Hi Eric,<div><br></div><div>Yes, I was able to create volumes after adding a new disk to the instance.</div><div>I then created a physical volume followed by volume group and all went fine</div><div>after that.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Thank you,</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:55 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Eric_E_Smith@dell.com" target="_blank">Eric_E_Smith@dell.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">If you have a disk or partition that you can use to create that volume group then it might very well start working. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Ashutosh Narayan [mailto:<a href="mailto:aashutoshnarayan@gmail.com" target="_blank">aashutoshnarayan@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 09, 2013 5:20 AM<br><b>To:</b> Smith, Eric E<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net" target="_blank">openstack@lists.launchpad.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Openstack] [Grizzly] Unable to create volumes<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hi Eric,<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Output of <b>pvscan </b>throws - "No matching physical volumes found"<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br>Where else can I see ?<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:40 PM, <<a href="mailto:Eric_E_Smith@dell.com" target="_blank">Eric_E_Smith@dell.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Does pvscan show any disks assigned to the “cinder-volumes” volume group on any of your cinder nodes? That’s the default volume group used for new volume creation. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Openstack [mailto:<a href="mailto:openstack-bounces%2Beric_e_smith" target="_blank">openstack-bounces+eric_e_smith</a>=<a href="mailto:dell.com@lists.launchpad.net" target="_blank">dell.com@lists.launchpad.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ashutosh Narayan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 09, 2013 4:58 AM<br><b>To:</b> OpenStack<br><b>Subject:</b> [Openstack] [Grizzly] Unable to create volumes</span><u></u><u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
Hi folks,<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Am all set to launch an instance after getting good<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">response from this mailing list for most of my queries.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I am now facing issues in creating volumes from the<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">dashboard. Here is volume log file for reference :<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">2013-05-09 15:24:49 ERROR [cinder.service] Unhandled exception<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Traceback (most recent call last):<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cinder/service.py", line 224, in _start_child<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> self._child_process(wrap.server)<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cinder/service.py", line 201, in _child_process<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> launcher.run_server(server)<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cinder/service.py", line 95, in run_server<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> server.start()<u></u><u></u></p></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cinder/service.py", line 342, in start<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> self.manager.init_host()<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cinder/volume/manager.py", line 143, in init_host<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> self.driver.check_for_setup_error()<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cinder/volume/drivers/lvm.py", line 78, in check_for_setup_error<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> raise exception.VolumeBackendAPIException(data=exception_message)<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal">VolumeBackendAPIException: Bad or unexpected response from the storage volume backend API: volume group cinder-volumes doesn't exist<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p>
</div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">It says - volume group cinder-volume does not exist.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">But /etc/cinder/cinder.conf has volume group set to cinder-volumes.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Here is a snippet of cinder.conf :<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">[..]<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">verbose=False<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
rabbit_port=5672<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">rabbit_password=<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">volume_group=cinder-volumes<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">rabbit_host=127.0.0.1<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal">iscsi_ip_address=192.168.105.67<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">[..]<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
Any pointers on how to trouble shoot this issue.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I have also followed this bug - <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1078353" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1078353</a><u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">-- <u></u><u></u></p></div>
<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Ashutosh Narayan<br><br><a href="http://ashutoshn.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://ashutoshn.wordpress.com/</a><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br><br clear="all"><u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">-- <br>Ashutosh Narayan<br><br><a href="http://ashutoshn.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://ashutoshn.wordpress.com/</a><u></u><u></u></p>
</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Ashutosh Narayan<br><br><a href="http://ashutoshn.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://ashutoshn.wordpress.com/</a><br><br>
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