1 Ganeti administrator's guide
2 ============================
4 Documents Ganeti version |version|
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13 Ganeti is a virtualization cluster management software. You are expected
14 to be a system administrator familiar with your Linux distribution and
15 the Xen or KVM virtualization environments before using it.
17 The various components of Ganeti all have man pages and interactive
18 help. This manual though will help you getting familiar with the system
19 by explaining the most common operations, grouped by related use.
21 After a terminology glossary and a section on the prerequisites needed
22 to use this manual, the rest of this document is divided in sections
23 for the different targets that a command affects: instance, nodes, etc.
25 .. _terminology-label:
30 This section provides a small introduction to Ganeti terminology, which
31 might be useful when reading the rest of the document.
36 A set of machines (nodes) that cooperate to offer a coherent, highly
37 available virtualization service under a single administration domain.
42 A physical machine which is member of a cluster. Nodes are the basic
43 cluster infrastructure, and they don't need to be fault tolerant in
44 order to achieve high availability for instances.
46 Node can be added and removed (if they host no instances) at will from
47 the cluster. In a HA cluster and only with HA instances, the loss of any
48 single node will not cause disk data loss for any instance; of course,
49 a node crash will cause the crash of its primary instances.
51 A node belonging to a cluster can be in one of the following roles at a
54 - *master* node, which is the node from which the cluster is controlled
55 - *master candidate* node, only nodes in this role have the full cluster
56 configuration and knowledge, and only master candidates can become the
58 - *regular* node, which is the state in which most nodes will be on
59 bigger clusters (>20 nodes)
60 - *drained* node, nodes in this state are functioning normally but the
61 cannot receive new instances; the intention is that nodes in this role
62 have some issue and they are being evacuated for hardware repairs
63 - *offline* node, in which there is a record in the cluster
64 configuration about the node, but the daemons on the master node will
65 not talk to this node; any instances declared as having an offline
66 node as either primary or secondary will be flagged as an error in the
67 cluster verify operation
69 Depending on the role, each node will run a set of daemons:
71 - the :command:`ganeti-noded` daemon, which controls the manipulation of
72 this node's hardware resources; it runs on all nodes which are in a
74 - the :command:`ganeti-confd` daemon (Ganeti 2.1+) which runs on all
75 nodes, but is only functional on master candidate nodes; this daemon
76 can be disabled at configuration time if you don't need its
78 - the :command:`ganeti-rapi` daemon which runs on the master node and
79 offers an HTTP-based API for the cluster
80 - the :command:`ganeti-masterd` daemon which runs on the master node and
81 allows control of the cluster
83 Beside the node role, there are other node flags that influence its
86 - the *master_capable* flag denotes whether the node can ever become a
87 master candidate; setting this to 'no' means that auto-promotion will
88 never make this node a master candidate; this flag can be useful for a
89 remote node that only runs local instances, and having it become a
90 master is impractical due to networking or other constraints
91 - the *vm_capable* flag denotes whether the node can host instances or
92 not; for example, one might use a non-vm_capable node just as a master
93 candidate, for configuration backups; setting this flag to no
94 disallows placement of instances of this node, deactivates hypervisor
95 and related checks on it (e.g. bridge checks, LVM check, etc.), and
96 removes it from cluster capacity computations
102 A virtual machine which runs on a cluster. It can be a fault tolerant,
103 highly available entity.
105 An instance has various parameters, which are classified in three
106 categories: hypervisor related-parameters (called ``hvparams``), general
107 parameters (called ``beparams``) and per network-card parameters (called
108 ``nicparams``). All these parameters can be modified either at instance
109 level or via defaults at cluster level.
114 The are multiple options for the storage provided to an instance; while
115 the instance sees the same virtual drive in all cases, the node-level
116 configuration varies between them.
118 There are five disk templates you can choose from:
121 The instance has no disks. Only used for special purpose operating
122 systems or for testing.
125 The instance will use plain files as backend for its disks. No
126 redundancy is provided, and this is somewhat more difficult to
127 configure for high performance. Note that for security reasons the
128 file storage directory must be listed under
129 ``/etc/ganeti/file-storage-paths``, and that file is not copied
130 automatically to all nodes by Ganeti.
133 The instance will use plain files as backend, but Ganeti assumes that
134 those files will be available and in sync automatically on all nodes.
135 This allows live migration and failover of instances using this
136 method. As for ``file`` the file storage directory must be listed under
137 ``/etc/ganeti/file-storage-paths`` or ganeti will refuse to create
141 The instance will use LVM devices as backend for its disks. No
142 redundancy is provided.
145 .. note:: This is only valid for multi-node clusters using DRBD 8.0+
147 A mirror is set between the local node and a remote one, which must be
148 specified with the second value of the --node option. Use this option
149 to obtain a highly available instance that can be failed over to a
150 remote node should the primary one fail.
152 .. note:: Ganeti does not support DRBD stacked devices:
153 DRBD stacked setup is not fully symmetric and as such it is
154 not working with live migration.
157 The instance will use Volumes inside a RADOS cluster as backend for its
158 disks. It will access them using the RADOS block device (RBD).
161 The instance will use an external storage provider. See
162 :manpage:`ganeti-extstorage-interface(7)` for how to implement one.
168 A framework for using external (user-provided) scripts to compute the
169 placement of instances on the cluster nodes. This eliminates the need to
170 manually specify nodes in instance add, instance moves, node evacuate,
173 In order for Ganeti to be able to use these scripts, they must be place
174 in the iallocator directory (usually ``lib/ganeti/iallocators`` under
175 the installation prefix, e.g. ``/usr/local``).
177 “Primary” and “secondary” concepts
178 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
180 An instance has a primary and depending on the disk configuration, might
181 also have a secondary node. The instance always runs on the primary node
182 and only uses its secondary node for disk replication.
184 Similarly, the term of primary and secondary instances when talking
185 about a node refers to the set of instances having the given node as
186 primary, respectively secondary.
191 Tags are short strings that can be attached to either to cluster itself,
192 or to nodes or instances. They are useful as a very simplistic
193 information store for helping with cluster administration, for example
194 by attaching owner information to each instance after it's created::
196 $ gnt-instance add … %instance1%
197 $ gnt-instance add-tags %instance1% %owner:user2%
199 And then by listing each instance and its tags, this information could
200 be used for contacting the users of each instance.
205 While not directly visible by an end-user, it's useful to know that a
206 basic cluster operation (e.g. starting an instance) is represented
207 internally by Ganeti as an *OpCode* (abbreviation from operation
208 code). These OpCodes are executed as part of a *Job*. The OpCodes in a
209 single Job are processed serially by Ganeti, but different Jobs will be
210 processed (depending on resource availability) in parallel. They will
211 not be executed in the submission order, but depending on resource
212 availability, locks and (starting with Ganeti 2.3) priority. An earlier
213 job may have to wait for a lock while a newer job doesn't need any locks
214 and can be executed right away. Operations requiring a certain order
215 need to be submitted as a single job, or the client must submit one job
216 at a time and wait for it to finish before continuing.
