[openstack-dev] [nova] [cinder] Issue with live migration of instances with encrypted volumes
Lee Yarwood
lyarwood at redhat.com
Tue Nov 1 14:58:58 UTC 2016
On 01-11-16 12:02:55, Carlton, Paul (Cloud Services) wrote:
> Daniel
>
> Yes, thanks, but the thing is this does not occur with regular volumes!
> The process seems to be you need to connect the volume then the encryptor.
> In pre migration at the destination I connect the volume and then setup the encryptor and that works fine, but in post migration
> at destination it rebuilds the instance xml and defines the vm which calls _get_guest_storage_config which does another call to
> connect_volume. This seems redundant to me, because it is already connected,
> but it works for normal volumes and if I bypass it for encrypted volumes
> it just fails with the same error when the same function is
> called as part of a subsequent hard reboot.
Try rebasing on the following change that reworked
post_live_migration_at_destination to fetch the domain XML from libvirt
instead of asking Nova to rebuild it :
libvirt: fix serial console not correctly defined after live-migration
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/356335/
I think you've highlighted that this caused issues with hard rebooting
elsewhere right?
Lee
> From: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
> Sent: 01 November 2016 11:29:51
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [cinder] Issue with live migration of instances with encrypted volumes
>
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 11:22:25AM +0000, Carlton, Paul (Cloud Services) wrote:
> > I'm working on a bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1633033 with the live migration of
> >
> > instances with encrypted volumes. I've submitted a work in progress version of a patch
> >
> > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/389608 but I can't overcome an issue with an iscsi command
> >
> > failure that only occurs for encrypted volumes during the post migration processing, see
> >
> > http://paste.openstack.org/show/587535/
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have any thoughts on how to proceed with this issue?
>
> No particular ideas, but I wanted to point out that the scsi_id command
> shown in that stack trace has a device path that points to the raw
> iSCSI LUN, not to the dm-crypt overlay. So it looks like you're hitting
> a failure before you get the encryption part, so encryption might be
> unrelated.
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