[Gluster-users] NFS Ganesha HA w/ GlusterFS

[Serkan Çoban]

I would like to see the steps for reference, can you provide a link or
just post them on mail list?

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 4:29 AM, TomK <tomkcpr at mdevsys.com> wrote:
> Hey Guy's,
>
> A success story instead of a question.
>
> With your help, managed to get the HA component working with HAPROXY and
> keepalived to build a fairly resilient NFS v4 VM cluster.  ( Used Gluster,
> NFS Ganesha v2.60, HAPROXY, keepalived w/ selinux enabled )
>
> If someone needs or it could help your work, please PM me for the written up
> post or I could just post here if the lists allow it.
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
>
>
> On 2/19/2018 12:25 PM, TomK wrote:
>>
>> On 2/19/2018 12:09 PM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
>> Sounds good and no problem at all.  Will look out for this update in the
>> future.  In the meantime, three's a few things I'll try including your
>> suggestion.
>>
>> Was looking for a sense of direction with the projects and now you've
>> given that.  Ty.  Appreciated!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tom
>>
>>
>>> On 02/19/2018 11:37 AM, TomK wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2/19/2018 10:55 AM, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote:
>>>> Yep, I noticed a couple of pages including this for 'storhaug
>>>> configuration' off google.  Adding 'mailing list' to the search didn't
>>>> help alot:
>>>>
>>>> https://sourceforge.net/p/nfs-ganesha/mailman/message/35929089/
>>>>
>>>> https://www.spinics.net/lists/gluster-users/msg33018.html
>>>>
>>>> Hence the ask here.  storhaug feels like it's not moving with any sort
>>>> of update now.
>>>>
>>>> Any plans to move back to the previous NFS Ganesha HA model with
>>>> upcoming GlusterFS versions as a result?
>>>
>>>
>>> No.
>>>
>>> (re)writing or finishing storhaug has been on my plate ever since the
>>> guy who was supposed to do it didn't.
>>>
>>> I have lots of other stuff to do too. All I can say is it'll get done
>>> when it gets done.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> In the meantime I'll look to cobble up the GlusterFS 3.10 packages and
>>>> try with those per your suggestion.
>>>>
>>>> What's your thoughts on using HAPROXY / keepalived w/ NFS Ganesha and
>>>> GlusterFS?  Anyone tried this sort of combination?  I want to avoid the
>>>> situation where I have to remount clients as a result of a node failing.
>>>>   In other words, avoid this situation:
>>>>
>>>> [root at yes01 ~]# cd /n
>>>> -bash: cd: /n: Stale file handle
>>>> [root at yes01 ~]#
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Tom
>>>>
>>>>> On 02/19/2018 10:24 AM, TomK wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2/19/2018 2:39 AM, TomK wrote:
>>>>>> + gluster users as well.  Just read another post on the mailing lists
>>>>>> about a similar ask from Nov which didn't really have a clear answer.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That's funny because I've answered questions like this several times.
>>>>>
>>>>> Gluster+Ganesha+Pacemaker-based HA is available up to GlusterFS 3.10.x.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you need HA, that is one "out of the box" option.
>>>>>
>>>>> There's support for using CTDB in Samba for Ganesha HA, and people have
>>>>> used it successfully with Gluster+Ganesha.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Perhaps there's a way to get NFSv4 work with GlusterFS without NFS
>>>>>> Ganesha then?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Not that I'm aware of.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Tom
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hey All,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've setup GlusterFS on two virtuals and enabled NFS Ganesha on each
>>>>>>> node.  ATM the configs are identical between the two NFS Ganesha
>>>>>>> hosts. (Probably shouldn't be but I'm just testing things out.)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I need HA capability and notice these instructions here:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://aravindavkgluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Configuring%20HA%20NFS%20Server/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> However I don't have package glusterfs-ganesha available on this
>>>>>>> CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core) and the maintainer's of CentOS 7
>>>>>>> haven't uploaded some of the 2.5.x packages yet so I can't use that
>>>>>>> version.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> glusterfs-api-3.12.6-1.el7.x86_64
>>>>>>> glusterfs-libs-3.12.6-1.el7.x86_64
>>>>>>> glusterfs-3.12.6-1.el7.x86_64
>>>>>>> glusterfs-fuse-3.12.6-1.el7.x86_64
>>>>>>> glusterfs-server-3.12.6-1.el7.x86_64
>>>>>>> python2-glusterfs-api-1.1-1.el7.noarch
>>>>>>> glusterfs-client-xlators-3.12.6-1.el7.x86_64
>>>>>>> glusterfs-cli-3.12.6-1.el7.x86_64
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> nfs-ganesha-xfs-2.3.2-1.el7.x86_64
>>>>>>> nfs-ganesha-vfs-2.3.2-1.el7.x86_64
>>>>>>> nfs-ganesha-2.3.2-1.el7.x86_64
>>>>>>> nfs-ganesha-gluster-2.3.2-1.el7.x86_64
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The only high availability packages are the following but they don't
>>>>>>> come with any instructions that I can find:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> storhaug.noarch : High-Availability Add-on for NFS-Ganesha and Samba
>>>>>>> storhaug-nfs.noarch : storhaug NFS-Ganesha module
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Given that I'm missing that one package above, will configuring using
>>>>>>> ganesha-ha.conf still work?  Or should I be looking at another option
>>>>>>> alltogether?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Appreciate any help.  Ty!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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> Cheers,
> Tom K.
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