Hey all,<div><br></div><div>we're pretty happy about our new OpenStack Essex installation atop of Ubuntu 12.04 (hypervisor and guests).</div><div>We use KVM (tenant is in a VLAN) as virtualization technology, having about 15 compute nodes, and a</div>
<div>central nova-network node to act as the gateway (yet to be fully HA'd, however). On that gateway we're having</div><div>a PPTP VPN so we can log in on any host or guest though this VPN.</div><div><br></div><div>
Our problem however is, that from time to time (I think it's daily and even multiple times per day)</div><div>we're encountering kind of networking freezes.</div><div><br></div><div>I first noticed it as my SSH session froze for a few seconds from my desktop -> VPN (nova-network node) -> KVM guest.</div>
<div>I quickly checked others, and they hang, too.</div><div>I checked a hypervisor, which didn't hang, so it is not a general networking issue (like PPTP or SSH or alike).</div><div><br></div><div>Now, it feels like there is some problem with networking from and/or to KVM guests and I absolutely have no clue</div>
<div>on how to trace this down. It really feels like a bug, but that's really out of my scope, and that's why I'm seeking for advice here,</div><div>since we just can't stay in this situation :-)</div><div>
<br></div><div>It is confirmed that we're having this from desktop -> VPN -> KVM and from physical node (in data center) to KVM.</div><div>However, I do not yet know whether all KVMs are affected at once (which would indicate that the issue MAY be caused</div>
<div>by the central nova-network node) or whether it is just hypervisor based (so it may be due to some hypervisor's state)</div><div>or just plain random across all 15 compute nodes we have.</div><div><br></div><div>
I now think that this issue may indeed be KVM networking related</div><div><br></div><div>I'll be happy about any hints and proposals you can provide me in order to track this</div><div>issue down.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Please tell me about any further information you need.</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks in advance,</div><div>Christian Parpart.</div>