218 For example, shutting down the entire cluster can be done by running the
219 command ``gnt-instance shutdown --all``, which will submit for each
220 instance a separate job containing the “shutdown instance” OpCode.
226 You need to have your Ganeti cluster installed and configured before you
227 try any of the commands in this document. Please follow the
228 :doc:`install` for instructions on how to do that.
236 The add operation might seem complex due to the many parameters it
237 accepts, but once you have understood the (few) required parameters and
238 the customisation capabilities you will see it is an easy operation.
240 The add operation requires at minimum five parameters:
242 - the OS for the instance
244 - the disk count and size
245 - the node specification or alternatively the iallocator to use
246 - and finally the instance name
248 The OS for the instance must be visible in the output of the command
249 ``gnt-os list`` and specifies which guest OS to install on the instance.
251 The disk template specifies what kind of storage to use as backend for
252 the (virtual) disks presented to the instance; note that for instances
253 with multiple virtual disks, they all must be of the same type.
255 The node(s) on which the instance will run can be given either manually,
256 via the ``-n`` option, or computed automatically by Ganeti, if you have
257 installed any iallocator script.
259 With the above parameters in mind, the command is::
262 -n %TARGET_NODE%:%SECONDARY_NODE% \
264 -t %DISK_TEMPLATE% -s %DISK_SIZE% \
267 The instance name must be resolvable (e.g. exist in DNS) and usually
268 points to an address in the same subnet as the cluster itself.
270 The above command has the minimum required options; other options you
271 can give include, among others:
273 - The maximum/minimum memory size (``-B maxmem``, ``-B minmem``)
274 (``-B memory`` can be used to specify only one size)
276 - The number of virtual CPUs (``-B vcpus``)
278 - Arguments for the NICs of the instance; by default, a single-NIC
279 instance is created. The IP and/or bridge of the NIC can be changed
280 via ``--net 0:ip=IP,link=BRIDGE``
282 See :manpage:`ganeti-instance(8)` for the detailed option list.
284 For example if you want to create an highly available instance, with a
285 single disk of 50GB and the default memory size, having primary node
286 ``node1`` and secondary node ``node3``, use the following command::
288 $ gnt-instance add -n node1:node3 -o debootstrap -t drbd -s 50G \
291 There is a also a command for batch instance creation from a
292 specification file, see the ``batch-create`` operation in the
293 gnt-instance manual page.
295 Regular instance operations
296 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
301 Removing an instance is even easier than creating one. This operation is
302 irreversible and destroys all the contents of your instance. Use with
305 $ gnt-instance remove %INSTANCE_NAME%
307 .. _instance-startup-label:
312 Instances are automatically started at instance creation time. To
313 manually start one which is currently stopped you can run::
315 $ gnt-instance startup %INSTANCE_NAME%
317 Ganeti will start an instance with up to its maximum instance memory. If
318 not enough memory is available Ganeti will use all the available memory
319 down to the instance minimum memory. If not even that amount of memory
320 is free Ganeti will refuse to start the instance.
322 Note, that this will not work when an instance is in a permanently
323 stopped state ``offline``. In this case, you will first have to
324 put it back to online mode by running::
326 $ gnt-instance modify --online %INSTANCE_NAME%
328 The command to stop the running instance is::
330 $ gnt-instance shutdown %INSTANCE_NAME%
332 If you want to shut the instance down more permanently, so that it
333 does not require dynamically allocated resources (memory and vcpus),
334 after shutting down an instance, execute the following::
336 $ gnt-instance modify --offline %INSTANCE_NAME%
338 .. warning:: Do not use the Xen or KVM commands directly to stop
339 instances. If you run for example ``xm shutdown`` or ``xm destroy``
340 on an instance Ganeti will automatically restart it (via
341 the :command:`ganeti-watcher(8)` command which is launched via cron).
346 There are two ways to get information about instances: listing
347 instances, which does a tabular output containing a given set of fields
348 about each instance, and querying detailed information about a set of
351 The command to see all the instances configured and their status is::
355 The command can return a custom set of information when using the ``-o``
356 option (as always, check the manpage for a detailed specification). Each
357 instance will be represented on a line, thus making it easy to parse
358 this output via the usual shell utilities (grep, sed, etc.).
360 To get more detailed information about an instance, you can run::
362 $ gnt-instance info %INSTANCE%
364 which will give a multi-line block of information about the instance,
365 it's hardware resources (especially its disks and their redundancy
366 status), etc. This is harder to parse and is more expensive than the
367 list operation, but returns much more detailed information.
369 Changing an instance's runtime memory
370 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
372 Ganeti will always make sure an instance has a value between its maximum
373 and its minimum memory available as runtime memory. As of version 2.6
374 Ganeti will only choose a size different than the maximum size when
375 starting up, failing over, or migrating an instance on a node with less
376 than the maximum memory available. It won't resize other instances in
377 order to free up space for an instance.
379 If you find that you need more memory on a node any instance can be
380 manually resized without downtime, with the command::
382 $ gnt-instance modify -m %SIZE% %INSTANCE_NAME%
384 The same command can also be used to increase the memory available on an
385 instance, provided that enough free memory is available on its node, and
386 the specified size is not larger than the maximum memory size the
387 instance had when it was first booted (an instance will be unable to see
388 new memory above the maximum that was specified to the hypervisor at its
389 boot time, if it needs to grow further a reboot becomes necessary).
394 You can create a snapshot of an instance disk and its Ganeti
395 configuration, which then you can backup, or import into another
396 cluster. The way to export an instance is::
398 $ gnt-backup export -n %TARGET_NODE% %INSTANCE_NAME%
401 The target node can be any node in the cluster with enough space under
402 ``/srv/ganeti`` to hold the instance image. Use the ``--noshutdown``
403 option to snapshot an instance without rebooting it. Note that Ganeti
404 only keeps one snapshot for an instance - any previous snapshot of the
405 same instance existing cluster-wide under ``/srv/ganeti`` will be
406 removed by this operation: if you want to keep them, you need to move
407 them out of the Ganeti exports directory.
409 Importing an instance is similar to creating a new one, but additionally
410 one must specify the location of the snapshot. The command is::
412 $ gnt-backup import -n %TARGET_NODE% \
413 --src-node=%NODE% --src-dir=%DIR% %INSTANCE_NAME%
415 By default, parameters will be read from the export information, but you
416 can of course pass them in via the command line - most of the options
417 available for the command :command:`gnt-instance add` are supported here
420 Import of foreign instances
421 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
423 There is a possibility to import a foreign instance whose disk data is
424 already stored as LVM volumes without going through copying it: the disk
427 For this, ensure that the original, non-managed instance is stopped,
428 then create a Ganeti instance in the usual way, except that instead of
429 passing the disk information you specify the current volumes::
431 $ gnt-instance add -t plain -n %HOME_NODE% ... \
432 --disk 0:adopt=%lv_name%[,vg=%vg_name%] %INSTANCE_NAME%
434 This will take over the given logical volumes, rename them to the Ganeti
435 standard (UUID-based), and without installing the OS on them start
436 directly the instance. If you configure the hypervisor similar to the
437 non-managed configuration that the instance had, the transition should
438 be seamless for the instance. For more than one disk, just pass another
439 disk parameter (e.g. ``--disk 1:adopt=...``).
