Hi, During Hosted Engine setup question about glusterfs volume is being asked because you have setup the volumes yourself. If cockpit+gdeploy plugin would be have been used then that would have automatically detected glusterfs replica 3 volume created during Hosted Engine deployment and this question would not have been asked. During new storage domain creation when glusterfs is selected there is a feature called 'use managed gluster volumes' and upon checking this all glusterfs volumes managed will be listed and you could choose the volume of your choice from the dropdown list. There is a conf file called /etc/hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf where there is a parameter called backup-volfile-servers="h1:h2" and if one of the gluster node goes down engine uses this parameter to provide ha / failover. Hope this helps !! Thanks kasturi On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 8:09 PM, Charles Kozler <ckozleriii(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

yes, right. What you can do is edit the hosted-engine.conf file and there is a parameter as shown below [1] and replace h2 and h3 with your second and third storage servers. Then you will need to restart ovirt-ha-agent and ovirt-ha-broker services in all the nodes . [1] 'mnt_options=backup-volfile-servers=<h2>:<h3>' On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 5:54 PM, Charles Kozler <ckozleriii(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

Typo..."Set it up and then failed that **HOST**" And upon that host going down, the storage domain went down. I only have hosted storage domain and this new one - is this why the DC went down and no SPM could be elected? I dont recall this working this way in early 4.0 or 3.6 On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Charles Kozler <ckozleriii(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

If gluster drops in quorum so that it has less votes than it should it will stop file operations until quorum is back to normal.If i rember it right you need two bricks to write for quorum to be met and that the arbiter only is a vote to avoid split brain. Basically what you have is a raid5 solution without a spare. And when one disk dies it will run in degraded mode. And some raid systems will stop the raid until you have removed the disk or forced it to run anyway.  You can read up on it here: https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Ad ministrator%20Guide/arbiter-volumes-and-quorum/ /JohanOn Thu, 2017-08-31 at 22:33 -0700, Jim Kusznir wrote:

@ Jim - you have only two data volumes and lost quorum. Arbitrator only stores metadata, no actual files. So yes, you were running in degraded mode so some operations were hindered. @ Sahina - Yes, this actually worked fine for me once I did that. However, the issue I am still facing, is when I go to create a new gluster storage domain (replica 3, hyperconverged) and I tell it "Host to use" and I select that host. If I fail that host, all VMs halt. I do not recall this in 3.6 or early 4.0. This to me makes it seem like this is "pinning" a node to a volume and vice versa like you could, for instance, for a singular hyperconverged to ex: export a local disk via NFS and then mount it via ovirt domain. But of course, this has its caveats. To that end, I am using gluster replica 3, when configuring it I say "host to use: " node 1, then in the connection details I give it node1:/data. I fail node1, all VMs halt. Did I miss something? On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 2:13 AM, Sahina Bose <sabose(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

Are you referring to "Mount Options" - > http://i.imgur.com/bYfbyzz.png Then no, but that would explain why it wasnt working :-). I guess I had a silly assumption that oVirt would have detected it and automatically taken up the redundancy that was configured inside the replica set / brick detection. I will test and let you know Thanks! On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Kasturi Narra <knarra(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

Huh...Ok., how do I convert the arbitrar to full replica, then? I was misinformed when I created this setup. I thought the arbitrator held enough metadata that it could validate or refudiate any one replica (kinda like the parity drive for a RAID-4 array). I was also under the impression that one replica + Arbitrator is enough to keep the array online and functional. --Jim On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 5:22 AM, Charles Kozler <ckozleriii(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

