10:27 a.m.
Hi all,
we are trying to setup an ovirt environment with two hosts, both
connected to a ISCSI storage device, a hosted engine and power
management configured over ILO. So far it seems to work fine in our
testing setup and starting/stopping VMs works smoothly with proper
scheduling between those hosts. So we wanted to test HA for the VMs now
and started to manually shutdown a host while there are still VMs
running on that machine (to simulate power failure or a kernel panic).
The expected outcome was that all machines were HA is enabled, are
booted again. This works if the machine with the failure does not have
the engine running. If the machine with the hosted engine VM gets
shutdown, the host gets in the "Not Responsive state" and all VMs end up
in an unkown state. However, the engine itself starts correctly on the
second host and it seems like it tries to fence the other host (as
expected) - Events which we get in the open virtualization manager:
1. Host hosted_engine_2 is non responsive
2. Host hosted_engine_1 from cluster Default was chosen as a proxy to
execute Status command on Host hosted_engine_2.
3. Host hosted_engine_2 became non responsive. It has no power
management configured. Please check the host status, manually reboot it,
and click "Confirm Host Has Been Rebooted"
4. Host hosted_engine_2 is not responding. It will stay in Connecting
state for a grace period of 124 seconds and after that an attempt to
fence the host will be issued.
Event 4 is continuously coming every 3 minutes. Complete engine.log file
during engine boot up: http://pastebin.com/D6xS3Wfy
So the host detects the machine is not responding and wants to fence it.
But although the host has power management configured over ILO, the
engine thinks that it is not. As a result the second host does not get
fenced and VMs are not migrated to the running machine.
In the log files there are also a lot of time out exception. But I guess
that this is because the host cannot connect to the other machine.
Did anybody face similar problems with HA? Or any clue what the problem
might be?
Thanks,
Michael
----
ovirt version: 3.5.4
Hosted engine VM OS: Cent OS 6.5
Host Machines OS: Cent OS 7
P.S. We also have to note that we had problems with the command
fence_ipmilan at the beginning. We were receiving the message "Unable to
obtain correct plug status or plug is not available," whenever the
command fence_ipmilan was called. However, the command fence_ilo4
worked. So we use a simple script for fence_ipmilan now that calls
fence_ilo4 and passes the arguments.
3 p.m.
New subject: HA - Fencing not working when host with engine gets shutdown
Hi,
could you please post whole engine.log (from the time which you turned off
the host with engine VM) and also vdsm.log from both hosts?
Thanks
Martin Perina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
To: users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 10:27:08 AM
Subject: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine gets shutdown
Hi all,
we are trying to setup an ovirt environment with two hosts, both
connected to a ISCSI storage device, a hosted engine and power
management configured over ILO. So far it seems to work fine in our
testing setup and starting/stopping VMs works smoothly with proper
scheduling between those hosts. So we wanted to test HA for the VMs now
and started to manually shutdown a host while there are still VMs
running on that machine (to simulate power failure or a kernel panic).
The expected outcome was that all machines were HA is enabled, are
booted again. This works if the machine with the failure does not have
the engine running. If the machine with the hosted engine VM gets
shutdown, the host gets in the "Not Responsive state" and all VMs end up
in an unkown state. However, the engine itself starts correctly on the
second host and it seems like it tries to fence the other host (as
expected) - Events which we get in the open virtualization manager:
1. Host hosted_engine_2 is non responsive
2. Host hosted_engine_1 from cluster Default was chosen as a proxy to
execute Status command on Host hosted_engine_2.
3. Host hosted_engine_2 became non responsive. It has no power
management configured. Please check the host status, manually reboot it,
and click "Confirm Host Has Been Rebooted"
4. Host hosted_engine_2 is not responding. It will stay in Connecting
state for a grace period of 124 seconds and after that an attempt to
fence the host will be issued.
Event 4 is continuously coming every 3 minutes. Complete engine.log file
during engine boot up: http://pastebin.com/D6xS3Wfy
So the host detects the machine is not responding and wants to fence it.
But although the host has power management configured over ILO, the
engine thinks that it is not. As a result the second host does not get
fenced and VMs are not migrated to the running machine.
In the log files there are also a lot of time out exception. But I guess
that this is because the host cannot connect to the other machine.
Did anybody face similar problems with HA? Or any clue what the problem
might be?
Thanks,
Michael
----
ovirt version: 3.5.4
Hosted engine VM OS: Cent OS 6.5
Host Machines OS: Cent OS 7
P.S. We also have to note that we had problems with the command
fence_ipmilan at the beginning. We were receiving the message "Unable to
obtain correct plug status or plug is not available," whenever the
command fence_ipmilan was called. However, the command fence_ilo4
worked. So we use a simple script for fence_ipmilan now that calls
fence_ilo4 and passes the arguments.
_______________________________________________
Users mailing list
Users(a)ovirt.org
http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
4:47 p.m.
Hi,
The whole engine.log including the shutdown time (was performed around 9:19)
http://pastebin.com/cdY9uTkJ
vdsm.log of host01 (the host which kept on running and took over the
engine) split into 3 uploads (limit of 512 kB of pastebin):
1 : http://pastebin.com/dr9jNTek
2 : http://pastebin.com/cuyHL6ne
3 : http://pastebin.com/7x2ZQy1y
Michael
On 09/21/2015 03:00 PM, Martin Perina wrote:
Hi,
could you please post whole engine.log (from the time which you turned off
the host with engine VM) and also vdsm.log from both hosts?
Thanks
Martin Perina
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
> To: users(a)ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 10:27:08 AM
> Subject: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine gets shutdown
>
> Hi all,
>
> we are trying to setup an ovirt environment with two hosts, both
> connected to a ISCSI storage device, a hosted engine and power
> management configured over ILO. So far it seems to work fine in our
> testing setup and starting/stopping VMs works smoothly with proper
> scheduling between those hosts. So we wanted to test HA for the VMs now
> and started to manually shutdown a host while there are still VMs
> running on that machine (to simulate power failure or a kernel panic).
> The expected outcome was that all machines were HA is enabled, are
> booted again. This works if the machine with the failure does not have
> the engine running. If the machine with the hosted engine VM gets
> shutdown, the host gets in the "Not Responsive state" and all VMs end up
> in an unkown state. However, the engine itself starts correctly on the
> second host and it seems like it tries to fence the other host (as
> expected) - Events which we get in the open virtualization manager:
> 1. Host hosted_engine_2 is non responsive
> 2. Host hosted_engine_1 from cluster Default was chosen as a proxy to
> execute Status command on Host hosted_engine_2.
> 3. Host hosted_engine_2 became non responsive. It has no power
> management configured. Please check the host status, manually reboot it,
> and click "Confirm Host Has Been Rebooted"
> 4. Host hosted_engine_2 is not responding. It will stay in Connecting
> state for a grace period of 124 seconds and after that an attempt to
> fence the host will be issued.
>
> Event 4 is continuously coming every 3 minutes. Complete engine.log file
> during engine boot up: http://pastebin.com/D6xS3Wfy
> So the host detects the machine is not responding and wants to fence it.
> But although the host has power management configured over ILO, the
> engine thinks that it is not. As a result the second host does not get
> fenced and VMs are not migrated to the running machine.
> In the log files there are also a lot of time out exception. But I guess
> that this is because the host cannot connect to the other machine.
>
> Did anybody face similar problems with HA? Or any clue what the problem
> might be?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>
> ----
> ovirt version: 3.5.4
> Hosted engine VM OS: Cent OS 6.5
> Host Machines OS: Cent OS 7
>
> P.S. We also have to note that we had problems with the command
> fence_ipmilan at the beginning. We were receiving the message "Unable to
> obtain correct plug status or plug is not available," whenever the
> command fence_ipmilan was called. However, the command fence_ilo4
> worked. So we use a simple script for fence_ipmilan now that calls
> fence_ilo4 and passes the arguments.
> _______________________________________________
> Users mailing list
> Users(a)ovirt.org
> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>
10:02 a.m.
Hi,
sorry for the late response, but you hit a "corner case" :-(
Let me start explain you a few things first:
After startup of engine there's an internval during which fencing is
disabled. It's called DisableFenceAtStartupInSec and by default it's
set to 5 minutes. It can be changed using
engine-config -s DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
but please do that with caution.
Why do we have such timeout? It's a prevention of fencing storm, which
could happen in during power issues in whole DC: when both engine and
hosts are started, for huge hosts it may take a lot of time until become
up and VDSM start to communicate with engine. So usually engine is started
first and without this interval engine will start fencing for hosts which
are just starting ...
Another thing: if we cannot properly fence the host, we cannot determine
if there's not just communication issue between engine and host, so we
cannot restart HA VMs on another host. The only thing we can do is to
offer "Mark host as rebooted" manual option to administrator. If
administrator execution this option, we try to restart HA VMs on different
host ASAP, because admin took the responsibility of validation that VMs
are really not running.
When engine is started, following actions related to fencing are taken:
1. Get status of all hosts from DB and schedule Non Responding Treatment
after DisableFenceAtStartupInSec timeout is passed
2. Try to communicate with all host and refresh their status
If some host become Non Resposive during DisableFenceAtStartupInSec interval
we skip fencing and administator will see message in Events tab that host
is Non Responsive, but fencing is disabled due to startup interval. So
administrator have to take care of such host manually.
Now what happened in your case:
1. Hosted engine VM is running on host1 with other VMs
2. Status of host1 and host2 is Up
3. You kill/shutdown host1 -> hosted engine VM is also shut down -> no engine
is running to detect issue with host1 and change its status to Non Responsive
4. In the meantime hosted engine VM is started on host2 -> it will read host
status from DB, but all hosts are up -> it will try to communicate with host1,
but it's unreachable -> so it changes host1 status Non Responsive and starts
Non Responsive Treatment for host1 -> Non Responsive Treatment is aborted
because engine is still in DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
So in normal deployment (without hosted engine) admin is notified that host,
where engine is running, crashed and was rebooted, so he has to take a look
and do manual steps if needed.
In hosted engine deployment it's an issue because hosted engine VM can be restart
on different host also in other cases then crashes (for example if host is
overloaded hosted engine can stop hosted engine VM and restart it on different
host, but this shouldn't happen too often).
At the moment the only solution for this is manual: let administrator to be
notified that host engine VM is restarted on different host, so administrator
can check manually what was the cause for this restart and execute manual steps
if needed.
So to summarize: at the moment I don't see any reliable automatic solution
for this :-( and fencing storm prevention is more important. But feel free to create
a bug for this issue, maybe we can think of at least some improvement for this use
case.
Thanks
Martin Perina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>
Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 4:47:06 PM
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine gets shutdown
Hi,
The whole engine.log including the shutdown time (was performed around 9:19)
http://pastebin.com/cdY9uTkJ
vdsm.log of host01 (the host which kept on running and took over the
engine) split into 3 uploads (limit of 512 kB of pastebin):
1 : http://pastebin.com/dr9jNTek
2 : http://pastebin.com/cuyHL6ne
3 : http://pastebin.com/7x2ZQy1y
Michael
On 09/21/2015 03:00 PM, Martin Perina wrote:
> Hi,
>
> could you please post whole engine.log (from the time which you turned off
> the host with engine VM) and also vdsm.log from both hosts?
>
> Thanks
>
> Martin Perina
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>> To: users(a)ovirt.org
>> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 10:27:08 AM
>> Subject: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine gets
>> shutdown
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> we are trying to setup an ovirt environment with two hosts, both
>> connected to a ISCSI storage device, a hosted engine and power
>> management configured over ILO. So far it seems to work fine in our
>> testing setup and starting/stopping VMs works smoothly with proper
>> scheduling between those hosts. So we wanted to test HA for the VMs now
>> and started to manually shutdown a host while there are still VMs
>> running on that machine (to simulate power failure or a kernel panic).
>> The expected outcome was that all machines were HA is enabled, are
>> booted again. This works if the machine with the failure does not have
>> the engine running. If the machine with the hosted engine VM gets
>> shutdown, the host gets in the "Not Responsive state" and all VMs end
up
>> in an unkown state. However, the engine itself starts correctly on the
>> second host and it seems like it tries to fence the other host (as
>> expected) - Events which we get in the open virtualization manager:
>> 1. Host hosted_engine_2 is non responsive
>> 2. Host hosted_engine_1 from cluster Default was chosen as a proxy to
>> execute Status command on Host hosted_engine_2.
>> 3. Host hosted_engine_2 became non responsive. It has no power
>> management configured. Please check the host status, manually reboot it,
>> and click "Confirm Host Has Been Rebooted"
>> 4. Host hosted_engine_2 is not responding. It will stay in Connecting
>> state for a grace period of 124 seconds and after that an attempt to
>> fence the host will be issued.
>>
>> Event 4 is continuously coming every 3 minutes. Complete engine.log file
>> during engine boot up: http://pastebin.com/D6xS3Wfy
>> So the host detects the machine is not responding and wants to fence it.
