Does Openstack support the notion of cinder backend in maintenance mode?

Ignazio Cassano ignaziocassano at gmail.com
Sun Apr 2 16:16:38 UTC 2023


In other words, when you disable a cinder backend you cannot allocate
volumes on it.
This is what you want.
Ignazio


Il Dom 2 Apr 2023, 18:10 Ignazio Cassano <ignaziocassano at gmail.com> ha
scritto:

> If you read the link I sent you, you can note that it disable a backend
> before removing it. So you can exclude the removing section.
> Another way can be excluding the backend from enabled backends in
> cinder.conf and restarting cinser services.
> Ignazio
>
> Il Dom 2 Apr 2023, 15:17 wodel youchi <wodel.youchi at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Maybe my question was not clear enough.
>> Let's say I have a  cinder-volume with nfs as backend and I need to take
>> down the nfs server for maintenance, can I put the cinder-volume-nfs into
>> some sort of maintenance mode, work on the nfs server bring it back, then
>> reactivate the cinder-volume-nfs?
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Le dim. 2 avr. 2023 à 13:54, Ignazio Cassano <ignaziocassano at gmail.com>
>> a écrit :
>>
>>> Or using the openstack command :
>>>
>>> https://platform9.com/kb/openstack/deleting-a-cinder-service-from-host
>>>
>>> Il Dom 2 Apr 2023, 14:46 wodel youchi <wodel.youchi at gmail.com> ha
>>> scritto:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> When you have multiple cinder backends, and you need to take down one
>>>> of them for maintenance purposes, what is the best way to proceed?
>>>> Does Openstack have the notion of : cinder backend in maintenance mode?
>>>>
>>>> Regards.
>>>>
>>>
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