Re: KVM HostHA

2018-03-15 Thread Jon Marshall
Hi Parth Thanks for that. I am a beginner too when it comes to this. Am currently rebuilding so will update this thread when I have retested Jon From: Parth Patel Sent: 15 March 2018 14:37 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: KVM HostHA Hi Jon

Re: KVM HostHA

2018-03-15 Thread Parth Patel
the host and HA-enabled VM has stopped executing and it restarts the HA-enabled VM on another host. Hope this helps. Regards, Parth Patel. > > > > From: Parth Patel > Sent: 14 March 2018 14:36 > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subjec

Re: KVM HostHA

2018-03-15 Thread Jon Marshall
not managed to get any failover of VMs no matter what I try Jon From: Parth Patel Sent: 14 March 2018 14:36 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: KVM HostHA Hi Paul and Adrina, I don't know the functioning of Host-HA features but what Paul explaine

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2018-03-14 Thread ilya musayev
KVM HostHA was developed to bring it to a closer parity with how VMware vSphere handles its HA. Basically in old model - there were several corner cases where CloudStack did not know whether Hypervisor crashed or just lost connectivity to Management server. We’ve added a logic to make sure that

Re: KVM HostHA

2018-03-14 Thread Parth Patel
; it's down (avoid VM corruption, by doint STONITH to that node) and then > >>> start HA VMs on ohter hosts. > >>> > >>> I understand there might be exceptions as I have right now (4.8) - > >> libvirt > >>> get stuck (librbd exception or similar) so agent get'

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2018-03-14 Thread Boris Stoyanov
ine... (except DB get messed up, all NICs loose >>> isolation_uri, VR's loose MAC addresses and other IP addresses etc...) >>> >>> >>> Thanks >>> Andrija >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 14 March 2018 at 10:57,

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2018-03-14 Thread Andrija Panic
> > > > On 14 March 2018 at 10:57, Jon Marshall wrote: > > > >> That would make sense. > >> > >> > >> I have another server being used for something else at the moment so I > >> will add that in and update this thread when I have tes

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2018-03-14 Thread Boris Stoyanov
hanks > Andrija > > > > > On 14 March 2018 at 10:57, Jon Marshall wrote: > >> That would make sense. >> >> >> I have another server being used for something else at the moment so I >> will add that in and update this thread when I have tested

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2018-03-14 Thread Andrija Panic
ke sense. > > > I have another server being used for something else at the moment so I > will add that in and update this thread when I have tested > > > Jon > > > > From: Paul Angus > Sent: 14 March 2018 09:16 > To: users@clou

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2018-03-14 Thread Jon Marshall
That would make sense. I have another server being used for something else at the moment so I will add that in and update this thread when I have tested Jon From: Paul Angus Sent: 14 March 2018 09:16 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: KVM HostHA

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2018-03-14 Thread Paul Angus
08:36 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: KVM HostHA Hi Paul My testing does indeed end up with the failed host in maintenance mode but the VMs are never migrated. As I posted earlier the management server seems to be saying there is no other host that the VM can be migrated to. Coup

Re: KVM HostHA

2018-03-14 Thread victor
just can't get this to work at the moment. If I do eventually get it working I will do a write up for others with same issue :) From: Paul Angus Sent: 14 March 2018 07:45 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: KVM HostHA Hi Parth, Two answer your ques

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2018-03-14 Thread Jon Marshall
issue :) From: Paul Angus Sent: 14 March 2018 07:45 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: KVM HostHA Hi Parth, Two answer your questions, VM-HA does not restart VMs on an alternate host if the original host goes down. The management server (without host-HA) cannot tell what happen

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2018-03-14 Thread Paul Angus
. paul.an...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue -Original Message- From: Parth Patel Sent: 14 March 2018 05:05 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: KVM HostHA Hi Paul, Thanks for the clarification. I currently don&#

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2018-03-13 Thread Parth Patel
ue > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Parth Patel > Sent: 13 March 2018 16:57 > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Cc: Jon Marshall > Subject: Re: KVM HostHA > > Hi Jon and Victor, > > I think the management server pings your host using ipmi (I reall

RE: KVM HostHA

2018-03-13 Thread Paul Angus
derstanding of host HA was the management server monitored the > compute nodes using ipmitool and if it did not get a response because > the host was down it would fence off that host and move the VMs to an > active compute node. > > > > This is obviously too simplistic so could s

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2018-03-13 Thread Parth Patel
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2018-03-13 Thread victor
ng against ? From: Paul Angus Sent: 13 March 2018 07:01 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: KVM HostHA Hi all, One small note, unplugging the management NIC will only cause an HA event if the storage is running over that NIC also. Is the storage is over

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2018-03-13 Thread Jon Marshall
ubject: RE: KVM HostHA Hi all, One small note, unplugging the management NIC will only cause an HA event if the storage is running over that NIC also. Is the storage is over a separate NIC then, the guest VMs will continue to run when the mgmt. NIC is unplugged, Host HA will detect the disk ac

Re: KVM HostHA

2018-03-13 Thread Jon Marshall
Sent: 13 March 2018 07:01 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: KVM HostHA Hi all, One small note, unplugging the management NIC will only cause an HA event if the storage is running over that NIC also. Is the storage is over a separate NIC then, the guest VMs will continue to run

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2018-03-13 Thread Paul Angus
March 2018 17:35 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: KVM HostHA > > Hi Jon, > > As I said, in my case, making the host HA didn't work but by just > having a HA VM running on host and executing - (WARNING) "echo c > > /proc/sysrq-trigger" to

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2018-03-12 Thread Parth Patel
as down (which it does). > > > I am in testing mode so I think I will just go and pull the power and see > what happens :) > > > Thanks > > > Jon > > > > From: Paul Angus > Sent: 12 March 2018 15:31 > To: users@cloudst

RE: KVM HostHA

2018-03-12 Thread Paul Angus
To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: KVM HostHA Hi Paul Thanks for the response. I think I am not understanding how it was meant to work then. My understanding was that the manager used ipmitool to just keep querying the compute nodes as to their status so I assumed it didn't matter

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2018-03-12 Thread Jon Marshall
2 March 2018 15:15 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: KVM HostHA I have the same issue here and am not entirely sure what the behaviour should be. I have one manager node and 2 compute nodes running 4.11 with ipmi working correctly. >From the UI under HA - HA Enabled Yes HA Stat

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2018-03-12 Thread Paul Angus
Kind regards, Paul Angus paul.an...@shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue -Original Message- From: Jon Marshall Sent: 12 March 2018 15:15 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: KVM HostHA I have the same issue here and a

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2018-03-12 Thread Jon Marshall
y help much appreciated From: victor Sent: 07 March 2018 17:01 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: KVM HostHA Hello Guys, I have installed cloudstack 4.11. I have enabled HA for each hosts I have added. I have also added ipmi successfully (using ipmi driver). The hosts are sho

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2018-03-08 Thread Parth Patel
Hi Victor, I too had a similar failover requirement. I also got on the path of making an HA-enabled KVM host in CS 4.9 after doing the same steps you performed but in CS 4.9 where the agent got in "Alert" state but not in "Down" state. However, if your requirement is simply that in case a host exe

RE: KVM HostHA

2018-03-08 Thread Paul Angus
March 2018 08:36 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org; Andrija Panic Subject: Re: KVM HostHA Hello Andrija, Yes I am doing the same test as you mentioned ie unplug NIC in one of the host and observer the action of VM's in that host. But in my test the VM's didn't get started in another

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2018-03-08 Thread victor
or Sent: 07 March 2018 17:02 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: KVM HostHA Hello Guys, I have installed cloudstack 4.11. I have enabled HA for each hosts I have added. I have also added ipmi successfully (using ipmi driver). The hosts are showing like the following. === HA Enabled

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2018-03-08 Thread victor
Hello Andrija, Yes I am doing the same test as you mentioned ie unplug NIC in one of the host and observer the action of VM's in that host. But in my test the VM's didn't get started in another host. Regards Victor On 03/07/2018 11:52 PM, Andrija Panic wrote: Hi Victor, zero experience he

Re: KVM HostHA

2018-03-07 Thread Andrija Panic
Hi Victor, zero experience here with 4.11 in general, but what are you expecting to happen ? you powered off a host, so nothing for IPMI driver to do - host is down already, no host HA actions are expected afaik. I guess you might have have wanted to i.e. unplug NIC (cause network issues on MGMT

RE: KVM HostHA

2018-03-07 Thread Paul Angus
shapeblue.com  www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue -Original Message- From: victor Sent: 07 March 2018 17:02 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: KVM HostHA Hello Guys, I have installed cloudstack 4.11. I have enabled HA for each hosts I have

KVM HostHA

2018-03-07 Thread victor
Hello Guys, I have installed cloudstack 4.11. I have enabled HA for each hosts I have added. I have also added ipmi successfully (using ipmi driver).   The hosts are showing like the following. === HA Enabled Yes HA StateAvailable HA Provider kvmhaprovider == Also