>> But although the host has power management configured over ILO, the
>> engine thinks that it is not. As a result the second host does not get
>> fenced and VMs are not migrated to the running machine.
>> In the log files there are also a lot of time out exception. But I guess
>> that this is because the host cannot connect to the other machine.
>>
>> Did anybody face similar problems with HA? Or any clue what the problem
>> might be?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
>>
>>
>> ----
>> ovirt version: 3.5.4
>> Hosted engine VM OS: Cent OS 6.5
>> Host Machines OS: Cent OS 7
>>
>> P.S. We also have to note that we had problems with the command
>> fence_ipmilan at the beginning. We were receiving the message "Unable to
>> obtain correct plug status or plug is not available," whenever the
>> command fence_ipmilan was called. However, the command fence_ilo4
>> worked. So we use a simple script for fence_ipmilan now that calls
>> fence_ilo4 and passes the arguments.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Users mailing list
>> Users(a)ovirt.org
>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>>
11:38 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>
To: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:02:21 AM
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine gets shutdown
Hi,
sorry for the late response, but you hit a "corner case" :-(
Let me start explain you a few things first:
After startup of engine there's an internval during which fencing is
disabled. It's called DisableFenceAtStartupInSec and by default it's
set to 5 minutes. It can be changed using
engine-config -s DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
but please do that with caution.
Why do we have such timeout? It's a prevention of fencing storm, which
could happen in during power issues in whole DC: when both engine and
hosts are started, for huge hosts it may take a lot of time until become
up and VDSM start to communicate with engine. So usually engine is started
first and without this interval engine will start fencing for hosts which
are just starting ...
Another thing: if we cannot properly fence the host, we cannot determine
if there's not just communication issue between engine and host, so we
cannot restart HA VMs on another host. The only thing we can do is to
offer "Mark host as rebooted" manual option to administrator. If
administrator execution this option, we try to restart HA VMs on different
host ASAP, because admin took the responsibility of validation that VMs
are really not running.
When engine is started, following actions related to fencing are taken:
1. Get status of all hosts from DB and schedule Non Responding Treatment
after DisableFenceAtStartupInSec timeout is passed
2. Try to communicate with all host and refresh their status
If some host become Non Resposive during DisableFenceAtStartupInSec interval
we skip fencing and administator will see message in Events tab that host
is Non Responsive, but fencing is disabled due to startup interval. So
administrator have to take care of such host manually.
Now what happened in your case:
1. Hosted engine VM is running on host1 with other VMs
2. Status of host1 and host2 is Up
3. You kill/shutdown host1 -> hosted engine VM is also shut down -> no
engine
is running to detect issue with host1 and change its status to Non
Responsive
4. In the meantime hosted engine VM is started on host2 -> it will read host
status from DB, but all hosts are up -> it will try to communicate with
host1,
but it's unreachable -> so it changes host1 status Non Responsive and
starts
Non Responsive Treatment for host1 -> Non Responsive Treatment is aborted
because engine is still in DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
So in normal deployment (without hosted engine) admin is notified that host,
where engine is running, crashed and was rebooted, so he has to take a look
and do manual steps if needed.
In hosted engine deployment it's an issue because hosted engine VM can be
restart
on different host also in other cases then crashes (for example if host is
overloaded hosted engine can stop hosted engine VM and restart it on
different
host, but this shouldn't happen too often).
At the moment the only solution for this is manual: let administrator to be
notified that host engine VM is restarted on different host, so administrator
can check manually what was the cause for this restart and execute manual
steps
if needed.
So to summarize: at the moment I don't see any reliable automatic solution
for this :-( and fencing storm prevention is more important. But feel free to
create
a bug for this issue, maybe we can think of at least some improvement for
this use
case.
Thanks for the detailed explanation Martin
Really a corner case, lets see if we got more inputs on that from other users
Maybe when hosted engine VM is restarted on another node we can ask for the reason and act
accordingly
Doron, with current implementation, is the reason for hosted engine VM restart stored
anywhere ?
Thanks
Martin Perina
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
> To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>
> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 4:47:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine
> gets shutdown
>
> Hi,
>
> The whole engine.log including the shutdown time (was performed around
> 9:19)
> http://pastebin.com/cdY9uTkJ
>
> vdsm.log of host01 (the host which kept on running and took over the
> engine) split into 3 uploads (limit of 512 kB of pastebin):
> 1 : http://pastebin.com/dr9jNTek
> 2 : http://pastebin.com/cuyHL6ne
> 3 : http://pastebin.com/7x2ZQy1y
>
> Michael
>
> On 09/21/2015 03:00 PM, Martin Perina wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > could you please post whole engine.log (from the time which you turned
> > off
> > the host with engine VM) and also vdsm.log from both hosts?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Martin Perina
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
> >> To: users(a)ovirt.org
> >> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 10:27:08 AM
> >> Subject: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine
> >> gets
> >> shutdown
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> we are trying to setup an ovirt environment with two hosts, both
> >> connected to a ISCSI storage device, a hosted engine and power
> >> management configured over ILO. So far it seems to work fine in our
> >> testing setup and starting/stopping VMs works smoothly with proper
> >> scheduling between those hosts. So we wanted to test HA for the VMs now
> >> and started to manually shutdown a host while there are still VMs
> >> running on that machine (to simulate power failure or a kernel panic).
> >> The expected outcome was that all machines were HA is enabled, are
> >> booted again. This works if the machine with the failure does not have
> >> the engine running. If the machine with the hosted engine VM gets
> >> shutdown, the host gets in the "Not Responsive state" and all VMs
end up
> >> in an unkown state. However, the engine itself starts correctly on the
> >> second host and it seems like it tries to fence the other host (as
> >> expected) - Events which we get in the open virtualization manager:
> >> 1. Host hosted_engine_2 is non responsive
> >> 2. Host hosted_engine_1 from cluster Default was chosen as a proxy to
> >> execute Status command on Host hosted_engine_2.
> >> 3. Host hosted_engine_2 became non responsive. It has no power
> >> management configured. Please check the host status, manually reboot it,
> >> and click "Confirm Host Has Been Rebooted"
> >> 4. Host hosted_engine_2 is not responding. It will stay in Connecting
> >> state for a grace period of 124 seconds and after that an attempt to
> >> fence the host will be issued.
> >>
> >> Event 4 is continuously coming every 3 minutes. Complete engine.log file
> >> during engine boot up: http://pastebin.com/D6xS3Wfy
> >> So the host detects the machine is not responding and wants to fence it.
> >> But although the host has power management configured over ILO, the
> >> engine thinks that it is not. As a result the second host does not get
> >> fenced and VMs are not migrated to the running machine.
> >> In the log files there are also a lot of time out exception. But I guess
> >> that this is because the host cannot connect to the other machine.
> >>
> >> Did anybody face similar problems with HA? Or any clue what the problem
> >> might be?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Michael
> >>
> >>
> >> ----
> >> ovirt version: 3.5.4
> >> Hosted engine VM OS: Cent OS 6.5
> >> Host Machines OS: Cent OS 7
> >>
> >> P.S. We also have to note that we had problems with the command
> >> fence_ipmilan at the beginning. We were receiving the message "Unable
to
> >> obtain correct plug status or plug is not available," whenever the
> >> command fence_ipmilan was called. However, the command fence_ilo4
> >> worked. So we use a simple script for fence_ipmilan now that calls
> >> fence_ilo4 and passes the arguments.
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Users mailing list
> >> Users(a)ovirt.org
> >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> >>
>
_______________________________________________
Users mailing list
Users(a)ovirt.org
http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
11:50 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eli Mesika" <emesika(a)redhat.com>
To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>, "Doron Fediuck"
<dfediuck(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>, users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:38:39 AM
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine gets shutdown
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>
> To: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:02:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine
> gets shutdown
>
> Hi,
>
> sorry for the late response, but you hit a "corner case" :-(
>
> Let me start explain you a few things first:
>
> After startup of engine there's an internval during which fencing is
> disabled. It's called DisableFenceAtStartupInSec and by default it's
> set to 5 minutes. It can be changed using
>
> engine-config -s DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
>
> but please do that with caution.
>
> Why do we have such timeout? It's a prevention of fencing storm, which
> could happen in during power issues in whole DC: when both engine and
> hosts are started, for huge hosts it may take a lot of time until become
> up and VDSM start to communicate with engine. So usually engine is started
> first and without this interval engine will start fencing for hosts which
> are just starting ...
>
> Another thing: if we cannot properly fence the host, we cannot determine
> if there's not just communication issue between engine and host, so we
> cannot restart HA VMs on another host. The only thing we can do is to
> offer "Mark host as rebooted" manual option to administrator. If
> administrator execution this option, we try to restart HA VMs on different
> host ASAP, because admin took the responsibility of validation that VMs
> are really not running.
>
>
> When engine is started, following actions related to fencing are taken:
>
> 1. Get status of all hosts from DB and schedule Non Responding Treatment
> after DisableFenceAtStartupInSec timeout is passed
>
> 2. Try to communicate with all host and refresh their status
>
>
> If some host become Non Resposive during DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
> interval
> we skip fencing and administator will see message in Events tab that host
> is Non Responsive, but fencing is disabled due to startup interval. So
> administrator have to take care of such host manually.
>
>
> Now what happened in your case:
>
> 1. Hosted engine VM is running on host1 with other VMs
> 2. Status of host1 and host2 is Up
> 3. You kill/shutdown host1 -> hosted engine VM is also shut down -> no
> engine
> is running to detect issue with host1 and change its status to Non
> Responsive
> 4. In the meantime hosted engine VM is started on host2 -> it will read
> host
> status from DB, but all hosts are up -> it will try to communicate with
> host1,
> but it's unreachable -> so it changes host1 status Non Responsive and
> starts
> Non Responsive Treatment for host1 -> Non Responsive Treatment is
> aborted
> because engine is still in DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
>
>
> So in normal deployment (without hosted engine) admin is notified that
> host,
> where engine is running, crashed and was rebooted, so he has to take a look
> and do manual steps if needed.
>
> In hosted engine deployment it's an issue because hosted engine VM can be
> restart
> on different host also in other cases then crashes (for example if host is
> overloaded hosted engine can stop hosted engine VM and restart it on
> different
> host, but this shouldn't happen too often).
>
> At the moment the only solution for this is manual: let administrator to be
> notified that host engine VM is restarted on different host, so
> administrator
> can check manually what was the cause for this restart and execute manual
> steps
> if needed.
>
> So to summarize: at the moment I don't see any reliable automatic solution
> for this :-( and fencing storm prevention is more important. But feel free
> to
> create
> a bug for this issue, maybe we can think of at least some improvement for
> this use
> case.
Thanks for the detailed explanation Martin
Really a corner case, lets see if we got more inputs on that from other users
Maybe when hosted engine VM is restarted on another node we can ask for the
reason and act accordingly
Doron, with current implementation, is the reason for hosted engine VM
restart stored anywhere ?
I have already discussed this with Martin Sivak and hosted engine doesn't
touch engine db at all. We discussed this possible solution with Martin,
which we could do in master and maybe in 3.6 if agreed:
1. Just after start of engine we can read from the db name of the host
which hosted engine VM is running on and store it somewhere in memory
for Non Responding Treatment
2. As a part of Non Responding Treatment we can some hosted engine
specific logic:
IF we are running as hosted engine AND
we are inside DisableFenceAtStartupInSec internal AND
non responsive host is the host stored above in step 1. AND
hosted engine VM is running on different host
THEN
execute fencing for non responsive host even when we are
inside DisableFenceAtStartupInSec internal
But it can cause unnecessary fence for the case that whole datacenter
recovers from power failure.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Martin Perina
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
> > To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>
> > Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
> > Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 4:47:06 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine
> > gets shutdown
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > The whole engine.log including the shutdown time (was performed around
> > 9:19)
> > http://pastebin.com/cdY9uTkJ
> >
> > vdsm.log of host01 (the host which kept on running and took over the
> > engine) split into 3 uploads (limit of 512 kB of pastebin):
> > 1 : http://pastebin.com/dr9jNTek
> > 2 : http://pastebin.com/cuyHL6ne
> > 3 : http://pastebin.com/7x2ZQy1y
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > On 09/21/2015 03:00 PM, Martin Perina wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > could you please post whole engine.log (from the time which you turned
> > > off
> > > the host with engine VM) and also vdsm.log from both hosts?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Martin Perina
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > >> From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
> > >> To: users(a)ovirt.org
> > >> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 10:27:08 AM
> > >> Subject: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine
> > >> gets
> > >> shutdown
> > >>
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> we are trying to setup an ovirt environment with two hosts, both
> > >> connected to a ISCSI storage device, a hosted engine and power
> > >> management configured over ILO. So far it seems to work fine in our
> > >> testing setup and starting/stopping VMs works smoothly with proper
> > >> scheduling between those hosts. So we wanted to test HA for the VMs
> > >> now
> > >> and started to manually shutdown a host while there are still VMs
> > >> running on that machine (to simulate power failure or a kernel
panic).
