[Gluster-users] Expected behaviour of hypervisor on Gluster node loss

Niklaus Hofer niklaus.hofer at stepping-stone.ch
Wed Feb 1 08:21:32 UTC 2017


HI

On 2017-02-01 05:35, Vijay Bellur wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 6:25 AM, Niklaus Hofer
> <niklaus.hofer at stepping-stone.ch
> <mailto:niklaus.hofer at stepping-stone.ch>> wrote:
>
>     Hi
>
>     I have a question concerning the 'correct' behaviour of GlusterFS:
>
>     We a nice Gluster setup up and running. Most things are working
>     nicely. Our setup is as follows:
>      - Storage is a 2+1 Gluster setup (2 replicating hosts + 1 arbiter)
>     with a volume for virtual machines.
>      - Two virtualisation hosts running libvirt / qemu / kvm.
>
>
> Are you using something like oVirt or proxmox for managing your
> virtualization cluster?

We are using our own fork of FOSS-Cloud [0]. FOSS-cloud uses libvirt 
underneath. We are currently on Qemu 2.1.3 and libvirt 1.2.8.

>     Now the question is, what is supposed to happen when we unplug one
>     of the storage nodes (aka power outage in one of our data centers)?
>     Initially we were hoping that the virtualisation hosts would
>     automatically switch over to the second storage node and keep all
>     VMs running.
>
>     However, during our tests, we have found that this is not the case.
>     Instead, when we unplug one of the storage nodes, the virtual
>     machines run into all sorts of problems; being unable to read/write,
>     crashing applications and even corrupting the filesystem. That is of
>     course not acceptable.
>
>     Reading the documentation again, we now think that we have
>     misunderstood what we're supposed to be doing. To our understanding,
>     what should happen is this:
>      - If the virtualisation host is connected to the storage node which
>     is still running:
>        - everything is fine and the VM keeps running
>      - If the virtualisation host was connected to the storage node
>     which is now absent:
>        - qemu is supposed to 'pause' / 'freeze' the VM
>        - Virtualisation host waits for ping timeout
>        - Virtualisation host switches over to the other storage node
>        - qemu 'unpauses' the VMs
>        - The VM is fully operational again
>
>     Does my description match the 'optimal' GlusterFS behaviour?
>
> Can you provide more details about your gluster volume configuration and
> the options enabled on the volume?

We upgraded Gluster from 3.5.X to 3.8.8. After the upgrade we switched 
from a two node replicating setup to two nodes + arbiter.

The volume hosting the virtual disks uses the settings from the 'virt' 
group, except for 'features.shard' which we disabled. I attached the 
exact list of options.

[0] http://www.foss-cloud.org/en/wiki/FOSS-Cloud

Greetings
Niklaus Hofer
-- 
stepping stone GmbH
Neufeldstrasse 9
CH-3012 Bern

Telefon: +41 31 332 53 63
www.stepping-stone.ch
niklaus.hofer at stepping-stone.ch
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