441 Instance kernel selection
442 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
444 The kernel that instances uses to bootup can come either from the node,
445 or from instances themselves, depending on the setup.
450 With Xen PVM, there are three options.
452 First, you can use a kernel from the node, by setting the hypervisor
455 - ``kernel_path`` to a valid file on the node (and appropriately
457 - ``kernel_args`` optionally set to a valid Linux setting (e.g. ``ro``)
458 - ``root_path`` to a valid setting (e.g. ``/dev/xvda1``)
459 - ``bootloader_path`` and ``bootloader_args`` to empty
461 Alternatively, you can delegate the kernel management to instances, and
462 use either ``pvgrub`` or the deprecated ``pygrub``. For this, you must
463 install the kernels and initrds in the instance and create a valid GRUB
464 v1 configuration file.
466 For ``pvgrub`` (new in version 2.4.2), you need to set:
468 - ``kernel_path`` to point to the ``pvgrub`` loader present on the node
469 (e.g. ``/usr/lib/xen/boot/pv-grub-x86_32.gz``)
470 - ``kernel_args`` to the path to the GRUB config file, relative to the
471 instance (e.g. ``(hd0,0)/grub/menu.lst``)
472 - ``root_path`` **must** be empty
473 - ``bootloader_path`` and ``bootloader_args`` to empty
475 While ``pygrub`` is deprecated, here is how you can configure it:
477 - ``bootloader_path`` to the pygrub binary (e.g. ``/usr/bin/pygrub``)
478 - the other settings are not important
480 More information can be found in the Xen wiki pages for `pvgrub
481 <http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/PvGrub>`_ and `pygrub
482 <http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/PyGrub>`_.
487 For KVM also the kernel can be loaded either way.
489 For loading the kernels from the node, you need to set:
491 - ``kernel_path`` to a valid value
492 - ``initrd_path`` optionally set if you use an initrd
493 - ``kernel_args`` optionally set to a valid value (e.g. ``ro``)
495 If you want instead to have the instance boot from its disk (and execute
496 its bootloader), simply set the ``kernel_path`` parameter to an empty
497 string, and all the others will be ignored.
502 .. note:: This section only applies to multi-node clusters
504 .. _instance-change-primary-label:
506 Changing the primary node
507 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
509 There are three ways to exchange an instance's primary and secondary
510 nodes; the right one to choose depends on how the instance has been
511 created and the status of its current primary node. See
512 :ref:`rest-redundancy-label` for information on changing the secondary
513 node. Note that it's only possible to change the primary node to the
514 secondary and vice-versa; a direct change of the primary node with a
515 third node, while keeping the current secondary is not possible in a
516 single step, only via multiple operations as detailed in
517 :ref:`instance-relocation-label`.
519 Failing over an instance
520 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
522 If an instance is built in highly available mode you can at any time
523 fail it over to its secondary node, even if the primary has somehow
524 failed and it's not up anymore. Doing it is really easy, on the master
525 node you can just run::
527 $ gnt-instance failover %INSTANCE_NAME%
529 That's it. After the command completes the secondary node is now the
530 primary, and vice-versa.
532 The instance will be started with an amount of memory between its
533 ``maxmem`` and its ``minmem`` value, depending on the free memory on its
534 target node, or the operation will fail if that's not possible. See
535 :ref:`instance-startup-label` for details.
537 If the instance's disk template is of type rbd, then you can specify
538 the target node (which can be any node) explicitly, or specify an
539 iallocator plugin. If you omit both, the default iallocator will be
540 used to determine the target node::
542 $ gnt-instance failover -n %TARGET_NODE% %INSTANCE_NAME%
544 Live migrating an instance
545 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
547 If an instance is built in highly available mode, it currently runs and
548 both its nodes are running fine, you can migrate it over to its
549 secondary node, without downtime. On the master node you need to run::
551 $ gnt-instance migrate %INSTANCE_NAME%
553 The current load on the instance and its memory size will influence how
554 long the migration will take. In any case, for both KVM and Xen
555 hypervisors, the migration will be transparent to the instance.
557 If the destination node has less memory than the instance's current
558 runtime memory, but at least the instance's minimum memory available
559 Ganeti will automatically reduce the instance runtime memory before
560 migrating it, unless the ``--no-runtime-changes`` option is passed, in
561 which case the target node should have at least the instance's current
564 If the instance's disk template is of type rbd, then you can specify
565 the target node (which can be any node) explicitly, or specify an
566 iallocator plugin. If you omit both, the default iallocator will be
567 used to determine the target node::
569 $ gnt-instance migrate -n %TARGET_NODE% %INSTANCE_NAME%
571 Moving an instance (offline)
572 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
574 If an instance has not been create as mirrored, then the only way to
575 change its primary node is to execute the move command::
577 $ gnt-instance move -n %NEW_NODE% %INSTANCE%
579 This has a few prerequisites:
581 - the instance must be stopped
582 - its current primary node must be on-line and healthy
583 - the disks of the instance must not have any errors
585 Since this operation actually copies the data from the old node to the
586 new node, expect it to take proportional to the size of the instance's
587 disks and the speed of both the nodes' I/O system and their networking.
592 Disk failures are a common cause of errors in any server
593 deployment. Ganeti offers protection from single-node failure if your
594 instances were created in HA mode, and it also offers ways to restore
595 redundancy after a failure.
597 Preparing for disk operations
598 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
600 It is important to note that for Ganeti to be able to do any disk
601 operation, the Linux machines on top of which Ganeti runs must be
602 consistent; for LVM, this means that the LVM commands must not return
603 failures; it is common that after a complete disk failure, any LVM
604 command aborts with an error similar to::
607 /dev/sdb1: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
608 /dev/sdb1: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 750153695232: Input/output error
609 /dev/sdb1: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
610 Couldn't find device with uuid 't30jmN-4Rcf-Fr5e-CURS-pawt-z0jU-m1TgeJ'.
611 Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group xenvg.
613 Before restoring an instance's disks to healthy status, it's needed to
614 fix the volume group used by Ganeti so that we can actually create and
615 manage the logical volumes. This is usually done in a multi-step
618 #. first, if the disk is completely gone and LVM commands exit with
619 “Couldn't find device with uuid…” then you need to run the command::
621 $ vgreduce --removemissing %VOLUME_GROUP%
623 #. after the above command, the LVM commands should be executing
624 normally (warnings are normal, but the commands will not fail
627 #. if the failed disk is still visible in the output of the ``pvs``
628 command, you need to deactivate it from allocations by running::
630 $ pvs -x n /dev/%DISK%
632 At this point, the volume group should be consistent and any bad
633 physical volumes should not longer be available for allocation.
635 Note that since version 2.1 Ganeti provides some commands to automate
636 these two operations, see :ref:`storage-units-label`.
