[Users] Attach nfs domain to gluster dc

Tue Dec 17 07:32:51 UTC 2013

On 12/17/2013 01:39 AM, Sergey Gotliv wrote:
> Juan,
>
> Ping me when you doing that, Friday is not a working day but usually I am checking my mails anyway.
>
> I tested option #2 (see my previous mail) this morning - I just updated connection details from REST and from database directly
> both options worked for me. Usually I wouldn't recommend to do that from database but in this particular case this is
> the quickest possible solution.
>
> Copying images between different export domain may be a little bit tricky, I'll try to create a summary for you.
>
> When attaching storage domain to the new data center it makes sense to allow editing connection details at least for NFS,
> because new data center contains new hosts that have different NFS client...

Juan - you shouldn't have to learn to use the REST API directly. all of 
it should be available via ovirt-shell - a command line tool (as well as 
python and java sdk's for programming).

>
> Regards,
>
> Sergey
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Juan Pablo Lorier" <jplorier at gmail.com>
>> To: "Sergey Gotliv" <sgotliv at redhat.com>
>> Cc: "Sander Grendelman" <sander at grendelman.com>, "users" <users at ovirt.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 1:10:01 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Users] Attach nfs domain to gluster dc
>>
>> Hi Sergey,
>>
>> No need to apologize. I'm used to hear that iso domains need to import
>> the images, that just copying them won't work. I thought export domains
>> were the same, but if you say I can just copy, I'll try that next Friday
>> when I come back to the office.
>> I think this is the easier approach as using the REST would mean that I
>> have to learn to use it and it's not the right time of the year :-).
>> I think that been capable of modifying the options won't heart anybody
>> and looks like harmless, at least when domain is in maintenance, you may
>> say if I'm wrong.
>> Thank you very much for your help and for your disposition.
>> I'll let you know what happens next Friday.
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> El 16/12/13 20:59, Sergey Gotliv escribió:
>>> Juan,
>>>
>>> I apologize for discovering this thread with delay. Let me try to explain.
>>>
>>> Attach option indeed missing a possibility to configure NFS options such as
>>> nfsver, retrans and timeo
>>> which by the way available when creating a new storage domain (see the
>>> Advanced Parameters section).
>>> I have to check this flow again and see which storage connection we use in
>>> order to connect this storage to the new data center. If this is a bug
>>> we'll fix it.
>>>
>>> Now about the default NFS version, we are using version 3 because usually
>>> customers have a problem to configure NFS server version 4 properly so we
>>> allow using version 4 as an advanced option.
>>>
>>> Now about your problem:
>>>
>>> Option 1:
>>> Can you just create another Export Storage Domain from scratch using
>>> advanced parameters I mentioned above in order to configure the NFS
>>> version and then just copy the content between these domains manually.
>>>
>>> Option 2:
>>> You can try to create new storage connection with the REST API as explained
>>> here: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Manage_Storage_Connections and then
>>> try to re-attach this storage domain again.
>>> Or we can just update storage_server_connections table manually in your
>>> database.
>>>
>>> I never tried option 2 by myself but it should work.
>>>
>>> Please, feel free to contact me on my direct mail tomorrow
>>> sgotliv at redhat.com and I'll walk you through one of these options and we
>>> can check you NFS configuration.
>>>
>>> Sergey
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Juan Pablo Lorier" <jplorier at gmail.com>
>>>> To: "Sander Grendelman" <sander at grendelman.com>
>>>> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
>>>> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 1:21:08 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Users] Attach nfs domain to gluster dc
>>>>
>>>> Hi Sander,
>>>>
>>>> I'll do the changes to the firewall as you mention. I'm running the
>>>> domain in a host as my engine is in a vm with low disk resources. I
>>>> don't know if there's a way to set up the domain automatically with
>>>> ovirt when it's deployed in a host.
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> On 13/12/13 06:00, Sander Grendelman wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Juan Pablo Lorier <jplorier at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> # nfs
>>>>>> -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 111   -j ACCEPT
>>>>>> -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 38467 -j ACCEPT
>>>>>> -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 2049  -j ACCEPT
>>>>>> -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 2049  -j ACCEPT
>>>>>> -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 41729  -j ACCEPT
>>>>>> -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 48491  -j ACCEPT
>>>>>> -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 43828  -j ACCEPT
>>>>>> -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 48491  -j ACCEPT
>>>>>> -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 47492  -j ACCEPT
>>>>>> -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 58837  -j ACCEPT
>>>>> The above rules might break after a reboot.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best practice is to set the normally dynamic nfs ports to fixed
>>>>> values in /etc/sysconfig/nfs and then open those ports in the firewall.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Now I'm changing the settings by overriding the defaults in the domain
>>>>>> and auto negotiating the protocol. This firewall correction may be a
>>>>>> good thing to add in the deploy.
>>>>> Are you doing this on a node or on your engine server?
>>>>>
>>>>> The engine-setup configured both /etc/sysconfig/nfs and iptables for me
>>>>> on my engine server (for the iso domain).
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