine can be migrated around with the web interface.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> - 3.6.4 upgrade released, follow the upgrade guide, engine is
>>> upgraded
>>> >>> first , new Centos kernel requires host reboot.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> - Engine placed on h2 - h3 into maintenance (local) upgrade
and
>>> Reboot
>>> >>> h3 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h3.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> - Engine placed on h3 - h2 into maintenance (local) upgrade
and
>>> Reboot
>>> >>> h2 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h2.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> - Engine placed on h3 -h1 into mainteance (local) upgrade and
>>> reboot h1 -
>>> >>> engine crashes and does not start elsewhere, VM(cinder) on h3
on
>>> same
>>> >>> gluster volume pauses.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> - Host 1 takes about 5 minutes to reboot (Enterprise box with
all
>>> it's
>>> >>> normal BIOS probing)
>>> >>>
>>> >>> - Engine starts after h1 comes back and stabilises
>>> >>>
>>> >>> - VM(cinder) unpauses itself, VM(reports) continued fine the
whole
>>> time.
>>> >>> I can do no diagnosis on the 2 VMs as the engine is not
available.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> - Local maintenance removed from h1
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I don't believe the issue is with gluster itself as the
volume
>>> remains
>>> >>> accessible on all hosts during this time albeit with a missing
>>> server
>>> >>> (gluster volume status) as each gluster server is rebooted.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Gluster was upgraded as part of the process, no issues were
seen
>>> here.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I have been able to duplicate the issue without the upgrade by
>>> following
>>> >>> the same sort of timeline.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> ________________________________
>>> >>> From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>>> >>> Sent: Monday, 11 April 2016 7:11 PM
>>> >>> To: Richard Neuboeck; Simone Tiraboschi; Roy Golan; Martin
Sivak;
>>> Sahina
>>> >>> Bose
>>> >>> Cc: Bond, Darryl; users
>>> >>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted engine on gluster problem
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Richard Neuboeck
>>> >>>
<hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at<mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at>> wrote:
>>> >>> Hi Darryl,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I'm still experimenting with my oVirt installation so I
tried to
>>> >>> recreate the problems you've described.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> My setup has three HA hosts for virtualization and three
machines
>>> >>> for the gluster replica 3 setup.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I manually migrated the Engine from the initial install host
(one)
>>> >>> to host three. Then shut down host one manually and interrupted
the
>>> >>> fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down. This didn't
bother the
>>> >>> Engine VM at all.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Did you move the host one to maintenance before shutting down?
>>> >>> Or is this a crash recovery test?
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> To make things a bit more challenging I then shut down host
three
>>> >>> while running the Engine VM. Of course the Engine was down for
some
>>> >>> time until host two detected the problem. It started the Engine
VM
>>> >>> and everything seems to be running quite well without the
initial
>>> >>> install host.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Thanks for the feedback!
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> My only problem is that the HA agent on host two and three
refuse to
>>> >>> start after a reboot due to the fact that the configuration of
the
>>> >>> hosted engine is missing. I wrote another mail to
>>> >>> users@ovirt.org<mailto:users@ovirt.org>
>>> >>> about that.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> This is weird. Martin, Simone can you please investigate on
this?
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Cheers
>>> >>> Richard
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl wrote:
>>> >>> > There seems to be a pretty severe bug with using hosted
engine on
>>> >>> > gluster.
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > If the host that was used as the initial hosted-engine
--deploy
>>> host
>>> >>> > goes away, the engine VM wil crash and cannot be restarted
until
>>> the host
>>> >>> > comes back.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> is this an Hyperconverged setup?
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > This is regardless of which host the engine was currently
running.
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > The issue seems to be buried in the bowels of VDSM and is
not an
>>> issue
>>> >>> > with gluster itself.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Sahina, can you please investigate on this?
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > The gluster filesystem is still accessable from the host
that was
>>> >>> > running the engine. The issue has been submitted to
bugzilla but
>>> the fix is
>>> >>> > some way off (4.1).
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > Can my hosted engine be converted to use NFS (using the
gluster
>>> NFS
>>> >>> > server on the same filesystem) without rebuilding my
hosted
>>> engine (ie
>>> >>> > change domainType=glusterfs to domainType=nfs)?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > What effect would that have on the hosted-engine storage
domain
>>> inside
>>> >>> > oVirt, ie would the same filesystem be mounted twice or
would it
>>> just break.
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > Will this actually fix the problem, does it have the same
issue
>>> when
>>> >>> > the hosted engine is on NFS?
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > Darryl
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > ________________________________
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > The contents of this electronic message and any attachments
are
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>>> privileged,
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not
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this
>>> message or
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>>> >>> > attached to this message and attachments is not waived,
lost or
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>>> collaboration.
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>>> >>
>>> >>
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>
>
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8:35 p.m.
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves
<luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Nir, here is the problem:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
When you do a hosted-engine --deploy and pick "glusterfs" you don't have a
way to define the mount options, therefore, the use of the
"backupvol-server", however when you create a storage domain from the UI you
can, like the attached screen shot.
In the hosted-engine --deploy, I would expect a flow which includes not only
the "gluster" entrypoint, but also the gluster mount options which is
missing today. This option would be optional, but would remove the single
point of failure described on the Bug 1298693.
for example:
Existing entry point on the "hosted-engine --deploy" flow
gluster1.xyz.com:/engine
I agree, this feature must be supported.
Missing option on the "hosted-engine --deploy" flow :
backupvolfile-server=gluster2.xyz.com,fetch-attempts=3,log-level=WARNING,log-file=/var/log/glusterfs/gluster_engine_domain.log
Sandro, it seems to me a simple solution which can be easily fixed.
What do you think?
Regards
-Luiz
2016-04-13 4:15 GMT-03:00 Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves
>> <luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Sandro, I've been using gluster with 3 external hosts for a while
>> > and
>> > things are working pretty well, however this single point of failure
>> > looks
>> > like a simple feature to implement,but critical to anyone who wants to
>> > use
>> > gluster on production . This is not hyperconvergency which has other
>> > issues/implications. So , why not have this feature out on 3.6 branch?
>> > It
>> > looks like just let vdsm use the 'backupvol-server' option when
>> > mounting the
>> > engine domain and make the property tests.
>>
>> Can you explain what is the problem, and what is the suggested solution?
>>
>> Engine and vdsm already support the backupvol-server option - you can
>> define this option in the storage domain options when you create a
>> gluster
>> storage domain. With this option vdsm should be able to connect to
>> gluster
>> storage domain even if a brick is down.
>>
>> If you don't have this option in engine , you probably cannot add it with
>> hosted
>> engine setup, since for editing it you must put the storage domain in
>> maintenance
>> and if you do this the engine vm will be killed :-) This is is one of
>> the issues with
>> engine managing the storage domain it runs on.
>>
>> I think the best way to avoid this issue, is to add a DNS entry
>> providing the addresses
>> of all the gluster bricks, and use this address for the gluster
>> storage domain. This way
>> the glusterfs mount helper can mount the domain even if one of the
>> gluster bricks
>> are down.
>>
>> Again, we will need some magic from the hosted engine developers to
>> modify the
>> address of the hosted engine gluster domain on existing system.
>
>
> Magic won't happen without a bz :-) please open one describing what's
> requested.
>
>
>>
>>
>> Nir
>>
>> >
>> > Could you add this feature to the next release of 3.6 branch?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Luiz
>> >
>> > Em ter, 12 de abr de 2016 05:03, Sandro Bonazzola
<sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>> > escreveu:
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Bond, Darryl
<dbond(a)nrggos.com.au>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> My setup is hyperconverged. I have placed my test results in
>> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Ok, so you're aware about the limitation of the single point of
>> >> failure.
>> >> If you drop the host referenced in hosted engine configuration for the
>> >> initial setup it won't be able to connect to shared storage even if
>> >> the
>> >> other hosts in the cluster are up since the entry point is down.
>> >> Note that hyperconverged deployment is not supported in 3.6.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Short description of setup:
>> >>>
>> >>> 3 hosts with 2 disks each set up with gluster replica 3 across the
6
>> >>> disks volume name hosted-engine.
>> >>>
>> >>> Hostname hosted-storage configured in /etc//hosts to point to the
>> >>> host1.
>> >>>
>> >>> Installed hosted engine on host1 with the hosted engine storage
path
>> >>> =
>> >>> hosted-storage:/hosted-engine
>> >>>
>> >>> Install first engine on h1 successful. Hosts h2 and h3 added to the
>> >>> hosted engine. All works fine.
>> >>>
>> >>> Additional storage and non-hosted engine hosts added etc.
>> >>>
>> >>> Additional VMs added to hosted-engine storage (oVirt Reports VM and
>> >>> Cinder VM). Additional VM's are hosted by other storage - cinder
and
>> >>> NFS.
>> >>>
>> >>> The system is in production.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Engine can be migrated around with the web interface.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> - 3.6.4 upgrade released, follow the upgrade guide, engine is
>> >>> upgraded
>> >>> first , new Centos kernel requires host reboot.
>> >>>
>> >>> - Engine placed on h2 - h3 into maintenance (local) upgrade and
>> >>> Reboot
>> >>> h3 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h3.
>> >>>
>> >>> - Engine placed on h3 - h2 into maintenance (local) upgrade and
>> >>> Reboot
>> >>> h2 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h2.
>> >>>
>> >>> - Engine placed on h3 -h1 into mainteance (local) upgrade and
reboot
>> >>> h1 -
>> >>> engine crashes and does not start elsewhere, VM(cinder) on h3 on
>> >>> same
>> >>> gluster volume pauses.
>> >>>
>> >>> - Host 1 takes about 5 minutes to reboot (Enterprise box with all
>> >>> it's
>> >>> normal BIOS probing)
>> >>>
>> >>> - Engine starts after h1 comes back and stabilises
>> >>>
>> >>> - VM(cinder) unpauses itself, VM(reports) continued fine the whole
>> >>> time.
>> >>> I can do no diagnosis on the 2 VMs as the engine is not available.
>> >>>
>> >>> - Local maintenance removed from h1
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I don't believe the issue is with gluster itself as the volume
>> >>> remains
>> >>> accessible on all hosts during this time albeit with a missing
server
>> >>> (gluster volume status) as each gluster server is rebooted.
>> >>>
>> >>> Gluster was upgraded as part of the process, no issues were seen
>> >>> here.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I have been able to duplicate the issue without the upgrade by
>> >>> following
>> >>> the same sort of timeline.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> ________________________________
>> >>> From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>> >>> Sent: Monday, 11 April 2016 7:11 PM
>> >>> To: Richard Neuboeck; Simone Tiraboschi; Roy Golan; Martin Sivak;
>> >>> Sahina
>> >>> Bose
>> >>> Cc: Bond, Darryl; users
>> >>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted engine on gluster problem
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Richard Neuboeck
>> >>> <hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at<mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at>>
wrote:
>> >>> Hi Darryl,
>> >>>
>> >>> I'm still experimenting with my oVirt installation so I tried
to
>> >>> recreate the problems you've described.
>> >>>
>> >>> My setup has three HA hosts for virtualization and three machines
>> >>> for the gluster replica 3 setup.
>> >>>
>> >>> I manually migrated the Engine from the initial install host (one)
>> >>> to host three. Then shut down host one manually and interrupted the
>> >>> fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down. This didn't bother
the
>> >>> Engine VM at all.
>> >>>
>> >>> Did you move the host one to maintenance before shutting down?
>> >>> Or is this a crash recovery test?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> To make things a bit more challenging I then shut down host three
>> >>> while running the Engine VM. Of course the Engine was down for some
>> >>> time until host two detected the problem. It started the Engine VM
>> >>> and everything seems to be running quite well without the initial
>> >>> install host.
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks for the feedback!
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> My only problem is that the HA agent on host two and three refuse
to
>> >>> start after a reboot due to the fact that the configuration of the
>> >>> hosted engine is missing. I wrote another mail to
>> >>> users@ovirt.org<mailto:users@ovirt.org>
>> >>> about that.
>> >>>
>> >>> This is weird. Martin, Simone can you please investigate on this?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Cheers
>> >>> Richard
>> >>>
>> >>> On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl wrote:
>> >>> > There seems to be a pretty severe bug with using hosted engine
on
>> >>> > gluster.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > If the host that was used as the initial hosted-engine
--deploy
>> >>> > host
>> >>> > goes away, the engine VM wil crash and cannot be restarted
until
>> >>> > the host
>> >>> > comes back.
>> >>>
>> >>> is this an Hyperconverged setup?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> >
>> >>> > This is regardless of which host the engine was currently
running.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > The issue seems to be buried in the bowels of VDSM and is not
an
>> >>> > issue
>> >>> > with gluster itself.
>> >>>
>> >>> Sahina, can you please investigate on this?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> >
>> >>> > The gluster filesystem is still accessable from the host that
was
>> >>> > running the engine. The issue has been submitted to bugzilla
but
>> >>> > the fix is
>> >>> > some way off (4.1).
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Can my hosted engine be converted to use NFS (using the gluster
NFS
>> >>> > server on the same filesystem) without rebuilding my hosted
engine
>> >>> > (ie
>> >>> > change domainType=glusterfs to domainType=nfs)?
