Re: VCL Reservation Problem
Thanks Josh! Your suggestions worked! However, I have a new issue. Once the reservation is scheduled, the request stays in pending. I checked the vcld.log and it appears that the vm is not being registered on the hypervisor correctly. Its giving a virtual machine not found message. When I look on the hypervisor that the vm is trying to run on, it has a vm registered named Unknown(invalid), not the one that's expected (vg1-1 in this case). However, when I run the command to register the vm straight from the command line, it works. Any ideas on what the issue could be? An excerpt from the log is listed below. (Note: the ip addresses and username/passwords have been XXX out.) == . . . 2009-10-06 11:36:55|6919|124:187|new|utils.pm:run_scp_command(6896)|attempt 1/3: executing SCP command: /usr/bin/scp -B -i /etc/vcl/winxp_blade.key -P 22 -p -r /tmp/vg1-1.vmx XXX.XX.XX.XXX:/install/vmware_images/inuse/vg1-1/vmwareinxp-base7-v1.vmx 21 2009-10-06 11:36:55|6919|124:187|new|utils.pm:run_scp_command(6942)|scp successful: attempt 1/3, exit status: 0, output: none 2009-10-06 11:36:55|6919|124:187|new|esx.pm:load(336)|Register Command: /usr/lib/vmware-viperl/apps/vm/vmregister.pl --server 'VCLXXX.gsu.edu' --username vcl --password 'XXX' --vmxpath '[VCL]/inuse/vg1-1/vmwareinxp-base7-v1.vmx' --operation register --vmname vg1-1 --pool Resources --hostname 'VCLXXX.gsu.edu' --datacenter 'ha-datacenter' 2009-10-06 11:36:57|32759|vcld:main(166)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 3: 2009-10-06 11:36:57 2009-10-06 11:37:02|32759|vcld:main(166)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 3: 2009-10-06 11:37:02 2009-10-06 11:37:07|32759|vcld:main(166)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 3: 2009-10-06 11:37:07 2009-10-06 11:37:12|32759|vcld:main(166)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 3: 2009-10-06 11:37:12 2009-10-06 11:37:17|32759|vcld:main(166)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 3: 2009-10-06 11:37:17 2009-10-06 11:37:22|32759|vcld:main(166)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 3: 2009-10-06 11:37:22 2009-10-06 11:37:27|32759|vcld:main(166)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 3: 2009-10-06 11:37:27 2009-10-06 11:37:32|32759|vcld:main(166)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 3: 2009-10-06 11:37:32 2009-10-06 11:37:37|32759|vcld:main(166)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 3: 2009-10-06 11:37:37 2009-10-06 11:37:39|6919|124:187|new|esx.pm:load(339)|Registered: |6919|124:187|new| Register of VM 'vg1-1' successfully completed under host VCLXXX.gsu.edu 2009-10-06 11:37:39|6919|124:187|new|esx.pm:load(348)|Power on command: /usr/lib/vmware-viperl/apps/vm/vmcontrol.pl --server 'VCLXXX.gsu.edu' --vmname vg1-1 --operation poweron --username vcl --password 'XX' 2009-10-06 11:37:41|6919|124:187|new|esx.pm:load(351)|Powered on: Virtual Machine vg1-1 not found. 2009-10-06 11:37:43|32759|vcld:main(166)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 3: 2009-10-06 11:37:42 /usr/lib/sendmail: option requires an argument -- f 2009-10-06 11:37:43|6919|124:187|new|utils.pm:mail(1301)|SUCCESS -- Sending mail To: , PROBLEM -- esx.pm |6919|124:187|new| CRITICAL |6919|124:187|new| 2009-10-06 11:37:43|6919|124:187|new|esx.pm:load(359)|Could not query for VM in VI PERL API |6919|124:187|new| ( 0) utils.pm, notify (line: 691) |6919|124:187|new| (-1) esx.pm, load (line: 359) |6919|124:187|new| (-2) new.pm, reload_image (line: 664) |6919|124:187|new| (-3) new.pm, process (line: 266) |6919|124:187|new| (-4) vcld, make_new_child (line: 600) |6919|124:187|new| (-5) vcld, main (line: 347) |6919|124:187|new| WARNING |6919|124:187|new| 2009-10-06 11:37:43|6919|124:187|new|new.pm:reload_image(669)|vmwareinxp-base7-v1 failed to load on vg1-1, returning |6919|124:187|new| ( 0) utils.pm, notify (line: 691) |6919|124:187|new| (-1) new.pm, reload_image (line: 669) |6919|124:187|new| (-2) new.pm, process (line: 266) |6919|124:187|new| (-3) vcld, make_new_child (line: 600) |6919|124:187|new| (-4) vcld, main (line: 347) 2009-10-06 11:37:43|6919|124:187|new|utils.pm:insertloadlog(5324)|inserted computer=14, loadimagefailed, vmwareinxp-base7-v1 failed to load on vg1-1 . . == Kelly Josh Thompson josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu 09/28/2009 4:06 PM -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (Added vcl-dev since there is a similar thread on that list.) Kelly, It sounds like you have 2 problems. The first has to do with something keeping the scheduling algorithm from selecting a computer to run the image on (this is the isAvailable function in utils.php). The second is that when you are manually inserting entries into the request and reservation tables, you are inserting an imaging reservation. An imaging reservation tells vcld to capture the image currently on the computer. Effectively, you're telling vcld to capture an
RE: VCL Reservation Problem
