[Openstack] Manually attaching iSCSI volume to an instance

Vishvananda Ishaya vishvananda at gmail.com
Mon Aug 13 20:07:33 UTC 2012


This patch would be most welcome.

Vish

On Aug 13, 2012, at 12:25 PM, Rafi Khardalian <rafi at metacloud.com> wrote:

> We ran into this issue as well and just patched a fix into our
> distribution.  Basically, the patch will re-establish iSCSI connections
> anytime an instance is hard rebooted.  The Nova configuration option
> "start_guests_on_host_boot" ultimately results in executing the same code
> as a hard reboot, which is why we opted to patch it into that function.
> 
> I've attached a copy of the patch to my response, which should apply
> cleanly to stable/essex.  I'm planning to submit the patch upstream, since
> I do not see a fix for it anywhere, even in Folsom.
> 
> Please let me know if this fixes the issue for you.
> ---
> Rafi Khardalian
> Vice President, Operations | Metacloud, Inc.
> Email: rafi at metacloud.com | Tel: 855-638-2256, Ext. 2662
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openstack-bounces+rafi=metacloud.com at lists.launchpad.net
> [mailto:openstack-bounces+rafi=metacloud.com at lists.launchpad.net] On
> Behalf Of Samuel Winchenbach
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 6:59 AM
> To: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> Subject: [Openstack] Manually attaching iSCSI volume to an instance
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I believe I am a "victim" of this bug:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1001088  ( I can not seem to find the
> fix that was committed )
> 
> After rebooting my volumes are not restored and they become stuck in the
> "in-use" state.
> 
> Is there a way to manually restore the volumes?  Using tgt-admin I
> verified that the target exists, I used iscsiadm to login, and verified
> that created a device node.  Here is a log showing what I just mentioned:
> http://paste2.org/p/2101666
> 
> And here is a document I created showing my general setup, including
> nova.conf.  (I didn't include glance, or keystone configs because they
> seem to be working fine):
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pkwGa22OfATp62hVGYR3jWTEbhQVyHIpwOJgaS
> rbQ7M/edit
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks, Sam
> 
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