Did you compile libvirt and qemu with RBD support?
Centos6.5 ( libvitt and qemu) does not support RBD/ceph as storage out of
the box...
On Sep 14, 2015 7:37 AM, "Shetty, Pradeep" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is Ceph 0.94 Hammer compatible/stable with CentOS 6.5 build and cloudstack
> version 4.4.2
>
> Thanks,
> Pradeep
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrija Panic [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 11 September 2015 20:42
> To: Vadim Kimlaychuk
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Unable to add Ceph KVM node in cloudstack
>
> Dont really know that to be honest... even previously, you can patch qemu
> source code yourslef with RBD support - nothing stops you to do so - so
> this is just decision from RH or whatever - Im just guessing - anyway it is
> the way it is - ubuntu oit of the box suport, CentOS not afaik...
>
> On 11 September 2015 at 13:56, Vadim Kimlaychuk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Andrija,
> >
> >       If RBD libvirt driver now belongs to RH does that mean
> > Ubuntu/Debian will loose it some day as it is proprietary software?
> > Haven't follow Ceph achievements since "Emperor"
> >
> > Vadim.
> >
> >
> > On 2015-09-11 14:39, Andrija Panic wrote:
> >
> > Np, Im actually very disapointed by RH decision to have this approach
> > -
> >> since now CEPH/Inktank is part of RH etc...
> >> I didnt want to play with Ubuntu at all (dont let me start about all
> >> the possible issues/bugs we found....) but I dont like idea of
> >> compiling stuff on production...
> >>
> >> On 11 September 2015 at 13:34, Vadim Kimlaychuk <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Andrija,
> >>
> >> I don't have such broad experience with different CentOS/RHEL
> >> versions, but I am a bit surprised that these distributions does not
> >> have RBD support at all. That means they have to maintain their own
> >> "restricted"
> >> version of these libraries apart from mainstream. Now I am even more
> >> happy with my Debian/Ubuntu installations :)
> >>
> >> Thank you for information!
> >>
> >> Vadim.
> >>
> >> On 2015-09-11 14:20, Andrija Panic wrote:
> >>
> >> Vadim,
> >> afaik you are right for mgmt server. As for KVM nodes - libvirt and
> >> qemu/qemu-img in CentOS6.x does NOT have RBD support at all :) I have
> >> not played a lot with CentOS7, but did quick check long time ago and
> >> I thing it also doesnt support RBD - Red Hat wants you to buy RHEV to
> >> support RBD - of course, there are workarround, self-compile libvirt
> >> etc...similar for qemu/qemu-img.
> >>
> >> I know for sure that Ubuntu 14.x suports RBD out of the box - since
> >> we are running it with CEPH.
> >>
> >> Best
> >>
> >> On 11 September 2015 at 10:47, Vadim Kimlaychuk <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Andrija,
> >>
> >> Are you talking about CS Management server OS? I thought it does not
> >> really matter if it includes libvirt or not. All calls to storage
> >> should go through hypervisor and any KVM host goes with libvirt. The
> >> version of libvirt for old OS may not be aligned with latest Ceph
> >> release that is true. Cloud architect must check compatibility
> >> version matrix for all products Ceph/KVM/CS anyway.
> >>
> >> Vadim.
> >>
> >> On 2015-09-11 11:24, Andrija Panic wrote:
> >>
> >> RBD for KVM comes out of the box for Ubuntu 14.x (perhaps also 12.x)
> >> - not with CentOS6, and not sure really about CentOS7 (probably not
> >> also...)
> >>
> >> On 11 September 2015 at 09:53, Vadim Kimlaychuk <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> For KVM hosts RBD comes "out of the box" with libvirt. For XenServer
> >> Ceph
> >> (RBD) storage type is not yet implemented. I would say it is very
> >> hypervisor-specific and does not depend much from Cloudstack.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Vadim.
> >>
> >> On 2015-09-11 08:55, Shetty, Pradeep wrote:
> >>
> >> I have one question:
> >> Is ceph rbd protocol supported by default on libvirt version
> >> 0.10.2-54.el6.x86_64 OR do we need to compile libvirt to support rbd
> >> within cloudstack.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Pradeep
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Vadim Kimlaychuk [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> Sent: 09 September 2015 12:07
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Cc: Shetty, Pradeep
> >> Subject: RE: Unable to add Ceph KVM node in cloudstack
> >>
> >> Pradeep,
> >>
> >> I have installed CS 4.2 with Ceph storage successfully around year ago.
> >> There were no problem with configuration except the fact that you
> >> can't configure RBD storage as primary storage during Zone set-up.
> >> It must be NFS.
> >> After Zone is set-up and running you may add another primary storage
> >> and there you have list of choices where RBD type is present.
> >> After RBD is added you may assign this as default storage for
> >> particular cluster assuming that each cluster has its own primary
> storage.
> >>
> >> PS. I have also used Ceph object gateway to connect secondary
> >> storage. It works as expected. It would be nice to know which way are
> >> you going to integrate Ceph into CS?
> >>
> >> Vadim.
> >>
> >> On 2015-09-09 08:09, Shetty, Pradeep wrote:
> >>
> >> Please share steps for adding ceph RBD as primary storage using KVM
> >> hypervisor in cloudstack.
> >>
> >> We are well aware of the best practices/recommendations for cloudstack.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Pradeep
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Vadim Kimlaychuk [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> Sent: 08 September 2015 12:14
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Subject: RE: Unable to add Ceph KVM node in cloudstack
> >>
> >> Pradeep,
> >>
> >> From documentation :
> >> Warning -- It is NOT recommended to run services on this host not
> >> controlled by CloudStack.
> >>
> >> Good practice -- KVM host must be virgin-clean.
> >>
> >> Vadim.
> >>
> >> On 2015-09-08 09:14, Shetty, Pradeep wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello Vadim,
> >>
> >> We have followed the same guide and using OVS version 2.3.2 .
> >>
> >> Ceph storage cluster is running on same KVM hypervisor and it fails
> >> when adding to cloudstack.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Pradeep
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Vadim Kimlaychuk [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> Sent: 08 September 2015 11:34
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Cc: Shetty, Pradeep
> >> Subject: Re: Unable to add Ceph KVM node in cloudstack
> >>
> >> Hello Shetty,
> >>
> >> It seems you agent or libvirt configuration is wrong. Please, specify
> >> also do you use OVS or Linux bridge?
> >> Did you follow this guide?
> >> http://cloudstack-installation.readthedocs.org/en/latest/hypervisor/k
> >> v
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> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Vadim
> >>
> >> On 2015-09-08 08:18, Shetty, Pradeep wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello Folks,
> >>
> >> We are working on ceph(hammer, 0.94.3) implementation on kvm
> >> hypervisor(centos 6.5) which will be integrated on cloudstack(4.4.2),
> >>
> >> --- Single KVM node( OS- CentOS 6.5, libvirt-0.10.2-54.el6.x86_64,
> >> openvswitch 2.3.2) + ceph hammer, cluster health is Ok.
> >>
> >> We are unable to add the KVM host(new cluster) in cloudstack in an
> >> existing zone, below is the error log.
> >>
> >> ----> agent log-- libvirt: XML-RPC error : Cannot write data: Broken
> >> pipe
> >> 03/09/2015 13:13:15 4882 jsvc.exec error: Service exit with a return
> >> value of 143
> >>
> >> Please let us know the exact steps to add Ceph KVM host to cloudstack.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Pradeep
> >>
> >> Links:
> >> ------
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
> --
>
> Andrija Panić
>

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