[ovirt-users] ovirt 3.6 hostedengine.metadata, missing OVF_STORE

Mon Feb 8 10:28:22 UTC 2016

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Paul Groeneweg | Pazion <paul at pazion.nl>
wrote:

> Thanks for your response.
>
> I have reverted the commented entries and restarted ovirt-ha-agent.
> Now status on the daemon gives the error again:
> http://screencast.com/t/DCZo6QJM1
>
>
Here I'm a bit confused: is this a fresh hosted-engine deployment with 3.6
or an upgrade from an existing 3.5 hosted-engine deployment?

> The hosted engine domain is not shown in the web storage overview...
> When I start import it shows a warning:
> http://screencast.com/t/7HfJ9qWFwb2L
>
> Can I manually import the hostedengine storage?
> ( Hosted engine is visible in web interface and I have running VMs on
> another storage domain ).
>

It should auto-import it.
Adding Roy here.

>
>
> Op ma 8 feb. 2016 om 10:36 schreef Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com
> >:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Paul Groeneweg | Pazion <paul at pazion.nl>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Update:
>>>
>>
>> The OVF_STORE volume will contain the engine VM description in a format
>> that the engine can easily handle.
>> It will be created by the engine when:
>> - it imported the hosted-engine storage domain
>> - the engineVM is visible
>> - the datacenter is up (you need at least one additional regular storage
>> domain)
>>
>> Please make sure that all these conditions are met.
>>
>> If the OVF_STORE is not there or it's not accessible, ovirt-ha-agent will
>> fallback to the initial vm.conf from deployment time. You see a warning
>> since we are failing back to an initial status and this can temporary
>> override your latest customization to the engine VM configuration.
>>
>>
>>> 1. I was able to remove the warnirngs about the not found ovf / vm.conf
>>> by commenting the conf_volume_UUID, conf_image_UUID entries in the
>>> hosted-engine.conf. After a restart of the ovirt-ha-agent the errors were
>>> gone. ( I believe this is not a permanent solution ).
>>>
>>
>> Please revert it.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 2. This morning I noticed the warning in the event log.
>>> "The Hosted Engine Storage Domain doesn't exist. It should be imported
>>> into the setup."
>>>
>>
>> It's just a side effect of your point 1, please revert it.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> Paul Groeneweg
>>>
>>> Op zo 7 feb. 2016 om 22:14 schreef Paul Groeneweg | Pazion <
>>> paul at pazion.nl>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have been upgrading our ovirt hosts to el7 to be able to run version
>>>> 3.6.
>>>> When deploying a new host have problems with the shared OVF storage
>>>> config part.
>>>>
>>>> 1. I get an error during deploy:
>>>>
>>>> [ INFO  ] Stage: Setup validation
>>>> [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Setup validation': failed to read
>>>> metadata: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
>>>> '/rhev/data-center/mnt/[NFS3_SHARE]/88b69eba-ef4f-4dbe-ba53-20dadd424d0e/ha_agent/hosted-engine.metadata'
>>>> [ INFO  ] Stage: Clean up
>>>>
>>>> It seems the symlink of hosted-engine.metadata is missing.
>>>> So I added manually the /var/run/vdsm/storage folder with subfolder
>>>> 88b69eba-ef4f-4dbe-ba53-20dadd424d0e and symlinks.
>>>> Then I reran the hosted-engine deploy and this time all went well.
>>>>
>>>> 2. Now when the host is installed I notice the following in the logs
>>>>
>>>> ....
>>>> Feb  5 22:33:08 geisha-2 ovirt-ha-agent:
>>>> INFO:ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.hosted_engine.HostedEngine:Preparing
>>>> images
>>>> Feb  5 22:33:08 geisha-2 ovirt-ha-agent:
>>>> INFO:ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.lib.image.Image:Preparing images
>>>> Feb  5 22:33:08 geisha-2 ovirt-ha-agent:
>>>> INFO:ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.hosted_engine.HostedEngine:Reloading
>>>> vm.conf from the shared storage domain
>>>> Feb  5 22:33:08 geisha-2 ovirt-ha-agent:
>>>> INFO:ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.hosted_engine.HostedEngine.config:Trying
>>>> to get a fresher copy of vm configuration from the OVF_STORE
>>>> Feb  5 22:33:08 geisha-2 ovirt-ha-agent:
>>>> WARNING:ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.lib.ovf.ovf_store.OVFStore:Unable to find
>>>> OVF_STORE
>>>> Feb  5 22:33:08 geisha-2 journal: ovirt-ha-agent
>>>> ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.hosted_engine.HostedEngine.config ERROR Unable
>>>> to get vm.conf from OVF_STORE, falling back to initial vm.conf
>>>> Feb  5 22:33:08 geisha-2 ovirt-ha-agent:
>>>> ERROR:ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.hosted_engine.HostedEngine.config:Unable
>>>> to get vm.conf from OVF_STORE, falling back to initial vm.conf
>>>> Feb  5 22:33:08 geisha-2 journal: ovirt-ha-agent
>>>> ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.agent.Agent ERROR Error: 'Path to volume
>>>> 6a5b55c3-3f03-47cc-b322-d6d7562371be not found in /rhev/data-center/mnt' -
>>>> trying to restart agent
>>>> Feb  5 22:33:08 geisha-2 ovirt-ha-agent:
>>>> ERROR:ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.agent.Agent:Error: 'Path to volume
>>>> 6a5b55c3-3f03-47cc-b322-d6d7562371be not found in /rhev/data-center/mnt' -
>>>> trying to restart agent
>>>>
>>>> So at this point I was a bit stuck.
>>>> I removed complete ovirt36 release and installed ovirt35 for the hosted
>>>> engine deploy.
>>>>
>>>> This time all went without any problem directly.
>>>> From there I retried upgrade and same problems again.
>>>>
>>>> I run ovirt hosted-engine on nfs3. I did found
>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1159314
>>>> I added no_subtree_check and tried deploy again, but again without luck.
>>>>
>>>> I believe the hosted engine configs are not being migrated to the
>>>> shared storage. And my problem has todo with
>>>> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Hosted_Engine_configuration_on_shared_storage
>>>>
>>>> And found  /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf,
>>>> conf_volume_UUID, conf_image_UUID
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hosts run el7
>>>> Hosted engine runs el6
>>>> Hosted engine storage is through NFS3
>>>>
>>>> Can I import the hosted engine storage in to engine ( in web interface
>>>> )?
>>>> Or how can I create or trigger manually the OVF store the logs complain
>>>> about?
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Paul Groeneweg
>>>>
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>>>>
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>
> Paul Groeneweg
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