>> >>>
>> >>> >
>> >>> > What effect would that have on the hosted-engine storage
domain
>> >>> > inside
>> >>> > oVirt, ie would the same filesystem be mounted twice or would
it
>> >>> > just break.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Will this actually fix the problem, does it have the same
issue
>> >>> > when
>> >>> > the hosted engine is on NFS?
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Darryl
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > ________________________________
>> >>> >
>> >>> > The contents of this electronic message and any attachments
are
>> >>> > intended only for the addressee and may contain legally
privileged,
>> >>> > personal, sensitive or confidential information. If you are not
the
>> >>> > intended
>> >>> > addressee, and have received this email, any transmission,
>> >>> > distribution,
>> >>> > downloading, printing or photocopying of the contents of this
>> >>> > message or
>> >>> > attachments is strictly prohibited. Any legal privilege or
>> >>> > confidentiality
>> >>> > attached to this message and attachments is not waived, lost
or
>> >>> > destroyed by
>> >>> > reason of delivery to any person other than intended addressee.
If
>> >>> > you have
>> >>> > received this message and are not the intended addressee you
should
>> >>> > notify
>> >>> > the sender by return email and destroy all copies of the
message
>> >>> > and any
>> >>> > attachments. Unless expressly attributed, the views expressed
in
>> >>> > this email
>> >>> > do not necessarily represent the views of the company.
>> >>> > _______________________________________________
>> >>> > Users mailing list
>> >>> > Users@ovirt.org<mailto:Users@ovirt.org>
>> >>> > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> /dev/null
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> _______________________________________________
>> >>> Users mailing list
>> >>> Users@ovirt.org<mailto:Users@ovirt.org>
>> >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Sandro Bonazzola
>> >>> Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community
>> >>> collaboration.
>> >>> See how it works at redhat.com<http://redhat.com>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Sandro Bonazzola
>> >> Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community
>> >> collaboration.
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>> >> _______________________________________________
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>> >> Users(a)ovirt.org
>> >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>> >
>> >
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>> >
>
>
>
>
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9:05 a.m.
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves
<luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Nir, here is the problem:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
>
> When you do a hosted-engine --deploy and pick "glusterfs" you don't
have
a
> way to define the mount options, therefore, the use of the
> "backupvol-server", however when you create a storage domain from the UI
you
> can, like the attached screen shot.
>
>
> In the hosted-engine --deploy, I would expect a flow which includes not
only
> the "gluster" entrypoint, but also the gluster mount options which is
> missing today. This option would be optional, but would remove the single
> point of failure described on the Bug 1298693.
>
> for example:
>
> Existing entry point on the "hosted-engine --deploy" flow
> gluster1.xyz.com:/engine
I agree, this feature must be supported.
It will, and it's currently targeted to 4.0.
> Missing option on the "hosted-engine --deploy" flow :
> backupvolfile-server=gluster2.xyz.com
,fetch-attempts=3,log-level=WARNING,log-file=/var/log/glusterfs/gluster_engine_domain.log
>
> Sandro, it seems to me a simple solution which can be easily fixed.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Regards
> -Luiz
>
>
>
> 2016-04-13 4:15 GMT-03:00 Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves
>>> <luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi Sandro, I've been using gluster with 3 external hosts for a
while
>>> > and
>>> > things are working pretty well, however this single point of failure
>>> > looks
>>> > like a simple feature to implement,but critical to anyone who wants
to
>>> > use
>>> > gluster on production . This is not hyperconvergency which has other
>>> > issues/implications. So , why not have this feature out on 3.6
branch?
>>> > It
>>> > looks like just let vdsm use the 'backupvol-server' option
when
>>> > mounting the
>>> > engine domain and make the property tests.
>>>
>>> Can you explain what is the problem, and what is the suggested
solution?
>>>
>>> Engine and vdsm already support the backupvol-server option - you can
>>> define this option in the storage domain options when you create a
>>> gluster
>>> storage domain. With this option vdsm should be able to connect to
>>> gluster
>>> storage domain even if a brick is down.
>>>
>>> If you don't have this option in engine , you probably cannot add it
with
>>> hosted
>>> engine setup, since for editing it you must put the storage domain in
>>> maintenance
>>> and if you do this the engine vm will be killed :-) This is is one of
>>> the issues with
>>> engine managing the storage domain it runs on.
>>>
>>> I think the best way to avoid this issue, is to add a DNS entry
>>> providing the addresses
>>> of all the gluster bricks, and use this address for the gluster
>>> storage domain. This way
>>> the glusterfs mount helper can mount the domain even if one of the
>>> gluster bricks
>>> are down.
>>>
>>> Again, we will need some magic from the hosted engine developers to
>>> modify the
>>> address of the hosted engine gluster domain on existing system.
>>
>>
>> Magic won't happen without a bz :-) please open one describing what's
>> requested.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Nir
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Could you add this feature to the next release of 3.6 branch?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> > Luiz
>>> >
>>> > Em ter, 12 de abr de 2016 05:03, Sandro Bonazzola <
sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>>> > escreveu:
>>> >>
>>> >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Bond, Darryl
<dbond(a)nrggos.com.au
>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> My setup is hyperconverged. I have placed my test results in
>>> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >> Ok, so you're aware about the limitation of the single point
of
>>> >> failure.
>>> >> If you drop the host referenced in hosted engine configuration for
the
>>> >> initial setup it won't be able to connect to shared storage
even if
>>> >> the
>>> >> other hosts in the cluster are up since the entry point is down.
>>> >> Note that hyperconverged deployment is not supported in 3.6.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Short description of setup:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> 3 hosts with 2 disks each set up with gluster replica 3 across
the
6
>>> >>> disks volume name hosted-engine.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Hostname hosted-storage configured in /etc//hosts to point to
the
>>> >>> host1.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Installed hosted engine on host1 with the hosted engine
storage
path
>>> >>> =
>>> >>> hosted-storage:/hosted-engine
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Install first engine on h1 successful. Hosts h2 and h3 added to
the
>>> >>> hosted engine. All works fine.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Additional storage and non-hosted engine hosts added etc.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Additional VMs added to hosted-engine storage (oVirt Reports VM
and
>>> >>> Cinder VM). Additional VM's are hosted by other storage -
cinder
and
>>> >>> NFS.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> The system is in production.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Engine can be migrated around with the web interface.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> - 3.6.4 upgrade released, follow the upgrade guide, engine is
>>> >>> upgraded
>>> >>> first , new Centos kernel requires host reboot.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> - Engine placed on h2 - h3 into maintenance (local) upgrade
and
>>> >>> Reboot
>>> >>> h3 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h3.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> - Engine placed on h3 - h2 into maintenance (local) upgrade
and
>>> >>> Reboot
>>> >>> h2 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h2.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> - Engine placed on h3 -h1 into mainteance (local) upgrade and
reboot
>>> >>> h1 -
>>> >>> engine crashes and does not start elsewhere, VM(cinder) on h3
on
>>> >>> same
>>> >>> gluster volume pauses.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> - Host 1 takes about 5 minutes to reboot (Enterprise box with
all
>>> >>> it's
>>> >>> normal BIOS probing)
>>> >>>
>>> >>> - Engine starts after h1 comes back and stabilises
>>> >>>
>>> >>> - VM(cinder) unpauses itself, VM(reports) continued fine the
whole
>>> >>> time.
>>> >>> I can do no diagnosis on the 2 VMs as the engine is not
available.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> - Local maintenance removed from h1
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I don't believe the issue is with gluster itself as the
volume
>>> >>> remains
>>> >>> accessible on all hosts during this time albeit with a missing
server
>>> >>> (gluster volume status) as each gluster server is rebooted.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Gluster was upgraded as part of the process, no issues were
seen
>>> >>> here.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I have been able to duplicate the issue without the upgrade by
>>> >>> following
>>> >>> the same sort of timeline.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> ________________________________
>>> >>> From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>>> >>> Sent: Monday, 11 April 2016 7:11 PM
>>> >>> To: Richard Neuboeck; Simone Tiraboschi; Roy Golan; Martin
Sivak;
>>> >>> Sahina
>>> >>> Bose
>>> >>> Cc: Bond, Darryl; users
>>> >>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted engine on gluster problem
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Richard Neuboeck
>>> >>>
<hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at<mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at>> wrote:
>>> >>> Hi Darryl,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I'm still experimenting with my oVirt installation so I
tried to
>>> >>> recreate the problems you've described.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> My setup has three HA hosts for virtualization and three
machines
>>> >>> for the gluster replica 3 setup.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I manually migrated the Engine from the initial install host
(one)
>>> >>> to host three. Then shut down host one manually and interrupted
the
>>> >>> fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down. This didn't
bother the
>>> >>> Engine VM at all.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Did you move the host one to maintenance before shutting down?
>>> >>> Or is this a crash recovery test?
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> To make things a bit more challenging I then shut down host
three
>>> >>> while running the Engine VM. Of course the Engine was down for
some
>>> >>> time until host two detected the problem. It started the Engine
VM
>>> >>> and everything seems to be running quite well without the
initial
>>> >>> install host.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Thanks for the feedback!
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> My only problem is that the HA agent on host two and three
refuse
to
>>> >>> start after a reboot due to the fact that the configuration of
the
>>> >>> hosted engine is missing. I wrote another mail to
>>> >>> users@ovirt.org<mailto:users@ovirt.org>
>>> >>> about that.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> This is weird. Martin, Simone can you please investigate on
this?
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Cheers
>>> >>> Richard
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl wrote:
>>> >>> > There seems to be a pretty severe bug with using hosted
engine on
>>> >>> > gluster.
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > If the host that was used as the initial hosted-engine
--deploy
>>> >>> > host
>>> >>> > goes away, the engine VM wil crash and cannot be restarted
until
>>> >>> > the host
>>> >>> > comes back.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> is this an Hyperconverged setup?
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > This is regardless of which host the engine was currently
running.
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > The issue seems to be buried in the bowels of VDSM and is
not an
>>> >>> > issue
>>> >>> > with gluster itself.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Sahina, can you please investigate on this?
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > The gluster filesystem is still accessable from the host
that was
>>> >>> > running the engine. The issue has been submitted to
bugzilla but
>>> >>> > the fix is
>>> >>> > some way off (4.1).
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > Can my hosted engine be converted to use NFS (using the
gluster
NFS
>>> >>> > server on the same filesystem) without rebuilding my
hosted
engine
>>> >>> > (ie
>>> >>> > change domainType=glusterfs to domainType=nfs)?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > What effect would that have on the hosted-engine storage
domain
>>> >>> > inside
>>> >>> > oVirt, ie would the same filesystem be mounted twice or
would it
>>> >>> > just break.
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > Will this actually fix the problem, does it have the same
issue
>>> >>> > when
>>> >>> > the hosted engine is on NFS?
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > Darryl
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> >
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>
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See how it works at redhat.com
4 p.m.
I'm not planning to move to ovirt 4 until it gets stable, so would be great
to backport to 3.6 or ,ideally, gets developed on the next release of 3.6
branch. Considering the urgency (its a single point of failure) x
complexity wouldn't be hard to make the proposed fix.
I'm using today a production environment on top of gluster replica 3 and
this is the only SPF I have.
Thanks
Luiz
Em sex, 15 de abr de 2016 03:05, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
escreveu:
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Nir Soffer
<nsoffer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves
> <luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Nir, here is the problem:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
> >
> > When you do a hosted-engine --deploy and pick "glusterfs" you
don't
> have a
> > way to define the mount options, therefore, the use of the
> > "backupvol-server", however when you create a storage domain from the
> UI you
> > can, like the attached screen shot.
> >
> >
> > In the hosted-engine --deploy, I would expect a flow which includes not
> only
> > the "gluster" entrypoint, but also the gluster mount options which is
> > missing today. This option would be optional, but would remove the
> single
> > point of failure described on the Bug 1298693.
> >
> > for example:
> >
> > Existing entry point on the "hosted-engine --deploy" flow
> > gluster1.xyz.com:/engine
>
> I agree, this feature must be supported.
>
It will, and it's currently targeted to 4.0.
>
> > Missing option on the "hosted-engine --deploy" flow :
> > backupvolfile-server=gluster2.xyz.com
>
,fetch-attempts=3,log-level=WARNING,log-file=/var/log/glusterfs/gluster_engine_domain.log
> >
> > Sandro, it seems to me a simple solution which can be easily fixed.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Regards
> > -Luiz
> >
> >
> >
> > 2016-04-13 4:15 GMT-03:00 Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves
> >>> <luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > Hi Sandro, I've been using gluster with 3 external hosts for a
while
> >>> > and
> >>> > things are working pretty well, however this single point of
failure
> >>> > looks
> >>> > like a simple feature to implement,but critical to anyone who
wants
> to
> >>> > use
> >>> > gluster on production . This is not hyperconvergency which has
> other
> >>> > issues/implications. So , why not have this feature out on 3.6
> branch?
> >>> > It
> >>> > looks like just let vdsm use the 'backupvol-server' option
when
> >>> > mounting the
> >>> > engine domain and make the property tests.
> >>>
> >>> Can you explain what is the problem, and what is the suggested
> solution?
> >>>
> >>> Engine and vdsm already support the backupvol-server option - you can
> >>> define this option in the storage domain options when you create a
> >>> gluster
> >>> storage domain. With this option vdsm should be able to connect to
> >>> gluster
> >>> storage domain even if a brick is down.
