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Hi again,

there is similar case - https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1570107 - 
but I get same result (booting from VOLUME2) regardless of whether I use 
or don't use device_type/disk_bus properties in BDM description.

Any ideas on how to solve this issue?

Thanks.

On 9/11/18 10:58 AM, Volodymyr Litovka wrote:
> Hi colleagues,
>
> is there any mechanism to ensure boot disk when attaching more than 
> two volumes to server? At the moment, I can't find a way to make it 
> predictable.
>
> I have two bootable images with the following properties:
> 1) hw_boot_menu='true', hw_disk_bus='scsi', hw_qemu_guest_agent='yes', 
> hw_scsi_model='virtio-scsi', img_hide_hypervisor_id='true', 
> locations='[{u'url': u'swift+config:...', u'metadata': {}}]'
>
> which corresponds to the following volume:
>
> - attachments: [{u'server_id': u'...', u'attachment_id': u'...', 
> u'attached_at': u'...', u'host_name': u'...', u'volume_id': 
> u'<VOLUME1>', u'device': u'/dev/sda', u'id': u'...'}]
> - volume_image_metadata: {u'checksum': u'...', u'hw_qemu_guest_agent': 
> u'yes', u'disk_format': u'raw', u'image_name': u'bionic-Qpub', 
> u'hw_scsi_model': u'virtio-scsi', u'image_id': u'...', 
> u'hw_boot_menu': u'true', u'min_ram': u'0', u'container_format': 
> u'bare', u'min_disk': u'0', u'img_hide_hypervisor_id': u'true', 
> u'hw_disk_bus': u'scsi', u'size': u'...'}
>
> and second image:
> 2) hw_disk_bus='scsi', hw_qemu_guest_agent='yes', 
> hw_scsi_model='virtio-scsi', img_hide_hypervisor_id='true', 
> locations='[{u'url': u'cinder://...', u'metadata': {}}]'
>
> which corresponds to the following volume:
>
> - attachments: [{u'server_id': u'...', u'attachment_id': u'...', 
> u'attached_at': u'...', u'host_name': u'...', u'volume_id': 
> u'<VOLUME2>', u'device': u'/dev/sdb', u'id': u'...'}]
> - volume_image_metadata: {u'checksum': u'...', u'hw_qemu_guest_agent': 
> u'yes', u'disk_format': u'raw', u'image_name': u'xenial', 
> u'hw_scsi_model': u'virtio-scsi', u'image_id': u'...', u'min_ram': 
> u'0', u'container_format': u'bare', u'min_disk': u'0', 
> u'img_hide_hypervisor_id': u'true', u'hw_disk_bus': u'scsi', u'size': 
> u'...'}
>
> Using Heat, I'm creating the following block_devices_mapping_v2 scheme:
>
> block_device_mapping_v2:
>         - volume_id: <VOLUME1>
>           delete_on_termination: false
>           device_type: disk
>           disk_bus: scsi
>           boot_index: 0
>         - volume_id: <VOLUME2>
>           delete_on_termination: false
>           device_type: disk
>           disk_bus: scsi
>           boot_index: -1
>
> which maps to the following nova-api debug log:
>
> Action: 'create', calling method: <bound method 
> ServersController.create of 
> <nova.api.openstack.compute.servers.ServersController object at 
> 0x7f6b08dd4890>>, body: {"ser
> ver": {"name": "jex-n1", "imageRef": "", "block_device_mapping_v2": 
> [{"boot_index": 0, "uuid": "<VOLUME1>", "disk_bus": "scsi", 
> "source_type": "volume"
> , "device_type": "disk", "destination_type": "volume", 
> "delete_on_termination": false}, {"boot_index": -1, "uuid": 
> "<VOLUME2>", "disk_bus": "scsi", "so
> urce_type": "volume", "device_type": "disk", "destination_type": 
> "volume", "delete_on_termination": false}], "flavorRef": 
> "4b3da838-3d81-461a-b946-d3613fb6f4b3", "user_data": "...", 
> "max_count": 1, "min_count": 1, "networks": [{"port": 
> "9044f884-1a3d-4dc6-981e-f585f5e45dd1"}], "config_drive": true}} 
> _process_stack 
> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/api/openstack/wsgi.py:604
>
> Regardless of boot_index value, server boots from VOLUME2 (/dev/sdb), 
> while having attached VOLUME1 as well as /dev/sda
>
> I'm using Queens. Where I'm wrong?
>
> Thank you.
>

-- 
Volodymyr Litovka
   "Vision without Execution is Hallucination." -- Thomas Edison