[kolla-ansible][yoga] how to configure cinder to connect to iscsi target?

wodel youchi wodel.youchi at gmail.com
Wed Apr 12 16:45:32 UTC 2023


Hi,

Any thoughts?

Regards.

Le mar. 11 avr. 2023 à 13:15, wodel youchi <wodel.youchi at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> Hi,
>
> What do you mean by controller status?
>
> After some digging I found that, when using
> cinder.volume.drivers.lvm.LVMVolumeDriver, it seems that cinder searches
> for the VG, and the VG must exist.
> Seeing some examples like this [1], it's like the configuration is made to
> expose a local disk as an iscsi LUN.
>
> The VG was created on a local disk, then it was exposed as LUN. So just to
> be sure, is cinder.volume.drivers.lvm.LVMVolumeDriver with target_protocol
> = iscsi, intended to expose a local VG on compute nodes as iscsi LUNs?
>
> My other question is : Can I configure cinder with  Tagetcli as external
> iscsi storage?
>
>
> [1] :
> https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_Stream_8&p=openstack_yoga2&f=12
>
> Regards.
>
>
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> On Mon, Apr 10, 2023, 06:33 Nguyễn Hữu Khôi <nguyenhuukhoinw at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> what is your controller status?
>> Nguyen Huu Khoi
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 10:36 PM wodel youchi <wodel.youchi at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I am trying to configure cinder to connect to an iscsi target. I am
>>> using targetcli as my target server.
>>>
>>> I have tested the connection from the node using iscsiadm and it works
>>> from the OS.
>>>
>>> Now I am trying to use the iscsid container to do the job.
>>>
>>> I added this to my globals.yml
>>> enable_iscsid: "yes"
>>> enable_cinder_backend_iscsi: "yes"
>>> enable_cinder_backend_lvm: "no"
>>>
>>> And I created the cinder.conf file like this
>>> [DEFAULT]
>>> enabled_backends = rbd1,nfs-1,*lvmtnas *
>>>
>>> # add follows to the end
>>> [lvmtnas]
>>> target_helper = lioadm
>>> target_protocol = iscsi
>>> target_ip_address = 20.1.0.32 (my target server)
>>> volume_backend_name = lvmtnas
>>> # volume group name created
>>> volume_group = *vg_volume01 *
>>> volume_driver = cinder.volume.drivers.lvm.LVMVolumeDriver
>>> use_chap_auth = false
>>>
>>> I did create the vg_volume01 on the LUN prior to the test.
>>>
>>> I did a deploy, the container has been created, but nothing happened,
>>> it's like I am missing something.
>>>
>>> docker logs iscsid fome one the compute nodes
>>> + sudo -E kolla_set_configs
>>> INFO:__main__:Loading config file at
>>> /var/lib/kolla/config_files/config.json
>>> INFO:__main__:Validating config file
>>> INFO:__main__:Kolla config strategy set to: COPY_ALWAYS
>>> INFO:__main__:Copying service configuration files
>>> INFO:__main__:Writing out command to execute
>>> ++ cat /run_command
>>> + CMD='iscsid -d 8 -f'
>>> + ARGS=
>>> + sudo kolla_copy_cacerts
>>> + [[ ! -n '' ]]
>>> + . kolla_extend_start
>>> ++ [[ ! -f /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi ]]
>>> + echo 'Running command: '\''iscsid -d 8 -f'\'''
>>> + exec iscsid -d 8 -f
>>> Running command: 'iscsid -d 8 -f'
>>> iscsid: sysfs_init: sysfs_path='/sys'
>>> iscsid: in ctldev_open
>>> iscsid: created NETLINK_ISCSI socket...
>>> iscsid: InitiatorName=iqn.1994-05.com.redhat:2a318909ad8
>>> iscsid: InitiatorName=iqn.1994-05.com.redhat:2a318909ad8
>>> iscsid: InitiatorAlias=computehci01
>>> iscsid: Max file limits 1048576 1048576
>>> iscsid: current time 258465
>>> iscsid: nothing on pend_list, deactivating alarm
>>>
>>>
>>> Any idea?
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>>
>>
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