[ceph-users] Watch a RADOS object for changes, specifically iscsi gateway.conf object

2019-08-22 Thread Wesley Dillingham
I am interested in keeping a revision history of ceph-iscsi's gateway.conf object for any and all changes. It seems to me this may come in handy to revert the environment to a previous state. My question is are there any existing tools which do similar or could someone please suggest, if they ex

[ceph-users] Is rbd caching safe to use in the current ceph-iscsi 3.0 implementation

2019-06-24 Thread Wesley Dillingham
Is it safe to have RBD cache enabled on all the gateways in the latest ceph 14.2+ and ceph-iscsi 3.0 setup? Assuming client are using multipath as outlined here: http://docs.ceph.com/docs/nautilus/rbd/iscsi-initiators/ Thanks. Respectfully, Wes Dillingham wdilling...@godaddy.com Site Reliabili

Re: [ceph-users] limitations to using iscsi rbd-target-api directly in lieu of gwcli

2019-06-11 Thread Wesley Dillingham
block/iscsi/target shows: Unsupported `ceph-iscsi` config version. Expected 8 but found 9. Thanks again. From: Jason Dillaman Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 9:37 AM To: Wesley Dillingham Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] limitations t

[ceph-users] limitations to using iscsi rbd-target-api directly in lieu of gwcli

2019-06-11 Thread Wesley Dillingham
Hello, I am hoping to expose a REST API to a remote client group who would like to do things like: * Create, List, and Delete RBDs and map them to gateway (make a LUN) * Create snapshots, list, delete, and rollback * Determine Owner / Active gateway of a given lun I would run 2-4 n

Re: [ceph-users] Meaning of Ceph MDS / Rank in "Stopped" state.

2019-05-29 Thread Wesley Dillingham
grades and on all of those clusters we do not have any listed in "stopped." so I am guessing those ranks go back to active. Thanks for the clarity. From: ceph-users on behalf of Wesley Dillingham Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 5:15 PM To: ceph-users@lists

[ceph-users] Meaning of Ceph MDS / Rank in "Stopped" state.

2019-05-28 Thread Wesley Dillingham
I am working to develop some monitoring for our File clusters and as part of the check I inspect `ceph mds stat` for damaged,failed,stopped MDS/Ranks. Initially I set my check to Alarm if any of these states was discovered but as I distributed it out I noticed that one of our clusters had the fo

[ceph-users] iSCSI LUN and target Maximums in ceph-iscsi-3.0+

2019-04-18 Thread Wesley Dillingham
I am trying to determine some sizing limitations for a potential iSCSI deployment and wondering whats still the current lay of the land: Are the following still accurate as of the ceph-iscsi-3.0 implementation assuming CentOS 7.6+ and the latest python-rtslib etc from shaman: * Limit of 4

[ceph-users] Explicitly picking active iSCSI gateway at RBD/LUN export time.

2019-04-17 Thread Wesley Dillingham
The man page for gwcli indicates: "Disks exported through the gateways use ALUA attributes to provide ActiveOptimised and ActiveNonOptimised access to the rbd images. Each disk is assigned a primary owner at creation/import time" I am trying to determine whether I can explicitly set which gat

Re: [ceph-users] rbd-target-api service fails to start with address family not supported

2019-03-18 Thread Wesley Dillingham
This worked perfectly, thanks. From: Jason Dillaman Sent: Monday, March 18, 2019 9:19 AM To: Wesley Dillingham Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] rbd-target-api service fails to start with address family not supported Looks like you have the

[ceph-users] rbd-target-api service fails to start with address family not supported

2019-03-18 Thread Wesley Dillingham
I am having some difficulties getting the iscsi gateway and api setup. Working with a 12.2.8 cluster. And the gateways are Centos 7.6.1810 kernel 3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64 Using a previous version of ceph iscsi packages: ceph-iscsi-config-2.6-2.6.el7.noarch ceph-iscsi-tools-2.1-2.1.el7.noarch ce