> >>>
> >>> If you don't have this option in engine , you probably cannot add
it
> with
> >>> hosted
> >>> engine setup, since for editing it you must put the storage domain in
> >>> maintenance
> >>> and if you do this the engine vm will be killed :-) This is is one of
> >>> the issues with
> >>> engine managing the storage domain it runs on.
> >>>
> >>> I think the best way to avoid this issue, is to add a DNS entry
> >>> providing the addresses
> >>> of all the gluster bricks, and use this address for the gluster
> >>> storage domain. This way
> >>> the glusterfs mount helper can mount the domain even if one of the
> >>> gluster bricks
> >>> are down.
> >>>
> >>> Again, we will need some magic from the hosted engine developers to
> >>> modify the
> >>> address of the hosted engine gluster domain on existing system.
> >>
> >>
> >> Magic won't happen without a bz :-) please open one describing
what's
> >> requested.
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Nir
> >>>
> >>> >
> >>> > Could you add this feature to the next release of 3.6 branch?
> >>> >
> >>> > Thanks
> >>> > Luiz
> >>> >
> >>> > Em ter, 12 de abr de 2016 05:03, Sandro Bonazzola <
> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
> >>> > escreveu:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Bond, Darryl <
> dbond(a)nrggos.com.au>
> >>> >> wrote:
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> My setup is hyperconverged. I have placed my test results
in
> >>> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Ok, so you're aware about the limitation of the single
point of
> >>> >> failure.
> >>> >> If you drop the host referenced in hosted engine configuration
for
> the
> >>> >> initial setup it won't be able to connect to shared storage
even if
> >>> >> the
> >>> >> other hosts in the cluster are up since the entry point is
down.
> >>> >> Note that hyperconverged deployment is not supported in 3.6.
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Short description of setup:
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> 3 hosts with 2 disks each set up with gluster replica 3
across
> the 6
> >>> >>> disks volume name hosted-engine.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Hostname hosted-storage configured in /etc//hosts to point
to the
> >>> >>> host1.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Installed hosted engine on host1 with the hosted engine
storage
> path
> >>> >>> =
> >>> >>> hosted-storage:/hosted-engine
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Install first engine on h1 successful. Hosts h2 and h3
added to
> the
> >>> >>> hosted engine. All works fine.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Additional storage and non-hosted engine hosts added etc.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Additional VMs added to hosted-engine storage (oVirt
Reports VM
> and
> >>> >>> Cinder VM). Additional VM's are hosted by other storage
- cinder
> and
> >>> >>> NFS.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> The system is in production.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Engine can be migrated around with the web interface.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> - 3.6.4 upgrade released, follow the upgrade guide, engine
is
> >>> >>> upgraded
> >>> >>> first , new Centos kernel requires host reboot.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> - Engine placed on h2 - h3 into maintenance (local)
upgrade and
> >>> >>> Reboot
> >>> >>> h3 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h3.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> - Engine placed on h3 - h2 into maintenance (local)
upgrade and
> >>> >>> Reboot
> >>> >>> h2 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h2.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> - Engine placed on h3 -h1 into mainteance (local) upgrade
and
> reboot
> >>> >>> h1 -
> >>> >>> engine crashes and does not start elsewhere, VM(cinder) on
h3 on
> >>> >>> same
> >>> >>> gluster volume pauses.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> - Host 1 takes about 5 minutes to reboot (Enterprise box
with all
> >>> >>> it's
> >>> >>> normal BIOS probing)
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> - Engine starts after h1 comes back and stabilises
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> - VM(cinder) unpauses itself, VM(reports) continued fine
the
> whole
> >>> >>> time.
> >>> >>> I can do no diagnosis on the 2 VMs as the engine is not
available.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> - Local maintenance removed from h1
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> I don't believe the issue is with gluster itself as the
volume
> >>> >>> remains
> >>> >>> accessible on all hosts during this time albeit with a
missing
> server
> >>> >>> (gluster volume status) as each gluster server is
rebooted.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Gluster was upgraded as part of the process, no issues were
seen
> >>> >>> here.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> I have been able to duplicate the issue without the upgrade
by
> >>> >>> following
> >>> >>> the same sort of timeline.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> ________________________________
> >>> >>> From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
> >>> >>> Sent: Monday, 11 April 2016 7:11 PM
> >>> >>> To: Richard Neuboeck; Simone Tiraboschi; Roy Golan; Martin
Sivak;
> >>> >>> Sahina
> >>> >>> Bose
> >>> >>> Cc: Bond, Darryl; users
> >>> >>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted engine on gluster
problem
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Richard Neuboeck
> >>> >>>
<hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at<mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at>> wrote:
> >>> >>> Hi Darryl,
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> I'm still experimenting with my oVirt installation so I
tried to
> >>> >>> recreate the problems you've described.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> My setup has three HA hosts for virtualization and three
machines
> >>> >>> for the gluster replica 3 setup.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> I manually migrated the Engine from the initial install
host (one)
> >>> >>> to host three. Then shut down host one manually and
interrupted
> the
> >>> >>> fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down. This didn't
bother the
> >>> >>> Engine VM at all.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Did you move the host one to maintenance before shutting
down?
> >>> >>> Or is this a crash recovery test?
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> To make things a bit more challenging I then shut down host
three
> >>> >>> while running the Engine VM. Of course the Engine was down
for
> some
> >>> >>> time until host two detected the problem. It started the
Engine VM
> >>> >>> and everything seems to be running quite well without the
initial
> >>> >>> install host.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Thanks for the feedback!
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> My only problem is that the HA agent on host two and three
refuse
> to
> >>> >>> start after a reboot due to the fact that the configuration
of the
> >>> >>> hosted engine is missing. I wrote another mail to
> >>> >>> users@ovirt.org<mailto:users@ovirt.org>
> >>> >>> about that.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> This is weird. Martin, Simone can you please investigate
on this?
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Cheers
> >>> >>> Richard
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl wrote:
> >>> >>> > There seems to be a pretty severe bug with using
hosted engine
> on
> >>> >>> > gluster.
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > If the host that was used as the initial hosted-engine
--deploy
> >>> >>> > host
> >>> >>> > goes away, the engine VM wil crash and cannot be
restarted until
> >>> >>> > the host
> >>> >>> > comes back.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> is this an Hyperconverged setup?
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > This is regardless of which host the engine was
currently
> running.
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > The issue seems to be buried in the bowels of VDSM and
is not an
> >>> >>> > issue
> >>> >>> > with gluster itself.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Sahina, can you please investigate on this?
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > The gluster filesystem is still accessable from the
host that
> was
> >>> >>> > running the engine. The issue has been submitted to
bugzilla but
> >>> >>> > the fix is
> >>> >>> > some way off (4.1).
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > Can my hosted engine be converted to use NFS (using
the gluster
> NFS
> >>> >>> > server on the same filesystem) without rebuilding my
hosted
> engine
> >>> >>> > (ie
> >>> >>> > change domainType=glusterfs to domainType=nfs)?
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > What effect would that have on the hosted-engine
storage domain
> >>> >>> > inside
> >>> >>> > oVirt, ie would the same filesystem be mounted twice
or would it
> >>> >>> > just break.
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > Will this actually fix the problem, does it have the
same issue
> >>> >>> > when
> >>> >>> > the hosted engine is on NFS?
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > Darryl
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
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9:44 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves <
luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not planning to move to ovirt 4 until it gets stable, so
would be
great to backport to 3.6 or ,ideally, gets developed on the next release of
3.6 branch. Considering the urgency (its a single point of failure) x
complexity wouldn't be hard to make the proposed fix.
Bumping old email sorry. Looks like
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693 was finished against
3.6.7 according to that RFE.
So does that mean if I add appropriate lines to my
/etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf the next time I restart engine
and agent/brokers to mount that storage point it will utilize the
backupvol-server features?
If so are appropriate settings outlined in docs somewhere?
Running ovirt 3.6.7 and gluster 3.8.2 on centos 7 nodes.
I'm using today a production environment on top of gluster replica 3 and
this is the only SPF I have.
Thanks
Luiz
Em sex, 15 de abr de 2016 03:05, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
escreveu:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves
>> <luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Nir, here is the problem:
>> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
>> >
>> > When you do a hosted-engine --deploy and pick "glusterfs" you
don't
>> have a
>> > way to define the mount options, therefore, the use of the
>> > "backupvol-server", however when you create a storage domain from
the
>> UI you
>> > can, like the attached screen shot.
>> >
>> >
>> > In the hosted-engine --deploy, I would expect a flow which includes
>> not only
>> > the "gluster" entrypoint, but also the gluster mount options which
is
>> > missing today. This option would be optional, but would remove the
>> single
>> > point of failure described on the Bug 1298693.
>> >
>> > for example:
>> >
>> > Existing entry point on the "hosted-engine --deploy" flow
>> > gluster1.xyz.com:/engine
>>
>> I agree, this feature must be supported.
>>
>
> It will, and it's currently targeted to 4.0.
>
>
>
>>
>> > Missing option on the "hosted-engine --deploy" flow :
>> > backupvolfile-server=gluster2.xyz.com,fetch-attempts=3,log-
>> level=WARNING,log-file=/var/log/glusterfs/gluster_engine_domain.log
>> >
>> > Sandro, it seems to me a simple solution which can be easily fixed.
>> >
>> > What do you think?
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > -Luiz
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 2016-04-13 4:15 GMT-03:00 Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves
>> >>> <luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> > Hi Sandro, I've been using gluster with 3 external hosts
for a
>> while
>> >>> > and
>> >>> > things are working pretty well, however this single point of
>> failure
>> >>> > looks
>> >>> > like a simple feature to implement,but critical to anyone who
>> wants to
>> >>> > use
>> >>> > gluster on production . This is not hyperconvergency which
has
>> other
>> >>> > issues/implications. So , why not have this feature out on 3.6
>> branch?
>> >>> > It
>> >>> > looks like just let vdsm use the 'backupvol-server'
option when
>> >>> > mounting the
>> >>> > engine domain and make the property tests.
>> >>>
>> >>> Can you explain what is the problem, and what is the suggested
>> solution?
>> >>>
>> >>> Engine and vdsm already support the backupvol-server option - you
can
>> >>> define this option in the storage domain options when you create a
>> >>> gluster
>> >>> storage domain. With this option vdsm should be able to connect to
>> >>> gluster
>> >>> storage domain even if a brick is down.
>> >>>
>> >>> If you don't have this option in engine , you probably cannot
add it
>> with
>> >>> hosted
>> >>> engine setup, since for editing it you must put the storage domain
in
>> >>> maintenance
>> >>> and if you do this the engine vm will be killed :-) This is is one
of
>> >>> the issues with
>> >>> engine managing the storage domain it runs on.
>> >>>
>> >>> I think the best way to avoid this issue, is to add a DNS entry
>> >>> providing the addresses
>> >>> of all the gluster bricks, and use this address for the gluster
>> >>> storage domain. This way
>> >>> the glusterfs mount helper can mount the domain even if one of the
>> >>> gluster bricks
>> >>> are down.
>> >>>
>> >>> Again, we will need some magic from the hosted engine developers to
>> >>> modify the
>> >>> address of the hosted engine gluster domain on existing system.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Magic won't happen without a bz :-) please open one describing
what's
>> >> requested.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Nir
>> >>>
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Could you add this feature to the next release of 3.6 branch?
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Thanks
>> >>> > Luiz
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Em ter, 12 de abr de 2016 05:03, Sandro Bonazzola <
>> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>> >>> > escreveu:
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Bond, Darryl <
>> dbond(a)nrggos.com.au>
>> >>> >> wrote:
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> My setup is hyperconverged. I have placed my test
results in
>> >>> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Ok, so you're aware about the limitation of the single
point of
>> >>> >> failure.
>> >>> >> If you drop the host referenced in hosted engine
configuration
>> for the
>> >>> >> initial setup it won't be able to connect to shared
storage even
>> if
>> >>> >> the
>> >>> >> other hosts in the cluster are up since the entry point is
down.
>> >>> >> Note that hyperconverged deployment is not supported in
3.6.
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Short description of setup:
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> 3 hosts with 2 disks each set up with gluster replica 3
across
>> the 6
>> >>> >>> disks volume name hosted-engine.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Hostname hosted-storage configured in /etc//hosts to
point to the
>> >>> >>> host1.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Installed hosted engine on host1 with the hosted engine
storage
>> path
>> >>> >>> =
>> >>> >>> hosted-storage:/hosted-engine
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Install first engine on h1 successful. Hosts h2 and h3
added to
>> the
>> >>> >>> hosted engine. All works fine.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Additional storage and non-hosted engine hosts added
etc.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Additional VMs added to hosted-engine storage (oVirt
Reports VM
>> and
>> >>> >>> Cinder VM). Additional VM's are hosted by other
storage - cinder
>> and
>> >>> >>> NFS.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> The system is in production.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Engine can be migrated around with the web interface.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> - 3.6.4 upgrade released, follow the upgrade guide,
engine is
>> >>> >>> upgraded
>> >>> >>> first , new Centos kernel requires host reboot.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> - Engine placed on h2 - h3 into maintenance (local)
upgrade and
>> >>> >>> Reboot
>> >>> >>> h3 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h3.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> - Engine placed on h3 - h2 into maintenance (local)
upgrade and
>> >>> >>> Reboot
>> >>> >>> h2 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h2.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> - Engine placed on h3 -h1 into mainteance (local)
upgrade and
>> reboot
>> >>> >>> h1 -
>> >>> >>> engine crashes and does not start elsewhere, VM(cinder)
on h3 on
>> >>> >>> same
>> >>> >>> gluster volume pauses.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> - Host 1 takes about 5 minutes to reboot (Enterprise
box with all
>> >>> >>> it's
>> >>> >>> normal BIOS probing)
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> - Engine starts after h1 comes back and stabilises
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> - VM(cinder) unpauses itself, VM(reports) continued
fine the
>> whole
>> >>> >>> time.
