[Gluster-users] Move a volume to a new server

[Diego Zuccato]

Tks. I'll do it. Worst case: I'll have to create a new volume and move 
files from the old bricks to it. The safety is what I like most in Gluster.
The 'funny' thing is that a replica server is planned but not yet 
operative :(

Il 17/01/2022 18:24, Strahil Nikolov ha scritto:
> Verify that you can install the same version of gluster.
> If not, plan to update to a version that is available to both old and 
> new servers' OS.
> 
> Once you migrate (check all release notes in advance) to a common 
> version, you can do something like this:
> - Install the gluster software on the new host
> - Setup the firewall to match the old server
> - Stop the gluster volumes and any geo-rep sessions
> - Shutdown glusterd service
> - Umount the bricks
> - Disable LVM LVs/VGs that host your bricks (if you share the same VG 
> with other software, you will have to use vgsplit)
> - Remove the multipath devices (multipath -f)
> - Remove the block devices that are part of those multipath devices
> - Backup /etc/glusterfs
> - Backup /var/lib/glusterd
> 
> 
> - Unmap the LUNs
> - Present the LUNs on the new host
> - Verify that the multipath devices are there
> - Rescan the LVM stack (pvscan --cache, vgscan lvscan)
> - Activate the VGs/LVs
> - Mount the bricks and ensure mounting on boot (autofs, systemd's 
> '.mount/.automount' units, fstab)
> - restore /etc/glusterfs & /var/lib/glusterd
> - Start the glusterd service
> - Start the volumes
> - Mount via FUSE to verify the situation
> - Start the geo-replications (if any)
> 
> Note, if you use VDO - disable the volume on the old system and backup 
> the config (/etc/vdoconf.yml) -> restore on the new host.
> 
> Check your tuned profile and if needed transfer the configuration file 
> on the new system and activate it.
> 
> I might have missed something (like custom entries in /etc/hosts) , so 
> do a short test on test system in advance.
> 
> Edit: You didn't mention your FS type, so I assume XFS .
> 
> Best Regards,
> Strahil Nikolov
> 
> 
>     On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 13:15, Diego Zuccato
>     <diego.zuccato at unibo.it> wrote:
>     Hello all.
> 
>     I have a Gluster volume that I'd need to move to a different server.
>     The volume is 4x10TB bricks accessed via FC (different LUNs) on an old
>     CX3-80.
>     I have no extra space to create a copy of all the data, so I'd need to
>     hide the LUNs from the old server and make 'em visible to the new
>     ("move
>     the disks"), w/o copying data.
> 
>     Can I just do something like this?
>     - stop volume
>     - umount bricks
>     - copy volume state files to new server (which ones?)
>     - map LUNs to new server
>     - mount bricks on new server (maintaining the same path they had on old
>     server)
>     - start glusterd on new server
>     - start volume
> 
>     Tks!
> 
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Diego Zuccato
DIFA - Dip. di Fisica e Astronomia
Servizi Informatici
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
V.le Berti-Pichat 6/2 - 40127 Bologna - Italy
tel.: +39 051 20 95786