[Openstack-operators] Mitaka live snapshot of instances not working
Michael Stang
michael.stang at dhbw-mannheim.de
Fri Aug 26 06:01:26 UTC 2016
Hi,
we tried it with flavors with 64MB, 512MB, 1GB and 2GB RAM.
Regards,
Michael
> Saverio Proto <zioproto at gmail.com> hat am 25. August 2016 um 15:30
> geschrieben:
>
> Hello,
>
> what is the size of the RAM for the flavor of the instance you are trying to
> snapshotting ?
>
> thank you
>
> Saverio
>
>
> 2016-08-25 8:48 GMT+02:00 Michael Stang <michael.stang at dhbw-mannheim.de
> mailto:michael.stang at dhbw-mannheim.de >:
> > > Hi Konstantin, hi Saverio
> >
> > thank you for your answers.
> >
> > I checked the version, these are
> >
> > libvirt 1.3.1-1ubuntu10.1~cloud0
> > qemu 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.2~cloud0
> >
> > at our installation, system is Ubuntu 14.04.
> >
> >
> > I tried also the following from [2]
> >
> > Command:
> >
> > nova image-create test "snap_of_test" --poll
> >
> > Result: Server snapshotting... 25% completeERROR (NotFound): Image not
> > found. (HTTP 404)
> >
> >
> > Then I started trying step by step as in [2] but failed at the first step
> > already:
> >
> > Command:
> >
> > virsh managedsave instance-00000367
> >
> > Result:
> >
> > error: Failed to save domain instance-00000367 state
> > error: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'migrate':
> > Migration disabled: failed to allocate shared memory
> >
> >
> >
> > I also checked on the compute nodes the directories:
> >
> > /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save/
> > /var/lib/nova/instances/snapshots/
> >
> > there is 257G free space and the instance only has 1GB root disk, so I
> > think its not missing space.
> >
> >
> >
> > So is this maybe a problem with qemu? How can i enable 'migrate' and why
> > is it disabled?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you for your help.
> >
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Michael
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Kostiantyn.Volenbovskyi at swisscom.com
> > > mailto:Kostiantyn.Volenbovskyi at swisscom.com hat am 24. August 2016 um
> > > 14:51 geschrieben:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > extract from [1] ((side note: I couldn't find that in config reference
> > > for Mitaka) is:
> > > "disable_libvirt_livesnapshot = True
> > > (BoolOpt) When using libvirt 1.2.2 live snapshots fail intermittently
> > > under load. This config option provides a mechanism to enable live
> > > snapshot while this is resolved. See
> > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1334398"
> > >
> > > I am not sure if Nova behaves like that in case you have
> > > disable_libvirt_livesnapshot=True (default in Liberty and Mitaka
> > > apparently...)
> > > In case it is not about that, then I would try to do it manually using
> > > something like [2] as guideline to see if it succeeds using
> > > Libvirt/QEMU without Nova.
> > >
> > > BR,
> > > Konstantin
> > > [1]
> > > http://docs.openstack.org/liberty/config-reference/content/list-of-compute-config-options.html
> > > [2]
> > > https://kashyapc.com/2013/03/11/openstack-nova-image-create-under-the-hood/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > From: Michael Stang [mailto:michael.stang at dhbw-mannheim.de
> > > mailto:michael.stang at dhbw-mannheim.de ]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 9:55 AM
> > > To: openstack-operators <openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
> > > mailto:openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org >
> > > Subject: [Openstack-operators] Mitaka live snapshot of instances not
> > > working
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > we have a problem in our new mitaka installation, it seems that it is
> > > not possible to do a snapshot of a running instance (normal instance
> > > without an attached volume). When with try to do a snapshot we get a
> > > success message, but the snapshot is only showed shortly in the
> > > imagelist with status deleted. I we shutoff the instance and then do a
> > > snapshot it is working without problems.
> > >
> > > When we use a cinder volume as root disk instead an ephermal root disk
> > > a volume snapshot could be made without problem in running state of the
> > > instance.
> > >
> > > The same behaviour we have on an other installation of mitaka from our
> > > colleagues.
> > >
> > > Is this behaviour normal in Mitaka or ist this maybe a bug? Because in
> > > Juno we could do snapshots from running instances without problems.
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Michael
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Michael Stang
> > > Laboringenieur, Dipl. Inf. (FH)
> > >
> > > Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Mannheim
> > > Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Mannheim
> > > ZeMath Zentrum für mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliches Basiswissen
> > > Fachbereich Informatik, Fakultät Technik
> > > Coblitzallee 1-9
> > > 68163 Mannheim
> > >
> > >
> > > michael.stang at dhbw-mannheim.de mailto:michael.stang at dhbw-mannheim.de
> > > http://www.dhbw-mannheim.de
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Viele Grüße
> >
> > Michael Stang
> > Laboringenieur, Dipl. Inf. (FH)
> >
> > Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Mannheim
> > Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Mannheim
> > ZeMath Zentrum für mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliches Basiswissen
> > Fachbereich Informatik, Fakultät Technik
> > Coblitzallee 1-9
> > 68163 Mannheim
> >
> > Tel.: +49 (0)621 4105 - 1367
> > michael.stang at dhbw-mannheim.de mailto:michael.stang at dhbw-mannheim.de
> > http://www.dhbw-mannheim.de
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >
Viele Grüße
Michael Stang
Laboringenieur, Dipl. Inf. (FH)
Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Mannheim
Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Mannheim
ZeMath Zentrum für mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliches Basiswissen
Fachbereich Informatik, Fakultät Technik
Coblitzallee 1-9
68163 Mannheim
Tel.: +49 (0)621 4105 - 1367
michael.stang at dhbw-mannheim.de
http://www.dhbw-mannheim.de
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