>> >>> >>> I can do no diagnosis on the 2 VMs as the engine is
not
>> available.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> - Local maintenance removed from h1
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> I don't believe the issue is with gluster itself as
the volume
>> >>> >>> remains
>> >>> >>> accessible on all hosts during this time albeit with a
missing
>> server
>> >>> >>> (gluster volume status) as each gluster server is
rebooted.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Gluster was upgraded as part of the process, no issues
were seen
>> >>> >>> here.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> I have been able to duplicate the issue without the
upgrade by
>> >>> >>> following
>> >>> >>> the same sort of timeline.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> ________________________________
>> >>> >>> From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>> >>> >>> Sent: Monday, 11 April 2016 7:11 PM
>> >>> >>> To: Richard Neuboeck; Simone Tiraboschi; Roy Golan;
Martin Sivak;
>> >>> >>> Sahina
>> >>> >>> Bose
>> >>> >>> Cc: Bond, Darryl; users
>> >>> >>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted engine on gluster
problem
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Richard Neuboeck
>> >>> >>>
<hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at<mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at>> wrote:
>> >>> >>> Hi Darryl,
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> I'm still experimenting with my oVirt installation
so I tried to
>> >>> >>> recreate the problems you've described.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> My setup has three HA hosts for virtualization and
three machines
>> >>> >>> for the gluster replica 3 setup.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> I manually migrated the Engine from the initial install
host
>> (one)
>> >>> >>> to host three. Then shut down host one manually and
interrupted
>> the
>> >>> >>> fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down. This
didn't bother
>> the
>> >>> >>> Engine VM at all.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Did you move the host one to maintenance before
shutting down?
>> >>> >>> Or is this a crash recovery test?
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> To make things a bit more challenging I then shut down
host three
>> >>> >>> while running the Engine VM. Of course the Engine was
down for
>> some
>> >>> >>> time until host two detected the problem. It started
the Engine
>> VM
>> >>> >>> and everything seems to be running quite well without
the initial
>> >>> >>> install host.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Thanks for the feedback!
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> My only problem is that the HA agent on host two and
three
>> refuse to
>> >>> >>> start after a reboot due to the fact that the
configuration of
>> the
>> >>> >>> hosted engine is missing. I wrote another mail to
>> >>> >>> users@ovirt.org<mailto:users@ovirt.org>
>> >>> >>> about that.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> This is weird. Martin, Simone can you please
investigate on
>> this?
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Cheers
>> >>> >>> Richard
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl wrote:
>> >>> >>> > There seems to be a pretty severe bug with using
hosted engine
>> on
>> >>> >>> > gluster.
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> > If the host that was used as the initial
hosted-engine --deploy
>> >>> >>> > host
>> >>> >>> > goes away, the engine VM wil crash and cannot be
restarted
>> until
>> >>> >>> > the host
>> >>> >>> > comes back.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> is this an Hyperconverged setup?
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> > This is regardless of which host the engine was
currently
>> running.
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> > The issue seems to be buried in the bowels of VDSM
and is not
>> an
>> >>> >>> > issue
>> >>> >>> > with gluster itself.
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> Sahina, can you please investigate on this?
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> > The gluster filesystem is still accessable from
the host that
>> was
>> >>> >>> > running the engine. The issue has been submitted
to bugzilla
>> but
>> >>> >>> > the fix is
>> >>> >>> > some way off (4.1).
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> > Can my hosted engine be converted to use NFS
(using the
>> gluster NFS
>> >>> >>> > server on the same filesystem) without rebuilding
my hosted
>> engine
>> >>> >>> > (ie
>> >>> >>> > change domainType=glusterfs to domainType=nfs)?
>> >>> >>>
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> > What effect would that have on the hosted-engine
storage domain
>> >>> >>> > inside
>> >>> >>> > oVirt, ie would the same filesystem be mounted
twice or would
>> it
>> >>> >>> > just break.
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> > Will this actually fix the problem, does it have
the same issue
>> >>> >>> > when
>> >>> >>> > the hosted engine is on NFS?
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> > Darryl
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> >
>> >>> >>> >
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>> >>
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9:54 a.m.
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:44 PM, David Gossage <dgossage(a)carouselchecks.com>
wrote:
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves <
luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not planning to move to ovirt 4 until it gets stable, so would be
> great to backport to 3.6 or ,ideally, gets developed on the next release of
> 3.6 branch. Considering the urgency (its a single point of failure) x
> complexity wouldn't be hard to make the proposed fix.
>
>
Bumping old email sorry. Looks like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
show_bug.cgi?id=1298693 was finished against 3.6.7 according to that RFE.
So does that mean if I add appropriate lines to my
/etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf the next time I restart
engine and agent/brokers to mount that storage point it will utilize the
backupvol-server features?
If so are appropriate settings outlined in docs somewhere?
Running ovirt 3.6.7 and gluster 3.8.2 on centos 7 nodes.
Adding Simone
I'm using today a production environment on top of gluster replica 3 and
> this is the only SPF I have.
>
> Thanks
> Luiz
>
> Em sex, 15 de abr de 2016 03:05, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
> escreveu:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves
>>> <luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Nir, here is the problem:
>>> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
>>> >
>>> > When you do a hosted-engine --deploy and pick "glusterfs" you
don't
>>> have a
>>> > way to define the mount options, therefore, the use of the
>>> > "backupvol-server", however when you create a storage domain
from the
>>> UI you
>>> > can, like the attached screen shot.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > In the hosted-engine --deploy, I would expect a flow which includes
>>> not only
>>> > the "gluster" entrypoint, but also the gluster mount options
which is
>>> > missing today. This option would be optional, but would remove the
>>> single
>>> > point of failure described on the Bug 1298693.
>>> >
>>> > for example:
>>> >
>>> > Existing entry point on the "hosted-engine --deploy" flow
>>> > gluster1.xyz.com:/engine
>>>
>>> I agree, this feature must be supported.
>>>
>>
>> It will, and it's currently targeted to 4.0.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> > Missing option on the "hosted-engine --deploy" flow :
>>> > backupvolfile-server=gluster2.xyz.com,fetch-attempts=3,log-l
>>> evel=WARNING,log-file=/var/log/glusterfs/gluster_engine_domain.log
>>> >
>>> > Sandro, it seems to me a simple solution which can be easily fixed.
>>> >
>>> > What do you think?
>>> >
>>> > Regards
>>> > -Luiz
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > 2016-04-13 4:15 GMT-03:00 Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>:
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Nir Soffer
<nsoffer(a)redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres
Goncalves
>>> >>> <luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>> > Hi Sandro, I've been using gluster with 3 external
hosts for a
>>> while
>>> >>> > and
>>> >>> > things are working pretty well, however this single point
of
>>> failure
>>> >>> > looks
>>> >>> > like a simple feature to implement,but critical to anyone
who
>>> wants to
>>> >>> > use
>>> >>> > gluster on production . This is not hyperconvergency which
has
>>> other
>>> >>> > issues/implications. So , why not have this feature out on
3.6
>>> branch?
>>> >>> > It
>>> >>> > looks like just let vdsm use the 'backupvol-server'
option when
>>> >>> > mounting the
>>> >>> > engine domain and make the property tests.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Can you explain what is the problem, and what is the suggested
>>> solution?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Engine and vdsm already support the backupvol-server option -
you
>>> can
>>> >>> define this option in the storage domain options when you create
a
>>> >>> gluster
>>> >>> storage domain. With this option vdsm should be able to connect
to
>>> >>> gluster
>>> >>> storage domain even if a brick is down.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> If you don't have this option in engine , you probably
cannot add
>>> it with
>>> >>> hosted
>>> >>> engine setup, since for editing it you must put the storage
domain
>>> in
>>> >>> maintenance
>>> >>> and if you do this the engine vm will be killed :-) This is is
one
>>> of
>>> >>> the issues with
>>> >>> engine managing the storage domain it runs on.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I think the best way to avoid this issue, is to add a DNS entry
>>> >>> providing the addresses
>>> >>> of all the gluster bricks, and use this address for the gluster
>>> >>> storage domain. This way
>>> >>> the glusterfs mount helper can mount the domain even if one of
the
>>> >>> gluster bricks
>>> >>> are down.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Again, we will need some magic from the hosted engine developers
to
>>> >>> modify the
>>> >>> address of the hosted engine gluster domain on existing system.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Magic won't happen without a bz :-) please open one describing
what's
>>> >> requested.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Nir
>>> >>>
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > Could you add this feature to the next release of 3.6
branch?
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > Thanks
>>> >>> > Luiz
>>> >>> >
>>> >>> > Em ter, 12 de abr de 2016 05:03, Sandro Bonazzola <
>>> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>>> >>> > escreveu:
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Bond, Darryl <
>>> dbond(a)nrggos.com.au>
>>> >>> >> wrote:
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> My setup is hyperconverged. I have placed my test
results in
>>> >>> >>>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >> Ok, so you're aware about the limitation of the
single point of
>>> >>> >> failure.
>>> >>> >> If you drop the host referenced in hosted engine
configuration
>>> for the
>>> >>> >> initial setup it won't be able to connect to shared
storage even
>>> if
>>> >>> >> the
>>> >>> >> other hosts in the cluster are up since the entry point
is down.
>>> >>> >> Note that hyperconverged deployment is not supported in
3.6.
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >>
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> Short description of setup:
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> 3 hosts with 2 disks each set up with gluster
replica 3 across
>>> the 6
>>> >>> >>> disks volume name hosted-engine.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> Hostname hosted-storage configured in /etc//hosts
to point to
>>> the
>>> >>> >>> host1.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> Installed hosted engine on host1 with the hosted
engine storage
>>> path
>>> >>> >>> =
>>> >>> >>> hosted-storage:/hosted-engine
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> Install first engine on h1 successful. Hosts h2 and
h3 added to
>>> the
>>> >>> >>> hosted engine. All works fine.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> Additional storage and non-hosted engine hosts
added etc.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> Additional VMs added to hosted-engine storage
(oVirt Reports VM
>>> and
>>> >>> >>> Cinder VM). Additional VM's are hosted by other
storage -
>>> cinder and
>>> >>> >>> NFS.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> The system is in production.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> Engine can be migrated around with the web
interface.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> - 3.6.4 upgrade released, follow the upgrade guide,
engine is
>>> >>> >>> upgraded
>>> >>> >>> first , new Centos kernel requires host reboot.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> - Engine placed on h2 - h3 into maintenance
(local) upgrade and
>>> >>> >>> Reboot
>>> >>> >>> h3 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from
h3.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> - Engine placed on h3 - h2 into maintenance
(local) upgrade and
>>> >>> >>> Reboot
>>> >>> >>> h2 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from
h2.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> - Engine placed on h3 -h1 into mainteance (local)
upgrade and
>>> reboot
>>> >>> >>> h1 -
>>> >>> >>> engine crashes and does not start elsewhere,
VM(cinder) on h3
>>> on
>>> >>> >>> same
>>> >>> >>> gluster volume pauses.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> - Host 1 takes about 5 minutes to reboot
(Enterprise box with
>>> all
>>> >>> >>> it's
>>> >>> >>> normal BIOS probing)
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> - Engine starts after h1 comes back and stabilises
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> - VM(cinder) unpauses itself, VM(reports)
continued fine the
>>> whole
>>> >>> >>> time.
>>> >>> >>> I can do no diagnosis on the 2 VMs as the engine is
not
>>> available.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> - Local maintenance removed from h1
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> I don't believe the issue is with gluster
itself as the volume
>>> >>> >>> remains
>>> >>> >>> accessible on all hosts during this time albeit
with a missing
>>> server
>>> >>> >>> (gluster volume status) as each gluster server is
rebooted.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> Gluster was upgraded as part of the process, no
issues were seen
>>> >>> >>> here.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> I have been able to duplicate the issue without the
upgrade by
>>> >>> >>> following
>>> >>> >>> the same sort of timeline.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> ________________________________
>>> >>> >>> From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>>> >>> >>> Sent: Monday, 11 April 2016 7:11 PM
>>> >>> >>> To: Richard Neuboeck; Simone Tiraboschi; Roy Golan;
Martin
>>> Sivak;
>>> >>> >>> Sahina
>>> >>> >>> Bose
>>> >>> >>> Cc: Bond, Darryl; users
>>> >>> >>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted engine on gluster
problem
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Richard Neuboeck
>>> >>> >>>
<hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at<mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at>> wrote:
>>> >>> >>> Hi Darryl,
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> I'm still experimenting with my oVirt
installation so I tried to
>>> >>> >>> recreate the problems you've described.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> My setup has three HA hosts for virtualization and
three
>>> machines
>>> >>> >>> for the gluster replica 3 setup.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> I manually migrated the Engine from the initial
install host
>>> (one)
>>> >>> >>> to host three. Then shut down host one manually and
interrupted
>>> the
>>> >>> >>> fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down. This
didn't bother
>>> the
>>> >>> >>> Engine VM at all.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> Did you move the host one to maintenance before
shutting down?