> > >> The expected outcome was that all machines were HA is enabled, are
> > >> booted again. This works if the machine with the failure does not
have
> > >> the engine running. If the machine with the hosted engine VM gets
> > >> shutdown, the host gets in the "Not Responsive state" and
all VMs end
> > >> up
> > >> in an unkown state. However, the engine itself starts correctly on
the
> > >> second host and it seems like it tries to fence the other host (as
> > >> expected) - Events which we get in the open virtualization manager:
> > >> 1. Host hosted_engine_2 is non responsive
> > >> 2. Host hosted_engine_1 from cluster Default was chosen as a proxy to
> > >> execute Status command on Host hosted_engine_2.
> > >> 3. Host hosted_engine_2 became non responsive. It has no power
> > >> management configured. Please check the host status, manually reboot
> > >> it,
> > >> and click "Confirm Host Has Been Rebooted"
> > >> 4. Host hosted_engine_2 is not responding. It will stay in Connecting
> > >> state for a grace period of 124 seconds and after that an attempt to
> > >> fence the host will be issued.
> > >>
> > >> Event 4 is continuously coming every 3 minutes. Complete engine.log
> > >> file
> > >> during engine boot up: http://pastebin.com/D6xS3Wfy
> > >> So the host detects the machine is not responding and wants to fence
> > >> it.
> > >> But although the host has power management configured over ILO, the
> > >> engine thinks that it is not. As a result the second host does not
get
> > >> fenced and VMs are not migrated to the running machine.
> > >> In the log files there are also a lot of time out exception. But I
> > >> guess
> > >> that this is because the host cannot connect to the other machine.
> > >>
> > >> Did anybody face similar problems with HA? Or any clue what the
> > >> problem
> > >> might be?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Michael
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> ----
> > >> ovirt version: 3.5.4
> > >> Hosted engine VM OS: Cent OS 6.5
> > >> Host Machines OS: Cent OS 7
> > >>
> > >> P.S. We also have to note that we had problems with the command
> > >> fence_ipmilan at the beginning. We were receiving the message
"Unable
> > >> to
> > >> obtain correct plug status or plug is not available," whenever
the
> > >> command fence_ipmilan was called. However, the command fence_ilo4
> > >> worked. So we use a simple script for fence_ipmilan now that calls
> > >> fence_ilo4 and passes the arguments.
> > >> _______________________________________________
> > >> Users mailing list
> > >> Users(a)ovirt.org
> > >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> > >>
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Users mailing list
> Users(a)ovirt.org
> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>
12:35 p.m.
Hi,
thanks for the detailed answer! In principle, I understand the issue
now. However, I can not fully follow the argument that this is a corner
case. In a smaller or medium sized company, I would assume that such a
setup, consisting of two machine with a hosted engine, is not uncommon.
Especially as there is documentation online which describes how to
deploy this setup. Does that mean that hosted engines are in general not
recommended?
I am also wondering why the fencing could not be triggered by the hosted
engine after the DisableFenceAtStartupInSec timeout? In the events log
of the engine I keep on getting the message "Host hosted_engine_2 is not
responding. It will stay in Connecting state for a grace period of 120
seconds and after that an attempt to fence the host will be issued.",
which would indicate that the engine is actually trying to fence the non
responsive host.
On 09/24/2015 11:50 AM, Martin Perina wrote:
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eli Mesika" <emesika(a)redhat.com>
> To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>, "Doron Fediuck"
<dfediuck(a)redhat.com>
> Cc: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>, users(a)ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:38:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine gets
shutdown
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>
>> To: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
>> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:02:21 AM
>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine
>> gets shutdown
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> sorry for the late response, but you hit a "corner case" :-(
>>
>> Let me start explain you a few things first:
>>
>> After startup of engine there's an internval during which fencing is
>> disabled. It's called DisableFenceAtStartupInSec and by default it's
>> set to 5 minutes. It can be changed using
>>
>> engine-config -s DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
>>
>> but please do that with caution.
>>
>> Why do we have such timeout? It's a prevention of fencing storm, which
>> could happen in during power issues in whole DC: when both engine and
>> hosts are started, for huge hosts it may take a lot of time until become
>> up and VDSM start to communicate with engine. So usually engine is started
>> first and without this interval engine will start fencing for hosts which
>> are just starting ...
>>
>> Another thing: if we cannot properly fence the host, we cannot determine
>> if there's not just communication issue between engine and host, so we
>> cannot restart HA VMs on another host. The only thing we can do is to
>> offer "Mark host as rebooted" manual option to administrator. If
>> administrator execution this option, we try to restart HA VMs on different
>> host ASAP, because admin took the responsibility of validation that VMs
>> are really not running.
>>
>>
>> When engine is started, following actions related to fencing are taken:
>>
>> 1. Get status of all hosts from DB and schedule Non Responding Treatment
>> after DisableFenceAtStartupInSec timeout is passed
>>
>> 2. Try to communicate with all host and refresh their status
>>
>>
>> If some host become Non Resposive during DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
>> interval
>> we skip fencing and administator will see message in Events tab that host
>> is Non Responsive, but fencing is disabled due to startup interval. So
>> administrator have to take care of such host manually.
>>
>>
>> Now what happened in your case:
>>
>> 1. Hosted engine VM is running on host1 with other VMs
>> 2. Status of host1 and host2 is Up
>> 3. You kill/shutdown host1 -> hosted engine VM is also shut down -> no
>> engine
>> is running to detect issue with host1 and change its status to Non
>> Responsive
>> 4. In the meantime hosted engine VM is started on host2 -> it will read
>> host
>> status from DB, but all hosts are up -> it will try to communicate with
>> host1,
>> but it's unreachable -> so it changes host1 status Non Responsive and
>> starts
>> Non Responsive Treatment for host1 -> Non Responsive Treatment is
>> aborted
>> because engine is still in DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
>>
>>
>> So in normal deployment (without hosted engine) admin is notified that
>> host,
>> where engine is running, crashed and was rebooted, so he has to take a look
>> and do manual steps if needed.
>>
>> In hosted engine deployment it's an issue because hosted engine VM can be
>> restart
>> on different host also in other cases then crashes (for example if host is
>> overloaded hosted engine can stop hosted engine VM and restart it on
>> different
>> host, but this shouldn't happen too often).
>>
>> At the moment the only solution for this is manual: let administrator to be
>> notified that host engine VM is restarted on different host, so
>> administrator
>> can check manually what was the cause for this restart and execute manual
>> steps
>> if needed.
>>
>> So to summarize: at the moment I don't see any reliable automatic solution
>> for this :-( and fencing storm prevention is more important. But feel free
>> to
>> create
>> a bug for this issue, maybe we can think of at least some improvement for
>> this use
>> case.
> Thanks for the detailed explanation Martin
> Really a corner case, lets see if we got more inputs on that from other users
> Maybe when hosted engine VM is restarted on another node we can ask for the
> reason and act accordingly
> Doron, with current implementation, is the reason for hosted engine VM
> restart stored anywhere ?
I have already discussed this with Martin Sivak and hosted engine doesn't
touch engine db at all. We discussed this possible solution with Martin,
which we could do in master and maybe in 3.6 if agreed:
1. Just after start of engine we can read from the db name of the host
which hosted engine VM is running on and store it somewhere in memory
for Non Responding Treatment
2. As a part of Non Responding Treatment we can some hosted engine
specific logic:
IF we are running as hosted engine AND
we are inside DisableFenceAtStartupInSec internal AND
non responsive host is the host stored above in step 1. AND
hosted engine VM is running on different host
THEN
execute fencing for non responsive host even when we are
inside DisableFenceAtStartupInSec internal
But it can cause unnecessary fence for the case that whole datacenter
recovers from power failure.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Martin Perina
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>>> To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>
>>> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
>>> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 4:47:06 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine
>>> gets shutdown
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The whole engine.log including the shutdown time (was performed around
>>> 9:19)
>>> http://pastebin.com/cdY9uTkJ
>>>
>>> vdsm.log of host01 (the host which kept on running and took over the
>>> engine) split into 3 uploads (limit of 512 kB of pastebin):
>>> 1 : http://pastebin.com/dr9jNTek
>>> 2 : http://pastebin.com/cuyHL6ne
>>> 3 : http://pastebin.com/7x2ZQy1y
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> On 09/21/2015 03:00 PM, Martin Perina wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> could you please post whole engine.log (from the time which you turned
>>>> off
>>>> the host with engine VM) and also vdsm.log from both hosts?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Martin Perina
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>>>>> To: users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 10:27:08 AM
>>>>> Subject: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with
engine
>>>>> gets
>>>>> shutdown
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> we are trying to setup an ovirt environment with two hosts, both
>>>>> connected to a ISCSI storage device, a hosted engine and power
>>>>> management configured over ILO. So far it seems to work fine in our
>>>>> testing setup and starting/stopping VMs works smoothly with proper
>>>>> scheduling between those hosts. So we wanted to test HA for the VMs
>>>>> now
>>>>> and started to manually shutdown a host while there are still VMs
>>>>> running on that machine (to simulate power failure or a kernel
panic).
>>>>> The expected outcome was that all machines were HA is enabled, are
>>>>> booted again. This works if the machine with the failure does not
have
>>>>> the engine running. If the machine with the hosted engine VM gets
>>>>> shutdown, the host gets in the "Not Responsive state" and
all VMs end
>>>>> up
>>>>> in an unkown state. However, the engine itself starts correctly on
the
>>>>> second host and it seems like it tries to fence the other host (as
>>>>> expected) - Events which we get in the open virtualization manager:
>>>>> 1. Host hosted_engine_2 is non responsive
>>>>> 2. Host hosted_engine_1 from cluster Default was chosen as a proxy
to
>>>>> execute Status command on Host hosted_engine_2.
>>>>> 3. Host hosted_engine_2 became non responsive. It has no power
>>>>> management configured. Please check the host status, manually reboot
>>>>> it,
>>>>> and click "Confirm Host Has Been Rebooted"
>>>>> 4. Host hosted_engine_2 is not responding. It will stay in
Connecting
>>>>> state for a grace period of 124 seconds and after that an attempt to
>>>>> fence the host will be issued.
>>>>>
>>>>> Event 4 is continuously coming every 3 minutes. Complete engine.log
>>>>> file
>>>>> during engine boot up: http://pastebin.com/D6xS3Wfy
>>>>> So the host detects the machine is not responding and wants to fence
>>>>> it.
>>>>> But although the host has power management configured over ILO, the
>>>>> engine thinks that it is not. As a result the second host does not
get
>>>>> fenced and VMs are not migrated to the running machine.
>>>>> In the log files there are also a lot of time out exception. But I
>>>>> guess
>>>>> that this is because the host cannot connect to the other machine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Did anybody face similar problems with HA? Or any clue what the
>>>>> problem
>>>>> might be?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Michael
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----
>>>>> ovirt version: 3.5.4
>>>>> Hosted engine VM OS: Cent OS 6.5
>>>>> Host Machines OS: Cent OS 7
>>>>>
>>>>> P.S. We also have to note that we had problems with the command
>>>>> fence_ipmilan at the beginning. We were receiving the message
"Unable
>>>>> to
>>>>> obtain correct plug status or plug is not available," whenever
the
>>>>> command fence_ipmilan was called. However, the command fence_ilo4
>>>>> worked. So we use a simple script for fence_ipmilan now that calls
>>>>> fence_ilo4 and passes the arguments.
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Users mailing list
>>>>> Users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>>>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Users mailing list
>> Users(a)ovirt.org
>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>>
1:24 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>, "Eli Mesika"
<emesika(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>, users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 12:35:13 PM
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine gets shutdown
Hi,
thanks for the detailed answer! In principle, I understand the issue
now. However, I can not fully follow the argument that this is a corner
case. In a smaller or medium sized company, I would assume that such a
setup, consisting of two machine with a hosted engine, is not uncommon.
Especially as there is documentation online which describes how to
deploy this setup. Does that mean that hosted engines are in general not
recommended?
I am also wondering why the fencing could not be triggered by the hosted
engine after the DisableFenceAtStartupInSec timeout? In the events log
of the engine I keep on getting the message "Host hosted_engine_2 is not
responding. It will stay in Connecting state for a grace period of 120
seconds and after that an attempt to fence the host will be issued.",
which would indicate that the engine is actually trying to fence the non
responsive host.
Unfortunately this is a bit misleading message, it's shown every time that
we start handling network exception for the host and it's fired before
the logic which manages to start/skip fencing process (this misleading
message is fixed in 3.6). But in current logic we really execute fencing
only when host status is about to change from Connecting to NonResponsive
and this happens only for the 1st time when we are still in
DisableFenceAtStartupInSec interval. During all other attempts the host is
already in status Non Responsive, so fencing is skipped.
