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--- services:rhev [2020/02/05 16:27]
djgalloway
+++ services:rhev [2024/08/23 00:41] (current)
dmick [Gluster]
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 ===== Summary =====
 We have have a RHEV instance running on [[hardware:infrastructure#hv_0103|hv{01..04}]] as the main hypervisor nodes.  They're listed as **Hosts** in the RHEV Manager.
+Currently the RHEV Hosts installed version is 4.3.5-1
 The [[http://mgr01.front.sepia.ceph.com|RHEV Manager]] is a [[https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.1/html/self-hosted_engine_guide/|Self-Hosted VM]] inside the cluster.  The username for logging in is ''admin'' and the password is our standard root password.
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 ===== Storage =====
-Two new storage chassis are being used as the storage nodes.  [[hardware:infrastructure#ssdstore_01_02_frontsepiacephcom|ssdstore{01,02}.front.sepia.ceph.com]] are populated with 8x 1.5TB NVMe drives in software RAID6 configuration.
-A third host, [[hardware:senta|senta01]], is configured as the arbiter node for the Gluster volume.  2x 240GB SSD drives are in a software RAID1 and mounted at ''/gluster''.
+**Note: this was the original configuration.  Storage is now provided by an [[services:longrunningcluster#lrc_iscsi_volume_for_the_rhev_cluster|iscsi service]] on the long-running cluster **
+<del>Two new storage chassis are being used as the storage nodes.  [[hardware:infrastructure#ssdstore_01_02_frontsepiacephcom|ssdstore{01,02}.front.sepia.ceph.com]] are populated with 8x 1.5TB NVMe drives in software RAID6 configuration.
+A third host, [[hardware:senta|senta01]], is configured as the arbiter node for the Gluster volume.  2x 240GB SSD drives are in a software RAID1 and mounted at ''/gluster''.
+</del>
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 ==== Gluster ====
-All VMs (except the Hosted Engine which is on the ''hosted-engine'' volume) are backed by a sharded Gluster volume, ''ssdstorage''.  A sharded volume was chosen to decrease the time needed for the volume to heal after a storage failure.  This should reduce VM downtime in the event of a storage node failure.
+<del>All VMs (except the Hosted Engine which is on the ''hosted-engine'' volume) are backed by a sharded Gluster volume, ''ssdstorage''.  A sharded volume was chosen to decrease the time needed for the volume to heal after a storage failure.  This should reduce VM downtime in the event of a storage node failure.
 If there is a storage node failure, RHEV will use the remaining Gluster node and Gluster will automatically heal as part of the recovery process.  It's possible a VM will be paused if its VM disk image changed while one of the storage nodes was down.  Run ''gluster volume heal ssdstorage info'' to see heal status.
-A single software RAID6 was decided upon as the most redundant and reliable storage configuration.  See the graph below comparing the old storage as well as tests of various RAID5 and RAID6 configurations.
+A single software RAID6 was decided upon as the most redundant and reliable storage configuration.  See the graph below comparing the old storage as well as tests of various RAID5 and RAID6 configurations.</del>
 {{ :services:screenshot_at_2017-07-05_16-12-30.png |}}
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 The Hypervisors (hv{01..04}) and Storage nodes (ssdstore{01..02}) have entries in ''/etc/hosts'' in case of DNS failure.
+Note: it is important that the version of glusterfs packages on the hypervisors does not exceed the version on the storage nodes (i.e. client is older or equal to server).
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 ===== Creating New VMs =====
+==== How-To ====
+  - Log in
+  - Go to the **Virtual Machines** tab
+  - Click **New VM**
+  - General Settings
+    - **Cluster:** ''hv_cluster''
+    - **Operating System:** ''Linux''
+    - **Optimized for:** ''Server''
+    - **Name:** Whatever you want
+    - Descriptions are also nice
+  - System
+    - **Memory Size:** Up to you (it can take ''4GB'' as input and will convert)
+    - **Total Virtual CPUs:** Also up to you
+  - High Availability
+    - **Highly Available:** Checked (if desired)
+    - Set the **Priority**
+  - Boot Options
+    - Probably PXE then Hard Disk.  This will boot to our Cobbler menu.
+    - You could also do CD-ROM then Hard Disk.  Just check **Attach CD** and select the ISO (these are on ''store01.front.sepia.ceph.com:/srv/isos/67ff9a5d-b5da-4a2f-b5ce-2286bc82e3e4/images/11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111'' if you want to add one)
+  - **OK**
+  - Now highlight your new VM
+  - At the bottom, **Disks** tab
+    - **New**
+    - Set the **Size**
+    - **Storage Domain:** ''ssdstorage''
+    - **Allocation Policy:** ''Preallocated'' if IO performance is important
+      - ''Preallocated'' will take longer to create the disk but IO performance in the VM will be faster
+      - ''Thin Provision'' is almost immediate during VM creation but may slow down VM IO performance
+    - **OK**
+  - At the bottom, **Network Interfaces** tab
+    - **New**
+    - **Profile** should be ''front'' or ''wan'' (or both [one of them being on a second NIC] if desired).
+    - **OK**
+  - Now power the VM up (green arrow) and open the console (little computer monitor icon)
+  - You can either
+    - Select an entry from the Cobbler PXE menu (if the new VM is **NOT** in the ansible inventory
+      - Make sure you press ''[Tab]'' and delete almost all of the kickstart parameters (the ''ks='' most importantly)
+    - Add the host to the ansible inventory, and thus, Cobbler, DNS, and DHCP, then set a kickstart in the Cobbler Web UI (see below)
+=== Using a Kickstart with Cobbler ===
+The Sepia Cobbler instance has some kickstart profiles that will automate RHV VM installation.  I think in order to use these, you'd have to get the MAC from the **Network Interfaces** tab in RHV, then put your new VM in the ''ceph-sepia-secrets'' [[https://github.com/ceph/ceph-sepia-secrets/blob/master/ansible/inventory/sepia|ansible inventory]].
