[ovirt-users] Frustration defines the deployment of Hosted Engine

[Adam Litke]

Please provide links to the files /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log
and /var/log/sanlock.log on the host you are attempting to use.  Does the
problem happen in the same step when using NFS vs. ISCSI?  How are you
configuring the NFS export that you give to hosted-engine to use?

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Vinícius Ferrão <ferrao at if.ufrj.br> wrote:

> Hello oVirt folks.
>
> I’m a traitor of the Xen movement and was looking for some good
> alternatives for XenServer hypervisors. I was aware of KVM for a long time
> but I was missing a more professional and appliance feeling of the product,
> and oVirt appears to deliver exactly what I’m looking for.
>
> Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that Xen is not good, I’m looking for
> equal or better alternatives, but I’m starting to get frustrated with oVirt.
>
> Firstly I’ve tried to install the oVirt Node on a VM in VMware Fusion on
> my notebook, it was a no go. For whatever reasons I don’t know
> vdsmd.service and libvirtd failed to start. I make sure that I was running
> with EPT support enabled to achieve nested virtualization, but as I said:
> it was a no go.
>
> So I’ve decommissioned a XenServer machine that was in production just to
> try oVirt. The hardware is not new, but’s it’s very capable: Dual Xeon
> E5506 with 48GB of system RAM, but I can’t get the hosted engine to work,
> it always insults my hardware: --- Hosted Engine deployment failed: this
> system is not reliable, please check the issue,fix and redeploy.
>
> It’s definitely a problem on the storage subsystem, the error is just
> random, at this moment I’ve got:
>
> [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Misc configuration': [-32605] No
> response for JSON-RPC StorageDomain.detach request.
>
> But on other tries it came up with something like this:
>
> No response for JSON-RPC Volume.getSize request.
>
> I was thinking that the problem was on the NFSv3 server on our FreeNAS
> box, so I’ve changed to an iSCSI backend, but the problem continues. This
> happens at the very end of the ovirt-hosted-engine-setup command, which
> leads me to believe that’s an oVirt issue. The OVA was already copied and
> deployed to the storage:
>
> [ INFO  ] Starting vdsmd
> [ INFO  ] Creating Volume Group
> [ INFO  ] Creating Storage Domain
> [ INFO  ] Creating Storage Pool
> [ INFO  ] Connecting Storage Pool
> [ INFO  ] Verifying sanlock lockspace initialization
> [ INFO  ] Creating Image for 'hosted-engine.lockspace' ...
> [ INFO  ] Image for 'hosted-engine.lockspace' created successfully
> [ INFO  ] Creating Image for 'hosted-engine.metadata' ...
> [ INFO  ] Image for 'hosted-engine.metadata' created successfully
> [ INFO  ] Creating VM Image
> [ INFO  ] Extracting disk image from OVF archive (could take a few minutes
> depending on archive size)
> [ INFO  ] Validating pre-allocated volume size
> [ INFO  ] Uploading volume to data domain (could take a few minutes
> depending on archive size)
> [ INFO  ] Image successfully imported from OVF
> [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Misc configuration': [-32605] No
> response for JSON-RPC StorageDomain.detach request.
> [ INFO  ] Yum Performing yum transaction rollback
> [ INFO  ] Stage: Clean up
> [ INFO  ] Generating answer file '/var/lib/ovirt-hosted-engine-
> setup/answers/answers-20170623032541.conf'
> [ INFO  ] Stage: Pre-termination
> [ INFO  ] Stage: Termination
> [ ERROR ] Hosted Engine deployment failed: this system is not reliable,
> please check the issue,fix and redeploy
>           Log file is located at /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-
> setup/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-20170623023424-o9rbt0.log
>
> At this point I really don’t know what I should try. And the log file is
> too verborragic (hoping this word exists) to look for errors.
>
> Any guidance?
>
> Thanks,
> V.
>
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