638 .. _rest-redundancy-label:
640 Restoring redundancy for DRBD-based instances
641 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
643 A DRBD instance has two nodes, and the storage on one of them has
644 failed. Depending on which node (primary or secondary) has failed, you
645 have three options at hand:
647 - if the storage on the primary node has failed, you need to re-create
649 - if the storage on the secondary node has failed, you can either
650 re-create the disks on it or change the secondary and recreate
651 redundancy on the new secondary node
653 Of course, at any point it's possible to force re-creation of disks even
654 though everything is already fine.
656 For all three cases, the ``replace-disks`` operation can be used::
658 # re-create disks on the primary node
659 $ gnt-instance replace-disks -p %INSTANCE_NAME%
660 # re-create disks on the current secondary
661 $ gnt-instance replace-disks -s %INSTANCE_NAME%
662 # change the secondary node, via manual specification
663 $ gnt-instance replace-disks -n %NODE% %INSTANCE_NAME%
664 # change the secondary node, via an iallocator script
665 $ gnt-instance replace-disks -I %SCRIPT% %INSTANCE_NAME%
666 # since Ganeti 2.1: automatically fix the primary or secondary node
667 $ gnt-instance replace-disks -a %INSTANCE_NAME%
669 Since the process involves copying all data from the working node to the
670 target node, it will take a while, depending on the instance's disk
671 size, node I/O system and network speed. But it is (barring any network
672 interruption) completely transparent for the instance.
674 Re-creating disks for non-redundant instances
675 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
677 .. versionadded:: 2.1
679 For non-redundant instances, there isn't a copy (except backups) to
680 re-create the disks. But it's possible to at-least re-create empty
681 disks, after which a reinstall can be run, via the ``recreate-disks``
684 $ gnt-instance recreate-disks %INSTANCE%
686 Note that this will fail if the disks already exists. The instance can
687 be assigned to new nodes automatically by specifying an iallocator
688 through the ``--iallocator`` option.
690 Conversion of an instance's disk type
691 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
693 It is possible to convert between a non-redundant instance of type
694 ``plain`` (LVM storage) and redundant ``drbd`` via the ``gnt-instance
697 # start with a non-redundant instance
698 $ gnt-instance add -t plain ... %INSTANCE%
700 # later convert it to redundant
701 $ gnt-instance stop %INSTANCE%
702 $ gnt-instance modify -t drbd -n %NEW_SECONDARY% %INSTANCE%
703 $ gnt-instance start %INSTANCE%
705 # and convert it back
706 $ gnt-instance stop %INSTANCE%
707 $ gnt-instance modify -t plain %INSTANCE%
708 $ gnt-instance start %INSTANCE%
710 The conversion must be done while the instance is stopped, and
711 converting from plain to drbd template presents a small risk, especially
712 if the instance has multiple disks and/or if one node fails during the
713 conversion procedure). As such, it's recommended (as always) to make
714 sure that downtime for manual recovery is acceptable and that the
715 instance has up-to-date backups.
720 Accessing an instance's disks
721 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
723 From an instance's primary node you can have access to its disks. Never
724 ever mount the underlying logical volume manually on a fault tolerant
725 instance, or will break replication and your data will be
726 inconsistent. The correct way to access an instance's disks is to run
727 (on the master node, as usual) the command::
729 $ gnt-instance activate-disks %INSTANCE%
731 And then, *on the primary node of the instance*, access the device that
732 gets created. For example, you could mount the given disks, then edit
733 files on the filesystem, etc.
735 Note that with partitioned disks (as opposed to whole-disk filesystems),
736 you will need to use a tool like :manpage:`kpartx(8)`::
739 $ gnt-instance activate-disks %instance1%
745 $ mount /dev/mapper/… /mnt/
746 # edit files under mnt as desired
752 After you've finished you can deactivate them with the deactivate-disks
753 command, which works in the same way::
755 $ gnt-instance deactivate-disks %INSTANCE%
757 Note that if any process started by you is still using the disks, the
758 above command will error out, and you **must** cleanup and ensure that
759 the above command runs successfully before you start the instance,
760 otherwise the instance will suffer corruption.
762 Accessing an instance's console
763 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
765 The command to access a running instance's console is::
767 $ gnt-instance console %INSTANCE_NAME%
769 Use the console normally and then type ``^]`` when done, to exit.
771 Other instance operations
772 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
777 There is a wrapper command for rebooting instances::
779 $ gnt-instance reboot %instance2%
781 By default, this does the equivalent of shutting down and then starting
782 the instance, but it accepts parameters to perform a soft-reboot (via
783 the hypervisor), a hard reboot (hypervisor shutdown and then startup) or
784 a full one (the default, which also de-configures and then configures
785 again the disks of the instance).
787 Instance OS definitions debugging
788 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
790 Should you have any problems with instance operating systems the command
791 to see a complete status for all your nodes is::
795 .. _instance-relocation-label:
800 While it is not possible to move an instance from nodes ``(A, B)`` to
801 nodes ``(C, D)`` in a single move, it is possible to do so in a few
804 # instance is located on A, B
805 $ gnt-instance replace -n %nodeC% %instance1%
806 # instance has moved from (A, B) to (A, C)
807 # we now flip the primary/secondary nodes
808 $ gnt-instance migrate %instance1%
809 # instance lives on (C, A)
810 # we can then change A to D via:
811 $ gnt-instance replace -n %nodeD% %instance1%
813 Which brings it into the final configuration of ``(C, D)``. Note that we
814 needed to do two replace-disks operation (two copies of the instance
815 disks), because we needed to get rid of both the original nodes (A and
821 There are much fewer node operations available than for instances, but
822 they are equivalently important for maintaining a healthy cluster.
827 It is at any time possible to extend the cluster with one more node, by
828 using the node add operation::
830 $ gnt-node add %NEW_NODE%
832 If the cluster has a replication network defined, then you need to pass
833 the ``-s REPLICATION_IP`` parameter to this option.
835 A variation of this command can be used to re-configure a node if its
836 Ganeti configuration is broken, for example if it has been reinstalled
839 $ gnt-node add --readd %EXISTING_NODE%
841 This will reinitialise the node as if it's been newly added, but while
842 keeping its existing configuration in the cluster (primary/secondary IP,
843 etc.), in other words you won't need to use ``-s`` here.
845 Changing the node role
846 ++++++++++++++++++++++
848 A node can be in different roles, as explained in the
849 :ref:`terminology-label` section. Promoting a node to the master role is
850 special, while the other roles are handled all via a single command.
852 Failing over the master node
853 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
855 If you want to promote a different node to the master role (for whatever
856 reason), run on any other master-candidate node the command::
858 $ gnt-cluster master-failover
860 and the node you ran it on is now the new master. In case you try to run
861 this on a non master-candidate node, you will get an error telling you
862 which nodes are valid.
864 Changing between the other roles
865 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
867 The ``gnt-node modify`` command can be used to select a new role::
869 # change to master candidate
870 $ gnt-node modify -C yes %NODE%
871 # change to drained status
872 $ gnt-node modify -D yes %NODE%
873 # change to offline status
874 $ gnt-node modify -O yes %NODE%
875 # change to regular mode (reset all flags)
876 $ gnt-node modify -O no -D no -C no %NODE%
878 Note that the cluster requires that at any point in time, a certain
879 number of nodes are master candidates, so changing from master candidate
880 to other roles might fail. It is recommended to either force the
881 operation (via the ``--force`` option) or first change the number of
882 master candidates in the cluster - see :ref:`cluster-config-label`.
