[ovirt-users] oVirt 3.5: Issue with FC Storage on EL7 host

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 09:08:36PM +0800, The Austrian wrote:
> Just a heads up I ran into an issue with adding a Fibre Channel storage
> domain on a CentOS 7 host.
> 
> vdsm-4.16.7-1.gitdb83943.el7.x86_64 from oVirt 3.5 Release repo
> 
> This version of vdsm still has the code in /usr/share/vdsm/storage/hba.py
> that performs issue_lip to rescan fibre channel HBAs.  In my setup, the HBA
> paths are still recovering when 'dmsetup status' is run resulting in paths
> being offline and the LUNs being made unavailable to oVirt (UI shows
> exclamation mark).
> 
> Issue discussed here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1159839
> 
> Quick workaround that worked for me:
> 
> (1) Comment line 107 in /usr/share/vdsm/storage/multipath.py i.e.:
> 
> #supervdsm.getProxy().hbaRescan()
> 
> (2) Restart supervdsmd
> 
> systemctl restart supervdsmd.service

Thanks for providing wider audience for this issue. An ad-hoc fix for
ovirt-3.5.1 has been merged in http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/34215/