>>> >>> >>> Or is this a crash recovery test?
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> To make things a bit more challenging I then shut
down host
>>> three
>>> >>> >>> while running the Engine VM. Of course the Engine
was down for
>>> some
>>> >>> >>> time until host two detected the problem. It
started the Engine
>>> VM
>>> >>> >>> and everything seems to be running quite well
without the
>>> initial
>>> >>> >>> install host.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> Thanks for the feedback!
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> My only problem is that the HA agent on host two
and three
>>> refuse to
>>> >>> >>> start after a reboot due to the fact that the
configuration of
>>> the
>>> >>> >>> hosted engine is missing. I wrote another mail to
>>> >>> >>> users@ovirt.org<mailto:users@ovirt.org>
>>> >>> >>> about that.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> This is weird. Martin, Simone can you please
investigate on
>>> this?
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> Cheers
>>> >>> >>> Richard
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl wrote:
>>> >>> >>> > There seems to be a pretty severe bug with
using hosted
>>> engine on
>>> >>> >>> > gluster.
>>> >>> >>> >
>>> >>> >>> > If the host that was used as the initial
hosted-engine
>>> --deploy
>>> >>> >>> > host
>>> >>> >>> > goes away, the engine VM wil crash and cannot
be restarted
>>> until
>>> >>> >>> > the host
>>> >>> >>> > comes back.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> is this an Hyperconverged setup?
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> >
>>> >>> >>> > This is regardless of which host the engine
was currently
>>> running.
>>> >>> >>> >
>>> >>> >>> >
>>> >>> >>> > The issue seems to be buried in the bowels of
VDSM and is not
>>> an
>>> >>> >>> > issue
>>> >>> >>> > with gluster itself.
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> Sahina, can you please investigate on this?
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> >
>>> >>> >>> > The gluster filesystem is still accessable
from the host that
>>> was
>>> >>> >>> > running the engine. The issue has been
submitted to bugzilla
>>> but
>>> >>> >>> > the fix is
>>> >>> >>> > some way off (4.1).
>>> >>> >>> >
>>> >>> >>> >
>>> >>> >>> > Can my hosted engine be converted to use NFS
(using the
>>> gluster NFS
>>> >>> >>> > server on the same filesystem) without
rebuilding my hosted
>>> engine
>>> >>> >>> > (ie
>>> >>> >>> > change domainType=glusterfs to
domainType=nfs)?
>>> >>> >>>
>>> >>> >>> >
>>> >>> >>> > What effect would that have on the
hosted-engine storage
>>> domain
>>> >>> >>> > inside
>>> >>> >>> > oVirt, ie would the same filesystem be mounted
twice or would
>>> it
>>> >>> >>> > just break.
>>> >>> >>> >
>>> >>> >>> >
>>> >>> >>> > Will this actually fix the problem, does it
have the same
>>> issue
>>> >>> >>> > when
>>> >>> >>> > the hosted engine is on NFS?
>>> >>> >>> >
>>> >>> >>> >
>>> >>> >>> > Darryl
>>> >>> >>> >
>>> >>> >>> >
>>> >>> >>> >
>>> >>> >>> >
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6:47 p.m.
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:44 PM, David Gossage <
dgossage(a)carouselchecks.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves <
> luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not planning to move to ovirt 4 until it gets stable, so would be
>> great to backport to 3.6 or ,ideally, gets developed on the next release of
>> 3.6 branch. Considering the urgency (its a single point of failure) x
>> complexity wouldn't be hard to make the proposed fix.
>>
>>
> Bumping old email sorry. Looks like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/sh
> ow_bug.cgi?id=1298693 was finished against 3.6.7 according to that RFE.
>
> So does that mean if I add appropriate lines to my
> /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf the next time I restart
> engine and agent/brokers to mount that storage point it will utilize the
> backupvol-server features?
>
> If so are appropriate settings outlined in docs somewhere?
>
> Running ovirt 3.6.7 and gluster 3.8.2 on centos 7 nodes.
>
Adding Simone
First step, you have to edit
/etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf on all your hosted-engine
hosts to ensure that the storage field always point to the same entry
point (host01 for instance)
Then on each host you can add something like:
mnt_options=backupvolfile-server=host02.yourdomain.com:host03.
<http://ost03.ovirt.forest.go.th/>yourdomain.com,fetch-attempts=2,log-l...
WARNING,log-file=/var/log/engine_domain.log
Then check the representation of your storage connection in the table
storage_server_connections
of the engine DB and make sure that connection refers to the entry point
you used in hosted-engine.conf on all your hosts, you have lastly to set
the value of mount_options also here.
Please tune also the value of network.ping-timeout for your glusterFS volume
to avoid this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1319657#c17
You can find other information here:
https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/engine/self-hos...
>
>
> I'm using today a production environment on top of gluster replica 3 and
>> this is the only SPF I have.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Luiz
>>
>> Em sex, 15 de abr de 2016 03:05, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>> escreveu:
>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves
>>>> <luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > Nir, here is the problem:
>>>> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
>>>> >
>>>> > When you do a hosted-engine --deploy and pick "glusterfs"
you don't
>>>> have a
>>>> > way to define the mount options, therefore, the use of the
>>>> > "backupvol-server", however when you create a storage
domain from
>>>> the UI you
>>>> > can, like the attached screen shot.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > In the hosted-engine --deploy, I would expect a flow which includes
>>>> not only
>>>> > the "gluster" entrypoint, but also the gluster mount
options which is
>>>> > missing today. This option would be optional, but would remove the
>>>> single
>>>> > point of failure described on the Bug 1298693.
>>>> >
>>>> > for example:
>>>> >
>>>> > Existing entry point on the "hosted-engine --deploy" flow
>>>> > gluster1.xyz.com:/engine
>>>>
>>>> I agree, this feature must be supported.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It will, and it's currently targeted to 4.0.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> > Missing option on the "hosted-engine --deploy" flow :
>>>> > backupvolfile-server=gluster2.xyz.com,fetch-attempts=3,log-l
>>>> evel=WARNING,log-file=/var/log/glusterfs/gluster_engine_domain.log
>>>> >
>>>> > Sandro, it seems to me a simple solution which can be easily fixed.
>>>> >
>>>> > What do you think?
>>>> >
>>>> > Regards
>>>> > -Luiz
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > 2016-04-13 4:15 GMT-03:00 Sandro Bonazzola
<sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>:
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Nir Soffer
<nsoffer(a)redhat.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres
Goncalves
>>>> >>> <luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >>> > Hi Sandro, I've been using gluster with 3 external
hosts for a
>>>> while
>>>> >>> > and
>>>> >>> > things are working pretty well, however this single
point of
>>>> failure
>>>> >>> > looks
>>>> >>> > like a simple feature to implement,but critical to
anyone who
>>>> wants to
>>>> >>> > use
>>>> >>> > gluster on production . This is not hyperconvergency
which has
>>>> other
>>>> >>> > issues/implications. So , why not have this feature out
on 3.6
>>>> branch?
>>>> >>> > It
>>>> >>> > looks like just let vdsm use the
'backupvol-server' option when
>>>> >>> > mounting the
>>>> >>> > engine domain and make the property tests.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Can you explain what is the problem, and what is the
suggested
>>>> solution?
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Engine and vdsm already support the backupvol-server option
- you
>>>> can
>>>> >>> define this option in the storage domain options when you
create a
>>>> >>> gluster
>>>> >>> storage domain. With this option vdsm should be able to
connect to
>>>> >>> gluster
>>>> >>> storage domain even if a brick is down.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> If you don't have this option in engine , you probably
cannot add
>>>> it with
>>>> >>> hosted
>>>> >>> engine setup, since for editing it you must put the storage
domain
>>>> in
>>>> >>> maintenance
>>>> >>> and if you do this the engine vm will be killed :-) This is
is one
>>>> of
>>>> >>> the issues with
>>>> >>> engine managing the storage domain it runs on.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> I think the best way to avoid this issue, is to add a DNS
entry
>>>> >>> providing the addresses
>>>> >>> of all the gluster bricks, and use this address for the
gluster
>>>> >>> storage domain. This way
>>>> >>> the glusterfs mount helper can mount the domain even if one
of the
>>>> >>> gluster bricks
>>>> >>> are down.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Again, we will need some magic from the hosted engine
developers to
>>>> >>> modify the
>>>> >>> address of the hosted engine gluster domain on existing
system.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Magic won't happen without a bz :-) please open one
describing
>>>> what's
>>>> >> requested.
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Nir
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> > Could you add this feature to the next release of 3.6
branch?
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> > Thanks
>>>> >>> > Luiz
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> > Em ter, 12 de abr de 2016 05:03, Sandro Bonazzola <
>>>> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>>>> >>> > escreveu:
>>>> >>> >>
>>>> >>> >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Bond, Darryl
<
>>>> dbond(a)nrggos.com.au>
>>>> >>> >> wrote:
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> My setup is hyperconverged. I have placed my
test results in
>>>> >>> >>>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>
>>>> >>> >> Ok, so you're aware about the limitation of the
single point of
>>>> >>> >> failure.
>>>> >>> >> If you drop the host referenced in hosted engine
configuration
>>>> for the
>>>> >>> >> initial setup it won't be able to connect to
shared storage
>>>> even if
>>>> >>> >> the
>>>> >>> >> other hosts in the cluster are up since the entry
point is down.
>>>> >>> >> Note that hyperconverged deployment is not
supported in 3.6.
>>>> >>> >>
>>>> >>> >>
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> Short description of setup:
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> 3 hosts with 2 disks each set up with gluster
replica 3 across
>>>> the 6
>>>> >>> >>> disks volume name hosted-engine.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> Hostname hosted-storage configured in
/etc//hosts to point to
>>>> the
>>>> >>> >>> host1.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> Installed hosted engine on host1 with the
hosted engine
>>>> storage path
>>>> >>> >>> =
>>>> >>> >>> hosted-storage:/hosted-engine
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> Install first engine on h1 successful. Hosts h2
and h3 added
>>>> to the
>>>> >>> >>> hosted engine. All works fine.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> Additional storage and non-hosted engine hosts
added etc.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> Additional VMs added to hosted-engine storage
(oVirt Reports
>>>> VM and
>>>> >>> >>> Cinder VM). Additional VM's are hosted by
other storage -
>>>> cinder and
>>>> >>> >>> NFS.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> The system is in production.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> Engine can be migrated around with the web
interface.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> - 3.6.4 upgrade released, follow the upgrade
guide, engine is
>>>> >>> >>> upgraded
>>>> >>> >>> first , new Centos kernel requires host
reboot.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> - Engine placed on h2 - h3 into maintenance
(local) upgrade
>>>> and
>>>> >>> >>> Reboot
>>>> >>> >>> h3 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from
h3.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> - Engine placed on h3 - h2 into maintenance
(local) upgrade
>>>> and
>>>> >>> >>> Reboot
>>>> >>> >>> h2 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from
h2.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> - Engine placed on h3 -h1 into mainteance
(local) upgrade and
>>>> reboot
>>>> >>> >>> h1 -
>>>> >>> >>> engine crashes and does not start elsewhere,
VM(cinder) on h3
>>>> on
>>>> >>> >>> same
>>>> >>> >>> gluster volume pauses.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> - Host 1 takes about 5 minutes to reboot
(Enterprise box with
>>>> all
>>>> >>> >>> it's
>>>> >>> >>> normal BIOS probing)
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> - Engine starts after h1 comes back and
stabilises
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> - VM(cinder) unpauses itself, VM(reports)
continued fine the
>>>> whole
>>>> >>> >>> time.
>>>> >>> >>> I can do no diagnosis on the 2 VMs as the
engine is not
>>>> available.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> - Local maintenance removed from h1
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> I don't believe the issue is with gluster
itself as the volume
>>>> >>> >>> remains
>>>> >>> >>> accessible on all hosts during this time albeit
with a missing
>>>> server
>>>> >>> >>> (gluster volume status) as each gluster server
is rebooted.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> Gluster was upgraded as part of the process, no
issues were
>>>> seen
>>>> >>> >>> here.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> I have been able to duplicate the issue without
the upgrade by
>>>> >>> >>> following
>>>> >>> >>> the same sort of timeline.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> ________________________________
>>>> >>> >>> From: Sandro Bonazzola
<sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>>>> >>> >>> Sent: Monday, 11 April 2016 7:11 PM
>>>> >>> >>> To: Richard Neuboeck; Simone Tiraboschi; Roy
Golan; Martin
>>>> Sivak;
>>>> >>> >>> Sahina
>>>> >>> >>> Bose
>>>> >>> >>> Cc: Bond, Darryl; users
>>>> >>> >>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted engine on
gluster problem
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Richard
Neuboeck
>>>> >>> >>>
<hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at<mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at>> wrote:
>>>> >>> >>> Hi Darryl,
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> I'm still experimenting with my oVirt
installation so I tried
>>>> to
>>>> >>> >>> recreate the problems you've described.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> My setup has three HA hosts for virtualization
and three
>>>> machines
>>>> >>> >>> for the gluster replica 3 setup.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> I manually migrated the Engine from the initial
install host
>>>> (one)
>>>> >>> >>> to host three. Then shut down host one manually
and
>>>> interrupted the
>>>> >>> >>> fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down.