887 There are two steps of moving instances off a node:
889 - moving the primary instances (actually converting them into secondary
891 - moving the secondary instances (including any instances converted in
894 Primary instance conversion
895 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
897 For this step, you can use either individual instance move
898 commands (as seen in :ref:`instance-change-primary-label`) or the bulk
899 per-node versions; these are::
901 $ gnt-node migrate %NODE%
902 $ gnt-node evacuate -s %NODE%
904 Note that the instance “move” command doesn't currently have a node
907 Both these commands, or the equivalent per-instance command, will make
908 this node the secondary node for the respective instances, whereas their
909 current secondary node will become primary. Note that it is not possible
910 to change in one step the primary node to another node as primary, while
911 keeping the same secondary node.
913 Secondary instance evacuation
914 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
916 For the evacuation of secondary instances, a command called
917 :command:`gnt-node evacuate` is provided and its syntax is::
919 $ gnt-node evacuate -I %IALLOCATOR_SCRIPT% %NODE%
920 $ gnt-node evacuate -n %DESTINATION_NODE% %NODE%
922 The first version will compute the new secondary for each instance in
923 turn using the given iallocator script, whereas the second one will
924 simply move all instances to DESTINATION_NODE.
929 Once a node no longer has any instances (neither primary nor secondary),
930 it's easy to remove it from the cluster::
932 $ gnt-node remove %NODE_NAME%
934 This will deconfigure the node, stop the ganeti daemons on it and leave
935 it hopefully like before it joined to the cluster.
937 Replication network changes
938 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
940 The :command:`gnt-node modify -s` command can be used to change the
941 secondary IP of a node. This operation can only be performed if:
943 - No instance is active on the target node
944 - The new target IP is reachable from the master's secondary IP
946 Also this operation will not allow to change a node from single-homed
947 (same primary and secondary ip) to multi-homed (separate replication
948 network) or vice versa, unless:
950 - The target node is the master node and `--force` is passed.
951 - The target cluster is single-homed and the new primary ip is a change
952 to single homed for a particular node.
953 - The target cluster is multi-homed and the new primary ip is a change
954 to multi homed for a particular node.
956 For example to do a single-homed to multi-homed conversion::
958 $ gnt-node modify --force -s %SECONDARY_IP% %MASTER_NAME%
959 $ gnt-node modify -s %SECONDARY_IP% %NODE1_NAME%
960 $ gnt-node modify -s %SECONDARY_IP% %NODE2_NAME%
961 $ gnt-node modify -s %SECONDARY_IP% %NODE3_NAME%
964 The same commands can be used for multi-homed to single-homed except the
965 secondary IPs should be the same as the primaries for each node, for
971 When using LVM (either standalone or with DRBD), it can become tedious
972 to debug and fix it in case of errors. Furthermore, even file-based
973 storage can become complicated to handle manually on many hosts. Ganeti
974 provides a couple of commands to help with automation.
979 This is a command specific to LVM handling. It allows listing the
980 logical volumes on a given node or on all nodes and their association to
981 instances via the ``volumes`` command::
984 Node PhysDev VG Name Size Instance
985 node1 /dev/sdb1 xenvg e61fbc97-….disk0 512M instance17
986 node1 /dev/sdb1 xenvg ebd1a7d1-….disk0 512M instance19
987 node2 /dev/sdb1 xenvg 0af08a3d-….disk0 512M instance20
988 node2 /dev/sdb1 xenvg cc012285-….disk0 512M instance16
989 node2 /dev/sdb1 xenvg f0fac192-….disk0 512M instance18
991 The above command maps each logical volume to a volume group and
992 underlying physical volume and (possibly) to an instance.
994 .. _storage-units-label:
996 Generalized storage handling
997 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
999 .. versionadded:: 2.1
1001 Starting with Ganeti 2.1, a new storage framework has been implemented
1002 that tries to abstract the handling of the storage type the cluster
1005 First is listing the backend storage and their space situation::
1007 $ gnt-node list-storage
1008 Node Name Size Used Free
1009 node1 /dev/sda7 673.8G 0M 673.8G
1010 node1 /dev/sdb1 698.6G 1.5G 697.1G
1011 node2 /dev/sda7 673.8G 0M 673.8G
1012 node2 /dev/sdb1 698.6G 1.0G 697.6G
1014 The default is to list LVM physical volumes. It's also possible to list
1015 the LVM volume groups::
1017 $ gnt-node list-storage -t lvm-vg
1022 Next is repairing storage units, which is currently only implemented for
1023 volume groups and does the equivalent of ``vgreduce --removemissing``::
1025 $ gnt-node repair-storage %node2% lvm-vg xenvg
1026 Sun Oct 25 22:21:45 2009 Repairing storage unit 'xenvg' on node2 ...
1028 Last is the modification of volume properties, which is (again) only
1029 implemented for LVM physical volumes and allows toggling the
1030 ``allocatable`` value::
1032 $ gnt-node modify-storage --allocatable=no %node2% lvm-pv /dev/%sdb1%
1034 Use of the storage commands
1035 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1037 All these commands are needed when recovering a node from a disk
1040 - first, we need to recover from complete LVM failure (due to missing
1041 disk), by running the ``repair-storage`` command
1042 - second, we need to change allocation on any partially-broken disk
1043 (i.e. LVM still sees it, but it has bad blocks) by running
1045 - then we can evacuate the instances as needed
1051 Beside the cluster initialisation command (which is detailed in the
1052 :doc:`install` document) and the master failover command which is
1053 explained under node handling, there are a couple of other cluster
1054 operations available.
1056 .. _cluster-config-label:
1061 One of the few commands that can be run on any node (not only the
1062 master) is the ``getmaster`` command::
1065 $ gnt-cluster getmaster
1068 It is possible to query and change global cluster parameters via the
1069 ``info`` and ``modify`` commands::
1072 Cluster name: cluster.example.com
1073 Cluster UUID: 07805e6f-f0af-4310-95f1-572862ee939c
1074 Creation time: 2009-09-25 05:04:15
1075 Modification time: 2009-10-18 22:11:47
1076 Master node: node1.example.com
1077 Architecture (this node): 64bit (x86_64)
1080 Default hypervisor: xen-pvm
1081 Enabled hypervisors: xen-pvm
1082 Hypervisor parameters:
1084 root_path: /dev/sda1
1087 - candidate pool size: 10
1089 Default instance parameters:
1093 Default nic parameters:
1098 There various parameters above can be changed via the ``modify``
1099 commands as follows:
1101 - the hypervisor parameters can be changed via ``modify -H
1102 xen-pvm:root_path=…``, and so on for other hypervisors/key/values
1103 - the "default instance parameters" are changeable via ``modify -B
1104 parameter=value…`` syntax
1105 - the cluster parameters are changeable via separate options to the
1106 modify command (e.g. ``--candidate-pool-size``, etc.)