@Kasturi - Looks good now. Cluster showed down for a moment but VM's stayed up in their appropriate places. Thanks! < Anyone on this list please feel free to correct my response to Jim if its wrong> @ Jim - If you can share your gluster volume info / status I can confirm (to the best of my knowledge). From my understanding, If you setup the volume with something like 'gluster volume set <vol> group virt' this will configure some quorum options as well, Ex: http://i.imgur.com/Mya4N5o.png While, yes, you are configured for arbiter node you're still losing quorum by dropping from 2 -> 1. You would need 4 node with 1 being arbiter to configure quorum which is in effect 3 writable nodes and 1 arbiter. If one gluster node drops, you still have 2 up. Although in this case, you probably wouldnt need arbiter at all If you are configured, you can drop quorum settings and just let arbiter run since you're not using arbiter node in your VM cluster part (I believe), just storage cluster part. When using quorum, you need > 50% of the cluster being up at one time. Since you have 3 nodes with 1 arbiter, you're actually losing 1/2 which == 50 which == degraded / hindered gluster Again, this is to the best of my knowledge based on other quorum backed software....and this is what I understand from testing with gluster and ovirt thus far On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Jim Kusznir <jim(a)palousetech.com&gt; wrote:

I'm now also confused as to what the point of an arbiter is / what it does / why one would use it. On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Jim Kusznir <jim(a)palousetech.com&gt; wrote:

Thank you! I created my cluster following these instructions: https://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/08/up-and-running-with-ovirt-4-0-and-glus... (I built it about 10 months ago) I used their recipe for automated gluster node creation. Originally I thought I had 3 replicas, then I started realizing that node 3's disk usage was essentially nothing compared to node 1 and 2, and eventually on this list discovered that I had an arbiter. Currently I am running on a 1Gbps backbone, but I can dedicate a gig port (or even do bonded gig -- my servers have 4 1Gbps interfaces, and my switch is only used for this cluster, so it has the ports to hook them all up). I am planning on a 10gbps upgrade once I bring in some more cash to pay for it. Last night, node 2 and 3 were up, and I rebooted node 1 for updates. As soon as it shut down, my cluster halted (including the hosted engine), and everything went messy. When the node came back up, I still had to recover the hosted engine via command line, then could go in and start unpausing my VMs. I'm glad it happened at 8pm at night...That would have been very ugly if it happened during the day. I had thought I had enough redundancy in the cluster that I could take down any 1 node and not have an issue...That definitely is not what happened. --Jim On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Charles Kozler <ckozleriii(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

@ Jim - here is my setup which I will test in a few (brand new cluster) and report back what I found in my tests - 3x servers direct connected via 10Gb - 2 of those 3 setup in ovirt as hosts - Hosted engine - Gluster replica 3 (no arbiter) for all volumes - 1x engine volume gluster replica 3 manually configured (not using ovirt managed gluster) - 1x datatest volume (20gb) replica 3 manually configured (not using ovirt managed gluster) - 1x nfstest domain served from some other server in my infrastructure which, at the time of my original testing, was master domain I tested this earlier and all VMs stayed online. However, ovirt cluster reported DC/cluster down, all VM's stayed up As I am now typing this, can you confirm you setup your gluster storage domain with backupvol? Also, confirm you updated hosted-engine.conf with backupvol mount option as well? On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Jim Kusznir <jim(a)palousetech.com&gt; wrote:

Jim - here is my test: - All VM's on node2: hosted engine and 1 test VM - Test VM on gluster storage domain (with mount options set) - hosted engine is on gluster as well, with settings persisted to hosted-engine.conf for backupvol All VM's stayed up. Nothing in dmesg of the test vm indicating a pause or an issue or anything However, what I did notice during this, is my /datatest volume doesnt have quorum set. So I will set that now and report back what happens # gluster volume info datatest Volume Name: datatest Type: Replicate Volume ID: 229c25f9-405e-4fe7-b008-1d3aea065069 Status: Started Snapshot Count: 0 Number of Bricks: 1 x 3 = 3 Transport-type: tcp Bricks: Brick1: node1:/gluster/data/datatest/brick1 Brick2: node2:/gluster/data/datatest/brick1 Brick3: node3:/gluster/data/datatest/brick1 Options Reconfigured: transport.address-family: inet nfs.disable: on Perhaps quorum may be more trouble than its worth when you have 3 nodes and/or 2 nodes + arbiter? Since I am keeping my 3rd node out of ovirt, I am more content on keeping it as a warm spare if I **had** to swap it in to ovirt cluster, but keeps my storage 100% quorum On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Jim Kusznir <jim(a)palousetech.com&gt; wrote:

