Ciao Burkhard,

Burkhard Linke via ceph-users <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
>
>
> we used the rbd live migration in the past to split up a cluster. The
> processed pools were used for image and volumes in our openstack
> cloud.

Similar here, just using opennebula.

> Live migration mostly works, but if the RBD image is in use, you have
> to add some extra effort. Cinder for examples stores the mon
> information in its database, and this has to be updated.

Similar, plus with opennebula it's embedded in the libvirt XML and not
so easy to modify.

> I used a
> script to migrate a RBD image, pause the instance, adjust the database
> entries, and live migrate the instance itself to another host to
> update the qemu/libvirt information. If the image is not actively used
> migration is trivial; if the image is attached to a stopped virtual
> machine migration is also trivial, but database entries have to be
> updated.

Got it.

> The rather old nautilus clusters might be problem, so if you want to
> try rbd live migration you need to test this first.

Will take that into consideration. The rbd mirror might actually also
work for us, because a short downtime can likely be tolerated.

> Not sure whether the script still exists, but I can try to dig it out
> if necessary.

If you still have it, would certainly be interested to take a glimpse at
it, at least for inspiration.

Sunny greetings from Switzerland,

Nico

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