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Ganeti is a virtualization cluster management software. You are expected

to be a system administrator familiar with your Linux distribution and

the Xen or KVM virtualization environments before using it.

help. This manual though will help you getting familiar with the system

by explaining the most common operations, grouped by related use.

to use this manual, the rest of this document is divided in sections

for the different targets that a command affects: instance, nodes, etc.

.. _terminology-label:

++++++++++++++++++

This section provides a small introduction to Ganeti terminology, which

might be useful when reading the rest of the document.

~~~~~~~

A set of machines (nodes) that cooperate to offer a coherent, highly

available virtualization service under a single administration domain.

Node

~~~~

A physical machine which is member of a cluster.  Nodes are the basic

cluster infrastructure, and they don't need to be fault tolerant in

order to achieve high availability for instances.

Node can be added and removed (if they host no instances) at will from

the cluster. In a HA cluster and only with HA instances, the loss of any

single node will not cause disk data loss for any instance; of course,

a node crash will cause the crash of the its primary instances.

A node belonging to a cluster can be in one of the following roles at a

given time:

- *master* node, which is the node from which the cluster is controlled

- *master candidate* node, only nodes in this role have the full cluster

  configuration and knowledge, and only master candidates can become the

  master node

- *regular* node, which is the state in which most nodes will be on

  bigger clusters (>20 nodes)

- *drained* node, nodes in this state are functioning normally but the

  cannot receive new instances; the intention is that nodes in this role

  have some issue and they are being evacuated for hardware repairs

- *offline* node, in which there is a record in the cluster

  configuration about the node, but the daemons on the master node will

  not talk to this node; any instances declared as having an offline

  node as either primary or secondary will be flagged as an error in the

  cluster verify operation

Depending on the role, each node will run a set of daemons:

- the :command:`ganeti-noded` daemon, which control the manipulation of

  this node's hardware resources; it runs on all nodes which are in a

  cluster

- the :command:`ganeti-confd` daemon (Ganeti 2.1+) which runs on all

  nodes, but is only functional on master candidate nodes

- the :command:`ganeti-rapi` daemon which runs on the master node and

  offers an HTTP-based API for the cluster

- the :command:`ganeti-masterd` daemon which runs on the master node and

  allows control of the cluster

~~~~~~~~

A virtual machine which runs on a cluster. It can be a fault tolerant,

highly available entity.

An instance has various parameters, which are classified in three

categories: hypervisor related-parameters (called ``hvparams``), general

parameters (called ``beparams``) and per network-card parameters (called

``nicparams``). All these parameters can be modified either at instance

level or via defaults at cluster level.

Disk template

The are multiple options for the storage provided to an instance; while

the instance sees the same virtual drive in all cases, the node-level

configuration varies between them.

There are four disk templates you can choose from:

diskless

  The instance has no disks. Only used for special purpose operating

  systems or for testing.

file

  The instance will use plain files as backend for its disks. No

  redundancy is provided, and this is somewhat more difficult to

  configure for high performance.

plain

  The instance will use LVM devices as backend for its disks. No

  redundancy is provided.

drbd

  .. note:: This is only valid for multi-node clusters using DRBD 8.0+

  A mirror is set between the local node and a remote one, which must be

  specified with the second value of the --node option. Use this option

  to obtain a highly available instance that can be failed over to a

  remote node should the primary one fail.

IAllocator

~~~~~~~~~~

A framework for using external (user-provided) scripts to compute the

placement of instances on the cluster nodes. This eliminates the need to

manually specify nodes in instance add, instance moves, node evacuate,

etc.

In order for Ganeti to be able to use these scripts, they must be place

in the iallocator directory (usually ``lib/ganeti/iallocators`` under

the installation prefix, e.g. ``/usr/local``).

“Primary” and “secondary” concepts

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

An instance has a primary and depending on the disk configuration, might

also have a secondary node. The instance always runs on the primary node

and only uses its secondary node for disk replication.

