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Update:

1. Job fails from time to time, I'm collecting statistics to understand
whether it is valid fails or some races, etc.
2. This sounds good:

> jogo has had a patch up for this for awhile:
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/165233/

3. It's required more research:

> We already have a voting ceph job for nova - can we turn that into a
> multi-node testing job and run live migration with shared storage using
> that?

4.  I think no: there is a branch in execution flow that could be checked,
when we have shared instance path only.

> Can't we use a multi-node ceph job (#3) for this?


On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Matt Riedemann <mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 8/26/2015 3:21 AM, Timofei Durakov wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Here is the situation: nova has live-migration feature but doesn't have
>> ci job to cover it by functional tests, only
>> gate-tempest-dsvm-multinode-full(non-voting, btw), which covers
>> block-migration only.
>> The problem here is, that live-migration could be different, depending
>> on how instance was booted(volume-backed/ephemeral), how environment is
>> configured(is shared instance directory(NFS, for example), or RBD used
>> to store ephemeral disk), or for example user don't have that and is
>> going to use --block-migrate flag. To claim that we have reliable
>> live-migration in nova, we should check it at least on envs with rbd or
>> nfs as more popular than envs without shared storages at all.
>> Here is the steps for that:
>>
>>  1. make  gate-tempest-dsvm-multinode-full voting, as it looks OK for
>>     block-migration testing purposes;
>>
>
> If it's been stable for awhile then I'd be OK with making it voting on
> nova changes, I agree it's important to have at least *something* that
> gates on multi-node testing for nova since we seem to break this a few
> times per release.
>
>  2. contribute to tempest to cover volume-backed instances live-migration;
>>
>
> jogo has had a patch up for this for awhile:
>
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/165233/
>
> Since it's not full time on openstack anymore I assume some help there in
> picking up the change would be appreciated.
>
>  3. make another job with rbd for storing ephemerals, it also requires
>>     changing tempest config;
>>
>
> We already have a voting ceph job for nova - can we turn that into a
> multi-node testing job and run live migration with shared storage using
> that?
>
>  4. make job with nfs for ephemerals.
>>
>
> Can't we use a multi-node ceph job (#3) for this?
>
>
>> These steps should help us to improve current situation with
>> live-migration.
>>
>> --
>> Timofey.
>>
>>
>>
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> Thanks,
>
> Matt Riedemann
>
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