[ovirt-users] storage issue's with oVirt 3.5.1 + Nexenta NFS

InterNetX - Juergen Gotteswinter juergen.gotteswinter at internetx.com
Wed Apr 22 09:48:50 UTC 2015


i expect that you are aware of the fact that you only get the write
performance of a single disk in that configuration? i whould drop that
pool configuration, drop the spare drives and go for a mirror pool.

Am 22.04.2015 um 11:39 schrieb Maikel vd Mosselaar:
>   pool: z2pool
>  state: ONLINE
>  scan: scrub canceled on Sun Apr 12 16:33:38 2015
> config:
> 
>         NAME                       STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>         z2pool                     ONLINE       0     0     0
>           raidz1-0                 ONLINE       0     0     0
>             c0t5000C5004172A87Bd0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>             c0t5000C50041A59027d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>             c0t5000C50041A592AFd0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>             c0t5000C50041A660D7d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>             c0t5000C50041A69223d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>             c0t5000C50041A6ADF3d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>         logs
>           c0t5001517BB2845595d0    ONLINE       0     0     0
>         cache
>           c0t5001517BB2847892d0    ONLINE       0     0     0
>         spares
>           c0t5000C50041A6B737d0    AVAIL
>           c0t5000C50041AC3F07d0    AVAIL
>           c0t5000C50041AD48DBd0    AVAIL
>           c0t5000C50041ADD727d0    AVAIL
> 
> errors: No known data errors
> 
> 
> On 04/22/2015 11:17 AM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
>> On Wed, 2015-04-22 at 11:12 +0200, Maikel vd Mosselaar wrote:
>>> Our pool is configured as Z1 with ZIL (normal SSD), the sync parameter
>>> is on the default setting (standard) so "sync" is on.
>> # zpool status ?
>>
>> /K
>>
>>> When the issue happens oVirt event viewer shows indeed latency warnings.
>>> Not always but most of the time this will be followed by an i/o storage
>>> error linked to random VMs and they will be paused when that happens.
>>>
>>> All the nodes use mode 4 bonding. The interfaces on the nodes don't show
>>> any drops or errors, i checked 2 of the VMs that got paused the last
>>> time it happened they have dropped packets on their interfaces.
>>>
>>> We don't have a subscription with nexenta (anymore).
>>>
>>> On 04/21/2015 04:41 PM, InterNetX - Juergen Gotteswinter wrote:
>>>> Am 21.04.2015 um 16:19 schrieb Maikel vd Mosselaar:
>>>>> Hi Juergen,
>>>>>
>>>>> The load on the nodes rises far over >200 during the event. Load on
>>>>> the
>>>>> nexenta stays normal and nothing strange in the logging.
>>>> ZFS + NFS could be still the root of this. Your Pool Configuration is
>>>> RaidzX or Mirror, with or without ZIL? The sync Parameter of your ZFS
>>>> Subvolume which gets exported is kept default on "standard" ?
>>>>
>>>> http://christopher-technicalmusings.blogspot.de/2010/09/zfs-and-nfs-performance-with-zil.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Since Ovirt acts very sensible about Storage Latency (throws VM into
>>>> unresponsive or unknown state) it might be worth a try to do "zfs set
>>>> sync=disabled pool/volume" to see if this changes things. But be aware
>>>> that this makes the NFS Export vuln. against dataloss in case of
>>>> powerloss etc, comparable to async NFS in Linux.
>>>>
>>>> If disabling the sync setting helps, and you dont use a seperate ZIL
>>>> Flash Drive yet -> this whould be very likely help to get rid of this.
>>>>
>>>> Also, if you run a subscribed Version of Nexenta it might be helpful to
>>>> involve them.
>>>>
>>>> Do you see any messages about high latency in the Ovirt Events Panel?
>>>>
>>>>> For our storage interfaces on our nodes we use bonding in mode 4
>>>>> (802.3ad) 2x 1Gb. The nexenta has 4x 1Gb bond in mode 4 also.
>>>> This should be fine, as long as no Node uses Mode0 / Round Robin which
>>>> whould lead to out of order TCP Packets. The Interfaces themself dont
>>>> show any Drops or Errors - on the VM Hosts as well as on the Switch
>>>> itself?
>>>>
>>>> Jumbo Frames?
>>>>
>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Maikel
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 04/21/2015 02:51 PM, InterNetX - Juergen Gotteswinter wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> how about Load, Latency, strange dmesg messages on the Nexenta ?
>>>>>> You are
>>>>>> using bonded Gbit Networking? If yes, which mode?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Juergen
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Am 20.04.2015 um 14:25 schrieb Maikel vd Mosselaar:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We are running ovirt 3.5.1 with 3 nodes and seperate engine.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All on CentOS 6.6:
>>>>>>> 3 x nodes
>>>>>>> 1 x engine
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1 x storage nexenta with NFS
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For multiple weeks we are experiencing issues of our nodes that
>>>>>>> cannot
>>>>>>> access the storage at random moments (atleast thats what the nodes
>>>>>>> think).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When the nodes are complaining about a unavailable storage then
>>>>>>> the load
>>>>>>> rises up to +200 on all three nodes, this causes that all running
>>>>>>> VMs
>>>>>>> are unaccessible. During this process oVirt event viewer shows
>>>>>>> some i/o
>>>>>>> storage error messages, when this happens random VMs get paused
>>>>>>> and will
>>>>>>> not be resumed anymore (this almost happens every time but not
>>>>>>> all the
>>>>>>> VMs get paused).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> During the event we tested the accessibility from the nodes to the
>>>>>>> storage and it looks like it is working normal, at least we can do a
>>>>>>> normal
>>>>>>> "ls" on the storage without any delay of showing the contents.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We tried multiple things that we thought it causes this issue but
>>>>>>> nothing worked so far.
>>>>>>> * rebooting storage / nodes / engine.
>>>>>>> * disabling offsite rsync backups.
>>>>>>> * moved the biggest VMs with highest load to different platform
>>>>>>> outside
>>>>>>> of oVirt.
>>>>>>> * checked the wsize and rsize on the nfs mounts, storage and
>>>>>>> nodes are
>>>>>>> correct according to the "NFS troubleshooting page" on ovirt.org.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The environment is running in production so we are not free to test
>>>>>>> everything.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I can provide log files if needed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Maikel
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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