Replicated storage gets erased when added to new environment.
So I was testing with two Identical ovirt environments running the latest 4.2 environment. I have iscsi storage set up at Site A, and I have that same storage replicated to Side B, before I get into learning disaster recovery I wanted to see what importing the replicated storage would look like. However when I import it I get the follow, and the vms are wiped from the replicated storage I presented with iscsi. So is this possible with iscsi? Is there another way to go about doing this? My iscsi solution is freenas. -- Jacob Green Systems Admin American Alloy Steel 713-300-5690
I guess my screenshot got removed. The error I receive is that "The following LUNs are already in use:" And "This operation might be unrecoverable and destructive!" On 11/13/2018 02:24 PM, Jacob Green wrote:
So I was testing with two Identical ovirt environments running the latest 4.2 environment. I have iscsi storage set up at Site A, and I have that same storage replicated to Side B, before I get into learning disaster recovery I wanted to see what importing the replicated storage would look like. However when I import it I get the follow, and the vms are wiped from the replicated storage I presented with iscsi.
So is this possible with iscsi? Is there another way to go about doing this?
My iscsi solution is freenas.
-- Jacob Green
Systems Admin
American Alloy Steel
713-300-5690
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I guess my screenshot got removed. The error I receive is that "The following LUNs are already in use:" And "This operation might be unrecoverable and destructive!"
On 11/13/2018 02:24 PM, Jacob Green wrote:
So I was testing with two Identical ovirt environments running the latest 4.2 environment. I have iscsi storage set up at Site A, and I have that same storage replicated to Side B, before I get into learning disaster recovery I wanted to see what importing the replicated storage would look like. However when I import it I get the follow, and the vms are wiped from the replicated storage I presented with iscsi.
So is this possible with iscsi? Is there another way to go about doing this?
My iscsi solution is freenas.
-- Jacob Green
Systems Admin
American Alloy Steel
713-300-5690
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Normally a "replicate" or RAID 1 style scenario is handled by a SAN frontend (like IBM's SVC) or some other mirroring mechanism that presents an abstracted mirrored LUN as a Storage Domain to oVirt. So, the answer lies with your storage supplier and/or SAN abstractor. With that said, reading your full text, this would still be likely for a failover scenario and not a "live/live" scenario. A "live/live" scenarios risks the problem inherent to two things being "split brained". And this is usually very bad for non-cluster aware storage (and the complexity of cluster aware storage could be great in this case). On 11/13/18 2:24 PM, Jacob Green wrote:
So I was testing with two Identical ovirt environments running the latest 4.2 environment. I have iscsi storage set up at Site A, and I have that same storage replicated to Side B, before I get into learning disaster recovery I wanted to see what importing the replicated storage would look like. However when I import it I get the follow, and the vms are wiped from the replicated storage I presented with iscsi.
So is this possible with iscsi? Is there another way to go about doing this?
My iscsi solution is freenas.
-- Jacob Green
Systems Admin
American Alloy Steel
713-300-5690
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Ok I hear what your saying and thank you for your input! By the way this is a test environment I am working with so I can learn, so there is no risk for dual brainy-ness. Also I figured out where I was going wrong earlier on site B, I was clicking "New Domain" instead of "Import Domain" So I was able to import the replicated iSCSI domain, however now when I try to attach the storage domain, I get the following in the even log. "VDSM jake-ovirt2 command CleanStorageDomainMetaDataVDS failed: Cannot acquire host id: ('80dcf277-9958-4368-b7dd-2a5d5d29b3ec', SanlockException(5, 'Sanlock lockspace add failure', 'Input/output error'))" It is my opinion that my problem now is that since the data domain was not properly detached before replication, that my replicated storage will not attach because of some "lock" on the storage domain?Is that what this error means or am I missing the mark completely? On 11/13/2018 02:41 PM, Christopher Cox wrote:
Normally a "replicate" or RAID 1 style scenario is handled by a SAN frontend (like IBM's SVC) or some other mirroring mechanism that presents an abstracted mirrored LUN as a Storage Domain to oVirt.
So, the answer lies with your storage supplier and/or SAN abstractor.
With that said, reading your full text, this would still be likely for a failover scenario and not a "live/live" scenario. A "live/live" scenarios risks the problem inherent to two things being "split brained". And this is usually very bad for non-cluster aware storage (and the complexity of cluster aware storage could be great in this case).
On 11/13/18 2:24 PM, Jacob Green wrote:
So I was testing with two Identical ovirt environments running the latest 4.2 environment. I have iscsi storage set up at Site A, and I have that same storage replicated to Side B, before I get into learning disaster recovery I wanted to see what importing the replicated storage would look like. However when I import it I get the follow, and the vms are wiped from the replicated storage I presented with iscsi.
So is this possible with iscsi? Is there another way to go about doing this?
My iscsi solution is freenas.
