Hi Oliver,

For deactivating the unresponsive storage domains, you can use the Compute
-> Data Centers -> Maintenance option with "Ignore OVF update failure"
checked.
This will force deactivation of the SD.

Will provide further details about the issue in the ticket.


On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 12:02 PM Albl, Oliver <oliver.a...@fabasoft.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   does anybody have an advice how to activate or safely remove that
> storage domain?
>
> Thank you!
> Oliver
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Oliver Albl <oliver.a...@fabasoft.com>
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. November 2019 11:20
> An: users@ovirt.org
> Betreff: [ovirt-users] Re: Cannot activate/deactivate storage domain
>
> > On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 9:18 PM Albl, Oliver <Oliver.Albl(a)fabasoft.com&gt;
> wrote:
> >
> > What was the last change in the system? upgrade? network change? storage
> change?
> >
>
> Last change was four weeks ago ovirt upgrade from 4.3.3 to 4.3.6.7
> (including CentOS hosts to 7.7 1908)
>
> >
> > This is expected if some domain is not accessible on all hosts.
> >
> >
> > This means sanlock timed out renewing the lockspace
> >
> >
> > If a host cannot access all storage domain in the DC, the system set
> > it to non-operational, and will probably try to reconnect it later.
> >
> >
> > This means reading 4k from start of the metadata lv took 9.6 seconds.
> > Something in
> > the way to storage is bad (kernel, network, storage).
> >
> >
> > We 20 seconds (4 retires, 5 seconds per retry) gracetime in multipath
> > when there are no active paths, before I/O fails, pausing the VM. We
> > also resume paused VMs when storage monitoring works again, so maybe
> > the VM were paused and resumed.
> >
> > However for storage monitoring we have strict 10 seconds timeout. If
> > reading from the metadata lv times out or fail and does not operated
> > normally after
> > 5 minutes, the
> > domain will become inactive.
> >
> >
> > This can explain the read timeouts.
> >
> >
> > This looks the right way to troubleshoot this.
> >
> >
> > We need vdsm logs to understand this failure.
> >
> >
> > This does not mean OVF is corrupted, only that we could not store new
> > data. The older data on the other OVFSTORE disk is probably fine.
> > Hopefuly the system will not try to write to the other OVFSTORE disk
> > overwriting the last good version.
> >
> >
> > This is normal, the first 2048 bytes are always zeroes. This area was
> > used for domain metadata in older versions.
> >
> >
> > Please share more details:
> >
> > - output of "lsblk"
> > - output of "multipath -ll"
> > - output of "/usr/libexec/vdsm/fc-scan -v"
> > - output of "vgs -o +tags problem-domain-id"
> > - output of "lvs -o +tags problem-domain-id"
> > - contents of /etc/multipath.conf
> > - contents of /etc/multipath.conf.d/*.conf
> > - /var/log/messages since the issue started
> > - /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log* since the issue started on one of the hosts
> >
> > A bug is probably the best place to keep these logs and make it easy to
> trac.
>
> Please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1768821
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nir
>
> Thank you!
> Oliver
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