[Openstack-operators] Netapp volume, anyone?

Alejandro Comisario alejandro.comisario at mercadolibre.com
Fri Nov 16 19:56:01 UTC 2012


Can you post the whole nova-volume.log that happens when you start/restart
the nova-volume service ?

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On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Abel Lopez <alopgeek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the tips.
> As far as we can tell, everything in the netapp is ok. When nova-volume
> starts up, I can see in the logs where it gets the wsdl file fine. Also
> verified that nova-volume is only running on 1 host.
>
> It might be interesting to note, that this site was without any prior
> volume service.
>
> On Nov 16, 2012, at 8:01 AM, Joe Topjian wrote:
>
> Hi Abel,
>
> I have two NetApp filers working with OpenStack, but I'm new to NetApp
> equipment, so I can try to help :)
>
> I just read over the doc you linked to. It's actually quite detailed and a
> lot better than the docs that were available when I was doing this - lucky!
>
> Anyway, just to confirm/review a few things, you:
>
> * have an OnCommand server set up with the Storage Service, Provisioning
> Policy, and Resource Pool all configured. (Do they look OK in the nmconsole
> GUI?)
> * have the wsdl file available for download and can confirm access with
> wget.
> * have nova-volume running on only 1 server (When using LVM, it makes
> sense to run nova-volume on several servers, but with a central storage
> appliance, 1 instance of nova-volume makes sense).
>
> For Essex, one recommendation I was given was to use NetApp's updated
> driver:
>
> https://github.com/bswartz/nova/pull/1
>
> The reason I link to a pull request is because I have a small fix that was
> needed for Essex.
>
> This driver is a drop-in replacement for netapp.py
>
> And is nova running in debug mode? If so, tail -f
> /var/log/nova/nova-volume.log and see if nova-volume is talking to the
> NetApp correctly. The conformance log (/opt/log/conformance.log) might also
> have some good pointers.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Joe
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Abel Lopez <alopgeek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> Testing out netapp volume driver in Essex.
>> Starting from "unconfigured netapp" and "no prior volume service",
>> Having had followed the docs provided from netapp
>> https://communities.netapp.com/docs/DOC-19826
>> I have a "happy" nova-volume service, configured the nova.conf,
>> appropriately, verify all network connectivity.
>>
>> When I try to create a volume using nova client, I see in the scheduler
>> logs
>> Failed to schedule_create_volume: No valid host was found. Is the
>> appropriate service running?
>>
>> Anyone have any tips or tricks?
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