+Then run:
+  - ''%%ansible-playbook cobbler.yml --tags systems%%''
+  - ''%%ansible-playbook dhcp-server.yml%%''
+  - ''%%ansible-playbook nameserver.yml --tags records%%''
+(See https://wiki.sepia.ceph.com/doku.php?id=tasks:adding_new_machines for more info)
+In cobbler, you can browse to the system and set the ''Profile'' and ''Kickstart'':
+  * ''dgalloway-ubuntu-vm'' - Installs a basic Ubuntu installation using the entire disk and ''ext4'' filesystem.  I couldn't get ''xfs'' working.
+  * ''dgalloway-rhel-vm'' - I don't remember if this one works but you can try.
+=== A note about installing RHEL/CentOS ===
+You need to specify the URL for the installation repo as a kernel parameter.  So in the Cobbler PXE menu, when you hit ''[Tab]'', add ''%%ksdevice=link inst.repo=http://172.21.0.11/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS-X.X-x86_64%%'' replacing X.X with the appropriate version.
+Otherwise you'll end up with an error like ''dracut initqueue timeout'' and the installer dies.
 ==== ovirt-guest-agent ====
 After installing a new VM, be sure to install VM guest agent.  This, at the very least, allows a VM's FQDN and IP address(es) to show up in the RHEV Web UI.
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     - (Make sure you make these changes persistent for subsequent reboots.  See https://askubuntu.com/a/921830/906620, for example)
   - Edit network config
+  - It's also probably beneficial to remove cloud-init: e.g., ''apt-get purge cloud-init''
+    - Even though cloud-init is purged, its grub.d settings still get read.
+    - It might work to just delete ''/etc/default/grub.d/50-cloudimg-settings.cfg'' but otherwise,
+      - Modify it and get rid of any ''console='' parameters
+      - Run ''update-grub''
 ===== Troubleshooting =====
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 ==== Emergency RHEV Web UI Access w/o VPN ====
 In the event the OpenVPN gateway VM is inaccessible/locked up/whatever, you can open an SSH tunnel (''ssh -D 9999 $YOURUSER@8.43.84.133'') and set your browser's proxy settings to SOCKS5 localhost:9999 to get at the RHEV web UI.  That public IP is on store01 and is a leftover artifact from when store01 ran OpenVPN.
+==== GFIDs listed in ''gluster volume heal ssdstorage info'' forever ====
+This is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1361518.
+As long as the unsynced entries are GFIDs only and they only appear under the arbiter (senta01) server, you can paste **just** the GFIDs into a ''/tmp/gfids'' file and run the following script:
+<code>
+#!/bin/bash
+set -ex
+VOLNAME=ssdstorage
+for id in $(gluster volume heal $VOLNAME info | egrep '[0-9a-f]{8}-([0-9a-f]{4}-){3}[0-9a-f]{8}' -o); do
+  file=$(find /gluster/arbiter/.glusterfs -name $id -not -path '/gluster/arbiter/.glusterfs/indices/*'  -type f)
+  if [ $(getfattr -d -m . -e hex $(echo $file) | grep trusted.afr.$VOLNAME* | grep "0x000000" | wc -l) == 2 ]; then
+    echo "deleting xattr for gfid $id"
+    for i in $(getfattr -d -m . -e hex $(echo $file) |grep trusted.afr.$VOLNAME*|cut -f1 -d'='); do
+      setfattr -x $i $(echo $file)
+    done
+  else
+    echo "not deleting xattr for gfid $id"
+  fi
+done
+</code>
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 I used to have a summary of steps here but it's safer to just follow the [[https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/|Red Hat docs]].
+==== VM has paused due to no storage space error ====
+We started seeing this issue on VMs like teuthology and it looks like it's a known bug I updated /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf.d/99-local.conf and restarted systemctl restart vdsmd as described here:
+https://access.redhat.com/solutions/130843
 ==== Growing a VM's virtual disk ====
   - Log into the [[https://mgr01.front.sepia.ceph.com|Web UI]]
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 ==== Onlining Hot-Plugged CPU/RAM ====
 https://askubuntu.com/a/764621
+<code>
+#!/bin/bash
+# Based on script by William Lam - http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/
+# Bring CPUs online
+for CPU_DIR in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[0-9]*
+do
+    CPU=${CPU_DIR##*/}
+    echo "Found cpu: '${CPU_DIR}' ..."
+    CPU_STATE_FILE="${CPU_DIR}/online"
+    if [ -f "${CPU_STATE_FILE}" ]; then
+        if grep -qx 1 "${CPU_STATE_FILE}"; then
+            echo -e "\t${CPU} already online"
+        else
+            echo -e "\t${CPU} is new cpu, onlining cpu ..."
+            echo 1 > "${CPU_STATE_FILE}"
+        fi
+    else
+        echo -e "\t${CPU} already configured prior to hot-add"
+    fi
+done
+# Bring all new Memory online
+for RAM in $(grep line /sys/devices/system/memory/*/state)
+do
+    echo "Found ram: ${RAM} ..."
+    if [[ "${RAM}" == *":offline" ]]; then
+        echo "Bringing online"
+        echo $RAM | sed "s/:offline$//"|sed "s/^/echo online > /"|source /dev/stdin
+    else
+        echo "Already online"
+    fi
+done
+</code>

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