[ovirt-users] Master Storage goes Inactive - Failed to activate Storage Domain

[Nir Soffer]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris @ VeeroTech.net" <Chris at VeeroTech.net>
> To: "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer at redhat.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 4:22:46 AM
> Subject: RE: [ovirt-users] Master Storage goes Inactive - Failed to activate	Storage Domain
> 
> I have verified that the storage service (gluster) is functioning correctly
> by mounting it on another server and writing/reading.

Testing on another host only prove that your gluster service is accessible from the other
host. Please try to access gluster from the host that vdsm is running on.

> The setup is basic,
> two identical servers set up as hosts, four drives on each server.  First
> drive is currently for the OS, second and third drive are set up to use
> Gluster distributed replicate.  Fourth is not used.  

Having only two hosts with gluster replication may be unreliable. Please consult
gluster folks how to setup gluster in a reliable way.

> Please let me know what
> other information you require, and thank you for the help.

Please share with us these logs, for the timeframe of this issue:

/var/log/messages
/var/log/sanlock.log
/var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log

> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nir Soffer [mailto:nsoffer at redhat.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 6:54 PM
> To: Chris @ VeeroTech.net
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Master Storage goes Inactive - Failed to activate
> Storage Domain
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Chris @ VeeroTech.net" <Chris at VeeroTech.net>
> > To: users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 2:40:22 AM
> > Subject: [ovirt-users] Master Storage goes Inactive - Failed to activate
> > 	Storage Domain
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hello All,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I am having an issue on my test setup, the master storage goes inactive. It
> > is set up as to use Gluster and the volume is up and running without
> > issues.
> > Here is a snippet of /var/log/ovirt-engine/engine.log (these are just the
> > ERRORs):
> > 
> ...
> > 
> > Here is the vdsm.log on one of the hosts:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > [root at u5 ~]# tail -f /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log
> > 
> ...
> 
> > Thread-36::WARNING::2014-08-17
> > 19:39:18,075::storage_mailbox::281::Storage.MailBox.HsmMailMonitor::(_initMailbox)
> > HSM_MailboxMonitor - Could not initialize mailbox, will not accept requests
> > until init succeeds
> 
> Your host cannot write to the storage.
> 
> We need more information about your setup.
> 
> Can you check that the storage service is accessible?
> 
>