1108 For detailed option list see the :manpage:`gnt-cluster(8)` man page.
1110 The cluster version can be obtained via the ``version`` command::
1111 $ gnt-cluster version
1112 Software version: 2.1.0
1113 Internode protocol: 20
1114 Configuration format: 2010000
1118 This is not very useful except when debugging Ganeti.
1120 Global node commands
1121 ++++++++++++++++++++
1123 There are two commands provided for replicating files to all nodes of a
1124 cluster and for running commands on all the nodes::
1126 $ gnt-cluster copyfile %/path/to/file%
1127 $ gnt-cluster command %ls -l /path/to/file%
1129 These are simple wrappers over scp/ssh and more advanced usage can be
1130 obtained using :manpage:`dsh(1)` and similar commands. But they are
1131 useful to update an OS script from the master node, for example.
1133 Cluster verification
1134 ++++++++++++++++++++
1136 There are three commands that relate to global cluster checks. The first
1137 one is ``verify`` which gives an overview on the cluster state,
1138 highlighting any issues. In normal operation, this command should return
1139 no ``ERROR`` messages::
1141 $ gnt-cluster verify
1142 Sun Oct 25 23:08:58 2009 * Verifying global settings
1143 Sun Oct 25 23:08:58 2009 * Gathering data (2 nodes)
1144 Sun Oct 25 23:09:00 2009 * Verifying node status
1145 Sun Oct 25 23:09:00 2009 * Verifying instance status
1146 Sun Oct 25 23:09:00 2009 * Verifying orphan volumes
1147 Sun Oct 25 23:09:00 2009 * Verifying remaining instances
1148 Sun Oct 25 23:09:00 2009 * Verifying N+1 Memory redundancy
1149 Sun Oct 25 23:09:00 2009 * Other Notes
1150 Sun Oct 25 23:09:00 2009 - NOTICE: 5 non-redundant instance(s) found.
1151 Sun Oct 25 23:09:00 2009 * Hooks Results
1153 The second command is ``verify-disks``, which checks that the instance's
1154 disks have the correct status based on the desired instance state
1157 $ gnt-cluster verify-disks
1159 Note that this command will show no output when disks are healthy.
1161 The last command is used to repair any discrepancies in Ganeti's
1162 recorded disk size and the actual disk size (disk size information is
1163 needed for proper activation and growth of DRBD-based disks)::
1165 $ gnt-cluster repair-disk-sizes
1166 Sun Oct 25 23:13:16 2009 - INFO: Disk 0 of instance instance1 has mismatched size, correcting: recorded 512, actual 2048
1167 Sun Oct 25 23:13:17 2009 - WARNING: Invalid result from node node4, ignoring node results
1169 The above shows one instance having wrong disk size, and a node which
1170 returned invalid data, and thus we ignored all primary instances of that
1173 Configuration redistribution
1174 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1176 If the verify command complains about file mismatches between the master
1177 and other nodes, due to some node problems or if you manually modified
1178 configuration files, you can force an push of the master configuration
1179 to all other nodes via the ``redist-conf`` command::
1181 $ gnt-cluster redist-conf
1183 This command will be silent unless there are problems sending updates to
1190 It is possible to rename a cluster, or to change its IP address, via the
1191 ``rename`` command. If only the IP has changed, you need to pass the
1192 current name and Ganeti will realise its IP has changed::
1194 $ gnt-cluster rename %cluster.example.com%
1195 This will rename the cluster to 'cluster.example.com'. If
1196 you are connected over the network to the cluster name, the operation
1197 is very dangerous as the IP address will be removed from the node and
1198 the change may not go through. Continue?
1200 Failure: prerequisites not met for this operation:
1201 Neither the name nor the IP address of the cluster has changed
1203 In the above output, neither value has changed since the cluster
1204 initialisation so the operation is not completed.
1209 The job queue execution in Ganeti 2.0 and higher can be inspected,
1210 suspended and resumed via the ``queue`` command::
1212 $ gnt-cluster queue info
1213 The drain flag is unset
1214 $ gnt-cluster queue drain
1215 $ gnt-instance stop %instance1%
1216 Failed to submit job for instance1: Job queue is drained, refusing job
1217 $ gnt-cluster queue info
1218 The drain flag is set
1219 $ gnt-cluster queue undrain
1221 This is most useful if you have an active cluster and you need to
1222 upgrade the Ganeti software, or simply restart the software on any node:
1224 #. suspend the queue via ``queue drain``
1225 #. wait until there are no more running jobs via ``gnt-job list``
1226 #. restart the master or another node, or upgrade the software
1227 #. resume the queue via ``queue undrain``
1229 .. note:: this command only stores a local flag file, and if you
1230 failover the master, it will not have effect on the new master.
1236 The :manpage:`ganeti-watcher(8)` is a program, usually scheduled via
1237 ``cron``, that takes care of cluster maintenance operations (restarting
1238 downed instances, activating down DRBD disks, etc.). However, during
1239 maintenance and troubleshooting, this can get in your way; disabling it
1240 via commenting out the cron job is not so good as this can be
1241 forgotten. Thus there are some commands for automated control of the
1242 watcher: ``pause``, ``info`` and ``continue``::
1244 $ gnt-cluster watcher info
1245 The watcher is not paused.
1246 $ gnt-cluster watcher pause %1h%
1247 The watcher is paused until Mon Oct 26 00:30:37 2009.
1248 $ gnt-cluster watcher info
1249 The watcher is paused until Mon Oct 26 00:30:37 2009.
1251 2009-10-25 23:30:47,984: pid=28867 ganeti-watcher:486 DEBUG Pause has been set, exiting
1252 $ gnt-cluster watcher continue
1253 The watcher is no longer paused.
1255 2009-10-25 23:31:04,789: pid=28976 ganeti-watcher:345 DEBUG Archived 0 jobs, left 0
1256 2009-10-25 23:31:05,884: pid=28976 ganeti-watcher:280 DEBUG Got data from cluster, writing instance status file
1257 2009-10-25 23:31:06,061: pid=28976 ganeti-watcher:150 DEBUG Data didn't change, just touching status file
1258 $ gnt-cluster watcher info
1259 The watcher is not paused.
1261 The exact details of the argument to the ``pause`` command are available
1264 .. note:: this command only stores a local flag file, and if you
1265 failover the master, it will not have effect on the new master.
1267 Node auto-maintenance
1268 +++++++++++++++++++++
1270 If the cluster parameter ``maintain_node_health`` is enabled (see the
1271 manpage for :command:`gnt-cluster`, the init and modify subcommands),
1272 then the following will happen automatically:
1274 - the watcher will shutdown any instances running on offline nodes
1275 - the watcher will deactivate any DRBD devices on offline nodes
1277 In the future, more actions are planned, so only enable this parameter
1278 if the nodes are completely dedicated to Ganeti; otherwise it might be
1279 possible to lose data due to auto-maintenance actions.
