[Kolla][nova] /var/lib/nova/instances on nfs

Ignazio Cassano ignaziocassano at gmail.com
Tue Jun 22 11:57:04 UTC 2021


Hello , I am using cinder with netapp driver but if I do not mount a share
under /var/lib/docker/volumes/nova_compute/_data live migration does not
work because an error is disblayed: shared storage in needes or something
like that.
I do not understand why is does not notice that volumes are shared

Ignazio

Il giorno mar 22 giu 2021 alle ore 13:43 Sean Mooney <smooney at redhat.com>
ha scritto:

> On Tue, 2021-06-22 at 13:02 +0200, Radosław Piliszek wrote:
> > Hello Ignazio,
> >
> > If you are not using Cinder NFS backend already, you need to set:
> >
> >   enable_shared_var_lib_nova_mnt: yes
> >
> > And yes, you need to manage fstab yourself, mounting the shared nfs
> > at
> > /var/lib/nova/mnt
> >
> > It must happen before the containers are started (so before deploy or
> > redeploy).
> i dont think they were refering to cinder nfs.
> we have support for deploying novas state directory and libvirts
> stroage on nfs in nvoa when usign the raw/qcow image backend.
>
> in general i advise against that but it is supported.
> you should ensure that you use nfs v4 preferable nfs v4.2 or newer
>
> with my downstream hat on we droped supprot for nfs v3 many years ago
> and the last lts release we hadd that supported it was based on newton.
> technially we dont have a min nfs version requirement ustream but at
> some point i think we shoudl enforce at least nfs v4 upstream too.
> there are several known locking issues with nfs v3 that make it
> generally problematic to use at scale with nova that manifest
> intermietnly during move operations.
>
> the same may or may not be true with nfs via cinder but that is one of
> the less well tested and hardened cinder backends to use with nova.
>
>
> >
> > -yoctozepto
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 12:11 PM Ignazio Cassano
> > <ignaziocassano at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello Stackers, is there any configuration parameter in kolla for
> > > sharing nova on nfs between compute nodes ? Or I must insert an
> > > entry in fstab ?
> > > Thanks
> > > Ignazio
> > >
> >
>
>
>
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