[Openstack] two cinder-volume workers front the same ceph cluster

Edward Hope-Morley edward.hope-morley at canonical.com
Fri Nov 22 16:19:19 UTC 2013


Xu,

afaik giving both volume nodes the same 'host' name in cinder.conf
should allow volumes created on one node to be deleted on another when
using Ceph as the backend. As long as both nodes have the same ceph
config/credentials i.e. pool and client settings you should be good to go.

On 22/11/13 16:03, Xu (Simon) Chen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working on an HA setup with multiple cinder-volume workers.
> However, I have a single ceph cluster that I want both workers to front. 
>
> With relatively standard configuration, the volumes created seem to be
> tied to a specific worker. This means, if a volume is created by
> cinder-volume-1 and that goes down, removing that volume would be
> stuck in delete state until cinder-volume-1 comes back. It would be
> nice for cinder-volume-2 to realize it's operating on the same pool as
> the other node, and thus remove the volume right away.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> -Simon
>
>
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