[Gluster-users] glusterfs on Microsoft Azure?

Atin Mukherjee atin.mukherjee83 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 11:22:52 UTC 2015


Can you configure your /etc/hosts file to include these hostnames along
with their IPs? That should solve your problem I guess.

-Atin
Sent from one plus one
On Sep 24, 2015 3:26 PM, "Aki Ketolainen" <ak-su at outlook.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was trying to setup glusterfs 3.7.4-2 on CentOS 6.7 on Microsoft Azure.
> We are fortunate to receive service from Microsoft Bizspark program for
> startups.
> Unfortunately, we are forced to run the virtual machines on separate Azure
> accounts.
> This in turn causes the VM's not being able to ping each other.
>
> Reading the gluster documentation at
> http://gluster.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Install-Guide/Configure/
> it says "For the Gluster to communicate within a cluster either the
> firewalls have to be turned off or enable communication for each server."
>
> In my case this is impossible because the VM's under different Azure
> accounts are unable to
> ping each other. This restriction is a design choice Microsoft has made.
> The needed glusterfs
> service ports are open between the VM's.
>
> What could be a remedy to this problem?
>
> Here's detailed information about my setup:
>
> (on hostA)
> # gluster peer status
> Number of Peers: 1
>
> Hostname: hostB.domain
> Uuid: 7e468940-97e5-4595-a835-5eeedae07770
> State: Peer in Cluster (Connected)
>
> (on hostB)
> # gluster peer status
> Number of Peers: 1
>
> Hostname: hostA.domain
> Uuid: 1a5a62a8-4e08-4f06-9f5d-e159a2f7e5c9
> State: Peer in Cluster (Connected)
>
> (on hostA)
> # gluster volume create home replica 2 hostA.domain:/data/home/gv0
> hostB.domain:/data/home/gv0
> volume create: home: failed: Host hostA.domain is not in 'Peer in Cluster'
> state
>
> (/var/log/glusterfs/etc-glusterfs-glusterd.vol.log)
> [2015-09-22 07:54:36.374674] I [MSGID: 106487]
> [glusterd-handler.c:1402:__glusterd_handle_cli_list_friends] 0-glusterd:
> Received cli list req
> [2015-09-22 07:59:08.515867] E [MSGID: 106452]
> [glusterd-utils.c:5569:glusterd_new_brick_validate] 0-management: Host
> hostA.domain is not in 'Peer in Cluster' state
> [2015-09-22 07:59:08.515896] E [MSGID: 106536]
> [glusterd-volume-ops.c:1273:glusterd_op_stage_create_volume] 0-management:
> Host hostA.domain is not in 'Peer in Cluster' state
> [2015-09-22 07:59:08.515908] E [MSGID: 106301]
> [glusterd-syncop.c:1274:gd_stage_op_phase] 0-management: Staging of
> operation 'Volume Create' failed on localhost : Host hostA.domain is not in
> 'Peer in Cluster' state
>
> Best regards,
>
> Aki
>
>
>
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