[Users] Use Filer for NFS storage

[Juan Hernandez]

On 04/13/2012 09:03 PM, Christian Hernandez wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification!
> 
> 
> Although it seems like I am not able to add my nfs server...
> 
> *2012-04-13 11:59:33,945 INFO
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.ValidateStorageServerConnectionVDSCommand]
> (http--0.0.0.0-8443-8) [187bb8f1] START,
> ValidateStorageServerConnectionVDSCommand(vdsId =
> 677ea110-8587-11e1-b7d5-0016367ecdf0, storagePoolId =
> 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000, storageType = NFS, connectionList =
> [{ id: null, connection: nfs.ovirt.test.local:/vol/ovirt/bluejay };]), log
> id: 67369793
> 2012-04-13 11:59:33,960 ERROR
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.BrokerCommandBase]
> (http--0.0.0.0-8443-8) [187bb8f1] Failed in
> ValidateStorageServerConnectionVDS method
> 2012-04-13 11:59:33,961 ERROR
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.BrokerCommandBase]
> (http--0.0.0.0-8443-8) [187bb8f1] Error code unexpected and error message
> VDSGenericException: VDSErrorException: Failed to
> ValidateStorageServerConnectionVDS, error = Unexpected exception
> 2012-04-13 11:59:33,962 INFO
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.BrokerCommandBase]
> (http--0.0.0.0-8443-8) [187bb8f1] Command
> org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.ValidateStorageServerConnectionVDSCommand
> return value
> 
> Class Name:
> org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.ServerConnectionStatusReturnForXmlRpc
> mStatusList                   Null
> mStatus                       Class Name:
> org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.StatusForXmlRpc
> mCode                         16
> mMessage                      Unexpected exception
> *
> However...I AM able to mount that NFS directroy no problem when I go on the
> host itself...
> *
> [root at bluejay ~]# mount nfs.ovirt.test.local:/vol/ovirt/bluejay /mnt/
> [root at bluejay ~]# cd /mnt/
> [root at bluejay mnt]# ll -d .
> drwxrwxrwx 3 vdsm kvm 4096 Apr 13 11:59 .
> [root at bluejay mnt]# df -h .
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> nfs.ovirt.test.local:/vol/ovirt/bluejay
>                        51G   12M   50G   1% /mnt*

Strange, the permissions and ownership look ok. I cases like this the
logs in the host give more information than those in the manager. Take a
look at the /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log file in the host.

> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Juan Hernandez <jhernand at redhat.com>wrote:
> 
>> On 04/13/2012 08:09 PM, Christian Hernandez wrote:
>>> Is there any way to use an existing Filer for the NFS storage? Or do I
>> HAVE
>>> to use a host?
>>>
>>> We currently have a NetApp filer serving as our NFS server; I'd rather
>> use
>>> that than create a new host and make it the NFS server (as it won't get
>>> backed up...would rather have it get backed up as the Filer already has
>>> that in place)
>>
>> I think there is no problem in using your NetApp filer, in fact that
>> works very well. Just make sure that the exports that you use for ovirt
>> are owned and writable by the user id 36 (vdsm) and group id 36 (kvm).
>>
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