Similarly, the term of primary and secondary instances when talking

about a node refers to the set of instances having the given node as

primary, respectively secondary.

Tags

~~~~

Tags are short strings that can be attached to either to cluster itself,

or to nodes or instances. They are useful as a very simplistic

information store for helping with cluster administration, for example

by attaching owner information to each instance after it's created::

  gnt-instance add … instance1

  gnt-instance add-tags instance1 owner:user2

And then by listing each instance and its tags, this information could

be used for contacting the users of each instance.

Jobs and OpCodes

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

While not directly visible by an end-user, it's useful to know that a

basic cluster operation (e.g. starting an instance) is represented

internall by Ganeti as an *OpCode* (abbreviation from operation

code). These OpCodes are executed as part of a *Job*. The OpCodes in a

single Job are processed serially by Ganeti, but different Jobs will be

processed (depending on resource availability) in parallel.

For example, shutting down the entire cluster can be done by running the

command ``gnt-instance shutdown --all``, which will submit for each

instance a separate job containing the “shutdown instance” OpCode.

Prerequisites

+++++++++++++

You need to have your Ganeti cluster installed and configured before you

try any of the commands in this document. Please follow the

:doc:`install` for instructions on how to do that.

Instance management

-------------------

Adding an instance

++++++++++++++++++

The add operation might seem complex due to the many parameters it

accepts, but once you have understood the (few) required parameters and

the customisation capabilities you will see it is an easy operation.

The add operation requires at minimum five parameters:

- the OS for the instance

- the disk template

- the disk count and size

- the node specification or alternatively the iallocator to use

- and finally the instance name

The OS for the instance must be visible in the output of the command

``gnt-os list`` and specifies which guest OS to install on the instance.

The disk template specifies what kind of storage to use as backend for

the (virtual) disks presented to the instance; note that for instances

with multiple virtual disks, they all must be of the same type.

The node(s) on which the instance will run can be given either manually,

via the ``-n`` option, or computed automatically by Ganeti, if you have

installed any iallocator script.

With the above parameters in mind, the command is::

    -n TARGET_NODE:SECONDARY_NODE \

    -o OS_TYPE \

    -t DISK_TEMPLATE -s DISK_SIZE \

points to an address in the same subnet as the cluster itself.

The above command has the minimum required options; other options you

can give include, among others:

See the manpage for gnt-instance for the detailed option list.

For example if you want to create an highly available instance, with a

single disk of 50GB and the default memory size, having primary node

``node1`` and secondary node ``node3``, use the following command::

  gnt-instance add -n node1:node3 -o debootstrap -t drbd \

    instance1

There is a also a command for batch instance creation from a

specification file, see the ``batch-create`` operation in the

gnt-instance manual page.

Regular instance operations

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Removal

~~~~~~~

Removing an instance is even easier than creating one. This operation is

irreversible and destroys all the contents of your instance. Use with

care::

Startup/shutdown

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. warning:: Do not use the Xen or KVM commands directly to stop

   instances. If you run for example ``xm shutdown`` or ``xm destroy``

   on an instance Ganeti will automatically restart it (via the

   :command:`ganeti-watcher` command which is launched via cron).

Querying instances

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

There are two ways to get information about instances: listing

instances, which does a tabular output containing a given set of fields

about each instance, and querying detailed information about a set of

instances.

The command can return a custom set of information when using the ``-o``

option (as always, check the manpage for a detailed specification). Each

instance will be represented on a line, thus making it easy to parse

this output via the usual shell utilities (grep, sed, etc.).

To get more detailed information about an instance, you can run::

  gnt-instance info INSTANCE

which will give a multi-line block of information about the instance,

it's hardware resources (especially its disks and their redundancy

status), etc. This is harder to parse and is more expensive than the

list operation, but returns much more detailed information.

