[Gluster-users] Gluster and NFS-Ganesha - cluster is down after reboot

Soumya Koduri skoduri at redhat.com
Wed May 3 12:57:06 UTC 2017



On 05/03/2017 03:02 PM, Mahdi Adnan wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Same here, when i reboot the node i have to manually execute "pcs
> cluster start gluster01" and pcsd already enabled and started.
>
> Gluster 3.8.11
>
> Centos 7.3 latest
>
> Installed using CentOS Storage SIG repository
>
>

Could you please check too if the pacemaker service is also in started 
state post reboot of the node.

Thanks,
Soumya

>
> --
>
> Respectfully*
> **Mahdi A. Mahdi*
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org
> <gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org> on behalf of Adam Ru
> <ad.ruckel at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 3, 2017 12:09:58 PM
> *To:* Soumya Koduri
> *Cc:* gluster-users at gluster.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster and NFS-Ganesha - cluster is down
> after reboot
>
> Hi Soumya,
>
> thank you very much for your reply.
>
> I enabled pcsd during setup and after reboot during troubleshooting I
> manually started it and checked resources (pcs status). They were not
> running. I didn’t find what was wrong but I’m going to try it again.
>
> I’ve thoroughly checked
> http://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/NFS-Ganesha%20GlusterFS%20Integration/
> and I can confirm that I followed all steps with one exception. I
> installed following RPMs:
> glusterfs-server
> glusterfs-fuse
> glusterfs-cli
> glusterfs-ganesha
> nfs-ganesha-xfs
>
> and the guide referenced above specifies:
> glusterfs-server
> glusterfs-api
> glusterfs-ganesha
>
> glusterfs-api is a dependency of one of RPMs that I installed so this is
> not a problem. But I cannot find any mention to install nfs-ganesha-xfs.
>
> I’ll try to setup the whole environment again without installing
> nfs-ganesha-xfs (I assume glusterfs-ganesha has all required binaries).
>
> Again, thank you for you time to answer my previous message.
>
> Kind regards,
> Adam
>
> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Soumya Koduri <skoduri at redhat.com
> <mailto:skoduri at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     On 05/02/2017 01:34 AM, Rudolf wrote:
>
>         Hi Gluster users,
>
>         First, I'd like to thank you all for this amazing open-source!
>         Thank you!
>
>         I'm working on home project – three servers with Gluster and
>         NFS-Ganesha. My goal is to create HA NFS share with three copies
>         of each
>         file on each server.
>
>         My systems are CentOS 7.3 Minimal install with the latest
>         updates and
>         the most current RPMs from "centos-gluster310" repository.
>
>         I followed this tutorial:
>         http://blog.gluster.org/2015/10/linux-scale-out-nfsv4-using-nfs-ganesha-and-glusterfs-one-step-at-a-time/
>         <http://blog.gluster.org/2015/10/linux-scale-out-nfsv4-using-nfs-ganesha-and-glusterfs-one-step-at-a-time/>
>         (second half that describes multi-node HA setup)
>
>         with a few exceptions:
>
>         1. All RPMs are from "centos-gluster310" repo that is installed
>         by "yum
>         -y install centos-release-gluster"
>         2. I have three nodes (not four) with "replica 3" volume.
>         3. I created empty ganesha.conf and not empty ganesha-ha.conf in
>         "/var/run/gluster/shared_storage/nfs-ganesha/" (referenced blog
>         post is
>         outdated, this is now requirement)
>         4. ganesha-ha.conf doesn't have "HA_VOL_SERVER" since this isn't
>         needed
>         anymore.
>
>
>     Please refer to
>     http://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/NFS-Ganesha%20GlusterFS%20Integration/
>     <http://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/NFS-Ganesha%20GlusterFS%20Integration/>
>
>     It is being updated with latest changes happened wrt setup.
>
>         When I finish configuration, all is good. nfs-ganesha.service is
>         active
>         and running and from client I can ping all three VIPs and I can
>         mount
>         NFS. Copied files are replicated to all nodes.
>
>         But when I restart nodes (one by one, with 5 min. delay between)
>         then I
>         cannot ping or mount (I assume that all VIPs are down). So my setup
>         definitely isn't HA.
>
>         I found that:
>         # pcs status
>         Error: cluster is not currently running on this node
>
>
>     This means pcsd service is not up. Did you enable (systemctl enable
>     pcsd) pcsd service so that is comes up post reboot automatically. If
>     not please start it manually.
>
>
>         and nfs-ganesha.service is in inactive state. Btw. I didn't enable
>         "systemctl enable nfs-ganesha" since I assume that this is something
>         that Gluster does.
>
>
>     Please check /var/log/ganesha.log for any errors/warnings.
>
>     We recommend not to enable nfs-ganesha.service (by default), as the
>     shared storage (where the ganesha.conf file resides now) should be
>     up and running before nfs-ganesha gets started.
>     So if enabled by default it could happen that shared_storage mount
>     point is not yet up and it resulted in nfs-ganesha service failure.
>     If you would like to address this, you could have a cron job which
>     keeps checking the mount point health and then start nfs-ganesha
>     service.
>
>     Thanks,
>     Soumya
>
>
>         I assume that my issue is that I followed instructions in blog
>         post from
>         2015/10 that are outdated. Unfortunately I cannot find anything
>         better –
>         I spent whole day by googling.
>
>         Would you be so kind and check the instructions in blog post and
>         let me
>         know what steps are wrong / outdated? Or please do you have more
>         current
>         instructions for Gluster+Ganesha setup?
>
>         Thank you.
>
>         Kind regards,
>         Adam
>
>
>
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