I've been testing centos 6.4 extensively with rbd and had a lot of stability issues where the host server would freeze or reboot during high load benchmarks, especially with small block sizes. I have switched to ubuntu 12.04 with 3.5 kernel and didn't see this behaviour. Just my two cents.
P.S. i've not had any issues with adding rbd cluster to cloudstack following the Widoh's howto on the net. Andrei ----- Original Message ----- From: "不坏阿峰" <onlydeb...@gmail.com> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Sent: Monday, 19 August, 2013 1:40:46 PM Subject: Fail to add RBD ceph as Primary storage on Cloudstack 4.1+Centos6.4 KVM host Environment: ################## Cloudstack 4.1.1, Ceph 0.6.1.7, Qemu 0.12.1.2-2.355 with RBD enable I have added ceph RBD as primary successfully with ubuntu 12.04 kvm. but fail on centos 6.4 kvm host in cloudstack. i did some test on centos kvm host, i think can use rbd to access ceph (have the ceph.conf on KVM host) ####################### [root@centos-kvm01 ~]# qemu-img -v | grep rbd Supported formats: raw cow qcow vdi vmdk cloop dmg bochs vpc vvfat qcow2 qed parallels nbd blkdebug host_cdrom host_floppy host_device file rbd [root@centos-kvm01 ~]# rbd -m 192.168.250.15 -p volumes ls 08b376f0-5af4-4b46-b41e-d83dc0f93a70 1e9f8d76-94d9-4d56-a8a6-fdff32ba9d1b b0f7fae3-716b-4210-a89d-af63c6e30859 [root@centos-kvm01 ~]# rados lspools data metadata rbd volumes cloudstack [root@centos-kvm01 ~]# rbd create test --size 4096 [root@centos-kvm01 ~]# rbd ls test cloudstack log: #################### 2013-08-19 17:28:25,683 DEBUG [agent.transport.Request] (AgentManager-Handler-9:null) Seq 26-368640010: Processing: { Ans: , MgmtId: 345050143793, via: 26, Ver: v1, Flags: 10, [{"Answer":{"result":false,"details":"java.lang.NullPointerException\n\tat com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.storage.LibvirtStorageAdaptor.createStoragePool(LibvirtStorageAdaptor.java:540)\n\tat com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.storage.KVMStoragePoolManager.createStoragePool(KVMStoragePoolManager.java:111)\n\tat com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.storage.KVMStoragePoolManager.createStoragePool(KVMStoragePoolManager.java:104)\n\tat com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource.execute(LibvirtComputingResource.java:2304)\n\tat com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource.executeRequest(LibvirtComputingResource.java:1094)\n\tat com.cloud.agent.Agent.processRequest(Agent.java:525)\n\tat com.cloud.agent.Agent$AgentRequestHandler.doTask(Agent.java:852)\n\tat com.cloud.utils.nio.Task.run(Task.java:83)\n\tat java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1146)\n\tat java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)\n\tat java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)\n","wait":0}}] } 2013-08-19 17:28:25,683 DEBUG [agent.transport.Request] (catalina-exec-1:null) Seq 26-368640010: Received: { Ans: , MgmtId: 345050143793, via: 26, Ver: v1, Flags: 10, { Answer } } 2013-08-19 17:28:25,683 DEBUG [agent.manager.AgentManagerImpl] (catalina-exec-1:null) Details from executing class com.cloud.agent.api.ModifyStoragePoolCommand: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.storage.LibvirtStorageAdaptor.createStoragePool(LibvirtStorageAdaptor.java:540) at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.storage.KVMStoragePoolManager.createStoragePool(KVMStoragePoolManager.java:111) at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.storage.KVMStoragePoolManager.createStoragePool(KVMStoragePoolManager.java:104) at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource.execute(LibvirtComputingResource.java:2304) at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource.executeRequest(LibvirtComputingResource.java:1094) at com.cloud.agent.Agent.processRequest(Agent.java:525) at com.cloud.agent.Agent$AgentRequestHandler.doTask(Agent.java:852) at com.cloud.utils.nio.Task.run(Task.java:83) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1146) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679) 2013-08-19 17:28:25,689 WARN [cloud.storage.StorageManagerImpl] (catalina-exec-1:null) Unable to establish a connection between Host[-26-Routing] and Pool[207|RBD] com.cloud.exception.StorageUnavailableException: Resource [StoragePool:207] is unreachable: Unable establish connection from storage head to storage pool 207 due to java.lang.NullPointerException at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.storage.LibvirtStorageAdaptor.createStoragePool(LibvirtStorageAdaptor.java:540) at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.storage.KVMStoragePoolManager.createStoragePool(KVMStoragePoolManager.java:111) at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.storage.KVMStoragePoolManager.createStoragePool(KVMStoragePoolManager.java:104) at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource.execute(LibvirtComputingResource.java:2304) at com.cloud.hypervisor.kvm.resource.LibvirtComputingResource.executeRequest(LibvirtComputingResource.java:1094) at com.cloud.agent.Agent.processRequest(Agent.java:525) at com.cloud.agent.Agent$AgentRequestHandler.doTask(Agent.java:852) at com.cloud.utils.nio.Task.run(Task.java:83) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1146) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679) at com.cloud.storage.StorageManagerImpl.connectHostToSharedPool(StorageManagerImpl.java:1637) at com.cloud.storage.StorageManagerImpl.createPool(StorageManagerImpl.java:1402) at com.cloud.storage.StorageManagerImpl.createPool(StorageManagerImpl.java:147) at org.apache.cloudstack.api.command.admin.storage.CreateStoragePoolCmd.execute(CreateStoragePoolCmd.java:123) at com.cloud.api.ApiDispatcher.dispatch(ApiDispatcher.java:162) at com.cloud.api.ApiServer.queueCommand(ApiServer.java:505) at com.cloud.api.ApiServer.handleRequest(ApiServer.java:355) at com.cloud.api.ApiServlet.processRequest(ApiServlet.java:302) at com.cloud.api.ApiServlet.doGet(ApiServlet.java:66) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:615) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:293) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProcessor.process(Http11NioProcessor.java:889) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11NioProtocol.java:744) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(NioEndpoint.java:2282) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1146) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679) 2013-08-19 17:28:25,690 WARN [cloud.storage.StorageManagerImpl] (catalina-exec-1:null) No host can access storage pool Pool[207|RBD] on cluster 3 2013-08-19 17:28:25,693 INFO [cloud.api.ApiServer] (catalina-exec-1:null) Failed to add storage pool