Export/Import

+++++++++++++

You can create a snapshot of an instance disk and its Ganeti

``/srv/ganeti`` to hold the instance image. Use the ``--noshutdown``

option to snapshot an instance without rebooting it. Note that Ganeti

only keeps one snapshot for an instance - any previous snapshot of the

same instance existing cluster-wide under ``/srv/ganeti`` will be

removed by this operation: if you want to keep them, you need to move

them out of the Ganeti exports directory.

Importing an instance is similar to creating a new one, but additionally

one must specify the location of the snapshot. The command is::

Instance HA features

--------------------

.. _instance-change-primary-label:

Changing the primary node

+++++++++++++++++++++++++

There are three ways to exchange an instance's primary and secondary

nodes; the right one to choose depends on how the instance has been

created and the status of its current primary node. See

:ref:`rest-redundancy-label` for information on changing the secondary

node. Note that it's only possible to change the primary node to the

secondary and vice-versa; a direct change of the primary node with a

third node, while keeping the current secondary is not possible in a

single step, only via multiple operations as detailed in

:ref:`instance-relocation-label`.

primary, and vice-versa.

If an instance is built in highly available mode, it currently runs and

both its nodes are running fine, you can at migrate it over to its

secondary node, without downtime. On the master node you need to run::

The current load on the instance and its memory size will influence how

long the migration will take. In any case, for both KVM and Xen

hypervisors, the migration will be transparent to the instance.

Moving an instance (offline)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

If an instance has not been create as mirrored, then the only way to

change its primary node is to execute the move command::

  gnt-instance move -n NEW_NODE INSTANCE

This has a few prerequisites:

- the instance must be stopped

- its current primary node must be on-line and healthy

- the disks of the instance must not have any errors

Since this operation actually copies the data from the old node to the

new node, expect it to take proportional to the size of the instance's

disks and the speed of both the nodes' I/O system and their networking.

Disk operations

+++++++++++++++

Disk failures are a common cause of errors in any server

deployment. Ganeti offers protection from single-node failure if your

instances were created in HA mode, and it also offers ways to restore

redundancy after a failure.

Preparing for disk operations

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It is important to note that for Ganeti to be able to do any disk

operation, the Linux machines on top of which Ganeti must be consistent;

for LVM, this means that the LVM commands must not return failures; it

is common that after a complete disk failure, any LVM command aborts

with an error similar to::

  # vgs

  /dev/sdb1: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error

  /dev/sdb1: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 750153695232: Input/output

  error

  /dev/sdb1: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error

  Couldn't find device with uuid

  't30jmN-4Rcf-Fr5e-CURS-pawt-z0jU-m1TgeJ'.

  Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group xenvg.

Before restoring an instance's disks to healthy status, it's needed to

fix the volume group used by Ganeti so that we can actually create and

manage the logical volumes. This is usually done in a multi-step

process:

#. first, if the disk is completely gone and LVM commands exit with

   “Couldn't find device with uuid…” then you need to run the command::

    vgreduce --removemissing VOLUME_GROUP

#. after the above command, the LVM commands should be executing

   normally (warnings are normal, but the commands will not fail

   completely).

#. if the failed disk is still visible in the output of the ``pvs``

   command, you need to deactivate it from allocations by running::

    pvs -x n /dev/DISK

At this point, the volume group should be consistent and any bad

physical volumes should not longer be available for allocation.

Note that since version 2.1 Ganeti provides some commands to automate

these two operations, see :ref:`storage-units-label`.

.. _rest-redundancy-label:

Restoring redundancy for DRBD-based instances

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A DRBD instance has two nodes, and the storage on one of them has

failed. Depending on which node (primary or secondary) has failed, you

have three options at hand:

- if the storage on the primary node has failed, you need to re-create

  the disks on it

- if the storage on the secondary node has failed, you can either

  re-create the disks on it or change the secondary and recreate

  redundancy on the new secondary node

Of course, at any point it's possible to force re-creation of disks even

though everything is already fine.