This didn't bother
>>>> the
>>>> >>> >>> Engine VM at all.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> Did you move the host one to maintenance before
shutting down?
>>>> >>> >>> Or is this a crash recovery test?
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> To make things a bit more challenging I then
shut down host
>>>> three
>>>> >>> >>> while running the Engine VM. Of course the
Engine was down for
>>>> some
>>>> >>> >>> time until host two detected the problem. It
started the
>>>> Engine VM
>>>> >>> >>> and everything seems to be running quite well
without the
>>>> initial
>>>> >>> >>> install host.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> Thanks for the feedback!
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> My only problem is that the HA agent on host
two and three
>>>> refuse to
>>>> >>> >>> start after a reboot due to the fact that the
configuration of
>>>> the
>>>> >>> >>> hosted engine is missing. I wrote another mail
to
>>>> >>> >>> users@ovirt.org<mailto:users@ovirt.org>
>>>> >>> >>> about that.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> This is weird. Martin, Simone can you please
investigate on
>>>> this?
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> Cheers
>>>> >>> >>> Richard
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl wrote:
>>>> >>> >>> > There seems to be a pretty severe bug with
using hosted
>>>> engine on
>>>> >>> >>> > gluster.
>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >>> > If the host that was used as the initial
hosted-engine
>>>> --deploy
>>>> >>> >>> > host
>>>> >>> >>> > goes away, the engine VM wil crash and
cannot be restarted
>>>> until
>>>> >>> >>> > the host
>>>> >>> >>> > comes back.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> is this an Hyperconverged setup?
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >>> > This is regardless of which host the
engine was currently
>>>> running.
>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >>> > The issue seems to be buried in the bowels
of VDSM and is
>>>> not an
>>>> >>> >>> > issue
>>>> >>> >>> > with gluster itself.
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> Sahina, can you please investigate on this?
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >>> > The gluster filesystem is still accessable
from the host
>>>> that was
>>>> >>> >>> > running the engine. The issue has been
submitted to bugzilla
>>>> but
>>>> >>> >>> > the fix is
>>>> >>> >>> > some way off (4.1).
>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >>> > Can my hosted engine be converted to use
NFS (using the
>>>> gluster NFS
>>>> >>> >>> > server on the same filesystem) without
rebuilding my hosted
>>>> engine
>>>> >>> >>> > (ie
>>>> >>> >>> > change domainType=glusterfs to
domainType=nfs)?
>>>> >>> >>>
>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >>> > What effect would that have on the
hosted-engine storage
>>>> domain
>>>> >>> >>> > inside
>>>> >>> >>> > oVirt, ie would the same filesystem be
mounted twice or
>>>> would it
>>>> >>> >>> > just break.
>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >>> > Will this actually fix the problem, does
it have the same
>>>> issue
>>>> >>> >>> > when
>>>> >>> >>> > the hosted engine is on NFS?
>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >>> > Darryl
>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >>> > ________________________________
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7:11 p.m.
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:44 PM, David Gossage <
> dgossage(a)carouselchecks.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves <
>> luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not planning to move to ovirt 4 until it gets stable, so would be
>>> great to backport to 3.6 or ,ideally, gets developed on the next release of
>>> 3.6 branch. Considering the urgency (its a single point of failure) x
>>> complexity wouldn't be hard to make the proposed fix.
>>>
>>>
>> Bumping old email sorry. Looks like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/sh
>> ow_bug.cgi?id=1298693 was finished against 3.6.7 according to that RFE.
>>
>> So does that mean if I add appropriate lines to my
>> /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf the next time I restart
>> engine and agent/brokers to mount that storage point it will utilize the
>> backupvol-server features?
>>
>> If so are appropriate settings outlined in docs somewhere?
>>
>> Running ovirt 3.6.7 and gluster 3.8.2 on centos 7 nodes.
>>
>
> Adding Simone
>
First step, you have to edit
/etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf on all your hosted-engine
hosts to ensure that the storage field always point to the same entry
point (host01 for instance)
Then on each host you can add something like:
mnt_options=backupvolfile-server=host02.yourdomain.com:host03.
<http://ost03.ovirt.forest.go.th/>yourdomain.com,fetch-
attempts=2,log-level=WARNING,log-file=/var/log/engine_domain.log
Then check the representation of your storage connection in the table
storage_server_connections of the engine DB and make sure that connection
refers to the entry point you used in hosted-engine.conf on all your
hosts, you have lastly to set the value of mount_options also here.
Please tune also the value of network.ping-timeout for your glusterFS volume
to avoid this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1319657#c17
You can find other information here:
https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/
engine/self-hosted-engine-gluster-support/
Thanks, I'll review all that information.
>
>
>>
>>
>> I'm using today a production environment on top of gluster replica 3 and
>>> this is the only SPF I have.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Luiz
>>>
>>> Em sex, 15 de abr de 2016 03:05, Sandro Bonazzola
<sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>>> escreveu:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves
>>>>> <luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> > Nir, here is the problem:
>>>>> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
>>>>> >
>>>>> > When you do a hosted-engine --deploy and pick
"glusterfs" you don't
>>>>> have a
>>>>> > way to define the mount options, therefore, the use of the
>>>>> > "backupvol-server", however when you create a storage
domain from
>>>>> the UI you
>>>>> > can, like the attached screen shot.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > In the hosted-engine --deploy, I would expect a flow which
includes
>>>>> not only
>>>>> > the "gluster" entrypoint, but also the gluster mount
options which
>>>>> is
>>>>> > missing today. This option would be optional, but would remove
the
>>>>> single
>>>>> > point of failure described on the Bug 1298693.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > for example:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Existing entry point on the "hosted-engine --deploy"
flow
>>>>> > gluster1.xyz.com:/engine
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree, this feature must be supported.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It will, and it's currently targeted to 4.0.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> > Missing option on the "hosted-engine --deploy" flow :
>>>>> > backupvolfile-server=gluster2.xyz.com,fetch-attempts=3,log-l
>>>>> evel=WARNING,log-file=/var/log/glusterfs/gluster_engine_domain.log
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Sandro, it seems to me a simple solution which can be easily
fixed.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > What do you think?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Regards
>>>>> > -Luiz
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > 2016-04-13 4:15 GMT-03:00 Sandro Bonazzola
<sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Nir Soffer
<nsoffer(a)redhat.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres
Goncalves
>>>>> >>> <luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> >>> > Hi Sandro, I've been using gluster with 3
external hosts for a
>>>>> while
>>>>> >>> > and
>>>>> >>> > things are working pretty well, however this single
point of
>>>>> failure
>>>>> >>> > looks
>>>>> >>> > like a simple feature to implement,but critical to
anyone who
>>>>> wants to
>>>>> >>> > use
>>>>> >>> > gluster on production . This is not
hyperconvergency which has
>>>>> other
>>>>> >>> > issues/implications. So , why not have this feature
out on 3.6
>>>>> branch?
>>>>> >>> > It
>>>>> >>> > looks like just let vdsm use the
'backupvol-server' option when
>>>>> >>> > mounting the
>>>>> >>> > engine domain and make the property tests.
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> Can you explain what is the problem, and what is the
suggested
>>>>> solution?
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> Engine and vdsm already support the backupvol-server
option - you
>>>>> can
>>>>> >>> define this option in the storage domain options when
you create a
>>>>> >>> gluster
>>>>> >>> storage domain. With this option vdsm should be able to
connect to
>>>>> >>> gluster
>>>>> >>> storage domain even if a brick is down.
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> If you don't have this option in engine , you
probably cannot add
>>>>> it with
>>>>> >>> hosted
>>>>> >>> engine setup, since for editing it you must put the
storage
>>>>> domain in
>>>>> >>> maintenance
>>>>> >>> and if you do this the engine vm will be killed :-) This
is is
>>>>> one of
>>>>> >>> the issues with
>>>>> >>> engine managing the storage domain it runs on.
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> I think the best way to avoid this issue, is to add a
DNS entry
>>>>> >>> providing the addresses
>>>>> >>> of all the gluster bricks, and use this address for the
gluster
>>>>> >>> storage domain. This way
>>>>> >>> the glusterfs mount helper can mount the domain even if
one of the
>>>>> >>> gluster bricks
>>>>> >>> are down.
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> Again, we will need some magic from the hosted engine
developers
>>>>> to
>>>>> >>> modify the
>>>>> >>> address of the hosted engine gluster domain on existing
system.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Magic won't happen without a bz :-) please open one
describing
>>>>> what's
>>>>> >> requested.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> Nir
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >
>>>>> >>> > Could you add this feature to the next release of
3.6 branch?
>>>>> >>> >
>>>>> >>> > Thanks
>>>>> >>> > Luiz
>>>>> >>> >
>>>>> >>> > Em ter, 12 de abr de 2016 05:03, Sandro Bonazzola
<
>>>>> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>>>>> >>> > escreveu:
>>>>> >>> >>
>>>>> >>> >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Bond, Darryl
<
>>>>> dbond(a)nrggos.com.au>
>>>>> >>> >> wrote:
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> My setup is hyperconverged. I have placed
my test results in
>>>>> >>> >>>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>
>>>>> >>> >> Ok, so you're aware about the limitation of
the single point of
>>>>> >>> >> failure.
>>>>> >>> >> If you drop the host referenced in hosted
engine configuration
>>>>> for the
>>>>> >>> >> initial setup it won't be able to connect
to shared storage
>>>>> even if
>>>>> >>> >> the
>>>>> >>> >> other hosts in the cluster are up since the
entry point is
>>>>> down.
>>>>> >>> >> Note that hyperconverged deployment is not
supported in 3.6.
>>>>> >>> >>
>>>>> >>> >>
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> Short description of setup:
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> 3 hosts with 2 disks each set up with
gluster replica 3
>>>>> across the 6
>>>>> >>> >>> disks volume name hosted-engine.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> Hostname hosted-storage configured in
/etc//hosts to point to
>>>>> the
>>>>> >>> >>> host1.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> Installed hosted engine on host1 with the
hosted engine
>>>>> storage path
>>>>> >>> >>> =
>>>>> >>> >>> hosted-storage:/hosted-engine
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> Install first engine on h1 successful.
Hosts h2 and h3 added
>>>>> to the
>>>>> >>> >>> hosted engine. All works fine.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> Additional storage and non-hosted engine
hosts added etc.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> Additional VMs added to hosted-engine
storage (oVirt Reports
>>>>> VM and
>>>>> >>> >>> Cinder VM). Additional VM's are hosted
by other storage -
>>>>> cinder and
>>>>> >>> >>> NFS.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> The system is in production.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> Engine can be migrated around with the web
interface.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> - 3.6.4 upgrade released, follow the
upgrade guide, engine is
>>>>> >>> >>> upgraded
>>>>> >>> >>> first , new Centos kernel requires host
reboot.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> - Engine placed on h2 - h3 into
maintenance (local) upgrade
>>>>> and
>>>>> >>> >>> Reboot
>>>>> >>> >>> h3 - No issues - Local maintenance removed
from h3.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> - Engine placed on h3 - h2 into
maintenance (local) upgrade
>>>>> and
>>>>> >>> >>> Reboot
>>>>> >>> >>> h2 - No issues - Local maintenance removed
from h2.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> - Engine placed on h3 -h1 into mainteance
(local) upgrade and
>>>>> reboot
>>>>> >>> >>> h1 -
>>>>> >>> >>> engine crashes and does not start
elsewhere, VM(cinder) on
>>>>> h3 on
>>>>> >>> >>> same
>>>>> >>> >>> gluster volume pauses.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> - Host 1 takes about 5 minutes to reboot
(Enterprise box with
>>>>> all
>>>>> >>> >>> it's
>>>>> >>> >>> normal BIOS probing)
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> - Engine starts after h1 comes back and
stabilises
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> - VM(cinder) unpauses itself, VM(reports)
continued fine the
>>>>> whole
>>>>> >>> >>> time.
>>>>> >>> >>> I can do no diagnosis on the 2 VMs as the
engine is not
>>>>> available.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> - Local maintenance removed from h1
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> I don't believe the issue is with
gluster itself as the volume
>>>>> >>> >>> remains
>>>>> >>> >>> accessible on all hosts during this time
albeit with a
>>>>> missing server
>>>>> >>> >>> (gluster volume status) as each gluster
server is rebooted.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> Gluster was upgraded as part of the
process, no issues were
>>>>> seen
>>>>> >>> >>> here.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> I have been able to duplicate the issue
without the upgrade by
>>>>> >>> >>> following
>>>>> >>> >>> the same sort of timeline.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> ________________________________
>>>>> >>> >>> From: Sandro Bonazzola
<sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>>>>> >>> >>> Sent: Monday, 11 April 2016 7:11 PM
>>>>> >>> >>> To: Richard Neuboeck; Simone Tiraboschi;
Roy Golan; Martin
>>>>> Sivak;
>>>>> >>> >>> Sahina
>>>>> >>> >>> Bose
>>>>> >>> >>> Cc: Bond, Darryl; users
>>>>> >>> >>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted engine on
gluster problem
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Richard
Neuboeck
>>>>> >>> >>>
<hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at<mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at>> wrote:
>>>>> >>> >>> Hi Darryl,
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> I'm still experimenting with my oVirt
installation so I tried
>>>>> to
>>>>> >>> >>> recreate the problems you've
described.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> My setup has three HA hosts for
virtualization and three
>>>>> machines
>>>>> >>> >>> for the gluster replica 3 setup.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> I manually migrated the Engine from the
initial install host
>>>>> (one)
>>>>> >>> >>> to host three. Then shut down host one
manually and
>>>>> interrupted the
>>>>> >>> >>> fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down.