On 09/24/2015 11:50 AM, Martin Perina wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Eli Mesika" <emesika(a)redhat.com>
>> To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>, "Doron
Fediuck"
>> <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>
>> Cc: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>, users(a)ovirt.org
>> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:38:39 AM
>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine
>> gets shutdown
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>
>>> To: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>>> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:02:21 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine
>>> gets shutdown
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> sorry for the late response, but you hit a "corner case" :-(
>>>
>>> Let me start explain you a few things first:
>>>
>>> After startup of engine there's an internval during which fencing is
>>> disabled. It's called DisableFenceAtStartupInSec and by default
it's
>>> set to 5 minutes. It can be changed using
>>>
>>> engine-config -s DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
>>>
>>> but please do that with caution.
>>>
>>> Why do we have such timeout? It's a prevention of fencing storm, which
>>> could happen in during power issues in whole DC: when both engine and
>>> hosts are started, for huge hosts it may take a lot of time until become
>>> up and VDSM start to communicate with engine. So usually engine is
>>> started
>>> first and without this interval engine will start fencing for hosts which
>>> are just starting ...
>>>
>>> Another thing: if we cannot properly fence the host, we cannot determine
>>> if there's not just communication issue between engine and host, so we
>>> cannot restart HA VMs on another host. The only thing we can do is to
>>> offer "Mark host as rebooted" manual option to administrator. If
>>> administrator execution this option, we try to restart HA VMs on
>>> different
>>> host ASAP, because admin took the responsibility of validation that VMs
>>> are really not running.
>>>
>>>
>>> When engine is started, following actions related to fencing are taken:
>>>
>>> 1. Get status of all hosts from DB and schedule Non Responding Treatment
>>> after DisableFenceAtStartupInSec timeout is passed
>>>
>>> 2. Try to communicate with all host and refresh their status
>>>
>>>
>>> If some host become Non Resposive during DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
>>> interval
>>> we skip fencing and administator will see message in Events tab that host
>>> is Non Responsive, but fencing is disabled due to startup interval. So
>>> administrator have to take care of such host manually.
>>>
>>>
>>> Now what happened in your case:
>>>
>>> 1. Hosted engine VM is running on host1 with other VMs
>>> 2. Status of host1 and host2 is Up
>>> 3. You kill/shutdown host1 -> hosted engine VM is also shut down ->
no
>>> engine
>>> is running to detect issue with host1 and change its status to Non
>>> Responsive
>>> 4. In the meantime hosted engine VM is started on host2 -> it will read
>>> host
>>> status from DB, but all hosts are up -> it will try to communicate
>>> with
>>> host1,
>>> but it's unreachable -> so it changes host1 status Non Responsive
and
>>> starts
>>> Non Responsive Treatment for host1 -> Non Responsive Treatment is
>>> aborted
>>> because engine is still in DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
>>>
>>>
>>> So in normal deployment (without hosted engine) admin is notified that
>>> host,
>>> where engine is running, crashed and was rebooted, so he has to take a
>>> look
>>> and do manual steps if needed.
>>>
>>> In hosted engine deployment it's an issue because hosted engine VM can
be
>>> restart
>>> on different host also in other cases then crashes (for example if host
>>> is
>>> overloaded hosted engine can stop hosted engine VM and restart it on
>>> different
>>> host, but this shouldn't happen too often).
>>>
>>> At the moment the only solution for this is manual: let administrator to
>>> be
>>> notified that host engine VM is restarted on different host, so
>>> administrator
>>> can check manually what was the cause for this restart and execute manual
>>> steps
>>> if needed.
>>>
>>> So to summarize: at the moment I don't see any reliable automatic
>>> solution
>>> for this :-( and fencing storm prevention is more important. But feel
>>> free
>>> to
>>> create
>>> a bug for this issue, maybe we can think of at least some improvement for
>>> this use
>>> case.
>> Thanks for the detailed explanation Martin
>> Really a corner case, lets see if we got more inputs on that from other
>> users
>> Maybe when hosted engine VM is restarted on another node we can ask for
>> the
>> reason and act accordingly
>> Doron, with current implementation, is the reason for hosted engine VM
>> restart stored anywhere ?
> I have already discussed this with Martin Sivak and hosted engine doesn't
> touch engine db at all. We discussed this possible solution with Martin,
> which we could do in master and maybe in 3.6 if agreed:
>
> 1. Just after start of engine we can read from the db name of the host
> which hosted engine VM is running on and store it somewhere in memory
> for Non Responding Treatment
>
> 2. As a part of Non Responding Treatment we can some hosted engine
> specific logic:
> IF we are running as hosted engine AND
> we are inside DisableFenceAtStartupInSec internal AND
> non responsive host is the host stored above in step 1. AND
> hosted engine VM is running on different host
> THEN
> execute fencing for non responsive host even when we are
> inside DisableFenceAtStartupInSec internal
>
> But it can cause unnecessary fence for the case that whole datacenter
> recovers from power failure.
>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Martin Perina
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>>>> To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>
>>>> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
>>>> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 4:47:06 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with
>>>> engine
>>>> gets shutdown
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> The whole engine.log including the shutdown time (was performed around
>>>> 9:19)
>>>> http://pastebin.com/cdY9uTkJ
>>>>
>>>> vdsm.log of host01 (the host which kept on running and took over the
>>>> engine) split into 3 uploads (limit of 512 kB of pastebin):
>>>> 1 : http://pastebin.com/dr9jNTek
>>>> 2 : http://pastebin.com/cuyHL6ne
>>>> 3 : http://pastebin.com/7x2ZQy1y
>>>>
>>>> Michael
>>>>
>>>> On 09/21/2015 03:00 PM, Martin Perina wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> could you please post whole engine.log (from the time which you
turned
>>>>> off
>>>>> the host with engine VM) and also vdsm.log from both hosts?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Martin Perina
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>>>>>> To: users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>>> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 10:27:08 AM
>>>>>> Subject: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with
engine
>>>>>> gets
>>>>>> shutdown
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> we are trying to setup an ovirt environment with two hosts,
both
>>>>>> connected to a ISCSI storage device, a hosted engine and power
>>>>>> management configured over ILO. So far it seems to work fine in
our
>>>>>> testing setup and starting/stopping VMs works smoothly with
proper
>>>>>> scheduling between those hosts. So we wanted to test HA for the
VMs
>>>>>> now
>>>>>> and started to manually shutdown a host while there are still
VMs
>>>>>> running on that machine (to simulate power failure or a kernel
panic).
>>>>>> The expected outcome was that all machines were HA is enabled,
are
>>>>>> booted again. This works if the machine with the failure does
not have
>>>>>> the engine running. If the machine with the hosted engine VM
gets
>>>>>> shutdown, the host gets in the "Not Responsive state"
and all VMs end
>>>>>> up
>>>>>> in an unkown state. However, the engine itself starts correctly
on the
>>>>>> second host and it seems like it tries to fence the other host
(as
>>>>>> expected) - Events which we get in the open virtualization
manager:
>>>>>> 1. Host hosted_engine_2 is non responsive
>>>>>> 2. Host hosted_engine_1 from cluster Default was chosen as a
proxy to
>>>>>> execute Status command on Host hosted_engine_2.
>>>>>> 3. Host hosted_engine_2 became non responsive. It has no power
>>>>>> management configured. Please check the host status, manually
reboot
>>>>>> it,
>>>>>> and click "Confirm Host Has Been Rebooted"
>>>>>> 4. Host hosted_engine_2 is not responding. It will stay in
Connecting
>>>>>> state for a grace period of 124 seconds and after that an
attempt to
>>>>>> fence the host will be issued.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Event 4 is continuously coming every 3 minutes. Complete
engine.log
>>>>>> file
>>>>>> during engine boot up: http://pastebin.com/D6xS3Wfy
>>>>>> So the host detects the machine is not responding and wants to
fence
>>>>>> it.
>>>>>> But although the host has power management configured over ILO,
the
>>>>>> engine thinks that it is not. As a result the second host does
not get
>>>>>> fenced and VMs are not migrated to the running machine.
>>>>>> In the log files there are also a lot of time out exception. But
I
>>>>>> guess
>>>>>> that this is because the host cannot connect to the other
machine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Did anybody face similar problems with HA? Or any clue what the
>>>>>> problem
>>>>>> might be?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Michael
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----
>>>>>> ovirt version: 3.5.4
>>>>>> Hosted engine VM OS: Cent OS 6.5
>>>>>> Host Machines OS: Cent OS 7
>>>>>>
>>>>>> P.S. We also have to note that we had problems with the command
>>>>>> fence_ipmilan at the beginning. We were receiving the message
"Unable
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> obtain correct plug status or plug is not available,"
whenever the
>>>>>> command fence_ipmilan was called. However, the command
fence_ilo4
>>>>>> worked. So we use a simple script for fence_ipmilan now that
calls
>>>>>> fence_ilo4 and passes the arguments.
>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>> Users mailing list
>>>>>> Users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>>>>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Users mailing list
>>> Users(a)ovirt.org
>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>>>
2:31 p.m.
Ok, thanks!
So, I would still like to know if you would recommend not to use hosted
engines but rather another machine for the engine?
On 09/24/2015 01:24 PM, Martin Perina wrote:
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
> To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>, "Eli Mesika"
<emesika(a)redhat.com>
> Cc: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>, users(a)ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 12:35:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine gets
shutdown
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks for the detailed answer! In principle, I understand the issue
> now. However, I can not fully follow the argument that this is a corner
> case. In a smaller or medium sized company, I would assume that such a
> setup, consisting of two machine with a hosted engine, is not uncommon.
> Especially as there is documentation online which describes how to
> deploy this setup. Does that mean that hosted engines are in general not
> recommended?
>
> I am also wondering why the fencing could not be triggered by the hosted
> engine after the DisableFenceAtStartupInSec timeout? In the events log
> of the engine I keep on getting the message "Host hosted_engine_2 is not
> responding. It will stay in Connecting state for a grace period of 120
> seconds and after that an attempt to fence the host will be issued.",
> which would indicate that the engine is actually trying to fence the non
> responsive host.
Unfortunately this is a bit misleading message, it's shown every time that
we start handling network exception for the host and it's fired before
the logic which manages to start/skip fencing process (this misleading
message is fixed in 3.6). But in current logic we really execute fencing
only when host status is about to change from Connecting to NonResponsive
and this happens only for the 1st time when we are still in
DisableFenceAtStartupInSec interval. During all other attempts the host is
already in status Non Responsive, so fencing is skipped.
> On 09/24/2015 11:50 AM, Martin Perina wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Eli Mesika" <emesika(a)redhat.com>
>>> To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>, "Doron
Fediuck"
>>> <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>
>>> Cc: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>, users(a)ovirt.org
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:38:39 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine
>>> gets shutdown
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>
>>>> To: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>>>> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:02:21 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with
engine
>>>> gets shutdown
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> sorry for the late response, but you hit a "corner case" :-(
>>>>
>>>> Let me start explain you a few things first:
>>>>
>>>> After startup of engine there's an internval during which fencing is
>>>> disabled. It's called DisableFenceAtStartupInSec and by default
it's
>>>> set to 5 minutes. It can be changed using
>>>>
>>>> engine-config -s DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
>>>>
>>>> but please do that with caution.
>>>>
>>>> Why do we have such timeout? It's a prevention of fencing storm,
which
>>>> could happen in during power issues in whole DC: when both engine and
>>>> hosts are started, for huge hosts it may take a lot of time until become
>>>> up and VDSM start to communicate with engine. So usually engine is
>>>> started
>>>> first and without this interval engine will start fencing for hosts
which
>>>> are just starting ...
>>>>
>>>> Another thing: if we cannot properly fence the host, we cannot determine
>>>> if there's not just communication issue between engine and host, so
we
>>>> cannot restart HA VMs on another host. The only thing we can do is to
>>>> offer "Mark host as rebooted" manual option to administrator.
