[Openstack] How to configure ESX datastore as a cinder backend storage
Rajshree Thorat
rajshree.thorat at gslab.com
Mon Jan 27 04:52:08 UTC 2014
Hi,
Thanks Akash. This works for me.
Attached volumes are visible after re-scanning the iscsi bus.
Regards,
Rajshree
On 1/27/2014 9:57 AM, Akash Bambal wrote:
> Rajshree,
> Can you try re-scanning the iscsi bus after the volume is attached?
>
> - Akash
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Rajshree Thorat
> <rajshree.thorat at gslab.com <mailto:rajshree.thorat at gslab.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> The problem is solved by pointing vmware_wsdl_location parameter
> to right location where VMware SDK placed.
> Now I could successfully attach cinder volumes to instances.
> However, I had to reboot the instance to get it to
> pick up the attached volume.
>
> Is there a way to pick up the attached volume without rebooting
> guest virtual machine?
>
> Regards,
> Rajshree
>
>
> On 1/24/2014 3:57 PM, Rajshree Thorat wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm deploying OpenStack Havana for provisioning VMs using ESXi
> as a hypervisor.
> I want to use ESX datastore as a cinder backend storage.
> However, when I try to create a volume,
> it gives me the following error.
>
> 2014-01-23 06:35:02.960 2862 ERROR
> cinder.scheduler.filters.capacity_filter
> [req-e9444c9b-4abb-411b-9476-80213e4c47a1
> dc1ab39557d7405ebcf35d98885c8dcd
> 1d2b0c8ade234ca08bcef380acdeb8b9] Free capacity not set:
> volume node info collection broken.
> 2014-01-23 06:35:02.961 2862 ERROR
> cinder.volume.flows.create_volume
> [req-e9444c9b-4abb-411b-9476-80213e4c47a1
> dc1ab39557d7405ebcf35d98885c8dcd
> 1d2b0c8ade234ca08bcef380acdeb8b9] Failed to
> schedule_create_volume: No valid host was found.
>
> Provided is the driver configuration file which I am using.
>
> volume_driver=cinder.volume.drivers.vmware.vmdk.VMwareEsxVmdkDriver
> vmware_host_ip=<vmware_host_ip>
> vmware_host_username=<vmware_host_username>
> vmware_host_password=<vmware_host_password>
>
> Does anyone have any idea? Pointers in the right direction are
> always welcome.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Rajshree
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Rajshree
>
>
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Regards,
Rajshree
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