For all three cases, the ``replace-disks`` operation can be used::

  # re-create disks on the primary node

  gnt-instance replace-disks -p INSTANCE_NAME

  # re-create disks on the current secondary

  gnt-instance replace-disks -s INSTANCE_NAME

  # change the secondary node, via manual specification

  gnt-instance replace-disks -n NODE INSTANCE_NAME

  # change the secondary node, via an iallocator script

  gnt-instance replace-disks -I SCRIPT INSTANCE_NAME

  # since Ganeti 2.1: automatically fix the primary or secondary node

  gnt-instance replace-disks -a INSTANCE_NAME

Since the process involves copying all data from the working node to the

target node, it will take a while, depending on the instance's disk

size, node I/O system and network speed. But it is (baring any network

interruption) completely transparent for the instance.

Re-creating disks for non-redundant instances

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. versionadded:: 2.1

For non-redundant instances, there isn't a copy (except backups) to

re-create the disks. But it's possible to at-least re-create empty

disks, after which a reinstall can be run, via the ``recreate-disks``

command::

  gnt-instance recreate-disks INSTANCE

Note that this will fail if the disks already exists.

Debugging instances

+++++++++++++++++++

From an instance's primary node you can have access to its disks. Never

instance, or will break replication and your data will be

inconsistent. The correct way to access an instance's disks is to run

(on the master node, as usual) the command::

  gnt-instance activate-disks INSTANCE

And then, *on the primary node of the instance*, access the device that

gets created. For example, you could mount the given disks, then edit

files on the filesystem, etc.

Note that with partitioned disks (as opposed to whole-disk filesystems),

you will need to use a tool like :manpage:`kpartx(8)`::

  node1# gnt-instance activate-disks instance1

  …

  node1# ssh node3

  node3# kpartx -l /dev/…

  node3# kpartx -a /dev/…

  node3# mount /dev/mapper/… /mnt/

  # edit files under mnt as desired

  node3# umount /mnt/

  node3# kpartx -d /dev/…

  node3# exit

  node1#

After you've finished you can deactivate them with the deactivate-disks

command, which works in the same way::

  gnt-instance deactivate-disks INSTANCE

Note that if any process started by you is still using the disks, the

above command will error out, and you **must** cleanup and ensure that

the above command runs successfully before you start the instance,

otherwise the instance will suffer corruption.

Use the console normally and then type ``^]`` when done, to exit.