-- Jacob Green
Systems Admin
American Alloy Steel
713-300-5690
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Ok I found my answer in the *engine.log *"Domain '80dcf277-9958-4368-b7dd-2a5d5d29b3ec' is already attached to a different storage pool, clean the storage domain metadata." So I am assuming in a real disaster recovery scenario the Ansible stuff is doing some magic there. However, I would like to know if I properly detach a Fiber Channel storage domain, is it simple to import it to a new environment. Any guidance before I undertake such a task? On 11/13/2018 04:34 PM, Jacob Green wrote:
Ok I hear what your saying and thank you for your input! By the way this is a test environment I am working with so I can learn, so there is no risk for dual brainy-ness. Also I figured out where I was going wrong earlier on site B, I was clicking "New Domain" instead of "Import Domain" So I was able to import the replicated iSCSI domain, however now when I try to attach the storage domain, I get the following in the even log.
"VDSM jake-ovirt2 command CleanStorageDomainMetaDataVDS failed: Cannot acquire host id: ('80dcf277-9958-4368-b7dd-2a5d5d29b3ec', SanlockException(5, 'Sanlock lockspace add failure', 'Input/output error'))"
It is my opinion that my problem now is that since the data domain was not properly detached before replication, that my replicated storage will not attach because of some "lock" on the storage domain?Is that what this error means or am I missing the mark completely?
On 11/13/2018 02:41 PM, Christopher Cox wrote:
Normally a "replicate" or RAID 1 style scenario is handled by a SAN frontend (like IBM's SVC) or some other mirroring mechanism that presents an abstracted mirrored LUN as a Storage Domain to oVirt.
So, the answer lies with your storage supplier and/or SAN abstractor.
With that said, reading your full text, this would still be likely for a failover scenario and not a "live/live" scenario. A "live/live" scenarios risks the problem inherent to two things being "split brained". And this is usually very bad for non-cluster aware storage (and the complexity of cluster aware storage could be great in this case).
On 11/13/18 2:24 PM, Jacob Green wrote:
So I was testing with two Identical ovirt environments running the latest 4.2 environment. I have iscsi storage set up at Site A, and I have that same storage replicated to Side B, before I get into learning disaster recovery I wanted to see what importing the replicated storage would look like. However when I import it I get the follow, and the vms are wiped from the replicated storage I presented with iscsi.
So is this possible with iscsi? Is there another way to go about doing this?
My iscsi solution is freenas.
-- Jacob Green
Systems Admin
American Alloy Steel
713-300-5690
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Don't think so. AFAIK, but this might have changed in 4.x. But usually to float "stuff" between datacenters, you have to export to an export domain and then do an import. 1. Attach non-attached export domain 2. Export VMs (must include templates if from templates) 3. Detach export domain. 4. On new datacenter, attach export domain 5. Import VMs 6. Detach export domain. There might be come sort of unsupported way to take a Storage Domain into a different datacenter, I'm just not aware of such. Thus, the idea of a "replicate" would have to be a full "replicate" in a failover style scenario where you can't really tell the difference between the two (the storage domain works on the replicate because it can't tell the difference). Thus, only one could ever be "up" at any time. Even so, I haven't tried to do this. If the metadata contains something so intrinsic to the the hypervisor cluster that it can't be effectively replicated, obviously this isn't going to work without some sort of assist that can massage/convert the metadata. IMHO (again, I'm not up on any 4.x stuff that might have made this easier/possible) On 11/13/18 5:01 PM, Jacob Green wrote:
Ok I found my answer in the *engine.log *"Domain '80dcf277-9958-4368-b7dd-2a5d5d29b3ec' is already attached to a different storage pool, clean the storage domain metadata."
So I am assuming in a real disaster recovery scenario the Ansible stuff is doing some magic there.
However, I would like to know if I properly detach a Fiber Channel storage domain, is it simple to import it to a new environment. Any guidance before I undertake such a task?
On 11/13/2018 04:34 PM, Jacob Green wrote:
Ok I hear what your saying and thank you for your input! By the way this is a test environment I am working with so I can learn, so there is no risk for dual brainy-ness. Also I figured out where I was going wrong earlier on site B, I was clicking "New Domain" instead of "Import Domain" So I was able to import the replicated iSCSI domain, however now when I try to attach the storage domain, I get the following in the even log.
"VDSM jake-ovirt2 command CleanStorageDomainMetaDataVDS failed: Cannot acquire host id: ('80dcf277-9958-4368-b7dd-2a5d5d29b3ec', SanlockException(5, 'Sanlock lockspace add failure', 'Input/output error'))"
It is my opinion that my problem now is that since the data domain was not properly detached before replication, that my replicated storage will not attach because of some "lock" on the storage domain?Is that what this error means or am I missing the mark completely?
On 11/13/2018 02:41 PM, Christopher Cox wrote:
Normally a "replicate" or RAID 1 style scenario is handled by a SAN frontend (like IBM's SVC) or some other mirroring mechanism that presents an abstracted mirrored LUN as a Storage Domain to oVirt.
