[ovirt-users] Trouble Adding Gluster Host in oVirt Manager

[Fred Rolland]

Robert hi,

Can you please provide the logs , engine and VDSM ?

Thanks,

Fred

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Langley, Robert <Robert.Langley at ventura.org
> wrote:

> Hello oVirt Community,
>
> This may be my first time writing in. Although, I’ve been reviewing and
> playing with oVirt for the past 3 years. My name is Robert Langley and I
> work for a local Government in Southern California. My agency (with me as
> the primary/lead IT person) has been using VMWare vSphere to host our
> server environment for 6 years. I have a few different reasons I want to
> jump the VMWare ship and I’ve been pleased with the progression oVirt has
> been making. I do not care to jump from VMWare to Microsoft’s Hyper-V, so
> this had lead me to look into Xen for a while, then dropped anchor with
> oVirt. I’m determined to see this implementation through.
>
> I have moved over from the test (workstation class) environment, where I
> was really just getting familiar with the commands and UI, and now I am
> working on implementation with server class hardware.
> I have the engine up and running. I’ll get into more specifics below.
> I’m running into an issue where I have not been able to add my Gluster
> hosts or add the Storage Domain (I had tried adding the storage domain
> first).
> For my new oVirt and GlusterFS hosts I have the following:
>
>    - I want to first mention that I do have a DNS server for the
>    separated/private networks and those are configured and working properly
>    (forward & reverse).
>
> Dell PE R830 and I would like this to be a failover server housed in a
> separate building where we have an Emergency Operations Center and
> Datacenter (server room).
>
>    - Has bonded gigabit (2 port) network that is connected to our main
>    network & internet, configured to be used for ovirtmgnt. Name = gsaov08.ent…
>
>
>    - As far as all the various names, oVirt Hosted Engine Deployment
>    complained that the Main network name was seen on more than one interface,
>    or something to that effect.
>    - I did originally have DNS for the separated/private networks
>    configured for forwarding DNS from our main network DNS servers. Which has
>    been removed and the Hosted Engine Deployment stopped complaining at that
>    point. I was going to use the forwarding DNS for another private network I
>    use for some management traffic, but that is not as important or an
>    absolute need either.
>
>
>    - Has 2nd bonded gigabit (4 port) network (separate/private) for
>    engine storage. Name = gsaov08e.engine.local
>    - Has 3rd bonded 10G (2 port) network (separate/private) for VM Guest
>    storage. Name = gsaov08s.stor.local
>    - Will have a 4th network (separate/private) configured for security
>    related devices that are managed by a couple of our VM guests.
>
> As far as storage in this same server.
>
>    - I have split up the local storage to be hosted by GlusterFS and this
>    host is a peer with the other two dedicated GlusterFS storage servers. That
>    is for the failover piece.
>
>
>    - Engine volume (currently being used for the Hosted Engine) and setup
>    as a replica 3 with the two dedicated GlusterFS storage servers.
>    - VM Guest “Data” volume. The volume is created, configured and
>    started. Setup as a replica 3 with the two dedicated GlusterFS storage
>    servers.
>
> So far, this is the only host I have hosting the engine. Now, onto the
> other host I am about to run Hosted-Engine -Deploy on.
> Dell PE R730 – It has the same network setup as the R830. Storage is a bit
> different. I would like to run another VM Guest GlusterFS volume from here,
> along with 2 other hosts I have. They are currently serving as the vSphere
> ESX hosts and have the same total size of storage to create another replica
> 3.
>
> The Dedicated GlusterFS Hosts are custom AMD Opteron G2 builds with ASUS
> server motherboards. Strictly designed to be dedicated storage servers.
>
>    - I’m using the onboard NICs to connect to my management network only
>    for the purpose of getting updates. So, internet is served to these hosts
>    via a NAT router. Since I figured they don’t otherwise need access to our
>    main network. The primary names = gsa-stor1 & gsa-stor2
>    - They both have a bonded (4 port) gigabit network for the Engine
>    storage network. Names = gsa-stor1e.engine.local & gsa-stor2e.engine.local
>    - They both have a bonded (2 port) 10G network for the VM Guest
>    storage network. Names = gsa-stor2s.stor.local & gsa-stor2s.stor.local
>
> As far as storage in these servers.
>
>    - It is the same as the R830, as these servers are the peers to the
>    R830.
>
>
> First, I added an ISO Storage Domain (NFS). That was successful. Next, I
> was trying to add the GlusterFS VM Guest Data Storage Domain. I receive an
> Operation Canceled: Error while executing action AddGlusterFsStorageDomain:
> Error creating a storage domain.
> When I try to add the Gluster hosts as hosts in the oVirt Manager, I get a
> message stating that SSH has failed, verify that the host is reachable (IP
> address, routable address etc.) You may refer to the engine.log file for
> further details.
> I can otherwise communicate with the hosts and the engine.log does not
> appear to have specifics to this particular failure. But, there are other
> clues that I don’t understand. So, I can follow up with the engine log. It
> contains “WARN” entries. They seem to be because I do not have the hosts,
> for the engine volume, added to the cluster.
> Oh, one thing I should mention, I did select the option to enable the
> Gluster service in the default cluster. So, both virt and Gluster are
> enabled. After I did so, I wasn’t so sure that was a good thing or not. It
> seems that documentation is outdated on whether that is now supported. I
> noticed from screenshots that the selection used to be radio buttons and
> now they are check boxes. I did read the release notes for 4.0.1, which
> seem to talk as though support for both in a cluster has been added.
>
> Thank you for any help that can be extended.
> Robert
>
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