Jim - result of this test...engine crashed but all VM's on the gluster domain (backed by the same physical nodes/hardware/gluster process/etc) stayed up fine I guess there is some functional difference between 'backupvolfile-server' and 'backup-volfile-servers'? Perhaps try latter and see what happens. My next test is going to be to configure hosted-engine.conf with backupvolfile-server=node2:node3 and see if engine VM still shuts down. Seems odd engine VM would shut itself down (or vdsm would shut it down) but not other VMs. Perhaps built in HA functionality of sorts On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Charles Kozler <ckozleriii(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

Hi Jim, I looked at the gluster volume info and that looks to be fine for me. Recommended config is arbiter for data and vmstore and for engine it should be replica 3 since we would want HE to be available always. If i understand right the problem you are facing is when you shut down one of the node all the HE vms and app vms goes to paused state right ? For debugging further and to ensure that volume has been mounted using backup-volfile-servers option, you can move the storage domain to maintenance which will umount the volume , activate back which will mount it again. During this time you can check the mount command passed in vdsm logs and that should have the backup-volfile-servers option. Can you please confirm if you have ovirt-guest-agent installed on the app vms and power management enabled ? ovirt-guest-agent is required on the app vms to ensure HA functionality Thanks kasturi On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 2:48 AM, Jim Kusznir <jim(a)palousetech.com&gt; wrote:

