[Gluster-users] Gluster 3.3.0 and VMware ESXi 5

Simon Blackstein simon at blackstein.com
Tue Jun 26 17:24:18 UTC 2012


I changed the mount point here, but still the same issue. I'd rather not
kill the LVM partition if possible. Anand, any tips for this?

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Fernando Frediani (Qube) <
fernando.frediani at qubenet.net> wrote:

>  Yeah, that’s quiet annoying on 3.3****
>
> I’ve run into the same problem when trying to re-create a volume made of
> the same disks that I couldn’t get rid of even using these commands, so I
> ended up replacing the physical disks and re-creating the partition.****
>
> Even when you do a Delete on the volume it seems to run into the same
> trouble.****
>
>
> Fernando****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Simon Blackstein [mailto:simon at blackstein.com]
> *Sent:* 26 June 2012 18:01
> *To:* Anand Avati
> *Cc:* Fernando Frediani (Qube); gluster-users at gluster.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster 3.3.0 and VMware ESXi 5****
>
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>
> Honestly, I've been trying to reset this volume completely to see if the
> error was transitional but now getting the '/gfs or a prefix of it is
> already part of a volume' message even after removing the attributes from
> the directory... lots of changes in this version to watch out for :(****
>
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>
> setfattr -x trusted.gfid /gfs****
>
> setfattr -x trusted.glusterfs.volume-id /gfs****
>
> setfattr -x trusted.afr.gfs-vdi-client-0 /gfs****
>
> setfattr -x trusted.afr.gfs-vdi-client-1 /gfs****
>
> setfattr -x trusted.glusterfs.dht /gfs****
>
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> Many Rgds,****
>
> ** **
>
> Simon****
>
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> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Anand Avati <anand.avati at gmail.com>
> wrote:****
>
> Is this at the same 'time' as  before (at the time for VM boot), or does
> it actually progress a little more (i.e, "start booting") and then throw
> up? It will be helpful if we move this discussion to bugzilla and you
> provide trace logs.****
>
> ** **
>
> Avati****
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Simon Blackstein <simon at blackstein.com>
> wrote:****
>
> Hi Avati,****
>
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> Thanks. I just tried a recompile (I'd installed from RPM before) and
> brought up the volume again. I now get a similar but different message:***
> *
>
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> An unexpected error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM
> vm-26944.****
>
> Failed to power on VM.****
>
> Could not power on VM : Not found. ****
>
> Failed to create swap file '/gfs/gfs-test1/./gfs-test1-d27c6ac2.vswp' :
> Not found****
>
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>
> I only modified the first brick node which is where I'm pointing the ESXi
> server as NFS client. Do I need to modify all nodes like this?****
>
> ** **
>
> Many Thanks!****
>
> ** **
>
> Simon****
>
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>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Anand Avati <anand.avati at gmail.com>
> wrote:****
>
> Fernando,****
>
>   Yes, to try the patch you need to install from source. We will include
> the patch in the next release if you need RPMs.****
>
> ** **
>
> Avati****
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:02 AM, Fernando Frediani (Qube) <
> fernando.frediani at qubenet.net> wrote:****
>
> Hi Avati,****
>
>  ****
>
> How I suppose to apply the patch if I have installed the RPM version ?
> Should I have a compiled from source installed instead ?****
>
>  ****
>
> Regards,****
>
>
> Fernando****
>
>  ****
>
> *From:* gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:
> gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] *On Behalf Of *Anand Avati
> *Sent:* 26 June 2012 04:00
> *To:* Simon
> *Cc:* gluster-users at gluster.org****
>
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster 3.3.0 and VMware ESXi 5****
>
>  ****
>
> Simon - can you please try this patch: http://review.gluster.com/3617****
>
>  ****
>
> Thanks,****
>
> Avati****
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Simon <simon at blackstein.com> wrote:****
>
> I'm having the same error deploying a green field ESXi 5.0 farm against
> GlusterFS 3.3. Can provision a VM but can't start it with the identical
> error:
>
> An unexpected error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM
> vm-26941.****
>
> Failed to power on VM.
> Unable to retrieve the current working directory: 0 (No such file or
> directory).
> Check if the directory has been deleted or unmounted.
> Unable to retrieve the current working directory: 0 (No such file or
> directory).
> Check if the directory has been deleted or unmounted.****
>
> Is GlusterFS supported against VMware or should I be looking somewhere
> else?****
>
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