[openstack-dev] [Nova][Cinder] Cleanly detaching volumes from failed nodes

Avishay Traeger avishay at stratoscale.com
Tue Jan 26 05:55:28 UTC 2016


OK great, thanks!  I added a suggestion to the etherpad as well, and found
this link helpful: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/266095/

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 1:37 AM, D'Angelo, Scott <scott.dangelo at hpe.com>
wrote:

> There is currently no simple way to clean up Cinder attachments if the
> Nova node (or the instance) has gone away. We’ve put this topic on the
> agenda for the Cinder mid-cycle this week:
>
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/mitaka-cinder-midcycle L#113
>
>
>
> *From:* Avishay Traeger [mailto:avishay at stratoscale.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, January 25, 2016 7:21 AM
> *To:* OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> *Subject:* [openstack-dev] [Nova][Cinder] Cleanly detaching volumes from
> failed nodes
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>
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if there was any way to cleanly detach volumes from failed
> nodes.  In the case where the node is up nova-compute will call Cinder's
> terminate_connection API with a "connector" that includes information about
> the node - e.g., hostname, IP, iSCSI initiator name, FC WWPNs, etc.
>
> If the node has died, this information is no longer available, and so the
> attachment cannot be cleaned up properly.  Is there any way to handle this
> today?  If not, does it make sense to save the connector elsewhere (e.g.,
> DB) for cases like these?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Avishay
>
>
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