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------9AE8F9DB18CD3709026D88C7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I had the very same impression. It doesn't look like that it works then. So for a fully redundant where you can loose a complete host you must have at least 3 nodes then ? Fernando On 01/09/2017 12:53, Jim Kusznir wrote: --------------9AE8F9DB18CD3709026D88C7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <p>I had the very same impression. It doesn't look like that it works then. So for a fully redundant where you can loose a complete host you must have at least 3 nodes then ?<br> </p> <p>Fernando<br> </p> <br> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/09/2017 12:53, Jim Kusznir wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CA+5-SEonfEjQ-8-5z4F2L4tenSDJq0A9=6B3Af=URp4AKYUOzQ@mail.gmail.com"> <div dir="ltr">Huh...Ok., how do I convert the arbitrar to full replica, then?  I was misinformed when I created this setup.  I thought the arbitrator held enough metadata that it could validate or refudiate  any one replica (kinda like the parity drive for a RAID-4 array).  I was also under the impression that one replica  + Arbitrator is enough to keep the array online and functional. <div><br> </div> <div>--Jim</div> </div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 5:22 AM, Charles Kozler <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ckozleriii@gmail.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send=&quot;true&quot;&gt;ckozleriii(a)gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div dir="ltr">@ Jim - you have only two data volumes and lost quorum. Arbitrator only stores metadata, no actual files. So yes, you were running in degraded mode so some operations were hindered. <div><br> </div> <div>@ Sahina - Yes, this actually worked fine for me once I did that. However, the issue I am still facing, is when I go to create a new gluster storage domain (replica 3, hyperconverged) and I tell it "Host to use" and I select that host. If I fail that host, all VMs halt. I do not recall this in 3.6 or early 4.0. This to me makes it seem like this is "pinning" a node to a volume and vice versa like you could, for instance, for a singular hyperconverged to ex: export a local disk via NFS and then mount it via ovirt domain. But of course, this has its caveats. To that end, I am using gluster replica 3, when configuring it I say "host to use: " node 1, then in the connection details I give it node1:/data. I fail node1, all VMs halt. Did I miss something?</div> </div> <div class="HOEnZb"> <div class="h5"> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 2:13 AM, Sahina Bose <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:sabose@redhat.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send=&quot;true&quot;&gt;sabose(a)redhat.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div dir="ltr"> <div> <div>To the OP question, when you set up a gluster storage domain, you need to specify backup-volfile-servers=&lt;server<wbr>2&gt;:&lt;server3&gt; where server2 and server3 also have bricks running. When server1 is down, and the volume is mounted again - server2 or server3 are queried to get the gluster volfiles.<br> <br> </div> @Jim, if this does not work, are you using 4.1.5 build with libgfapi access? If not, please provide the vdsm and gluster mount logs to analyse<br> <br> </div> If VMs go to paused state - this could mean the storage is not available. You can check "gluster volume status &lt;volname&gt;" to see if atleast 2 bricks are running.<br> </div> <div class="m_688166259021271601HOEnZb"> <div class="m_688166259021271601h5"> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Johan Bernhardsson <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:johan@kafit.se" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send=&quot;true&quot;&gt;johan(a)kafit.se&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div> <div>If gluster drops in quorum so that it has less votes than it should it will stop file operations until quorum is back to normal.If i rember it right you need two bricks to write for quorum to be met and that the arbiter only is a vote to avoid split brain.</div> <div><br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div>Basically what you have is a raid5 solution without a spare. And when one disk dies it will run in degraded mode. And some raid systems will stop the raid until you have removed the disk or forced it to run anyway. </div> <div><br> </div> <div>You can read up on it here: <a href="https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/arbiter-volumes-and-quorum/" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://gluster.readthed<wbr>ocs.io/en/latest/Administrator<wbr>%20Guide/arbiter-volumes-and-q<wbr>uorum/</a></div> <span class="m_688166259021271601m_8337997229390174390HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"> <div><br> </div> <div>/Johan</div> </font></span> <div> <div class="m_688166259021271601m_8337997229390174390h5"> <div class="m_688166259021271601m_8337997229390174390m_-8986942953698210250-x-evo-paragraph m_688166259021271601m_8337997229390174390m_-8986942953698210250-x-evo-top-signature-spacer"><br> </div> <div>On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 22:33 -0700, Jim Kusznir wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite"> <div dir="ltr">Hi all:   <div><br> </div> <div>Sorry to hijack the thread, but I was about to start essentially the same thread.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>I have a 3 node cluster, all three are hosts and gluster nodes (replica 2 + arbitrar).  I DO have the mnt_options=backup-volfile-ser<wbr>vers= set:</div> <div><br> </div> <div> <div>storage=192.168.8.11:/engine</div> <div>mnt_options=backup-volfile-ser<wbr>vers=192.168.8.12:192.168.8.13</div> </div> <div><br> </div> <div>I had an issue today where 192.168.8.11 went down.  ALL VMs immediately paused, including the engine (all VMs were running on host2:192.168.8.12).  I couldn't get any gluster stuff working until host1 (192.168.8.11) was restored.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>What's wrong / what did I miss?</div> <div><br> </div> <div>(this was set up "manually" through the article on setting up self-hosted gluster cluster back when 4.0 was new..I've upgraded it to 4.1 since).</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Thanks!</div> <div>--Jim</div> <div><br> </div> </div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Charles Kozler <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ckozleriii@gmail.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send=&quot;true&quot;&gt;ckozleriii(a)gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite"> <div dir="ltr">Typo..."Set it up and then failed that **HOST**" <div><br> </div> <div>And upon that host going down, the storage domain went down. I only have hosted storage domain and this new one - is this why the DC went down and no SPM could be elected?</div> <div><br> </div> <div>I dont recall this working this way in early 4.0 or 3.6</div> </div> <div class="m_688166259021271601m_8337997229390174390m_-8986942953698210250HOEnZb"> <div class="m_688166259021271601m_8337997229390174390m_-8986942953698210250h5"> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Charles Kozler <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ckozleriii@gmail.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send=&quot;true&quot;&gt;ckozleriii(a)gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite"> <div dir="ltr">So I've tested this today and I failed a node. Specifically, I setup a glusterfs domain and selected "host to use: node1". Set it up and then failed that VM <div><br> </div> <div>However, this did not work and the datacenter went down. My engine stayed up, however, it seems configuring a domain to pin to a host to use will obviously cause it to fail</div> <div><br> </div> <div>This seems counter-intuitive to the point of glusterfs or any redundant storage. If a single host has to be tied to its function, this introduces a single point of failure</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Am I missing something obvious?</div> </div> <div class="m_688166259021271601m_8337997229390174390m_-8986942953698210250m_-6021655538959603885HOEnZb"> <div class="m_688166259021271601m_8337997229390174390m_-8986942953698210250m_-6021655538959603885h5"> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Kasturi Narra <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:knarra@redhat.