[openstack][cinder] Assign each storage backend to each AZ

Alan Bishop abishop at redhat.com
Wed Jan 4 13:51:43 UTC 2023


On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 1:09 AM Sa Pham <saphi070 at gmail.com> wrote:

> You have to run cinder-volume service for each AZ. And in your
> configuration of cinder-volume you need to specify
> storage_availability_zone for that zone.
>

Alternatively, you can run a single cinder-volume service with multiple
backends, and use the backend_availability_zone option [1] to specify each
backend's AZ. The backend_availability_zone overrides the
storage_availability_zone for that backend.

[1]
https://github.com/openstack/cinder/blob/d55a004e524f752c228a4a7bda5d24d4223325de/cinder/volume/driver.py#L239

Alan


> With nova-compute, you have to create a host aggregate with an
> availability zone option for these compute nodes.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 3:42 PM Nguyễn Hữu Khôi <nguyenhuukhoinw at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ok, thanks for the clarification. :)
>> Nguyen Huu Khoi
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 3:03 PM Rajat Dhasmana <rdhasman at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 1:01 PM Nguyễn Hữu Khôi <
>>> nguyenhuukhoinw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the answer.
>>>> But I cannot find the way to configure the storage backend per AZ,
>>>> Would you give me some suggestions?
>>>>
>>>
>>> It totally depends on the deployment method you're using. It could be
>>> either tripleo, ansible etc and every deployment method should provide a
>>> way to set an availability zone for a volume backend. I'm not a deployment
>>> expert but a specific deployment team needs to be consulted for the same.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Nguyen Huu Khoi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 1:53 PM Rajat Dhasmana <rdhasman at redhat.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> From the description, I'm assuming the instances will be boot from
>>>>> volume. In that case, you will need to create a volume type for each
>>>>> backend and you can use 'extra_specs' properties in the volume type to
>>>>> assign a volume type to a particular AZ. In this case, if you're already
>>>>> creating one backend per AZ then a volume type linked to that backend
>>>>> should be good.
>>>>> Now you will need to create a bootable volume and launch an instance
>>>>> with it. Again, the instance should be launched in the AZ as used in the
>>>>> volume type to support your use case.
>>>>> Also if you want to restrict volumes of a particular AZ to be attached
>>>>> to the instance of the same AZ, you can use the config option
>>>>> *cross_az_attach*[1] which will allow/disallow cross AZ attachments.
>>>>> Hope that helps.
>>>>>
>>>>> [1]
>>>>> https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/configuration/config.html#cinder.cross_az_attach
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Rajat Dhasmana
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 7:31 AM Nguyễn Hữu Khôi <
>>>>> nguyenhuukhoinw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello guys.
>>>>>> I took time to search for this question but I can't find the answer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have an Openstack private cloud and I use an  AZ to a department.
>>>>>> For example,
>>>>>> AZ-IT for IT department
>>>>>> AZ-Sale for Sale department...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I will prepare 2 storage backends for each AZ.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My goal is that when users launch an instance by choosing AZ then It
>>>>>> will use only the backend for this AZ.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would Openstack support my goal?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for reading my email.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nguyen Huu Khoi
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>
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