Kelly, Have you checked to see if the image is in the correct group/mapping yet? You need to go to image grouping and put the image in the correct group. Then you go to Image Mapping and make sure that that image group is mapped to your actual servers. Otherwise you will get a selection not currently available error. This is all done from the Manage Images section from an admin account. Aaron or Josh at NCSU may better know the issue if that isn't the problem you're having. Nathan Dawson, MCP, MCDST, ACHDS Director of Networking and Information Systems The Kimmel School Western Carolina University 828.227.2748 From: Kelly Robinson [mailto:isg...@langate.gsu.edu] Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 8:50 AM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: VCL Reservation Problem How do you get VCL to allow an image to be requested? I've added the image to the database and would now like to request it through the web interface, however when you click New Reservation and select the image from the drop down menu, it gives a message that states Selection Not Currently Available. I've tried to manually insert a request into the database using the following sql statements, however the vcld.log gives error messages stating that the image already exists in the repository. What am I missing? = INSERT INTO `vcl`.`request` ( `id` , `stateid` , `userid` , `laststateid` , `logid` , `forimaging` , `test` , `preload` , `start` , `end` , `daterequested` , `datemodified` ) VALUES ( '1' , '16', '1', '16', '', '1', '0', '0', NOW( ) , TIMESTAMPADD(MINUTE, 120, NOW()), NOW( ) , NULL ); === === INSERT INTO `vcl`.`reservation` ( `id` , `requestid` , `computerid` , `imageid` , `imagerevisionid` , `managementnodeid` , `remoteIP` , `lastcheck` , `pw` ) VALUES ( NULL , '1', '2', '7', '7', '1', NULL , NULL , NULL ); === Thanks, Kelly Kelly P. Robinson Software Systems Engineer, Lead Advanced Campus Services Information Systems and Technology P.O. Box 3994 Atlanta, Ga 30302-3994 (404) 413-4757 krobinso...@gsu.edumailto:krobinso...@gsu.edu
RE: VCL Reservation Problem
..or maybe a better question would be: After an image is created, how do you get make it available for requesting? I followed these directions to create a base Windows XP image and created the entry in the vcl database. http://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/creating-a-windows-xp-base-image-on-vmware.html As stated previously, the vcld.log gives the critical error that the image already exists in the repository and then it goes on to say image creation failed and begins to exit the reservation process. Is there something else that I'm supposed to do? Kelly Robinson isg...@langate.gsu.edu 09/28/2009 9:15 AM I am testing a base Windows XP image (no apps) and have its image requirements set for the following: minram: 512 minprocnumber: 1 minprocspeed: 1024 minnetwork: 100 I've also tried to make sure the image is grouped correctly and mapped to the correct server, however it still gives the error. Does the message in the vcld.log of image already exists in the repository after I submit the sql statements to manually place a request an image have anything to do with the error? Thanks, Kelly Nathan Dawson ndaw...@email.wcu.edu 09/28/2009 8:57 AM Kelly, One other thing that it may be is if you set the image requirements too high (min CPU, min ram etc), if your servers or VMs aren't set high enough to meet those criteria it can also give you that message. Nathan Dawson, MCP, MCDST, ACHDS Director of Networking and Information Systems The Kimmel School Western Carolina University 828.227.2748 From:Kelly Robinson [mailto:isg...@langate.gsu.edu] Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 8:50 AM To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: VCL Reservation Problem How do you get VCL to allow an image to be requested? I've added the image to the database and would now like to request it through the web interface, however when you click New Reservation and select the image from the drop down menu, it gives a message that states Selection Not Currently Available. I've tried to manually insert a request into the database using the following sql statements, however the vcld.log gives error messages stating that the image already exists in the repository. What am I missing? = INSERT INTO `vcl`.`request` ( `id` , `stateid` , `userid` , `laststateid` , `logid` , `forimaging` , `test` , `preload` , `start` , `end` , `daterequested` , `datemodified` ) VALUES ( '1' , '16', '1', '16', '', '1', '0', '0', NOW( ) , TIMESTAMPADD(MINUTE, 120, NOW()), NOW( ) , NULL ); === === INSERT INTO `vcl`.`reservation` ( `id` , `requestid` , `computerid` , `imageid` , `imagerevisionid` , `managementnodeid` , `remoteIP` , `lastcheck` , `pw` ) VALUES ( NULL , '1', '2', '7', '7', '1', NULL , NULL , NULL ); === Thanks, Kelly Kelly P. Robinson Software Systems Engineer, Lead Advanced Campus Services Information Systems and Technology P.O. Box 3994 Atlanta, Ga 30302-3994 (404) 413-4757 krobinso...@gsu.edu