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send=&quot;true&quot;&gt;knarra(a)redhat.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite"> <div dir="ltr">yes, right.  What you can do is edit the hosted-engine.conf file and there is a parameter as shown below [1] and replace h2 and h3 with your second and third storage servers. Then you will need to restart ovirt-ha-agent and ovirt-ha-broker services in all the nodes . <div><br> </div> <div>[1] 'mnt_options=backup-volfile-se<wbr>rvers=&lt;h2&gt;:&lt;h3&gt;' </div> </div> <div class="m_688166259021271601m_8337997229390174390m_-8986942953698210250m_-6021655538959603885m_5951134109970997349HOEnZb"> <div class="m_688166259021271601m_8337997229390174390m_-8986942953698210250m_-6021655538959603885m_5951134109970997349h5"> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 5:54 PM, Charles Kozler <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ckozleriii@gmail.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send=&quot;true&quot;&gt;ckozleriii(a)gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite"> <div dir="ltr">Hi Kasturi - <div><br> </div> <div>Thanks for feedback</div> <span> <div><br> </div> <div>&gt; <span style="font-size:12.8px">If cockpit+gdeploy plugin would be have been used then that would have automatically detected glusterfs replica 3 volume created during Hosted Engine deployment and this question would not have been asked</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:12.8px">  </span></div> </span> <div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Actually, doing hosted-engine --deploy it too also auto detects glusterfs.  I know glusterfs fuse client has the ability to failover between all nodes in cluster, but I am still curious given the fact that I see in ovirt config node1:/engine (being node1 I set it to in hosted-engine --deploy). So my concern was to ensure and find out exactly how engine works when one node goes away and the fuse client moves over to the other node in the gluster cluster</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br> </span></div> <div><span style="font-size:12.8px">But you did somewhat answer my question, the answer seems to be no (as default) and I will have to use hosted-engine.conf and change the parameter as you list</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br> </span></div> <div><span style="font-size:12.8px">So I need to do something manual to create HA for engine on gluster? Yes?</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br> </span></div> <div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Thanks so much!</span></div> </div> <div class="m_688166259021271601m_8337997229390174390m_-8986942953698210250m_-6021655538959603885m_5951134109970997349m_3449479715428376713HOEnZb"> <div class="m_688166259021271601m_8337997229390174390m_-8986942953698210250m_-6021655538959603885m_5951134109970997349m_3449479715428376713h5"> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 3:03 AM, Kasturi Narra <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:knarra@redhat.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send=&quot;true&quot;&gt;knarra(a)redhat.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite"> <div dir="ltr">Hi, <div><br> </div> <div>   During Hosted Engine setup question about glusterfs volume is being asked because you have setup the volumes yourself. If cockpit+gdeploy plugin would be have been used then that would have automatically detected glusterfs replica 3 volume created during Hosted Engine deployment and this question would not have been asked.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>   During new storage domain creation when glusterfs is selected there is a feature called 'use managed gluster volumes' and upon checking this all glusterfs volumes managed will be listed and you could choose the volume of your choice from the dropdown list.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>    There is a conf file called /etc/hosted-engine/hosted-engi<wbr>ne.conf where there is a parameter called backup-volfile-servers="h1:h2" and if one of the gluster node goes down engine uses this parameter to provide ha / failover. </div> <div><br> </div> <div> Hope this helps !!</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Thanks</div> <div>kasturi</div> <div><br> <div><br> </div> </div> </div> <div class="gmail_extra"><br> <div class="gmail_quote"> <div> <div class="m_688166259021271601m_8337997229390174390m_-8986942953698210250m_-6021655538959603885m_5951134109970997349m_3449479715428376713m_-614118149965673531h5">On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 8:09 PM, Charles Kozler <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ckozleriii@gmail.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send=&quot;true&quot;&gt;ckozleriii(a)gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt; wrote:<br> </div> </div> <blockquote type="cite"> <div> <div class="m_688166259021271601m_8337997229390174390m_-8986942953698210250m_-6021655538959603885m_5951134109970997349m_3449479715428376713m_-614118149965673531h5"> <div dir="ltr">Hello - <div><br> </div> <div>I have successfully created a hyperconverged hosted engine setup consisting of 3 nodes - 2 for VM's and the third purely for storage. I manually configured it all, did not use ovirt node or anything. Built the gluster volumes myself</div> <div><br> </div> <div>However, I noticed that when setting up the hosted engine and even when adding a new storage domain with glusterfs type, it still asks for hostname:/volumename</div> <div><br> </div> <div>This leads me to believe that if that one node goes down (ex: node1:/data), then ovirt engine wont be able to communicate with that volume because its trying to reach it on node 1 and thus, go down</div> <div><br> </div> <div>I know glusterfs fuse client can connect to all nodes to provide failover/ha but how does the engine handle this?</div> </div> <br> </div> </div> ______________________________<wbr>_________________<br> Users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send=&quot;true&quot;&gt;Users(a)ovirt.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; <a href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman<wbr... <br> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> <br> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> </div> </div> <br> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> </div> </div> <br> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> </div> </div> <br> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> </div> </div> <br> ______________________________<wbr>_________________<br> Users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send=&quot;true&quot;&gt;Users(a)ovirt.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; <a href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman<wbr... <br> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> <pre>______________________________<wbr>_________________ Users mailing list <a href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send=&quot;true&quot;&gt;Users(a)ovirt.org&lt;/a&gt; <a href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman<wbr... </pre> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> <br> ______________________________<wbr>_________________<br> Users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send=&quot;true&quot;&gt;Users(a)ovirt.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; <a href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman<wbr... <br> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> </div> </div> <br> ______________________________<wbr>_________________<br> Users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org" moz-do-not-send=&quot;true&quot;&gt;Users(a)ovirt.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; <a href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.ovirt.org/<wbr>mai... <br> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> <br> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <br> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________ Users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org">Users@ovirt.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users">http://... </pre> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html> --------------9AE8F9DB18CD3709026D88C7--