This didn't
>>>>> bother the
>>>>> >>> >>> Engine VM at all.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> Did you move the host one to maintenance
before shutting down?
>>>>> >>> >>> Or is this a crash recovery test?
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> To make things a bit more challenging I
then shut down host
>>>>> three
>>>>> >>> >>> while running the Engine VM. Of course the
Engine was down
>>>>> for some
>>>>> >>> >>> time until host two detected the problem.
It started the
>>>>> Engine VM
>>>>> >>> >>> and everything seems to be running quite
well without the
>>>>> initial
>>>>> >>> >>> install host.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> Thanks for the feedback!
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> My only problem is that the HA agent on
host two and three
>>>>> refuse to
>>>>> >>> >>> start after a reboot due to the fact that
the configuration
>>>>> of the
>>>>> >>> >>> hosted engine is missing. I wrote another
mail to
>>>>> >>> >>>
users@ovirt.org<mailto:users@ovirt.org>
>>>>> >>> >>> about that.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> This is weird. Martin, Simone can you
please investigate on
>>>>> this?
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> Cheers
>>>>> >>> >>> Richard
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl
wrote:
>>>>> >>> >>> > There seems to be a pretty severe bug
with using hosted
>>>>> engine on
>>>>> >>> >>> > gluster.
>>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>>> >>> >>> > If the host that was used as the
initial hosted-engine
>>>>> --deploy
>>>>> >>> >>> > host
>>>>> >>> >>> > goes away, the engine VM wil crash and
cannot be restarted
>>>>> until
>>>>> >>> >>> > the host
>>>>> >>> >>> > comes back.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> is this an Hyperconverged setup?
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>>> >>> >>> > This is regardless of which host the
engine was currently
>>>>> running.
>>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>>> >>> >>> > The issue seems to be buried in the
bowels of VDSM and is
>>>>> not an
>>>>> >>> >>> > issue
>>>>> >>> >>> > with gluster itself.
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> Sahina, can you please investigate on
this?
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>>> >>> >>> > The gluster filesystem is still
accessable from the host
>>>>> that was
>>>>> >>> >>> > running the engine. The issue has been
submitted to
>>>>> bugzilla but
>>>>> >>> >>> > the fix is
>>>>> >>> >>> > some way off (4.1).
>>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>>> >>> >>> > Can my hosted engine be converted to
use NFS (using the
>>>>> gluster NFS
>>>>> >>> >>> > server on the same filesystem) without
rebuilding my hosted
>>>>> engine
>>>>> >>> >>> > (ie
>>>>> >>> >>> > change domainType=glusterfs to
domainType=nfs)?
>>>>> >>> >>>
>>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>>> >>> >>> > What effect would that have on the
hosted-engine storage
>>>>> domain
>>>>> >>> >>> > inside
>>>>> >>> >>> > oVirt, ie would the same filesystem be
mounted twice or
>>>>> would it
>>>>> >>> >>> > just break.
>>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>>> >>> >>> > Will this actually fix the problem,
does it have the same
>>>>> issue
>>>>> >>> >>> > when
>>>>> >>> >>> > the hosted engine is on NFS?
>>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>>> >>> >>> > Darryl
>>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>>> >>> >>> >
>>>>> >>> >>> >
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10:14 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Luiz Claudio Prazeres Goncalves <
luizcpg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Sandro, I've been using gluster with 3 external hosts for a
while and
things are working pretty well, however this single point of failure looks
like a simple feature to implement,but critical to anyone who wants to use
gluster on production . This is not hyperconvergency which has other
issues/implications. So , why not have this feature out on 3.6 branch? It
looks like just let vdsm use the 'backupvol-server' option when mounting
the engine domain and make the property tests.
Could you add this feature to the next release of 3.6 branch?
Having it in 3.6 is hard in terms of integration team capacity. Also
consider than 4.0 will be probably out before we'll be able to backport it
to 3.6.
Thanks
Luiz
Em ter, 12 de abr de 2016 05:03, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
escreveu:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Bond, Darryl <dbond(a)nrggos.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>> My setup is hyperconverged. I have placed my test results in
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
>>
>>
> Ok, so you're aware about the limitation of the single point of failure.
> If you drop the host referenced in hosted engine configuration for the
> initial setup it won't be able to connect to shared storage even if the
> other hosts in the cluster are up since the entry point is down.
> Note that hyperconverged deployment is not supported in 3.6.
>
>
>
>>
>> Short description of setup:
>>
>> 3 hosts with 2 disks each set up with gluster replica 3 across the 6
>> disks volume name hosted-engine.
>>
>> Hostname hosted-storage configured in /etc//hosts to point to the host1.
>>
>> Installed hosted engine on host1 with the hosted engine storage path =
>> hosted-storage:/hosted-engine
>>
>> Install first engine on h1 successful. Hosts h2 and h3 added to the
>> hosted engine. All works fine.
>>
>> Additional storage and non-hosted engine hosts added etc.
>>
>> Additional VMs added to hosted-engine storage (oVirt Reports VM and
>> Cinder VM). Additional VM's are hosted by other storage - cinder and NFS.
>>
>> The system is in production.
>>
>>
>> Engine can be migrated around with the web interface.
>>
>>
>> - 3.6.4 upgrade released, follow the upgrade guide, engine is upgraded
>> first , new Centos kernel requires host reboot.
>>
>> - Engine placed on h2 - h3 into maintenance (local) upgrade and Reboot
>> h3 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h3.
>>
>> - Engine placed on h3 - h2 into maintenance (local) upgrade and Reboot
>> h2 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h2.
>>
>> - Engine placed on h3 -h1 into mainteance (local) upgrade and reboot h1
>> - engine crashes and does not start elsewhere, VM(cinder) on h3 on same
>> gluster volume pauses.
>>
>> - Host 1 takes about 5 minutes to reboot (Enterprise box with all it's
>> normal BIOS probing)
>>
>> - Engine starts after h1 comes back and stabilises
>>
>> - VM(cinder) unpauses itself, VM(reports) continued fine the whole
>> time. I can do no diagnosis on the 2 VMs as the engine is not available.
>>
>> - Local maintenance removed from h1
>>
>>
>> I don't believe the issue is with gluster itself as the volume remains
>> accessible on all hosts during this time albeit with a missing server
>> (gluster volume status) as each gluster server is rebooted.
>>
>> Gluster was upgraded as part of the process, no issues were seen here.
>>
>>
>> I have been able to duplicate the issue without the upgrade by following
>> the same sort of timeline.
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com>
>> Sent: Monday, 11 April 2016 7:11 PM
>> To: Richard Neuboeck; Simone Tiraboschi; Roy Golan; Martin Sivak; Sahina
>> Bose
>> Cc: Bond, Darryl; users
>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted engine on gluster problem
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Richard Neuboeck <hawk(a)tbi.univie.ac.at
>> <mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at>> wrote:
>> Hi Darryl,
>>
>> I'm still experimenting with my oVirt installation so I tried to
>> recreate the problems you've described.
>>
>> My setup has three HA hosts for virtualization and three machines
>> for the gluster replica 3 setup.
>>
>> I manually migrated the Engine from the initial install host (one)
>> to host three. Then shut down host one manually and interrupted the
>> fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down. This didn't bother the
>> Engine VM at all.
>>
>> Did you move the host one to maintenance before shutting down?
>> Or is this a crash recovery test?
>>
>>
>>
>> To make things a bit more challenging I then shut down host three
>> while running the Engine VM. Of course the Engine was down for some
>> time until host two detected the problem. It started the Engine VM
>> and everything seems to be running quite well without the initial
>> install host.
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback!
>>
>>
>>
>> My only problem is that the HA agent on host two and three refuse to
>> start after a reboot due to the fact that the configuration of the
>> hosted engine is missing. I wrote another mail to users(a)ovirt.org
>> <mailto:users@ovirt.org>
>> about that.
>>
>> This is weird. Martin, Simone can you please investigate on this?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Richard
>>
>> On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl wrote:
>> > There seems to be a pretty severe bug with using hosted engine on
>> gluster.
>> >
>> > If the host that was used as the initial hosted-engine --deploy host
>> goes away, the engine VM wil crash and cannot be restarted until the host
>> comes back.
>>
>> is this an Hyperconverged setup?
>>
>>
>> >
>> > This is regardless of which host the engine was currently running.
>> >
>> >
>> > The issue seems to be buried in the bowels of VDSM and is not an issue
>> with gluster itself.
>>
>> Sahina, can you please investigate on this?
>>
>>
>> >
>> > The gluster filesystem is still accessable from the host that was
>> running the engine. The issue has been submitted to bugzilla but the fix is
>> some way off (4.1).
>> >
>> >
>> > Can my hosted engine be converted to use NFS (using the gluster NFS
>> server on the same filesystem) without rebuilding my hosted engine (ie
>> change domainType=glusterfs to domainType=nfs)?
>>
>> >
>> > What effect would that have on the hosted-engine storage domain inside
>> oVirt, ie would the same filesystem be mounted twice or would it just break.
>> >
>> >
>> > Will this actually fix the problem, does it have the same issue when
>> the hosted engine is on NFS?
>> >
>> >
>> > Darryl
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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On 04/12/2016 01:33 PM, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:44 PM, Bond, Darryl <dbond(a)nrggos.com.au
<mailto:dbond@nrggos.com.au>> wrote:
My setup is hyperconverged. I have placed my test results in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693
Ok, so you're aware about the limitation of the single point of
failure. If you drop the host referenced in hosted engine
configuration for the initial setup it won't be able to connect to
shared storage even if the other hosts in the cluster are up since the
entry point is down.
Note that hyperconverged deployment is not supported in 3.6.
This issue does not seem related to the single point of failure. Tested
this on a 3 node setup with each node mounting the volume hosting HE as
localhost:/engine. Since all nodes have glusterd running and belong to
same cluster, with any one node down - mount should continue to work.
But HE VM is restarted once a node is powered off.
broker.log :
Thread-4602::ERROR::2016-04-13
18:50:28,249::listener::192::ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.broker.list
ener.ConnectionHandler::(handle) Error handling request, data:
'set-storage-domain FilesystemB
ackend dom_type=glusterfs sd_uuid=7fe3707b-2435-4e71-b831-4daba08cc72c'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirt_hosted_engine_ha/broker/listener.py",
line 166,
in handle
data)
File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirt_hosted_engine_ha/broker/listener.py",
line 299,
in _dispatch
.set_storage_domain(client, sd_type, **options)
File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirt_hosted_engine_ha/broker/storage_broker.py",
lin
e 66, in set_storage_domain
self._backends[client].connect()
File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirt_hosted_engine_ha/lib/storage_backends.py",
line
456, in connect
self._dom_type)
File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirt_hosted_engine_ha/lib/storage_backends.py",
line
108, in get_domain_path
" in {1}".format(sd_uuid, parent))
BackendFailureException: path to storage domain
7fe3707b-2435-4e71-b831-4daba08cc72c not found
in /rhev/data-center/mnt/glusterSD
agent.log
MainThread::INFO::2016-04-13
18:50:26,020::storage_server::207::ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.lib.sto
rage_server.StorageServer::(connect_storage_server) Connecting storage
server
MainThread::INFO::2016-04-13
18:50:28,054::hosted_engine::807::ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.hosted_engine.HostedEngine::(_stop_domain_monitor)
Stopped VDSM domain monitor for 7fe3707b-2435-4e71-b831-4daba08cc72c
MainThread::INFO::2016-04-13
18:50:28,055::image::184::ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.lib.image.Image::(teardown_images)
Teardown images
MainThread::WARNING::2016-04-13
18:50:28,177::hosted_engine::675::ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.hosted_engine.HostedEngine::(_initialize_storage_images)
Disconnecting the storage
MainThread::INFO::2016-04-13
18:50:28,177::storage_server::229::ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.lib.storage_server.StorageServer::(disconnect_storage_server)
Disconnecting storage server
The gluster mount logs for this time frame contain unmount messages
[2016-04-13 13:20:28.199429] I [fuse-bridge.c:4997:fuse_thread_proc]
0-fuse: unmounting /rhev/
data-center/mnt/glusterSD/localhost:_engine
[2016-04-13 13:20:28.199934] W [glusterfsd.c:1251:cleanup_and_exit]
(-->/lib64/libpthread.so.0
(+0x7dc5) [0x7ff9b3ceddc5]
-->/usr/sbin/glusterfs(glusterfs_sigwaiter+0xe5) [0x7ff9b53588b5] -
->/usr/sbin/glusterfs(cleanup_and_exit+0x69) [0x7ff9b5358739] ) 0-:
received signum (15), shut
ting down
[2016-04-13 13:20:28.199970] I [fuse-bridge.c:5704:fini] 0-fuse:
Unmounting '/rhev/data-center
/mnt/glusterSD/localhost:_engine'.
Short description of setup:
3 hosts with 2 disks each set up with gluster replica 3 across the
6 disks volume name hosted-engine.