If
>>>> administrator execution this option, we try to restart HA VMs on
>>>> different
>>>> host ASAP, because admin took the responsibility of validation that VMs
>>>> are really not running.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When engine is started, following actions related to fencing are taken:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Get status of all hosts from DB and schedule Non Responding Treatment
>>>> after DisableFenceAtStartupInSec timeout is passed
>>>>
>>>> 2. Try to communicate with all host and refresh their status
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If some host become Non Resposive during DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
>>>> interval
>>>> we skip fencing and administator will see message in Events tab that
host
>>>> is Non Responsive, but fencing is disabled due to startup interval. So
>>>> administrator have to take care of such host manually.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Now what happened in your case:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Hosted engine VM is running on host1 with other VMs
>>>> 2. Status of host1 and host2 is Up
>>>> 3. You kill/shutdown host1 -> hosted engine VM is also shut down
-> no
>>>> engine
>>>> is running to detect issue with host1 and change its status to Non
>>>> Responsive
>>>> 4. In the meantime hosted engine VM is started on host2 -> it will
read
>>>> host
>>>> status from DB, but all hosts are up -> it will try to
communicate
>>>> with
>>>> host1,
>>>> but it's unreachable -> so it changes host1 status Non
Responsive and
>>>> starts
>>>> Non Responsive Treatment for host1 -> Non Responsive Treatment is
>>>> aborted
>>>> because engine is still in DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So in normal deployment (without hosted engine) admin is notified that
>>>> host,
>>>> where engine is running, crashed and was rebooted, so he has to take a
>>>> look
>>>> and do manual steps if needed.
>>>>
>>>> In hosted engine deployment it's an issue because hosted engine VM
can be
>>>> restart
>>>> on different host also in other cases then crashes (for example if host
>>>> is
>>>> overloaded hosted engine can stop hosted engine VM and restart it on
>>>> different
>>>> host, but this shouldn't happen too often).
>>>>
>>>> At the moment the only solution for this is manual: let administrator to
>>>> be
>>>> notified that host engine VM is restarted on different host, so
>>>> administrator
>>>> can check manually what was the cause for this restart and execute
manual
>>>> steps
>>>> if needed.
>>>>
>>>> So to summarize: at the moment I don't see any reliable automatic
>>>> solution
>>>> for this :-( and fencing storm prevention is more important. But feel
>>>> free
>>>> to
>>>> create
>>>> a bug for this issue, maybe we can think of at least some improvement
for
>>>> this use
>>>> case.
>>> Thanks for the detailed explanation Martin
>>> Really a corner case, lets see if we got more inputs on that from other
>>> users
>>> Maybe when hosted engine VM is restarted on another node we can ask for
>>> the
>>> reason and act accordingly
>>> Doron, with current implementation, is the reason for hosted engine VM
>>> restart stored anywhere ?
>> I have already discussed this with Martin Sivak and hosted engine doesn't
>> touch engine db at all. We discussed this possible solution with Martin,
>> which we could do in master and maybe in 3.6 if agreed:
>>
>> 1. Just after start of engine we can read from the db name of the host
>> which hosted engine VM is running on and store it somewhere in memory
>> for Non Responding Treatment
>>
>> 2. As a part of Non Responding Treatment we can some hosted engine
>> specific logic:
>> IF we are running as hosted engine AND
>> we are inside DisableFenceAtStartupInSec internal AND
>> non responsive host is the host stored above in step 1. AND
>> hosted engine VM is running on different host
>> THEN
>> execute fencing for non responsive host even when we are
>> inside DisableFenceAtStartupInSec internal
>>
>> But it can cause unnecessary fence for the case that whole datacenter
>> recovers from power failure.
>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Martin Perina
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>>>>> To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>
>>>>> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 4:47:06 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with
>>>>> engine
>>>>> gets shutdown
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> The whole engine.log including the shutdown time (was performed
around
>>>>> 9:19)
>>>>> http://pastebin.com/cdY9uTkJ
>>>>>
>>>>> vdsm.log of host01 (the host which kept on running and took over the
>>>>> engine) split into 3 uploads (limit of 512 kB of pastebin):
>>>>> 1 : http://pastebin.com/dr9jNTek
>>>>> 2 : http://pastebin.com/cuyHL6ne
>>>>> 3 : http://pastebin.com/7x2ZQy1y
>>>>>
>>>>> Michael
>>>>>
>>>>> On 09/21/2015 03:00 PM, Martin Perina wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> could you please post whole engine.log (from the time which you
turned
>>>>>> off
>>>>>> the host with engine VM) and also vdsm.log from both hosts?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Martin Perina
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>> From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>>>>>>> To: users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>>>> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 10:27:08 AM
>>>>>>> Subject: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host
with engine
>>>>>>> gets
>>>>>>> shutdown
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> we are trying to setup an ovirt environment with two hosts,
both
>>>>>>> connected to a ISCSI storage device, a hosted engine and
power
>>>>>>> management configured over ILO. So far it seems to work fine
in our
>>>>>>> testing setup and starting/stopping VMs works smoothly with
proper
>>>>>>> scheduling between those hosts. So we wanted to test HA for
the VMs
>>>>>>> now
>>>>>>> and started to manually shutdown a host while there are still
VMs
>>>>>>> running on that machine (to simulate power failure or a
kernel panic).
>>>>>>> The expected outcome was that all machines were HA is
enabled, are
>>>>>>> booted again. This works if the machine with the failure does
not have
>>>>>>> the engine running. If the machine with the hosted engine VM
gets
>>>>>>> shutdown, the host gets in the "Not Responsive
state" and all VMs end
>>>>>>> up
>>>>>>> in an unkown state. However, the engine itself starts
correctly on the
>>>>>>> second host and it seems like it tries to fence the other
host (as
>>>>>>> expected) - Events which we get in the open virtualization
manager:
>>>>>>> 1. Host hosted_engine_2 is non responsive
>>>>>>> 2. Host hosted_engine_1 from cluster Default was chosen as a
proxy to
>>>>>>> execute Status command on Host hosted_engine_2.
>>>>>>> 3. Host hosted_engine_2 became non responsive. It has no
power
>>>>>>> management configured. Please check the host status, manually
reboot
>>>>>>> it,
>>>>>>> and click "Confirm Host Has Been Rebooted"
>>>>>>> 4. Host hosted_engine_2 is not responding. It will stay in
Connecting
>>>>>>> state for a grace period of 124 seconds and after that an
attempt to
>>>>>>> fence the host will be issued.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Event 4 is continuously coming every 3 minutes. Complete
engine.log
>>>>>>> file
>>>>>>> during engine boot up: http://pastebin.com/D6xS3Wfy
>>>>>>> So the host detects the machine is not responding and wants
to fence
>>>>>>> it.
>>>>>>> But although the host has power management configured over
ILO, the
>>>>>>> engine thinks that it is not. As a result the second host
does not get
>>>>>>> fenced and VMs are not migrated to the running machine.
>>>>>>> In the log files there are also a lot of time out exception.
But I
>>>>>>> guess
>>>>>>> that this is because the host cannot connect to the other
machine.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Did anybody face similar problems with HA? Or any clue what
the
>>>>>>> problem
>>>>>>> might be?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Michael
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ----
>>>>>>> ovirt version: 3.5.4
>>>>>>> Hosted engine VM OS: Cent OS 6.5
>>>>>>> Host Machines OS: Cent OS 7
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> P.S. We also have to note that we had problems with the
command
>>>>>>> fence_ipmilan at the beginning. We were receiving the message
"Unable
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> obtain correct plug status or plug is not available,"
whenever the
>>>>>>> command fence_ipmilan was called. However, the command
fence_ilo4
>>>>>>> worked. So we use a simple script for fence_ipmilan now that
calls
>>>>>>> fence_ilo4 and passes the arguments.
>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>>> Users mailing list
>>>>>>> Users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>>>>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Users mailing list
>>>> Users(a)ovirt.org
>>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>>>>
2:59 p.m.
Hi Michael,
Martin summed the situation neatly, I would just add that this issue
is not limited to the size of your setup. The same would happen to HA
VMs running on the same host as the hosted engine even if the cluster
had 50 hosts...
About the recommended way of engine deployment: It really is about
whether you can tolerate your engine to be down for a longer time
(starting another host using a backup db).
Hosted engine restores your management in an automated way and without
any data loss. However I agree that the fact that you have to tend to
your HA VMs manually after an engine restart is not nice. Fortunately
that should only happen when your host (or vdsm) dies and does not
come up for an extended period of time.
The summary would be.. there will be no HA handling if the host
running the engine is down, independently on whether the deployment is
hosted engine or standalone engine. If the issue is related to the
software only then there is no real difference.
- When a host with the standalone engine dies, the VMs are fine, but
if anything happens while the engine is down (and reinstalling a
standalone engine takes time + you need a very fresh db backup) you
might again face issues with HA VMs being down or not starting when
the engine comes up.
- When a hosted engine dies because of a host failure, some VMs
generally disappear with it. The engine will come up automatically and
HA VMs from the original hosts have to be manually pushed to work.
This requires some manual action, but I see it as less demanding than
the first case.
- When a hosted engine VM is stopped properly by the tooling it will
be restarted elsewhere and it will be able to connect to the original
host just fine. The engine will then make sure that all HA VMs are up
even if the the VMs died while the engine was down.
So I would recommend hosted engine based deployment. And ask for a bit
of patience as we have a plan how to mitigate the second case to some
extent without compromising the fencing storm prevention.
Best regards
--
Martin Sivak
msivak(a)redhat.com
SLA RHEV-M
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Michael Hölzl <mh(a)ins.jku.at> wrote:
Ok, thanks!
So, I would still like to know if you would recommend not to use hosted
engines but rather another machine for the engine?
On 09/24/2015 01:24 PM, Martin Perina wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>> To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>, "Eli Mesika"
<emesika(a)redhat.com>
>> Cc: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>, users(a)ovirt.org
>> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 12:35:13 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine gets
shutdown
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> thanks for the detailed answer! In principle, I understand the issue
>> now. However, I can not fully follow the argument that this is a corner
>> case. In a smaller or medium sized company, I would assume that such a
>> setup, consisting of two machine with a hosted engine, is not uncommon.
>> Especially as there is documentation online which describes how to
>> deploy this setup. Does that mean that hosted engines are in general not
>> recommended?
>>
>> I am also wondering why the fencing could not be triggered by the hosted
>> engine after the DisableFenceAtStartupInSec timeout? In the events log
>> of the engine I keep on getting the message "Host hosted_engine_2 is not
>> responding. It will stay in Connecting state for a grace period of 120
>> seconds and after that an attempt to fence the host will be issued.",
>> which would indicate that the engine is actually trying to fence the non
>> responsive host.
> Unfortunately this is a bit misleading message, it's shown every time that
> we start handling network exception for the host and it's fired before
> the logic which manages to start/skip fencing process (this misleading
> message is fixed in 3.6). But in current logic we really execute fencing
> only when host status is about to change from Connecting to NonResponsive
> and this happens only for the 1st time when we are still in
> DisableFenceAtStartupInSec interval. During all other attempts the host is
> already in status Non Responsive, so fencing is skipped.
>
>> On 09/24/2015 11:50 AM, Martin Perina wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Eli Mesika" <emesika(a)redhat.com>
>>>> To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>, "Doron
Fediuck"
>>>> <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>
>>>> Cc: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>, users(a)ovirt.org
>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:38:39 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with
engine
>>>> gets shutdown
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>
>>>>> To: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>>>>> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:02:21 AM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with
engine
>>>>> gets shutdown
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> sorry for the late response, but you hit a "corner case"
:-(
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me start explain you a few things first:
>>>>>
>>>>> After startup of engine there's an internval during which fencing
is
>>>>> disabled. It's called DisableFenceAtStartupInSec and by default
it's
>>>>> set to 5 minutes. It can be changed using
>>>>>
>>>>> engine-config -s DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
>>>>>
>>>>> but please do that with caution.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why do we have such timeout? It's a prevention of fencing storm,
which
>>>>> could happen in during power issues in whole DC: when both engine
and
>>>>> hosts are started, for huge hosts it may take a lot of time until
become
>>>>> up and VDSM start to communicate with engine. So usually engine is
>>>>> started
>>>>> first and without this interval engine will start fencing for hosts
which
>>>>> are just starting ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Another thing: if we cannot properly fence the host, we cannot
determine
>>>>> if there's not just communication issue between engine and host,
so we
>>>>> cannot restart HA VMs on another host. The only thing we can do is
to
>>>>> offer "Mark host as rebooted" manual option to
administrator. If
>>>>> administrator execution this option, we try to restart HA VMs on
>>>>> different
>>>>> host ASAP, because admin took the responsibility of validation that
VMs
>>>>> are really not running.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> When engine is started, following actions related to fencing are
taken:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Get status of all hosts from DB and schedule Non Responding
Treatment
>>>>> after DisableFenceAtStartupInSec timeout is passed
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. Try to communicate with all host and refresh their status
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If some host become Non Resposive during DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
>>>>> interval
>>>>> we skip fencing and administator will see message in Events tab that
host
>>>>> is Non Responsive, but fencing is disabled due to startup interval.