So also on my engine storage domain. Shouldnt we see the mount options in mount -l output? It appears fault tolerance worked (sort of - see more below) during my test [root@appovirtp01 ~]# grep -i mnt_options /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf mnt_options=backup-volfile-servers=n2:n3 [root@appovirtp02 ~]# grep -i mnt_options /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf mnt_options=backup-volfile-servers=n2:n3 [root@appovirtp03 ~]# grep -i mnt_options /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf mnt_options=backup-volfile-servers=n2:n3 Meanwhile not visible in mount -l output: [root@appovirtp01 ~]# mount -l | grep -i n1:/engine n1:/engine on /rhev/data-center/mnt/glusterSD/n1:_engine type fuse.glusterfs (rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,max_read=131072) [root@appovirtp02 ~]# mount -l | grep -i n1:/engine n1:/engine on /rhev/data-center/mnt/glusterSD/n1:_engine type fuse.glusterfs (rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,max_read=131072) [root@appovirtp03 ~]# mount -l | grep -i n1:/engine n1:/engine on /rhev/data-center/mnt/glusterSD/n1:_engine type fuse.glusterfs (rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,max_read=131072) So since everything is "pointed" at node 1 for engine storage, I decided to hard shut down node 1 while hosted engine VM runs on node 3 The result was that after ~30 seconds the engine crashed likely because of the gluster 42 second timeout. The hosted engine VM came back up (with node 1 still down) after about 5-7 minutes Is this expected for the VM to go down? I thought gluster fuse mounted all bricks in the volume http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2015-May/021989.html so I would imagine this to be more seamless? On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 7:04 PM, Charles Kozler <ckozleriii(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: