[Users] ovirt-node trying to use NFS4

2012-04-13 Thread Ian Levesque
Hi, I'm in the early stages of testing an ovirt install, using the official ovirt engine packages + F16. I configured a storage domain to connect to our gluster storage via NFS (pity we can't use gluster natively yet). On the engine server, I added Nfsvers=3 to /etc/nfsmount.conf as

[Users] high availability via fencing

2012-04-20 Thread Ian Levesque
Hello, I'm testing ovirt for potential deployment and one of the metrics for its success relies on the high availability feature. In my research on this feature, I found scattered documentation indicating that fencing is a prerequisite. On my test hardware, I don't have any LOM/IPMI but I see

Re: [Users] high availability via fencing

2012-04-24 Thread Ian Levesque
2012-04-20 11:32:44,696 INFO [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.FenceVdsVDSCommand] (http--0.0.0.0-8443-5) FINISH, FenceVdsVDSCommand, return: Test Failed, Host Status is: unknown. The fence-agent script reported the following error: Failed: You have to enter plug number Please use

Re: [Users] high availability via fencing

2012-04-25 Thread Ian Levesque
So, what I see is that port was sent twice , once as empty and then the port=22 is sent as part of the options string. Can you please remove the port from the options field and put it in the port field. If this works , this is an engine core bug... I believe that it is such a bug,

[Users] Default storage pool won't activate after reboot

2012-05-09 Thread Ian Levesque
Hello, Since a recent reboot, my default data storage pool has been inactive and attempts to activate it fail. Installed RPMs: vdsm-4.9.6-0.150.git63061a9.el6.x86_64 ovirt-engine-3.1.0_0001-1.8.el6.x86_64 Relevant-looking output in the vdsm.log file (more @

Re: [Users] Default storage pool won't activate after reboot

2012-05-09 Thread Ian Levesque
On May 9, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Jacob Wyatt wrote: StoragePoolUnknown: Unknown pool id, pool not connected: ('af5bcc86-898a-11e1-9632-003048c85226',) I'm new to oVirt myself but I thought that the top level directory name was the UUID of the storage pool. In that case the UUID it lists

Re: [Users] Default storage pool won't activate after reboot

2012-05-09 Thread Ian Levesque
On May 9, 2012, at 2:59 PM, Haim Ateya wrote: Hi Ian, would it be possible for you to attach both ovirt-engine (manager) vdsm logs (host) so can investigate further? Sure -- you can download a zip of both logs here: http://cl.ly/1h3u322S3f1Y1W0p1T3E/logs.zip Thanks, Ian

Re: [Users] Default storage pool won't activate after reboot

2012-05-09 Thread Ian Levesque
On May 9, 2012, at 3:34 PM, Haim Ateya wrote: what kind of storage are you using ? NFS or local-domain ? NFS (gluster in the backend). This worked fine until the recent reboot. - please access your NFS storage - change dir to export directory - /vmstore/ovirt - cat the following

Re: [Users] Default storage pool won't activate after reboot

2012-05-11 Thread Ian Levesque
On May 9, 2012, at 8:54 PM, Shu Ming wrote: the params sent by the manager connecting host to pool fits to what written in metadata, hence, normally, vdsm shouldn't fail. however, could please run the following: - mount command (on host) - if 'cmcd-db-vip.in.hwlab:/vmstore/ovirt' exists,

Re: [Users] Default storage pool won't activate after reboot

2012-05-15 Thread Ian Levesque
On May 11, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Ian Levesque wrote: On May 9, 2012, at 4:02 PM, Haim Ateya wrote: - please access your NFS storage - change dir to export directory - /vmstore/ovirt - cat the following e12a0f53-ee72-44bc-ad26-93f9b4613c6c/dom_md/metadata CLASS=Data DESCRIPTION=glusternfs

[Users] Can't add an NFS storage domain

2012-06-12 Thread Ian Levesque
Hi, I just did a clean install of ovirt version 3.1 on CentOS 6.2 (dreyou build @ http://www.dreyou.org/ovirt/). When I attempt to add storage (Data/NFS), the web GUI hangs and the storage is not added. The engine log reports: Class Name:

Re: [Users] Can't add an NFS storage domain

2012-06-13 Thread Ian Levesque
On Jun 13, 2012, at 1:41 AM, Yair Zaslavsky wrote: On 06/13/2012 07:41 AM, Haim Ateya wrote: TypeError: %d format: a number is required, not str Hi Ian, You seem to run into a bug in our advanced NFS options capability. in order to workaround this issue, please use 'Auto Negotiate'

Re: [Users] Import pre-configured storage domain

2012-07-18 Thread Ian Levesque
On Jul 18, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Rami Vaknin wrote: What's the procedure for importing a previously-conifgured NFS storage domain? I reinstalled the ovirt-engine recently and wondered what the process is for keeping my preexisting VMs. Do you mean to NFS-based ISO/Export storage domain or NFS

[Users] Virtual disk locked and I can't start/alter the VM

2012-08-07 Thread Ian Levesque
Hi, I tried to export a VM image, and it apparently succeeded: 2012-Aug-06, 17:00:25 Vm varanus was exported successfully to glusternfs-export But now the VM Virtual Disk is labeled as locked and I can't start or even remove and re-import the VM. Any clues how this can be resolved? Running

Re: [Users] New engine install on remote DB fails uuid-ossp extension is not loaded

2012-08-14 Thread Ian Levesque
On Aug 14, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Yair Zaslavsky wrote: On 08/14/2012 07:12 PM, Ian Levesque wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install oVirt 3.1, using an external postgres db running on RHEL6 (postgresql-server-8.4.12-1.el6_2.x86_64). I'm getting the following error during engine-setup

Re: [Users] New engine install on remote DB fails uuid-ossp extension is not loaded

2012-08-15 Thread Ian Levesque
On Aug 15, 2012, at 3:50 AM, Alex Lourie wrote: Hi Ian You're right in that superuser privileges are required to make this work. But it would rarely happen that remote DB admin would give you a user with super privileges. The solution we've come up with is this: 1. Use (or tell remote