[ovirt-users] Safe to upgrade HE hosts from GUI?

Sun Jul 31 03:03:52 EDT 2016

On 30 July 2016 at 02:48, Kenneth Bingham <w at qrk.us> wrote:

> Aw crap. I did exactly the same thing and this could explain a lot of the
> issues I've been pulling out my beard over. Every time I did 'hosted-engine
> --deploy' on the RHEV-M|NODE host I entered the FQDN of *that* host, not
> the first host, as the origin of the Gluster FS volume because at the time
> I didn't realize that
> a. the manager would key deduplication on the URI of the volume
> b. that the volume would be mounted on FUSE, not NFS, and therefore no
> single point of entry is created by using the FQDN of the first host
> because the GFS client will persist connections with all peers
>
>
If you ever want to add an hosted engine host to your setup please do that
from UI and not from CLI. That will prevent all this confusion.


> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 6:08 AM Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Wee Sritippho <wee.s at forest.go.th>
>> wrote:
>> > On 29/7/2559 15:50, Simone Tiraboschi wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 6:31 AM, Wee Sritippho <wee.s at forest.go.th>
>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On 28/7/2559 15:54, Simone Tiraboschi wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Wee Sritippho <wee.s at forest.go.th>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On 21/7/2559 16:53, Simone Tiraboschi wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Wee Sritippho <wee.s at forest.go.th>
>> >>>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Can I just follow
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> http://www.ovirt.org/documentation/how-to/hosted-engine/#upgrade-hosted-engine
>> >>>>> until step 3 and do everything else via GUI?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Yes, absolutely.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Hi, I upgrade a host (host02) via GUI and now its score is 0.
>> Restarted
>> >>>> the services but the result is still the same. Kinda lost now. What
>> >>>> should I
>> >>>> do next?
>> >>>>
>> >>> Can you please attach ovirt-ha-agent logs?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Yes, here are the logs:
>> >>> https://app.box.com/s/b4urjty8dsuj98n3ywygpk3oh5o7pbsh
>> >>
>> >> Thanks Wee,
>> >> your issue is here:
>> >> MainThread::ERROR::2016-07-17
>> >>
>> >>
>> 14:32:45,586::storage_server::143::ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.lib.storage_server.StorageServer::(_validate_pre_connected_path)
>> >> The hosted-engine storage domain is already mounted on
>> >>
>> >> '/rhev/data-center/mnt/glusterSD/host02.ovirt.forest.go.th:
>> _hosted__engine/639e689c-8493-479b-a6eb-cc92b6fc4cf4'
>> >> with a path that is not supported anymore: the right path should be
>> >>
>> >> '/rhev/data-center/mnt/glusterSD/host01.ovirt.forest.go.th:
>> _hosted__engine/639e689c-8493-479b-a6eb-cc92b6fc4cf4'.
>> >>
>> >> Did you manually tried to avoid the issue of a single entry point for
>> >> the gluster FS volume using host01.ovirt.forest.go.th:_hosted__engine
>> >> and host02.ovirt.forest.go.th:_hosted__engine there?
>> >> This could cause a lot of confusion since the code could not detect
>> >> that the storage domain is the same and you can end with it mounted
>> >> twice into different locations and a lot of issues.
>> >> The correct solution of that issue was this one:
>> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298693#c20
>> >>
>> >> Now, to have it fixed on your env you have to hack a bit.
>> >> First step, you have to edit
>> >> /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf on all your hosted-engine
>> >> hosts to ensure that the storage field always point to the same entry
>> >> point (host01 for instance)
>> >> Then on each host you can add something like:
>> >>
>> >> mnt_options=backupvolfile-server=host02.ovirt.forest.go.th:h
>> ost03.ovirt.forest.go.th
>> ,fetch-attempts=2,log-level=WARNING,log-file=/var/log/engine_domain.log
>> >>
>> >> Then check the representation of your storage connection in the table
>> >> storage_server_connections of the engine DB and make sure that
>> >> connection refers to the entry point you used in hosted-engine.conf on
>> >> all your hosts, you have lastly to set the value of mount_options also
>> >> here.
>> >
>> > Weird. The configuration in all hosts are already referring to host01.
>>
>> but for sure you have a connection pointing to host02 somewhere, did
>> you try to manually deploy from CLI connecting the gluster volume on
>> host02?
>>
>> > Also, in the storage_server_connections table:
>> >
>> > engine=> SELECT * FROM storage_server_connections;
>> >                   id                  | connection                |
>> > user_name | password | iqn | port | portal | storage_type |
>> mount_options |
>> > vfs_type
>> >  | nfs_version | nfs_timeo | nfs_retrans
>> >
>> --------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+-----------+----------+-----+------+--------+--------------+---------------+----------
>> > -+-------------+-----------+-------------
>> >  bd78d299-c8ff-4251-8aab-432ce6443ae8 |
>> > host01.ovirt.forest.go.th:/hosted_engine |           | |     |      | 1
>> > |            7 |               | glusterfs
>> >  |             |           |
>> > (1 row)
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Please tune also the value of network.ping-timeout for your glusterFS
>> >> volume to avoid this:
>> >>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1319657#c17
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Wee
>> >
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