[Openstack] Manually attaching iSCSI volume to an instance

Rafi Khardalian rafi at metacloud.com
Mon Aug 13 20:57:49 UTC 2012


Great -- I just submitted it for stable/essex and will do the same for
Folsom once I can test it.

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/11303/

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Rafi Khardalian
Vice President, Operations | Metacloud, Inc.
Email: rafi at metacloud.com | Tel: 855-638-2256, Ext. 2662


-----Original Message-----
From: Vishvananda Ishaya [mailto:vishvananda at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 1:08 PM
To: Rafi Khardalian
Cc: Samuel Winchenbach; openstack at lists.launchpad.net
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Manually attaching iSCSI volume to an instance

This patch would be most welcome.

Vish

On Aug 13, 2012, at 12:25 PM, Rafi Khardalian <rafi at metacloud.com> wrote:

> We ran into this issue as well and just patched a fix into our
> distribution.  Basically, the patch will re-establish iSCSI
> connections anytime an instance is hard rebooted.  The Nova
> configuration option "start_guests_on_host_boot" ultimately results in
> executing the same code as a hard reboot, which is why we opted to patch
it into that function.
>
> I've attached a copy of the patch to my response, which should apply
> cleanly to stable/essex.  I'm planning to submit the patch upstream,
> since I do not see a fix for it anywhere, even in Folsom.
>
> Please let me know if this fixes the issue for you.
> ---
> Rafi Khardalian
> Vice President, Operations | Metacloud, Inc.
> Email: rafi at metacloud.com | Tel: 855-638-2256, Ext. 2662
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openstack-bounces+rafi=metacloud.com at lists.launchpad.net
> [mailto:openstack-bounces+rafi=metacloud.com at lists.launchpad.net] On
> Behalf Of Samuel Winchenbach
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 6:59 AM
> To: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> Subject: [Openstack] Manually attaching iSCSI volume to an instance
>
> Hi,
>
> I believe I am a "victim" of this bug:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1001088  ( I can not seem to find
> the fix that was committed )
>
> After rebooting my volumes are not restored and they become stuck in
> the "in-use" state.
>
> Is there a way to manually restore the volumes?  Using tgt-admin I
> verified that the target exists, I used iscsiadm to login, and
> verified that created a device node.  Here is a log showing what I just
mentioned:
> http://paste2.org/p/2101666
>
> And here is a document I created showing my general setup, including
> nova.conf.  (I didn't include glance, or keystone configs because they
> seem to be working fine):
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pkwGa22OfATp62hVGYR3jWTEbhQVyHIpwO
> JgaS
> rbQ7M/edit
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks, Sam
>
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