1281 Removing a cluster entirely
1282 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1284 The usual method to cleanup a cluster is to run ``gnt-cluster destroy``
1285 however if the Ganeti installation is broken in any way then this will
1288 It is possible in such a case to cleanup manually most if not all traces
1289 of a cluster installation by following these steps on all of the nodes:
1291 1. Shutdown all instances. This depends on the virtualisation method
1292 used (Xen, KVM, etc.):
1294 - Xen: run ``xm list`` and ``xm destroy`` on all the non-Domain-0
1296 - KVM: kill all the KVM processes
1297 - chroot: kill all processes under the chroot mountpoints
1299 2. If using DRBD, shutdown all DRBD minors (which should by at this time
1300 no-longer in use by instances); on each node, run ``drbdsetup
1301 /dev/drbdN down`` for each active DRBD minor.
1303 3. If using LVM, cleanup the Ganeti volume group; if only Ganeti created
1304 logical volumes (and you are not sharing the volume group with the
1305 OS, for example), then simply running ``lvremove -f xenvg`` (replace
1306 'xenvg' with your volume group name) should do the required cleanup.
1308 4. If using file-based storage, remove recursively all files and
1309 directories under your file-storage directory: ``rm -rf
1310 /srv/ganeti/file-storage/*`` replacing the path with the correct path
1313 5. Stop the ganeti daemons (``/etc/init.d/ganeti stop``) and kill any
1314 that remain alive (``pgrep ganeti`` and ``pkill ganeti``).
1316 6. Remove the ganeti state directory (``rm -rf /var/lib/ganeti/*``),
1317 replacing the path with the correct path for your installation.
1319 7. If using RBD, run ``rbd unmap /dev/rbdN`` to unmap the RBD disks.
1320 Then remove the RBD disk images used by Ganeti, identified by their
1321 UUIDs (``rbd rm uuid.rbd.diskN``).
1323 On the master node, remove the cluster from the master-netdev (usually
1324 ``xen-br0`` for bridged mode, otherwise ``eth0`` or similar), by running
1325 ``ip a del $clusterip/32 dev xen-br0`` (use the correct cluster ip and
1326 network device name).
1328 At this point, the machines are ready for a cluster creation; in case
1329 you want to remove Ganeti completely, you need to also undo some of the
1330 SSH changes and log directories:
1332 - ``rm -rf /var/log/ganeti /srv/ganeti`` (replace with the correct
1334 - remove from ``/root/.ssh`` the keys that Ganeti added (check the
1335 ``authorized_keys`` and ``id_dsa`` files)
1336 - regenerate the host's SSH keys (check the OpenSSH startup scripts)
1339 Otherwise, if you plan to re-create the cluster, you can just go ahead
1340 and rerun ``gnt-cluster init``.
1345 The tags handling (addition, removal, listing) is similar for all the
1346 objects that support it (instances, nodes, and the cluster).
1351 Note that the set of characters present in a tag and the maximum tag
1352 length are restricted. Currently the maximum length is 128 characters,
1353 there can be at most 4096 tags per object, and the set of characters is
1354 comprised by alphanumeric characters and additionally ``.+*/:@-``.
1359 Tags can be added via ``add-tags``::
1361 $ gnt-instance add-tags %INSTANCE% %a% %b% %c%
1362 $ gnt-node add-tags %INSTANCE% %a% %b% %c%
1363 $ gnt-cluster add-tags %a% %b% %c%
1366 The above commands add three tags to an instance, to a node and to the
1367 cluster. Note that the cluster command only takes tags as arguments,
1368 whereas the node and instance commands first required the node and
1371 Tags can also be added from a file, via the ``--from=FILENAME``
1372 argument. The file is expected to contain one tag per line.
1374 Tags can also be remove via a syntax very similar to the add one::
1376 $ gnt-instance remove-tags %INSTANCE% %a% %b% %c%
1380 $ gnt-instance list-tags
1381 $ gnt-node list-tags
1382 $ gnt-cluster list-tags
1387 It is also possible to execute a global search on the all tags defined
1388 in the cluster configuration, via a cluster command::
1390 $ gnt-cluster search-tags %REGEXP%
1392 The parameter expected is a regular expression (see
1393 :manpage:`regex(7)`). This will return all tags that match the search,
1394 together with the object they are defined in (the names being show in a
1395 hierarchical kind of way)::
1397 $ gnt-cluster search-tags %o%
1399 /instances/instance1 owner:bar
1405 The various jobs submitted by the instance/node/cluster commands can be
1406 examined, canceled and archived by various invocations of the
1407 ``gnt-job`` command.
1409 First is the job list command::
1412 17771 success INSTANCE_QUERY_DATA
1413 17773 success CLUSTER_VERIFY_DISKS
1414 17775 success CLUSTER_REPAIR_DISK_SIZES
1415 17776 error CLUSTER_RENAME(cluster.example.com)
1416 17780 success CLUSTER_REDIST_CONF
1417 17792 success INSTANCE_REBOOT(instance1.example.com)
1419 More detailed information about a job can be found via the ``info``
1422 $ gnt-job info %17776%
1425 Received: 2009-10-25 23:18:02.180569
1426 Processing start: 2009-10-25 23:18:02.200335 (delta 0.019766s)
1427 Processing end: 2009-10-25 23:18:02.279743 (delta 0.079408s)
1428 Total processing time: 0.099174 seconds
1432 Processing start: 2009-10-25 23:18:02.200335
1433 Processing end: 2009-10-25 23:18:02.252282
1435 name: cluster.example.com
1438 [Neither the name nor the IP address of the cluster has changed]
1441 During the execution of a job, it's possible to follow the output of a
1442 job, similar to the log that one get from the ``gnt-`` commands, via the
1445 $ gnt-instance add --submit … %instance1%
1447 $ gnt-job watch %17818%
1448 Output from job 17818 follows
1449 -----------------------------
1450 Mon Oct 26 00:22:48 2009 - INFO: Selected nodes for instance instance1 via iallocator dumb: node1, node2
1451 Mon Oct 26 00:22:49 2009 * creating instance disks...
1452 Mon Oct 26 00:22:52 2009 adding instance instance1 to cluster config
1453 Mon Oct 26 00:22:52 2009 - INFO: Waiting for instance instance1 to sync disks.
1455 Mon Oct 26 00:23:03 2009 creating os for instance instance1 on node node1
1456 Mon Oct 26 00:23:03 2009 * running the instance OS create scripts...
1457 Mon Oct 26 00:23:13 2009 * starting instance...
1460 This is useful if you need to follow a job's progress from multiple
1463 A job that has not yet started to run can be canceled::
1465 $ gnt-job cancel %17810%
1467 But not one that has already started execution::
1469 $ gnt-job cancel %17805%
1470 Job 17805 is no longer waiting in the queue
1472 There are two queues for jobs: the *current* and the *archive*
1473 queue. Jobs are initially submitted to the current queue, and they stay
1474 in that queue until they have finished execution (either successfully or
1475 not). At that point, they can be moved into the archive queue using e.g.