So
>>>>> administrator have to take care of such host manually.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Now what happened in your case:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Hosted engine VM is running on host1 with other VMs
>>>>> 2. Status of host1 and host2 is Up
>>>>> 3. You kill/shutdown host1 -> hosted engine VM is also shut down
-> no
>>>>> engine
>>>>> is running to detect issue with host1 and change its status to
Non
>>>>> Responsive
>>>>> 4. In the meantime hosted engine VM is started on host2 -> it
will read
>>>>> host
>>>>> status from DB, but all hosts are up -> it will try to
communicate
>>>>> with
>>>>> host1,
>>>>> but it's unreachable -> so it changes host1 status Non
Responsive and
>>>>> starts
>>>>> Non Responsive Treatment for host1 -> Non Responsive Treatment
is
>>>>> aborted
>>>>> because engine is still in DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So in normal deployment (without hosted engine) admin is notified
that
>>>>> host,
>>>>> where engine is running, crashed and was rebooted, so he has to take
a
>>>>> look
>>>>> and do manual steps if needed.
>>>>>
>>>>> In hosted engine deployment it's an issue because hosted engine
VM can be
>>>>> restart
>>>>> on different host also in other cases then crashes (for example if
host
>>>>> is
>>>>> overloaded hosted engine can stop hosted engine VM and restart it on
>>>>> different
>>>>> host, but this shouldn't happen too often).
>>>>>
>>>>> At the moment the only solution for this is manual: let administrator
to
>>>>> be
>>>>> notified that host engine VM is restarted on different host, so
>>>>> administrator
>>>>> can check manually what was the cause for this restart and execute
manual
>>>>> steps
>>>>> if needed.
>>>>>
>>>>> So to summarize: at the moment I don't see any reliable
automatic
>>>>> solution
>>>>> for this :-( and fencing storm prevention is more important. But
feel
>>>>> free
>>>>> to
>>>>> create
>>>>> a bug for this issue, maybe we can think of at least some improvement
for
>>>>> this use
>>>>> case.
>>>> Thanks for the detailed explanation Martin
>>>> Really a corner case, lets see if we got more inputs on that from other
>>>> users
>>>> Maybe when hosted engine VM is restarted on another node we can ask for
>>>> the
>>>> reason and act accordingly
>>>> Doron, with current implementation, is the reason for hosted engine VM
>>>> restart stored anywhere ?
>>> I have already discussed this with Martin Sivak and hosted engine
doesn't
>>> touch engine db at all. We discussed this possible solution with Martin,
>>> which we could do in master and maybe in 3.6 if agreed:
>>>
>>> 1. Just after start of engine we can read from the db name of the host
>>> which hosted engine VM is running on and store it somewhere in memory
>>> for Non Responding Treatment
>>>
>>> 2. As a part of Non Responding Treatment we can some hosted engine
>>> specific logic:
>>> IF we are running as hosted engine AND
>>> we are inside DisableFenceAtStartupInSec internal AND
>>> non responsive host is the host stored above in step 1. AND
>>> hosted engine VM is running on different host
>>> THEN
>>> execute fencing for non responsive host even when we are
>>> inside DisableFenceAtStartupInSec internal
>>>
>>> But it can cause unnecessary fence for the case that whole datacenter
>>> recovers from power failure.
>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Martin Perina
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>>>>>> To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>
>>>>>> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>>> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 4:47:06 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host
with
>>>>>> engine
>>>>>> gets shutdown
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The whole engine.log including the shutdown time (was performed
around
>>>>>> 9:19)
>>>>>> http://pastebin.com/cdY9uTkJ
>>>>>>
>>>>>> vdsm.log of host01 (the host which kept on running and took over
the
>>>>>> engine) split into 3 uploads (limit of 512 kB of pastebin):
>>>>>> 1 : http://pastebin.com/dr9jNTek
>>>>>> 2 : http://pastebin.com/cuyHL6ne
>>>>>> 3 : http://pastebin.com/7x2ZQy1y
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Michael
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 09/21/2015 03:00 PM, Martin Perina wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> could you please post whole engine.log (from the time which
you turned
>>>>>>> off
>>>>>>> the host with engine VM) and also vdsm.log from both hosts?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Martin Perina
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>>> From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>>>>>>>> To: users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>>>>> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 10:27:08 AM
>>>>>>>> Subject: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host
with engine
>>>>>>>> gets
>>>>>>>> shutdown
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> we are trying to setup an ovirt environment with two
hosts, both
>>>>>>>> connected to a ISCSI storage device, a hosted engine and
power
>>>>>>>> management configured over ILO. So far it seems to work
fine in our
>>>>>>>> testing setup and starting/stopping VMs works smoothly
with proper
>>>>>>>> scheduling between those hosts. So we wanted to test HA
for the VMs
>>>>>>>> now
>>>>>>>> and started to manually shutdown a host while there are
still VMs
>>>>>>>> running on that machine (to simulate power failure or a
kernel panic).
>>>>>>>> The expected outcome was that all machines were HA is
enabled, are
>>>>>>>> booted again. This works if the machine with the failure
does not have
>>>>>>>> the engine running. If the machine with the hosted engine
VM gets
>>>>>>>> shutdown, the host gets in the "Not Responsive
state" and all VMs end
>>>>>>>> up
>>>>>>>> in an unkown state. However, the engine itself starts
correctly on the
>>>>>>>> second host and it seems like it tries to fence the other
host (as
>>>>>>>> expected) - Events which we get in the open
virtualization manager:
>>>>>>>> 1. Host hosted_engine_2 is non responsive
>>>>>>>> 2. Host hosted_engine_1 from cluster Default was chosen
as a proxy to
>>>>>>>> execute Status command on Host hosted_engine_2.
>>>>>>>> 3. Host hosted_engine_2 became non responsive. It has no
power
>>>>>>>> management configured. Please check the host status,
manually reboot
>>>>>>>> it,
>>>>>>>> and click "Confirm Host Has Been Rebooted"
>>>>>>>> 4. Host hosted_engine_2 is not responding. It will stay
in Connecting
>>>>>>>> state for a grace period of 124 seconds and after that an
attempt to
>>>>>>>> fence the host will be issued.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Event 4 is continuously coming every 3 minutes. Complete
engine.log
>>>>>>>> file
>>>>>>>> during engine boot up: http://pastebin.com/D6xS3Wfy
>>>>>>>> So the host detects the machine is not responding and
wants to fence
>>>>>>>> it.
>>>>>>>> But although the host has power management configured
over ILO, the
>>>>>>>> engine thinks that it is not. As a result the second host
does not get
>>>>>>>> fenced and VMs are not migrated to the running machine.
>>>>>>>> In the log files there are also a lot of time out
exception. But I
>>>>>>>> guess
>>>>>>>> that this is because the host cannot connect to the other
machine.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Did anybody face similar problems with HA? Or any clue
what the
>>>>>>>> problem
>>>>>>>> might be?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> Michael
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ----
>>>>>>>> ovirt version: 3.5.4
>>>>>>>> Hosted engine VM OS: Cent OS 6.5
>>>>>>>> Host Machines OS: Cent OS 7
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> P.S. We also have to note that we had problems with the
command
>>>>>>>> fence_ipmilan at the beginning. We were receiving the
message "Unable
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> obtain correct plug status or plug is not
available," whenever the
>>>>>>>> command fence_ipmilan was called. However, the command
fence_ilo4
>>>>>>>> worked. So we use a simple script for fence_ipmilan now
that calls
>>>>>>>> fence_ilo4 and passes the arguments.
>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>>>> Users mailing list
>>>>>>>> Users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>>>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>>>>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Users mailing list
>>>>> Users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>>>>>
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3:13 p.m.
I created a bug covering this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266099
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Sivak" <msivak(a)redhat.com>
To: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
Cc: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>, users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 2:59:52 PM
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine gets shutdown
Hi Michael,
Martin summed the situation neatly, I would just add that this issue
is not limited to the size of your setup. The same would happen to HA
VMs running on the same host as the hosted engine even if the cluster
had 50 hosts...
About the recommended way of engine deployment: It really is about
whether you can tolerate your engine to be down for a longer time
(starting another host using a backup db).
Hosted engine restores your management in an automated way and without
any data loss. However I agree that the fact that you have to tend to
your HA VMs manually after an engine restart is not nice. Fortunately
that should only happen when your host (or vdsm) dies and does not
come up for an extended period of time.
The summary would be.. there will be no HA handling if the host
running the engine is down, independently on whether the deployment is
hosted engine or standalone engine. If the issue is related to the
software only then there is no real difference.
- When a host with the standalone engine dies, the VMs are fine, but
if anything happens while the engine is down (and reinstalling a
standalone engine takes time + you need a very fresh db backup) you
might again face issues with HA VMs being down or not starting when
the engine comes up.
- When a hosted engine dies because of a host failure, some VMs
generally disappear with it. The engine will come up automatically and
HA VMs from the original hosts have to be manually pushed to work.
This requires some manual action, but I see it as less demanding than
the first case.
- When a hosted engine VM is stopped properly by the tooling it will
be restarted elsewhere and it will be able to connect to the original
host just fine. The engine will then make sure that all HA VMs are up
even if the the VMs died while the engine was down.
So I would recommend hosted engine based deployment. And ask for a bit
of patience as we have a plan how to mitigate the second case to some
extent without compromising the fencing storm prevention.
Best regards
--
Martin Sivak
msivak(a)redhat.com
SLA RHEV-M
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Michael Hölzl <mh(a)ins.jku.at> wrote:
> Ok, thanks!
>
> So, I would still like to know if you would recommend not to use hosted
> engines but rather another machine for the engine?
>
> On 09/24/2015 01:24 PM, Martin Perina wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>>> To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>, "Eli
Mesika"
>>> <emesika(a)redhat.com>
>>> Cc: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>, users(a)ovirt.org
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 12:35:13 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine
>>> gets shutdown
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> thanks for the detailed answer! In principle, I understand the issue
>>> now. However, I can not fully follow the argument that this is a corner
>>> case. In a smaller or medium sized company, I would assume that such a
>>> setup, consisting of two machine with a hosted engine, is not uncommon.
>>> Especially as there is documentation online which describes how to
>>> deploy this setup. Does that mean that hosted engines are in general not
>>> recommended?
>>>
>>> I am also wondering why the fencing could not be triggered by the hosted
>>> engine after the DisableFenceAtStartupInSec timeout? In the events log
>>> of the engine I keep on getting the message "Host hosted_engine_2 is
not
>>> responding. It will stay in Connecting state for a grace period of 120
>>> seconds and after that an attempt to fence the host will be issued.",
>>> which would indicate that the engine is actually trying to fence the non
>>> responsive host.
>> Unfortunately this is a bit misleading message, it's shown every time that
>> we start handling network exception for the host and it's fired before
>> the logic which manages to start/skip fencing process (this misleading
>> message is fixed in 3.6). But in current logic we really execute fencing
>> only when host status is about to change from Connecting to NonResponsive
>> and this happens only for the 1st time when we are still in
>> DisableFenceAtStartupInSec interval. During all other attempts the host is
>> already in status Non Responsive, so fencing is skipped.
>>
>>> On 09/24/2015 11:50 AM, Martin Perina wrote:
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Eli Mesika" <emesika(a)redhat.com>
>>>>> To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>,
"Doron Fediuck"
>>>>> <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>
>>>>> Cc: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>,
users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:38:39 AM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with
>>>>> engine
>>>>> gets shutdown
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>
>>>>>> To: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>>>>>> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:02:21 AM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host
with
>>>>>> engine
>>>>>> gets shutdown
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> sorry for the late response, but you hit a "corner
case" :-(
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Let me start explain you a few things first:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After startup of engine there's an internval during which
fencing is
>>>>>> disabled. It's called DisableFenceAtStartupInSec and by
default it's
>>>>>> set to 5 minutes. It can be changed using
>>>>>>
>>>>>> engine-config -s DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
>>>>>>
>>>>>> but please do that with caution.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why do we have such timeout? It's a prevention of fencing
storm, which
>>>>>> could happen in during power issues in whole DC: when both
engine and
>>>>>> hosts are started, for huge hosts it may take a lot of time
until
>>>>>> become
>>>>>> up and VDSM start to communicate with engine. So usually engine
is
>>>>>> started
>>>>>> first and without this interval engine will start fencing for
hosts
>>>>>> which
>>>>>> are just starting ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Another thing: if we cannot properly fence the host, we cannot
>>>>>> determine
>>>>>> if there's not just communication issue between engine and
host, so we
>>>>>> cannot restart HA VMs on another host. The only thing we can do
is to
>>>>>> offer "Mark host as rebooted" manual option to
administrator. If
>>>>>> administrator execution this option, we try to restart HA VMs
on
>>>>>> different
>>>>>> host ASAP, because admin took the responsibility of validation
that
>>>>>> VMs
>>>>>> are really not running.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When engine is started, following actions related to fencing
are
>>>>>> taken:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. Get status of all hosts from DB and schedule Non Responding
>>>>>> Treatment
>>>>>> after DisableFenceAtStartupInSec timeout is passed
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2. Try to communicate with all host and refresh their status
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If some host become Non Resposive during
DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
>>>>>> interval
>>>>>> we skip fencing and administator will see message in Events tab
that
>>>>>> host
>>>>>> is Non Responsive, but fencing is disabled due to startup
interval. So
>>>>>> administrator have to take care of such host manually.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now what happened in your case:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. Hosted engine VM is running on host1 with other VMs
>>>>>> 2. Status of host1 and host2 is Up
>>>>>> 3. You kill/shutdown host1 -> hosted engine VM is also shut
down ->
>>>>>> no
>>>>>> engine
>>>>>> is running to detect issue with host1 and change its status
to Non
>>>>>> Responsive
>>>>>> 4. In the meantime hosted engine VM is started on host2 ->
it will
>>>>>> read
>>>>>> host
>>>>>> status from DB, but all hosts are up -> it will try to
communicate
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> host1,
>>>>>> but it's unreachable -> so it changes host1 status
Non Responsive
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> starts
>>>>>> Non Responsive Treatment for host1 -> Non Responsive
Treatment is
>>>>>> aborted
>>>>>> because engine is still in DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So in normal deployment (without hosted engine) admin is
notified that
>>>>>> host,
>>>>>> where engine is running, crashed and was rebooted, so he has to
take a
>>>>>> look
>>>>>> and do manual steps if needed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In hosted engine deployment it's an issue because hosted
engine VM can
>>>>>> be
>>>>>> restart
>>>>>> on different host also in other cases then crashes (for example
if
>>>>>> host
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> overloaded hosted engine can stop hosted engine VM and restart
it on
>>>>>> different
>>>>>> host, but this shouldn't happen too often).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At the moment the only solution for this is manual: let
administrator
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> be
>>>>>> notified that host engine VM is restarted on different host, so
>>>>>> administrator
>>>>>> can check manually what was the cause for this restart and
execute
>>>>>> manual
>>>>>> steps
>>>>>> if needed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So to summarize: at the moment I don't see any reliable
automatic
>>>>>> solution
>>>>>> for this :-( and fencing storm prevention is more important. But
feel
>>>>>> free
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> create
>>>>>> a bug for this issue, maybe we can think of at least some
improvement
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> this use
>>>>>> case.