Hostname hosted-storage configured in /etc//hosts to point to the
host1.
Installed hosted engine on host1 with the hosted engine storage
path = hosted-storage:/hosted-engine
Install first engine on h1 successful. Hosts h2 and h3 added to
the hosted engine. All works fine.
Additional storage and non-hosted engine hosts added etc.
Additional VMs added to hosted-engine storage (oVirt Reports VM
and Cinder VM). Additional VM's are hosted by other storage -
cinder and NFS.
The system is in production.
Engine can be migrated around with the web interface.
- 3.6.4 upgrade released, follow the upgrade guide, engine is
upgraded first , new Centos kernel requires host reboot.
- Engine placed on h2 - h3 into maintenance (local) upgrade and
Reboot h3 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h3.
- Engine placed on h3 - h2 into maintenance (local) upgrade and
Reboot h2 - No issues - Local maintenance removed from h2.
- Engine placed on h3 -h1 into mainteance (local) upgrade and
reboot h1 - engine crashes and does not start elsewhere,
VM(cinder) on h3 on same gluster volume pauses.
- Host 1 takes about 5 minutes to reboot (Enterprise box with all
it's normal BIOS probing)
- Engine starts after h1 comes back and stabilises
- VM(cinder) unpauses itself, VM(reports) continued fine the
whole time. I can do no diagnosis on the 2 VMs as the engine is
not available.
- Local maintenance removed from h1
I don't believe the issue is with gluster itself as the volume
remains accessible on all hosts during this time albeit with a
missing server (gluster volume status) as each gluster server is
rebooted.
Gluster was upgraded as part of the process, no issues were seen here.
I have been able to duplicate the issue without the upgrade by
following the same sort of timeline.
________________________________
From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com
<mailto:sbonazzo@redhat.com>>
Sent: Monday, 11 April 2016 7:11 PM
To: Richard Neuboeck; Simone Tiraboschi; Roy Golan; Martin Sivak;
Sahina Bose
Cc: Bond, Darryl; users
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted engine on gluster problem
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Richard Neuboeck
<hawk(a)tbi.univie.ac.at
<mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at><mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at
<mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at>>> wrote:
Hi Darryl,
I'm still experimenting with my oVirt installation so I tried to
recreate the problems you've described.
My setup has three HA hosts for virtualization and three machines
for the gluster replica 3 setup.
I manually migrated the Engine from the initial install host (one)
to host three. Then shut down host one manually and interrupted the
fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down. This didn't bother the
Engine VM at all.
Did you move the host one to maintenance before shutting down?
Or is this a crash recovery test?
To make things a bit more challenging I then shut down host three
while running the Engine VM. Of course the Engine was down for some
time until host two detected the problem. It started the Engine VM
and everything seems to be running quite well without the initial
install host.
Thanks for the feedback!
My only problem is that the HA agent on host two and three refuse to
start after a reboot due to the fact that the configuration of the
hosted engine is missing. I wrote another mail to users(a)ovirt.org
<mailto:users@ovirt.org><mailto:users@ovirt.org
<mailto:users@ovirt.org>>
about that.
This is weird. Martin, Simone can you please investigate on this?
Cheers
Richard
On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl wrote:
> There seems to be a pretty severe bug with using hosted engine
on gluster.
>
> If the host that was used as the initial hosted-engine --deploy
host goes away, the engine VM wil crash and cannot be restarted
until the host comes back.
is this an Hyperconverged setup?
>
> This is regardless of which host the engine was currently running.
>
>
> The issue seems to be buried in the bowels of VDSM and is not an
issue with gluster itself.
Sahina, can you please investigate on this?
>
> The gluster filesystem is still accessable from the host that
was running the engine. The issue has been submitted to bugzilla
but the fix is some way off (4.1).
>
>
> Can my hosted engine be converted to use NFS (using the gluster
NFS server on the same filesystem) without rebuilding my hosted
engine (ie change domainType=glusterfs to domainType=nfs)?
>
> What effect would that have on the hosted-engine storage domain
inside oVirt, ie would the same filesystem be mounted twice or
would it just break.
>
>
> Will this actually fix the problem, does it have the same issue
when the hosted engine is on NFS?
>
>
> Darryl
>
>
>
>
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<div>Ok, so you're aware about the limitation of the single
point of failure. If you drop the host referenced in
hosted engine configuration for the initial setup it won't
be able to connect to shared storage even if the other
hosts in the cluster are up since the entry point is down.</div>
<div>Note that hyperconverged deployment is not supported in
3.6.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
This issue does not seem related to the single point of failure.
Tested this on a 3 node setup with each node mounting the volume
hosting HE as localhost:/engine. Since all nodes have glusterd
running and belong to same cluster, with any one node down - mount
should continue to work. <br>
But HE VM is restarted once a node is powered off.<br>
<br>
broker.log :<br>
Thread-4602::ERROR::2016-04-13
18:50:28,249::listener::192::ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.broker.list<br>
ener.ConnectionHandler::(handle) Error handling request, data:
'set-storage-domain FilesystemB<br>
ackend dom_type=glusterfs
sd_uuid=7fe3707b-2435-4e71-b831-4daba08cc72c'<br>
Traceback (most recent call last):<br>
File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirt_hosted_engine_ha/broker/listener.py",
line 166,<br>
in handle<br>
data)<br>
File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirt_hosted_engine_ha/broker/listener.py",
line 299,<br>
in _dispatch<br>
.set_storage_domain(client, sd_type, **options)<br>
File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirt_hosted_engine_ha/broker/storage_broker.py",
lin<br>
e 66, in set_storage_domain<br>
self._backends[client].connect()<br>
File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirt_hosted_engine_ha/lib/storage_backends.py",
line<br>
456, in connect<br>
self._dom_type)<br>
File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirt_hosted_engine_ha/lib/storage_backends.py",
line<br>
108, in get_domain_path<br>
" in {1}".format(sd_uuid, parent))<br>
BackendFailureException: path to storage domain
7fe3707b-2435-4e71-b831-4daba08cc72c not found<br>
in /rhev/data-center/mnt/glusterSD<br>
<br>
agent.log<br>
MainThread::<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="INFO::2016-04-13">INFO::2016-04-13</a>
18:50:26,020::storage_server::207::ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.lib.sto<br>
rage_server.StorageServer::(connect_storage_server) Connecting
storage server<br>
MainThread::<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="INFO::2016-04-13">INFO::2016-04-13</a>
18:50:28,054::hosted_engine::807::ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.hosted_engine.HostedEngine::(_stop_domain_monitor)
Stopped VDSM domain monitor for 7fe3707b-2435-4e71-b831-4daba08cc72c<br>
MainThread::<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="INFO::2016-04-13">INFO::2016-04-13</a>
18:50:28,055::image::184::ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.lib.image.Image::(teardown_images)
Teardown images<br>
MainThread::WARNING::2016-04-13
18:50:28,177::hosted_engine::675::ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.hosted_engine.HostedEngine::(_initialize_storage_images)
Disconnecting the storage<br>
MainThread::<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="INFO::2016-04-13">INFO::2016-04-13</a>
18:50:28,177::storage_server::229::ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.lib.storage_server.StorageServer::(disconnect_storage_server)
Disconnecting storage server<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
The gluster mount logs for this time frame contain unmount messages<br>
[2016-04-13 13:20:28.199429] I [fuse-bridge.c:4997:fuse_thread_proc]
0-fuse: unmounting /rhev/<br>
data-center/mnt/glusterSD/localhost:_engine<br>
[2016-04-13 13:20:28.199934] W [glusterfsd.c:1251:cleanup_and_exit]
(-->/lib64/libpthread.so.0<br>
(+0x7dc5) [0x7ff9b3ceddc5]
-->/usr/sbin/glusterfs(glusterfs_sigwaiter+0xe5) [0x7ff9b53588b5]
-<br>
->/usr/sbin/glusterfs(cleanup_and_exit+0x69) [0x7ff9b5358739] )
0-: received signum (15), shut<br>
ting down<br>
[2016-04-13 13:20:28.199970] I [fuse-bridge.c:5704:fini] 0-fuse:
Unmounting '/rhev/data-center<br>
/mnt/glusterSD/localhost:_engine'.<br>
<br>
<br>
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<br>
Short description of setup:<br>
<br>
3 hosts with 2 disks each set up with gluster replica 3
across the 6 disks volume name hosted-engine.<br>
<br>
Hostname hosted-storage configured in /etc//hosts to point
to the host1.<br>
<br>
Installed hosted engine on host1 with the hosted engine
storage path = hosted-storage:/hosted-engine<br>
<br>
Install first engine on h1 successful. Hosts h2 and h3
added to the hosted engine. All works fine.<br>
<br>
Additional storage and non-hosted engine hosts added etc.<br>
<br>
Additional VMs added to hosted-engine storage (oVirt
Reports VM and Cinder VM). Additional VM's are hosted by
other storage - cinder and NFS.<br>
<br>
The system is in production.<br>
<br>
<br>
Engine can be migrated around with the web interface.<br>
<br>
<br>
- 3.6.4 upgrade released, follow the upgrade guide, engine
is upgraded first , new Centos kernel requires host
reboot.<br>
<br>
- Engine placed on h2 - h3 into maintenance (local)
upgrade and Reboot h3 - No issues - Local maintenance
removed from h3.<br>
<br>
- Engine placed on h3 - h2 into maintenance (local)
upgrade and Reboot h2 - No issues - Local maintenance
removed from h2.<br>
<br>
- Engine placed on h3 -h1 into mainteance (local) upgrade
and reboot h1 - engine crashes and does not start
elsewhere, VM(cinder) on h3 on same gluster volume
pauses.<br>
<br>
- Host 1 takes about 5 minutes to reboot (Enterprise box
with all it's normal BIOS probing)<br>
<br>
- Engine starts after h1 comes back and stabilises<br>
<br>
- VM(cinder) unpauses itself, VM(reports) continued fine
the whole time. I can do no diagnosis on the 2 VMs as the
engine is not available.<br>
<br>
- Local maintenance removed from h1<br>
<br>
<br>
I don't believe the issue is with gluster itself as the
volume remains accessible on all hosts during this time
albeit with a missing server (gluster volume status) as
each gluster server is rebooted.<br>
<br>
Gluster was upgraded as part of the process, no issues
were seen here.<br>
<br>
<br>
I have been able to duplicate the issue without the
upgrade by following the same sort of timeline.<br>
<br>
<br>
________________________________<br>
From: Sandro Bonazzola <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:sbonazzo@redhat.com">sbonazzo@redhat.com</a>><br>
Sent: Monday, 11 April 2016 7:11 PM<br>
To: Richard Neuboeck; Simone Tiraboschi; Roy Golan; Martin
Sivak; Sahina Bose<br>
Cc: Bond, Darryl; users<br>
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted engine on gluster
problem<br>
<span class=""><br>
<br>
<br>
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Richard Neuboeck <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at"><a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at">hawk@tbi.univie.ac.at</a></a><mailto:<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
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Hi Darryl,<br>
<br>
I'm still experimenting with my oVirt installation so I
tried to<br>
recreate the problems you've described.<br>
<br>
My setup has three HA hosts for virtualization and three
machines<br>
for the gluster replica 3 setup.<br>
<br>
I manually migrated the Engine from the initial install
host (one)<br>
to host three. Then shut down host one manually and
interrupted the<br>
fencing mechanisms so the host stayed down. This didn't
bother the<br>
Engine VM at all.<br>
<br>
Did you move the host one to maintenance before shutting
down?<br>
Or is this a crash recovery test?<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
To make things a bit more challenging I then shut down
host three<br>
while running the Engine VM. Of course the Engine was
down for some<br>
time until host two detected the problem. It started the
Engine VM<br>
and everything seems to be running quite well without
the initial<br>
install host.<br>
<br>
Thanks for the feedback!<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
My only problem is that the HA agent on host two and
three refuse to<br>
start after a reboot due to the fact that the
configuration of the<br>
</span>hosted engine is missing. I wrote another mail to <a
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<span class="">about that.<br>
<br>
This is weird. Martin, Simone can you please
investigate on this?<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Richard<br>
<br>
On 04/08/2016 01:38 AM, Bond, Darryl wrote:<br>
> There seems to be a pretty severe bug with using
hosted engine on gluster.<br>
><br>
> If the host that was used as the initial
hosted-engine --deploy host goes away, the engine VM wil
crash and cannot be restarted until the host comes back.<br>
<br>
is this an Hyperconverged setup?<br>
<br>
<br>
><br>
> This is regardless of which host the engine was
currently running.<br>
><br>
><br>
> The issue seems to be buried in the bowels of VDSM
and is not an issue with gluster itself.<br>
<br>
Sahina, can you please investigate on this?<br>
<br>
<br>
><br>
> The gluster filesystem is still accessable from the
host that was running the engine. The issue has been
submitted to bugzilla but the fix is some way off (4.1).<br>
><br>
><br>
> Can my hosted engine be converted to use NFS (using
the gluster NFS server on the same filesystem) without
rebuilding my hosted engine (ie change
domainType=glusterfs to domainType=nfs)?<br>
<br>
><br>
> What effect would that have on the hosted-engine
storage domain inside oVirt, ie would the same
filesystem be mounted twice or would it just break.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Will this actually fix the problem, does it have
the same issue when the hosted engine is on NFS?<br>
><br>
><br>
> Darryl<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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