adding an openstack cinder volume server to an existing cloud with an existing cinder setup
We needed more space for cinder and had no nice way to expand it on our existing cinder server so after banging my head a bit I got assistance from Giulio Fidente who was able to show me a working config that let me figure out what I was missing. Below I document it so others might be able to find it, too.
NOTE: this works under folsom on rhel 6.4. I cannot vouch for anything else -but Giulio had it running on grizzly I think so…
Usage:
You have an existing cinder server setup and running – which includes
a volume server, an api service and a scheduler service. You need to
add more space and you have a system where that can run.
Here’s all you need to do:
1. install openstack-cinder on the server you want to be a new volume server
2. make sure your new system can access the mysql server on your primary
controller system
3. make sure tgtd knows to import the files /etc/cinder/volumes
add
include /etc/cinder/volumes/*
to:
/etc/tgt/targets.conf
4. make sure your other computer nodes can access the iscsi-target port
iscsi-target 3260/tcp on the system you want to add as an cinder-volume server
5. setup your /etc/cinder/cinder.conf
example:
[DEFAULT]
sql_connection = mysql://cinder_user:cinder_pass@mysqlhost/cinder
api_paste_config=/etc/cinder/api-paste.ini
auth_strategy = keystone
rootwrap_config = /etc/cinder/rootwrap.conf
rpc_backend = cinder.openstack.common.rpc.impl_qpid
qpid_hostname = qpid_hostname_ip_here
volume_group = cinder-volumes
iscsi_helper = tgtadm
iscsi_ip_address = my_volume_ip
logdir = /var/log/cinder
state_path = /var/lib/cinder
lock_path = /var/lib/cinder/tmp
volumes_dir = /etc/cinder/volumes
6. start tgtd and openstack-cinder-volume
service tgtd start
service openstack-cinder-volume start
7. check out /var/log/cinder/volume.log
8. Verifying it worked:
on your cloud controller run:
cinder-manage host list
you should see all of your volume servers there.
9. creating a volume. – just make a volume as usual – the scheduler
should default to the volume server with the most space available
10. on your new cinder-volume server run lvs to look for the new volume.
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