Other instance operations

+++++++++++++++++++++++++

Reboot

~~~~~~

There is a wrapper command for rebooting instances::

  gnt-instance reboot instance2

By default, this does the equivalent of shutting down and then starting

the instance, but it accepts parameters to perform a soft-reboot (via

the hypervisor), a hard reboot (hypervisor shutdown and then startup) or

a full one (the default, which also de-configures and then configures

again the disks of the instance).

Instance OS definitions debugging

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Should you have any problems with instance operating systems the command

to see a complete status for all your nodes is::

.. _instance-relocation-label:

Instance relocation

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

While it is not possible to move an instance from nodes ``(A, B)`` to

nodes ``(C, D)`` in a single move, it is possible to do so in a few

steps::

  # instance is located on A, B

  node1# gnt-instance replace -n nodeC instance1

  # instance has moved from (A, B) to (A, C)

  # we now flip the primary/secondary nodes

  node1# gnt-instance migrate instance1

  # instance lives on (C, A)

  # we can then change A to D via:

  node1# gnt-instance replace -n nodeD instance1

Which brings it into the final configuration of ``(C, D)``. Note that we

needed to do two replace-disks operation (two copies of the instance

disks), because we needed to get rid of both the original nodes (A and

B).

Node operations

---------------

There are much fewer node operations available than for instances, but

they are equivalently important for maintaining a healthy cluster.

Add/readd

+++++++++

It is at any time possible to extend the cluster with one more node, by

using the node add operation::

  gnt-node add NEW_NODE

If the cluster has a replication network defined, then you need to pass

the ``-s REPLICATION_IP`` parameter to this option.

A variation of this command can be used to re-configure a node if its

Ganeti configuration is broken, for example if it has been reinstalled

by mistake::

  gnt-node add --readd EXISTING_NODE

This will reinitialise the node as if it's been newly added, but while

keeping its existing configuration in the cluster (primary/secondary IP,

etc.), in other words you won't need to use ``-s`` here.

Changing the node role

++++++++++++++++++++++

A node can be in different roles, as explained in the

:ref:`terminology-label` section. Promoting a node to the master role is

special, while the other roles are handled all via a single command.

Failing over the master node

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

If you want to promote a different node to the master role (for whatever

reason), run on any other master-candidate node the command::

  gnt-cluster masterfailover

and the node you ran it on is now the new master. In case you try to run

this on a non master-candidate node, you will get an error telling you

which nodes are valid.

Changing between the other roles

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The ``gnt-node modify`` command can be used to select a new role::

  # change to master candidate

  gnt-node modify -C yes NODE

  # change to drained status

  gnt-node modify -D yes NODE

  # change to offline status

  gnt-node modify -O yes NODE

  # change to regular mode (reset all flags)

  gnt-node modify -O no -D no -C no NODE

Note that the cluster requires that at any point in time, a certain

number of nodes are master candidates, so changing from master candidate

to other roles might fail. It is recommended to either force the

operation (via the ``--force`` option) or first change the number of

master candidates in the cluster - see :ref:`cluster-config-label`.

Evacuating nodes

++++++++++++++++

There are two steps of moving instances off a node:

- moving the primary instances (actually converting them into secondary

  instances)

- moving the secondary instances (including any instances converted in

  the step above)

Primary instance conversion

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

For this step, you can use either individual instance move

commands (as seen in :ref:`instance-change-primary-label`) or the bulk

per-node versions; these are::

  gnt-node migrate NODE

  gnt-node evacuate NODE

Note that the instance “move” command doesn't currently have a node

equivalent.

Both these commands, or the equivalent per-instance command, will make

this node the secondary node for the respective instances, whereas their

current secondary node will become primary. Note that it is not possible

to change in one step the primary node to another node as primary, while

keeping the same secondary node.

Secondary instance evacuation

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