>>>>> Thanks for the detailed explanation Martin
>>>>> Really a corner case, lets see if we got more inputs on that from
other
>>>>> users
>>>>> Maybe when hosted engine VM is restarted on another node we can ask
for
>>>>> the
>>>>> reason and act accordingly
>>>>> Doron, with current implementation, is the reason for hosted engine
VM
>>>>> restart stored anywhere ?
>>>> I have already discussed this with Martin Sivak and hosted engine
>>>> doesn't
>>>> touch engine db at all. We discussed this possible solution with
Martin,
>>>> which we could do in master and maybe in 3.6 if agreed:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Just after start of engine we can read from the db name of the host
>>>> which hosted engine VM is running on and store it somewhere in
>>>> memory
>>>> for Non Responding Treatment
>>>>
>>>> 2. As a part of Non Responding Treatment we can some hosted engine
>>>> specific logic:
>>>> IF we are running as hosted engine AND
>>>> we are inside DisableFenceAtStartupInSec internal AND
>>>> non responsive host is the host stored above in step 1. AND
>>>> hosted engine VM is running on different host
>>>> THEN
>>>> execute fencing for non responsive host even when we are
>>>> inside DisableFenceAtStartupInSec internal
>>>>
>>>> But it can cause unnecessary fence for the case that whole datacenter
>>>> recovers from power failure.
>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Martin Perina
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>> From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>>>>>>> To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>
>>>>>>> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>>>> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 4:47:06 PM
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when
host with
>>>>>>> engine
>>>>>>> gets shutdown
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The whole engine.log including the shutdown time (was
performed
>>>>>>> around
>>>>>>> 9:19)
>>>>>>> http://pastebin.com/cdY9uTkJ
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> vdsm.log of host01 (the host which kept on running and took
over the
>>>>>>> engine) split into 3 uploads (limit of 512 kB of pastebin):
>>>>>>> 1 : http://pastebin.com/dr9jNTek
>>>>>>> 2 : http://pastebin.com/cuyHL6ne
>>>>>>> 3 : http://pastebin.com/7x2ZQy1y
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Michael
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 09/21/2015 03:00 PM, Martin Perina wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> could you please post whole engine.log (from the time
which you
>>>>>>>> turned
>>>>>>>> off
>>>>>>>> the host with engine VM) and also vdsm.log from both
hosts?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Martin Perina
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>>>> From: "Michael Hölzl"
<mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>>>>>>>>> To: users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>>>>>> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 10:27:08 AM
>>>>>>>>> Subject: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when
host with
>>>>>>>>> engine
>>>>>>>>> gets
>>>>>>>>> shutdown
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> we are trying to setup an ovirt environment with two
hosts, both
>>>>>>>>> connected to a ISCSI storage device, a hosted engine
and power
>>>>>>>>> management configured over ILO. So far it seems to
work fine in our
>>>>>>>>> testing setup and starting/stopping VMs works
smoothly with proper
>>>>>>>>> scheduling between those hosts. So we wanted to test
HA for the VMs
>>>>>>>>> now
>>>>>>>>> and started to manually shutdown a host while there
are still VMs
>>>>>>>>> running on that machine (to simulate power failure
or a kernel
>>>>>>>>> panic).
>>>>>>>>> The expected outcome was that all machines were HA
is enabled, are
>>>>>>>>> booted again. This works if the machine with the
failure does not
>>>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>>>> the engine running. If the machine with the hosted
engine VM gets
>>>>>>>>> shutdown, the host gets in the "Not Responsive
state" and all VMs
>>>>>>>>> end
>>>>>>>>> up
>>>>>>>>> in an unkown state. However, the engine itself
starts correctly on
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> second host and it seems like it tries to fence the
other host (as
>>>>>>>>> expected) - Events which we get in the open
virtualization manager:
>>>>>>>>> 1. Host hosted_engine_2 is non responsive
>>>>>>>>> 2. Host hosted_engine_1 from cluster Default was
chosen as a proxy
>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> execute Status command on Host hosted_engine_2.
>>>>>>>>> 3. Host hosted_engine_2 became non responsive. It
has no power
>>>>>>>>> management configured. Please check the host status,
manually
>>>>>>>>> reboot
>>>>>>>>> it,
>>>>>>>>> and click "Confirm Host Has Been
Rebooted"
>>>>>>>>> 4. Host hosted_engine_2 is not responding. It will
stay in
>>>>>>>>> Connecting
>>>>>>>>> state for a grace period of 124 seconds and after
that an attempt
>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> fence the host will be issued.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Event 4 is continuously coming every 3 minutes.
Complete engine.log
>>>>>>>>> file
>>>>>>>>> during engine boot up: http://pastebin.com/D6xS3Wfy
>>>>>>>>> So the host detects the machine is not responding
and wants to
>>>>>>>>> fence
>>>>>>>>> it.
>>>>>>>>> But although the host has power management
configured over ILO, the
>>>>>>>>> engine thinks that it is not. As a result the second
host does not
>>>>>>>>> get
>>>>>>>>> fenced and VMs are not migrated to the running
machine.
>>>>>>>>> In the log files there are also a lot of time out
exception. But I
>>>>>>>>> guess
>>>>>>>>> that this is because the host cannot connect to the
other machine.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Did anybody face similar problems with HA? Or any
clue what the
>>>>>>>>> problem
>>>>>>>>> might be?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>> Michael
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ----
>>>>>>>>> ovirt version: 3.5.4
>>>>>>>>> Hosted engine VM OS: Cent OS 6.5
>>>>>>>>> Host Machines OS: Cent OS 7
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> P.S. We also have to note that we had problems with
the command
>>>>>>>>> fence_ipmilan at the beginning. We were receiving
the message
>>>>>>>>> "Unable
>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> obtain correct plug status or plug is not
available," whenever the
>>>>>>>>> command fence_ipmilan was called. However, the
command fence_ilo4
>>>>>>>>> worked. So we use a simple script for fence_ipmilan
now that calls
>>>>>>>>> fence_ilo4 and passes the arguments.
>>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>>>>> Users mailing list
>>>>>>>>> Users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>>>>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>> Users mailing list
>>>>>> Users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>>>>>>
> _______________________________________________
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8:19 a.m.
Thanks for the help! I will definitely stay tuned with updates on this
matter.
Michael
On 09/24/2015 03:13 PM, Martin Perina wrote:
I created a bug covering this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266099
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Sivak" <msivak(a)redhat.com>
> To: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
> Cc: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>, users(a)ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 2:59:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine gets
shutdown
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Martin summed the situation neatly, I would just add that this issue
> is not limited to the size of your setup. The same would happen to HA
> VMs running on the same host as the hosted engine even if the cluster
> had 50 hosts...
>
> About the recommended way of engine deployment: It really is about
> whether you can tolerate your engine to be down for a longer time
> (starting another host using a backup db).
>
> Hosted engine restores your management in an automated way and without
> any data loss. However I agree that the fact that you have to tend to
> your HA VMs manually after an engine restart is not nice. Fortunately
> that should only happen when your host (or vdsm) dies and does not
> come up for an extended period of time.
>
> The summary would be.. there will be no HA handling if the host
> running the engine is down, independently on whether the deployment is
> hosted engine or standalone engine. If the issue is related to the
> software only then there is no real difference.
>
> - When a host with the standalone engine dies, the VMs are fine, but
> if anything happens while the engine is down (and reinstalling a
> standalone engine takes time + you need a very fresh db backup) you
> might again face issues with HA VMs being down or not starting when
> the engine comes up.
>
> - When a hosted engine dies because of a host failure, some VMs
> generally disappear with it. The engine will come up automatically and
> HA VMs from the original hosts have to be manually pushed to work.
> This requires some manual action, but I see it as less demanding than
> the first case.
>
> - When a hosted engine VM is stopped properly by the tooling it will
> be restarted elsewhere and it will be able to connect to the original
> host just fine. The engine will then make sure that all HA VMs are up
> even if the the VMs died while the engine was down.
>
> So I would recommend hosted engine based deployment. And ask for a bit
> of patience as we have a plan how to mitigate the second case to some
> extent without compromising the fencing storm prevention.
>
> Best regards
>
> --
> Martin Sivak
> msivak(a)redhat.com
> SLA RHEV-M
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Michael Hölzl <mh(a)ins.jku.at> wrote:
>> Ok, thanks!
>>
>> So, I would still like to know if you would recommend not to use hosted
>> engines but rather another machine for the engine?
>>
>> On 09/24/2015 01:24 PM, Martin Perina wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>>>> To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>, "Eli
Mesika"
>>>> <emesika(a)redhat.com>
>>>> Cc: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>,
users(a)ovirt.org
>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 12:35:13 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with
engine
>>>> gets shutdown
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> thanks for the detailed answer! In principle, I understand the issue
>>>> now. However, I can not fully follow the argument that this is a corner
>>>> case. In a smaller or medium sized company, I would assume that such a
>>>> setup, consisting of two machine with a hosted engine, is not uncommon.
>>>> Especially as there is documentation online which describes how to
>>>> deploy this setup. Does that mean that hosted engines are in general not
>>>> recommended?
>>>>
>>>> I am also wondering why the fencing could not be triggered by the hosted
>>>> engine after the DisableFenceAtStartupInSec timeout? In the events log
>>>> of the engine I keep on getting the message "Host hosted_engine_2 is
not
>>>> responding. It will stay in Connecting state for a grace period of 120
>>>> seconds and after that an attempt to fence the host will be
issued.",
>>>> which would indicate that the engine is actually trying to fence the non
>>>> responsive host.
>>> Unfortunately this is a bit misleading message, it's shown every time
that
>>> we start handling network exception for the host and it's fired before
>>> the logic which manages to start/skip fencing process (this misleading
>>> message is fixed in 3.6). But in current logic we really execute fencing
>>> only when host status is about to change from Connecting to NonResponsive
>>> and this happens only for the 1st time when we are still in
>>> DisableFenceAtStartupInSec interval. During all other attempts the host is
>>> already in status Non Responsive, so fencing is skipped.