1476 ``gnt-job autoarchive all``. The ``ganeti-watcher`` script will do this
1477 automatically 6 hours after a job is finished. The ``ganeti-cleaner``
1478 script will then remove archived the jobs from the archive directory
1481 Note that ``gnt-job list`` only shows jobs in the current queue.
1482 Archived jobs can be viewed using ``gnt-job info <id>``.
1484 Special Ganeti deployments
1485 --------------------------
1487 Since Ganeti 2.4, it is possible to extend the Ganeti deployment with
1488 two custom scenarios: Ganeti inside Ganeti and multi-site model.
1490 Running Ganeti under Ganeti
1491 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1493 It is sometimes useful to be able to use a Ganeti instance as a Ganeti
1494 node (part of another cluster, usually). One example scenario is two
1495 small clusters, where we want to have an additional master candidate
1496 that holds the cluster configuration and can be used for helping with
1497 the master voting process.
1499 However, these Ganeti instance should not host instances themselves, and
1500 should not be considered in the normal capacity planning, evacuation
1501 strategies, etc. In order to accomplish this, mark these nodes as
1502 non-``vm_capable``::
1504 $ gnt-node modify --vm-capable=no %node3%
1506 The vm_capable status can be listed as usual via ``gnt-node list``::
1508 $ gnt-node list -oname,vm_capable
1514 When this flag is set, the cluster will not do any operations that
1515 relate to instances on such nodes, e.g. hypervisor operations,
1516 disk-related operations, etc. Basically they will just keep the ssconf
1517 files, and if master candidates the full configuration.
1522 If Ganeti is deployed in multi-site model, with each site being a node
1523 group (so that instances are not relocated across the WAN by mistake),
1524 it is conceivable that either the WAN latency is high or that some sites
1525 have a lower reliability than others. In this case, it doesn't make
1526 sense to replicate the job information across all sites (or even outside
1527 of a “central” node group), so it should be possible to restrict which
1528 nodes can become master candidates via the auto-promotion algorithm.
1530 Ganeti 2.4 introduces for this purpose a new ``master_capable`` flag,
1531 which (when unset) prevents nodes from being marked as master
1532 candidates, either manually or automatically.
1534 As usual, the node modify operation can change this flag::
1536 $ gnt-node modify --auto-promote --master-capable=no %node3%
1537 Fri Jan 7 06:23:07 2011 - INFO: Demoting from master candidate
1538 Fri Jan 7 06:23:08 2011 - INFO: Promoted nodes to master candidate role: node4
1540 - master_capable -> False
1541 - master_candidate -> False
1543 And the node list operation will list this flag::
1545 $ gnt-node list -oname,master_capable %node1% %node2% %node3%
1551 Note that marking a node both not ``vm_capable`` and not
1552 ``master_capable`` makes the node practically unusable from Ganeti's
1553 point of view. Hence these two flags should be used probably in
1554 contrast: some nodes will be only master candidates (master_capable but
1555 not vm_capable), and other nodes will only hold instances (vm_capable
1556 but not master_capable).
1562 Beside the usual ``gnt-`` and ``ganeti-`` commands which are provided
1563 and installed in ``$prefix/sbin`` at install time, there are a couple of
1564 other tools installed which are used seldom but can be helpful in some
1570 The ``lvmstrap`` tool, introduced in :ref:`configure-lvm-label` section,
1571 has two modes of operation:
1573 - ``diskinfo`` shows the discovered disks on the system and their status
1574 - ``create`` takes all not-in-use disks and creates a volume group out
1577 .. warning:: The ``create`` argument to this command causes data-loss!
1582 The ``cfgupgrade`` tools is used to upgrade between major (and minor)
1583 Ganeti versions, and to roll back. Point-releases are usually
1584 transparent for the admin.
1586 More information about the upgrade procedure is listed on the wiki at
1587 http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/wiki/UpgradeNotes.
1589 There is also a script designed to upgrade from Ganeti 1.2 to 2.0,
1590 called ``cfgupgrade12``.
1595 .. note:: This command is not actively maintained; make sure you backup
1596 your configuration before using it
1598 This can be used as an alternative to direct editing of the
1599 main configuration file if Ganeti has a bug and prevents you, for
1600 example, from removing an instance or a node from the configuration
1608 .. warning:: This command will erase existing instances if given as
1611 This tool is used to exercise either the hardware of machines or
1612 alternatively the Ganeti software. It is safe to run on an existing
1613 cluster **as long as you don't pass it existing instance names**.
1615 The command will, by default, execute a comprehensive set of operations
1616 against a list of instances, these being:
1619 - disk replacement (for redundant instances)
1620 - failover and migration (for redundant instances)
1621 - move (for non-redundant instances)
1623 - add disks, remove disk
1624 - add NICs, remove NICs
1625 - export and then import
1629 - and finally removal of the test instances
1631 Executing all these operations will test that the hardware performs
1632 well: the creation, disk replace, disk add and disk growth will exercise
1633 the storage and network; the migrate command will test the memory of the
1634 systems. Depending on the passed options, it can also test that the
1635 instance OS definitions are executing properly the rename, import and
1641 This tool takes the Ganeti configuration and outputs a "sanitized"
1642 version, by randomizing or clearing:
1644 - DRBD secrets and cluster public key (always)
1645 - host names (optional)
1647 - OS names (optional)
1648 - LV names (optional, only useful for very old clusters which still have
1649 instances whose LVs are based on the instance name)
1651 By default, all optional items are activated except the LV name
1652 randomization. When passing ``--no-randomization``, which disables the
1653 optional items (i.e. just the DRBD secrets and cluster public keys are
1654 randomized), the resulting file can be used as a safety copy of the
1655 cluster config - while not trivial, the layout of the cluster can be
1656 recreated from it and if the instance disks have not been lost it
1657 permits recovery from the loss of all master candidates.
1662 See :doc:`separate documentation for move-instance <move-instance>`.
1667 Ganeti can either be run entirely as root, or with every daemon running as
1668 its own specific user (if the parameters ``--with-user-prefix`` and/or
1669 ``--with-group-prefix`` have been specified at ``./configure``-time).
1671 In case split users are activated, they are required to exist on the system,
1672 and they need to belong to the proper groups in order for the access
1673 permissions to files and programs to be correct.
1675 The ``users-setup`` tool, when run, takes care of setting up the proper
1678 The tool does not accept any parameter, and requires root permissions to run.
1680 .. TODO: document cluster-merge tool
1683 Other Ganeti projects
1684 ---------------------
1686 Below is a list (which might not be up-to-date) of additional projects
1687 that can be useful in a Ganeti deployment. They can be downloaded from
1688 the project site (http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/) and the repositories
1689 are also on the project git site (http://git.ganeti.org).
1694 The ``ganeti-nbma`` software is designed to allow instances to live on a
1695 separate, virtual network from the nodes, and in an environment where
1696 nodes are not guaranteed to be able to reach each other via multicasting
1697 or broadcasting. For more information see the README in the source
1703 Before Ganeti version 2.5, this was a standalone project; since that
1704 version it is integrated into the Ganeti codebase (see
1705 :doc:`install-quick` for instructions on how to enable it). If you run
1706 an older Ganeti version, you will have to download and build it
1709 For more information and installation instructions, see the README file
1710 in the source archive.
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