[Openstack-operators] Live migration failures

Sergio Cuellar Valdes scuellarv at kionetworks.com
Thu Nov 2 15:34:19 UTC 2017


Hi Mike,

Which version of OpenStack are you using ? Do the normal migrations work ?

I found a bug that looks like your problem [1]

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1715569

Cheers,
Sergio

On 2 November 2017 at 08:48, Mike Lowe <jomlowe at iu.edu> wrote:

> After moving from CentOS 7.3 to 7.4, I’ve had trouble getting live
> migration to work when a volume is attached.  As it turns out when a live
> migration takes place the libvirt driver rewrites portions of the xml
> definition for the destination hypervisor and gets it wrong.  Here is an
> example.
>
> It turns this:
>
> disk device="disk" type="network">
>         <driver cache="writeback" name="qemu" type="raw"/>
>         <auth username="cinder">
>                 <secret type="ceph" uuid="1a790a26-dd49-4825-8d16-
> 3dd627cf05a9"/>
>         </auth>
>         <source name="cinder-volumes/volume-de400476-b68a-45a2-b04f-739313f42bef"
> protocol="rbd">
>                 <host name="172.16.128.101" port="6789"/>
>                 <host name="172.16.128.121" port="6789"/>
>                 <host name="172.16.128.130" port="6789"/>
>         </source>
>         <target bus="scsi" dev="sdb"/>
>         <serial>de400476-b68a-45a2-b04f-739313f42bef</serial>
>         <address bus="0" controller="0" target="0" type="drive" unit="1"/>
> </disk>
>
> Into this:
>
> <disk device="disk" type="network">
>         <driver cache="writeback" name="qemu" type="raw"/>
>         <auth username="cinder">
>                 <secret type="ceph" uuid="1a790a26-dd49-4825-8d16-
> 3dd627cf05a9"/>
>         </auth>
>         <source name="cinder-volumes/volume-de400476-b68a-45a2-b04f-739313f42bef"
> protocol="rbd">
>                 <host name="172.16.128.101" port="6789"/>
>                 <host name="172.16.128.121" port="6789"/>
>                 <host name="172.16.128.130" port="6789"/>
>         </source>
>         <target bus="scsi" dev="sdb"/>
>         <serial>de400476-b68a-45a2-b04f-739313f42bef</serial>
>         <address controller="0" type="drive"/>
> </disk>
>
> Note the address change, libvirt will attempt to put this undefined disk
> at 0:0:0 which conflicts with the root disk and causes the migration to
> fail.  While this may be a libvirt bug I can’t imagine anything good would
> come from changing the scsi address of your disks mid flight so steps
> should be taken in nova if rewriting the definition to preserve the address.
>
> Here is my question, when exactly would you want to change the definition
> of an attached volume?
>
>
>
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