>>>
>>>> On 09/24/2015 11:50 AM, Martin Perina wrote:
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "Eli Mesika" <emesika(a)redhat.com>
>>>>>> To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>,
"Doron Fediuck"
>>>>>> <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>
>>>>>> Cc: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>,
users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:38:39 AM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host
with
>>>>>> engine
>>>>>> gets shutdown
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>> From: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>
>>>>>>> To: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>>>>>>> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:02:21 AM
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host
with
>>>>>>> engine
>>>>>>> gets shutdown
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> sorry for the late response, but you hit a "corner
case" :-(
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Let me start explain you a few things first:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> After startup of engine there's an internval during which
fencing is
>>>>>>> disabled. It's called DisableFenceAtStartupInSec and by
default it's
>>>>>>> set to 5 minutes. It can be changed using
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> engine-config -s DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> but please do that with caution.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Why do we have such timeout? It's a prevention of fencing
storm, which
>>>>>>> could happen in during power issues in whole DC: when both
engine and
>>>>>>> hosts are started, for huge hosts it may take a lot of time
until
>>>>>>> become
>>>>>>> up and VDSM start to communicate with engine. So usually
engine is
>>>>>>> started
>>>>>>> first and without this interval engine will start fencing for
hosts
>>>>>>> which
>>>>>>> are just starting ...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Another thing: if we cannot properly fence the host, we
cannot
>>>>>>> determine
>>>>>>> if there's not just communication issue between engine
and host, so we
>>>>>>> cannot restart HA VMs on another host. The only thing we can
do is to
>>>>>>> offer "Mark host as rebooted" manual option to
administrator. If
>>>>>>> administrator execution this option, we try to restart HA VMs
on
>>>>>>> different
>>>>>>> host ASAP, because admin took the responsibility of
validation that
>>>>>>> VMs
>>>>>>> are really not running.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When engine is started, following actions related to fencing
are
>>>>>>> taken:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1. Get status of all hosts from DB and schedule Non
Responding
>>>>>>> Treatment
>>>>>>> after DisableFenceAtStartupInSec timeout is passed
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2. Try to communicate with all host and refresh their status
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If some host become Non Resposive during
DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
>>>>>>> interval
>>>>>>> we skip fencing and administator will see message in Events
tab that
>>>>>>> host
>>>>>>> is Non Responsive, but fencing is disabled due to startup
interval. So
>>>>>>> administrator have to take care of such host manually.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Now what happened in your case:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1. Hosted engine VM is running on host1 with other VMs
>>>>>>> 2. Status of host1 and host2 is Up
>>>>>>> 3. You kill/shutdown host1 -> hosted engine VM is also
shut down ->
>>>>>>> no
>>>>>>> engine
>>>>>>> is running to detect issue with host1 and change its
status to Non
>>>>>>> Responsive
>>>>>>> 4. In the meantime hosted engine VM is started on host2
-> it will
>>>>>>> read
>>>>>>> host
>>>>>>> status from DB, but all hosts are up -> it will try to
communicate
>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>> host1,
>>>>>>> but it's unreachable -> so it changes host1 status
Non Responsive
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> starts
>>>>>>> Non Responsive Treatment for host1 -> Non Responsive
Treatment is
>>>>>>> aborted
>>>>>>> because engine is still in DisableFenceAtStartupInSec
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So in normal deployment (without hosted engine) admin is
notified that
>>>>>>> host,
>>>>>>> where engine is running, crashed and was rebooted, so he has
to take a
>>>>>>> look
>>>>>>> and do manual steps if needed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In hosted engine deployment it's an issue because hosted
engine VM can
>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>> restart
>>>>>>> on different host also in other cases then crashes (for
example if
>>>>>>> host
>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>> overloaded hosted engine can stop hosted engine VM and
restart it on
>>>>>>> different
>>>>>>> host, but this shouldn't happen too often).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> At the moment the only solution for this is manual: let
administrator
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>> notified that host engine VM is restarted on different host,
so
>>>>>>> administrator
>>>>>>> can check manually what was the cause for this restart and
execute
>>>>>>> manual
>>>>>>> steps
>>>>>>> if needed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So to summarize: at the moment I don't see any reliable
automatic
>>>>>>> solution
>>>>>>> for this :-( and fencing storm prevention is more important.
But feel
>>>>>>> free
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> create
>>>>>>> a bug for this issue, maybe we can think of at least some
improvement
>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>> this use
>>>>>>> case.
>>>>>> Thanks for the detailed explanation Martin
>>>>>> Really a corner case, lets see if we got more inputs on that from
other
>>>>>> users
>>>>>> Maybe when hosted engine VM is restarted on another node we can
ask for
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> reason and act accordingly
>>>>>> Doron, with current implementation, is the reason for hosted
engine VM
>>>>>> restart stored anywhere ?
>>>>> I have already discussed this with Martin Sivak and hosted engine
>>>>> doesn't
>>>>> touch engine db at all. We discussed this possible solution with
Martin,
>>>>> which we could do in master and maybe in 3.6 if agreed:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Just after start of engine we can read from the db name of the
host
>>>>> which hosted engine VM is running on and store it somewhere in
>>>>> memory
>>>>> for Non Responding Treatment
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. As a part of Non Responding Treatment we can some hosted engine
>>>>> specific logic:
>>>>> IF we are running as hosted engine AND
>>>>> we are inside DisableFenceAtStartupInSec internal AND
>>>>> non responsive host is the host stored above in step 1. AND
>>>>> hosted engine VM is running on different host
>>>>> THEN
>>>>> execute fencing for non responsive host even when we are
>>>>> inside DisableFenceAtStartupInSec internal
>>>>>
>>>>> But it can cause unnecessary fence for the case that whole
datacenter
>>>>> recovers from power failure.
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Martin Perina
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>>> From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>>>>>>>> To: "Martin Perina" <mperina(a)redhat.com>
>>>>>>>> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>>>>> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 4:47:06 PM
>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when
host with
>>>>>>>> engine
>>>>>>>> gets shutdown
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The whole engine.log including the shutdown time (was
performed
>>>>>>>> around
>>>>>>>> 9:19)
>>>>>>>> http://pastebin.com/cdY9uTkJ
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> vdsm.log of host01 (the host which kept on running and
took over the
>>>>>>>> engine) split into 3 uploads (limit of 512 kB of
pastebin):
>>>>>>>> 1 : http://pastebin.com/dr9jNTek
>>>>>>>> 2 : http://pastebin.com/cuyHL6ne
>>>>>>>> 3 : http://pastebin.com/7x2ZQy1y
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Michael
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 09/21/2015 03:00 PM, Martin Perina wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> could you please post whole engine.log (from the time
which you
>>>>>>>>> turned
>>>>>>>>> off
>>>>>>>>> the host with engine VM) and also vdsm.log from both
hosts?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Martin Perina
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>>>>> From: "Michael Hölzl"
<mh(a)ins.jku.at>
>>>>>>>>>> To: users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>>>>>>> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 10:27:08 AM
>>>>>>>>>> Subject: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working
when host with
>>>>>>>>>> engine
>>>>>>>>>> gets
>>>>>>>>>> shutdown
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> we are trying to setup an ovirt environment with
two hosts, both
>>>>>>>>>> connected to a ISCSI storage device, a hosted
engine and power
>>>>>>>>>> management configured over ILO. So far it seems
to work fine in our
>>>>>>>>>> testing setup and starting/stopping VMs works
smoothly with proper
>>>>>>>>>> scheduling between those hosts. So we wanted to
test HA for the VMs
>>>>>>>>>> now
>>>>>>>>>> and started to manually shutdown a host while
there are still VMs
>>>>>>>>>> running on that machine (to simulate power
failure or a kernel
>>>>>>>>>> panic).
>>>>>>>>>> The expected outcome was that all machines were
HA is enabled, are
>>>>>>>>>> booted again. This works if the machine with the
failure does not
>>>>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>>>>> the engine running. If the machine with the
hosted engine VM gets
>>>>>>>>>> shutdown, the host gets in the "Not
Responsive state" and all VMs
>>>>>>>>>> end
>>>>>>>>>> up
>>>>>>>>>> in an unkown state. However, the engine itself
starts correctly on
>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> second host and it seems like it tries to fence
the other host (as
>>>>>>>>>> expected) - Events which we get in the open
virtualization manager:
>>>>>>>>>> 1. Host hosted_engine_2 is non responsive
>>>>>>>>>> 2. Host hosted_engine_1 from cluster Default was
chosen as a proxy
>>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>> execute Status command on Host hosted_engine_2.
>>>>>>>>>> 3. Host hosted_engine_2 became non responsive. It
has no power
>>>>>>>>>> management configured. Please check the host
status, manually
>>>>>>>>>> reboot
>>>>>>>>>> it,
>>>>>>>>>> and click "Confirm Host Has Been
Rebooted"
>>>>>>>>>> 4. Host hosted_engine_2 is not responding. It
will stay in
>>>>>>>>>> Connecting
>>>>>>>>>> state for a grace period of 124 seconds and after
that an attempt
>>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>> fence the host will be issued.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Event 4 is continuously coming every 3 minutes.
Complete engine.log
>>>>>>>>>> file
>>>>>>>>>> during engine boot up:
http://pastebin.com/D6xS3Wfy
>>>>>>>>>> So the host detects the machine is not responding
and wants to
>>>>>>>>>> fence
>>>>>>>>>> it.
>>>>>>>>>> But although the host has power management
configured over ILO, the
>>>>>>>>>> engine thinks that it is not. As a result the
second host does not
>>>>>>>>>> get
>>>>>>>>>> fenced and VMs are not migrated to the running
machine.
>>>>>>>>>> In the log files there are also a lot of time out
exception. But I
>>>>>>>>>> guess
>>>>>>>>>> that this is because the host cannot connect to
the other machine.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Did anybody face similar problems with HA? Or any
clue what the
>>>>>>>>>> problem
>>>>>>>>>> might be?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>> Michael
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> ----
>>>>>>>>>> ovirt version: 3.5.4
>>>>>>>>>> Hosted engine VM OS: Cent OS 6.5
>>>>>>>>>> Host Machines OS: Cent OS 7
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> P.S. We also have to note that we had problems
with the command
>>>>>>>>>> fence_ipmilan at the beginning. We were receiving
the message
>>>>>>>>>> "Unable
>>>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>>> obtain correct plug status or plug is not
available," whenever the
>>>>>>>>>> command fence_ipmilan was called. However, the
command fence_ilo4
>>>>>>>>>> worked. So we use a simple script for
fence_ipmilan now that calls
>>>>>>>>>> fence_ilo4 and passes the arguments.
>>>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>>>>>> Users mailing list
>>>>>>>>>> Users(a)ovirt.org
>>>>>>>>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> Users mailing list
>>>>>>> Users(a)ovirt.org
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>>>>>>>
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8:16 a.m.
Anybody an idea why HA VMs do not start and fencing is not working?
Thanks,
Michael
On 09/21/2015 03:00 PM, Martin Perina wrote:
Hi,
could you please post whole engine.log (from the time which you turned off
the host with engine VM) and also vdsm.log from both hosts?
Thanks
Martin Perina
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Hölzl" <mh(a)ins.jku.at>
> To: users(a)ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 10:27:08 AM
> Subject: [ovirt-users] HA - Fencing not working when host with engine gets shutdown
>
> Hi all,
>
> we are trying to setup an ovirt environment with two hosts, both
> connected to a ISCSI storage device, a hosted engine and power
> management configured over ILO. So far it seems to work fine in our
> testing setup and starting/stopping VMs works smoothly with proper
> scheduling between those hosts. So we wanted to test HA for the VMs now
> and started to manually shutdown a host while there are still VMs
> running on that machine (to simulate power failure or a kernel panic).
> The expected outcome was that all machines were HA is enabled, are
> booted again. This works if the machine with the failure does not have
> the engine running. If the machine with the hosted engine VM gets
> shutdown, the host gets in the "Not Responsive state" and all VMs end up
> in an unkown state. However, the engine itself starts correctly on the
> second host and it seems like it tries to fence the other host (as
> expected) - Events which we get in the open virtualization manager:
> 1. Host hosted_engine_2 is non responsive
> 2. Host hosted_engine_1 from cluster Default was chosen as a proxy to
> execute Status command on Host hosted_engine_2.
> 3. Host hosted_engine_2 became non responsive. It has no power
> management configured. Please check the host status, manually reboot it,
> and click "Confirm Host Has Been Rebooted"
> 4. Host hosted_engine_2 is not responding. It will stay in Connecting
> state for a grace period of 124 seconds and after that an attempt to
> fence the host will be issued.
>
> Event 4 is continuously coming every 3 minutes. Complete engine.log file
> during engine boot up: http://pastebin.com/D6xS3Wfy
> So the host detects the machine is not responding and wants to fence it.
> But although the host has power management configured over ILO, the
> engine thinks that it is not. As a result the second host does not get
> fenced and VMs are not migrated to the running machine.
> In the log files there are also a lot of time out exception. But I guess
> that this is because the host cannot connect to the other machine.
>
> Did anybody face similar problems with HA? Or any clue what the problem
> might be?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>
> ----
> ovirt version: 3.5.4
> Hosted engine VM OS: Cent OS 6.5
> Host Machines OS: Cent OS 7
>
> P.S. We also have to note that we had problems with the command
> fence_ipmilan at the beginning. We were receiving the message "Unable to
> obtain correct plug status or plug is not available," whenever the
> command fence_ipmilan was called. However, the command fence_ilo4
> worked. So we use a simple script for fence_ipmilan now that calls
> fence_ilo4 and passes the arguments.
> _______________________________________________
> Users mailing list
> Users(a)ovirt.org
> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>
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