So, the answer lies with your storage supplier and/or SAN abstractor.
With that said, reading your full text, this would still be likely for a failover scenario and not a "live/live" scenario. A "live/live" scenarios risks the problem inherent to two things being "split brained". And this is usually very bad for non-cluster aware storage (and the complexity of cluster aware storage could be great in this case).
On 11/13/18 2:24 PM, Jacob Green wrote:
So I was testing with two Identical ovirt environments running the latest 4.2 environment. I have iscsi storage set up at Site A, and I have that same storage replicated to Side B, before I get into learning disaster recovery I wanted to see what importing the replicated storage would look like. However when I import it I get the follow, and the vms are wiped from the replicated storage I presented with iscsi.
So is this possible with iscsi? Is there another way to go about doing this?
My iscsi solution is freenas.
-- Jacob Green
Systems Admin
American Alloy Steel
713-300-5690
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Give this a read when you get a chance. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.2/pdf... Focus on the ACTIVE-PASSIVE section. That is what I am gearing up to try to do. Also in this document https://ovirt.org/documentation/admin-guide/chap-Storage/ see the following. "*Note:*The export storage domain is deprecated. Storage data domains can be unattached from a data center and imported to another data center in the same environment, or in a different environment. Virtual machines, floating virtual disk images, and templates can then be uploaded from the imported storage domain to the attached data center." So yea this new ansible disaster recovery stuff is 4.2 and up only, and the export domain being deprecated maybe 4.x On 11/13/2018 05:16 PM, Christopher Cox wrote:
Don't think so. AFAIK, but this might have changed in 4.x. But usually to float "stuff" between datacenters, you have to export to an export domain and then do an import.
1. Attach non-attached export domain 2. Export VMs (must include templates if from templates) 3. Detach export domain. 4. On new datacenter, attach export domain 5. Import VMs 6. Detach export domain.
There might be come sort of unsupported way to take a Storage Domain into a different datacenter, I'm just not aware of such. Thus, the idea of a "replicate" would have to be a full "replicate" in a failover style scenario where you can't really tell the difference between the two (the storage domain works on the replicate because it can't tell the difference). Thus, only one could ever be "up" at any time. Even so, I haven't tried to do this. If the metadata contains something so intrinsic to the the hypervisor cluster that it can't be effectively replicated, obviously this isn't going to work without some sort of assist that can massage/convert the metadata.
IMHO (again, I'm not up on any 4.x stuff that might have made this easier/possible)
On 11/13/18 5:01 PM, Jacob Green wrote:
Ok I found my answer in the *engine.log *"Domain '80dcf277-9958-4368-b7dd-2a5d5d29b3ec' is already attached to a different storage pool, clean the storage domain metadata."
So I am assuming in a real disaster recovery scenario the Ansible stuff is doing some magic there.
However, I would like to know if I properly detach a Fiber Channel storage domain, is it simple to import it to a new environment. Any guidance before I undertake such a task?
On 11/13/2018 04:34 PM, Jacob Green wrote:
Ok I hear what your saying and thank you for your input! By the way this is a test environment I am working with so I can learn, so there is no risk for dual brainy-ness. Also I figured out where I was going wrong earlier on site B, I was clicking "New Domain" instead of "Import Domain" So I was able to import the replicated iSCSI domain, however now when I try to attach the storage domain, I get the following in the even log.
"VDSM jake-ovirt2 command CleanStorageDomainMetaDataVDS failed: Cannot acquire host id: ('80dcf277-9958-4368-b7dd-2a5d5d29b3ec', SanlockException(5, 'Sanlock lockspace add failure', 'Input/output error'))"
It is my opinion that my problem now is that since the data domain was not properly detached before replication, that my replicated storage will not attach because of some "lock" on the storage domain?Is that what this error means or am I missing the mark completely?
On 11/13/2018 02:41 PM, Christopher Cox wrote:
Normally a "replicate" or RAID 1 style scenario is handled by a SAN frontend (like IBM's SVC) or some other mirroring mechanism that presents an abstracted mirrored LUN as a Storage Domain to oVirt.
So, the answer lies with your storage supplier and/or SAN abstractor.
With that said, reading your full text, this would still be likely for a failover scenario and not a "live/live" scenario. A "live/live" scenarios risks the problem inherent to two things being "split brained". And this is usually very bad for non-cluster aware storage (and the complexity of cluster aware storage could be great in this case).
On 11/13/18 2:24 PM, Jacob Green wrote:
So I was testing with two Identical ovirt environments running the latest 4.2 environment. I have iscsi storage set up at Site A, and I have that same storage replicated to Side B, before I get into learning disaster recovery I wanted to see what importing the replicated storage would look like. However when I import it I get the follow, and the vms are wiped from the replicated storage I presented with iscsi.
So is this possible with iscsi? Is there another way to go about doing this?
My iscsi solution is freenas.
-- Jacob Green
Systems Admin
American Alloy Steel
713-300-5690
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