For the evacuation of secondary instances, a command called

:command:`gnt-node evacuate` is provided and its syntax is::

  gnt-node evacuate -I IALLOCATOR_SCRIPT NODE

  gnt-node evacuate -n DESTINATION_NODE NODE

The first version will compute the new secondary for each instance in

turn using the given iallocator script, whereas the second one will

simply move all instances to DESTINATION_NODE.

Removal

+++++++

Once a node no longer has any instances (neither primary nor secondary),

it's easy to remove it from the cluster::

  gnt-node remove NODE_NAME

This will deconfigure the node, stop the ganeti daemons on it and leave

it hopefully like before it joined to the cluster.

Storage handling

++++++++++++++++

When using LVM (either standalone or with DRBD), it can become tedious

to debug and fix it in case of errors. Furthermore, even file-based

storage can become complicated to handle manually on many hosts. Ganeti

provides a couple of commands to help with automation.

Logical volumes

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This is a command specific to LVM handling. It allows listing the

logical volumes on a given node or on all nodes and their association to

instances via the ``volumes`` command::

  node1# gnt-node volumes

  Node  PhysDev   VG    Name             Size Instance

  node1 /dev/sdb1 xenvg e61fbc97-….disk0 512M instance17

  node1 /dev/sdb1 xenvg ebd1a7d1-….disk0 512M instance19

  node2 /dev/sdb1 xenvg 0af08a3d-….disk0 512M instance20

  node2 /dev/sdb1 xenvg cc012285-….disk0 512M instance16

  node2 /dev/sdb1 xenvg f0fac192-….disk0 512M instance18

The above command maps each logical volume to a volume group and

underlying physical volume and (possibly) to an instance.

.. _storage-units-label:

Generalized storage handling

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

.. versionadded:: 2.1

Starting with Ganeti 2.1, a new storage framework has been implemented

that tries to abstract the handling of the storage type the cluster

uses.

First is listing the backend storage and their space situation::

  node1# gnt-node list-storage

  Node  Name        Size Used   Free

  node1 /dev/sda7 673.8G   0M 673.8G

  node1 /dev/sdb1 698.6G 1.5G 697.1G

  node2 /dev/sda7 673.8G   0M 673.8G

  node2 /dev/sdb1 698.6G 1.0G 697.6G

The default is to list LVM physical volumes. It's also possible to list

the LVM volume groups::

  node1# gnt-node list-storage -t lvm-vg

  Node  Name  Size

  node1 xenvg 1.3T

  node2 xenvg 1.3T

Next is repairing storage units, which is currently only implemented for

volume groups and does the equivalent of ``vgreduce --removemissing``::

  node1# gnt-node repair-storage node2 lvm-vg xenvg

  Sun Oct 25 22:21:45 2009 Repairing storage unit 'xenvg' on node2 ...

Last is the modification of volume properties, which is (again) only

implemented for LVM physical volumes and allows toggling the

``allocatable`` value::

  node1# gnt-node modify-storage --allocatable=no node2 lvm-pv /dev/sdb1

Use of the storage commands

All these commands are needed when recovering a node from a disk

failure:

- first, we need to recover from complete LVM failure (due to missing

  disk), by running the ``repair-storage`` command

- second, we need to change allocation on any partially-broken disk

  (i.e. LVM still sees it, but it has bad blocks) by running

  ``modify-storage``

- then we can evacuate the instances as needed

Cluster operations

------------------

Beside the cluster initialisation command (which is detailed in the

:doc:`install` document) and the master failover command which is

explained under node handling, there are a couple of other cluster

operations available.

.. _cluster-config-label:

Standard operations

+++++++++++++++++++

One of the few commands that can be run on any node (not only the

master) is the ``getmaster`` command::

  node2# gnt-cluster getmaster

  node1.example.com

  node2#

It is possible to query and change global cluster parameters via the

``info`` and ``modify`` commands::

  node1# gnt-cluster info

  Cluster name: cluster.example.com

  Cluster UUID: 07805e6f-f0af-4310-95f1-572862ee939c

  Creation time: 2009-09-25 05:04:15

  Modification time: 2009-10-18 22:11:47

  Master node: node1.example.com

  Architecture (this node): 64bit (x86_64)

  …

  Tags: foo

  Default hypervisor: xen-pvm

  Enabled hypervisors: xen-pvm

  Hypervisor parameters:

    - xen-pvm:

        root_path: /dev/sda1

        …

  Cluster parameters:

    - candidate pool size: 10

      …

  Default instance parameters:

    - default:

        memory: 128

        …

  Default nic parameters:

    - default:

        link: xen-br0

        …

There various parameters above can be changed via the ``modify``

commands as follows:

- the hypervisor parameters can be changed via ``modify -H

  xen-pvm:root_path=…``, and so on for other hypervisors/key/values

- the "default instance parameters" are changeable via ``modify -B

  parameter=value…`` syntax

- the cluster parameters are changeable via separate options to the

  modify command (e.g. ``--candidate-pool-size``, etc.)

For detailed option list see the :manpage:`gnt-cluster(8)` man page.

The cluster version can be obtained via the ``version`` command::

  node1# gnt-cluster version

  Software version: 2.1.0

  Internode protocol: 20

  Configuration format: 2010000

  OS api version: 15

  Export interface: 0

This is not very useful except when debugging Ganeti.

Global node commands

++++++++++++++++++++

There are two commands provided for replicating files to all nodes of a

cluster and for running commands on all the nodes::

  node1# gnt-cluster copyfile /path/to/file

  node1# gnt-cluster command ls -l /path/to/file

These are simple wrappers over scp/ssh and more advanced usage can be

obtained using :manpage:`dsh(1)` and similar commands. But they are

useful to update an OS script from the master node, for example.

Cluster verification

++++++++++++++++++++

There are three commands that relate to global cluster checks. The first

one is ``verify`` which gives an overview on the cluster state,

highlighting any issues. In normal operation, this command should return

no ``ERROR`` messages::

  node1# gnt-cluster verify

  Sun Oct 25 23:08:58 2009 * Verifying global settings

  Sun Oct 25 23:08:58 2009 * Gathering data (2 nodes)

  Sun Oct 25 23:09:00 2009 * Verifying node status

  Sun Oct 25 23:09:00 2009 * Verifying instance status

  Sun Oct 25 23:09:00 2009 * Verifying orphan volumes

  Sun Oct 25 23:09:00 2009 * Verifying remaining instances

  Sun Oct 25 23:09:00 2009 * Verifying N+1 Memory redundancy

  Sun Oct 25 23:09:00 2009 * Other Notes

  Sun Oct 25 23:09:00 2009   - NOTICE: 5 non-redundant instance(s) found.

  Sun Oct 25 23:09:00 2009 * Hooks Results

The second command is ``verify-disks``, which checks that the instance's

disks have the correct status based on the desired instance state

(up/down)::

  node1# gnt-cluster verify-disks

Note that this command will show no output when disks are healthy.

The last command is used to repair any discrepancies in Ganeti's

recorded disk size and the actual disk size (disk size information is

needed for proper activation and growth of DRBD-based disks)::

  node1# gnt-cluster repair-disk-sizes

  Sun Oct 25 23:13:16 2009  - INFO: Disk 0 of instance instance1 has mismatched size, correcting: recorded 512, actual 2048

  Sun Oct 25 23:13:17 2009  - WARNING: Invalid result from node node4, ignoring node results

The above shows one instance having wrong disk size, and a node which

returned invalid data, and thus we ignored all primary instances of that

node.

Configuration redistribution

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

If the verify command complains about file mismatches between the master

and other nodes, due to some node problems or if you manually modified

configuration files, you can force an push of the master configuration

to all other nodes via the ``redist-conf`` command::

  node1# gnt-cluster redist-conf

  node1#

This command will be silent unless there are problems sending updates to

the other nodes.

Cluster renaming

++++++++++++++++

It is possible to rename a cluster, or to change its IP address, via the

``rename`` command. If only the IP has changed, you need to pass the

current name and Ganeti will realise its IP has changed::

  node1# gnt-cluster rename cluster.example.com

  This will rename the cluster to 'cluster.example.com'. If

  you are connected over the network to the cluster name, the operation

  is very dangerous as the IP address will be removed from the node and

  the change may not go through. Continue?

  y/[n]/?: y

  Failure: prerequisites not met for this operation:

  Neither the name nor the IP address of the cluster has changed

In the above output, neither value has changed since the cluster

initialisation so the operation is not completed.

Queue operations

++++++++++++++++

The job queue execution in Ganeti 2.0 and higher can be inspected,

suspended and resumed via the ``queue`` command::

  node1~# gnt-cluster queue info

  The drain flag is unset

  node1~# gnt-cluster queue drain

  node1~# gnt-instance stop instance1

  Failed to submit job for instance1: Job queue is drained, refusing job

  node1~# gnt-cluster queue info

  The drain flag is set

  node1~# gnt-cluster queue undrain

This is most useful if you have an active cluster and you need to

upgrade the Ganeti software, or simply restart the software on any node:

#. suspend the queue via ``queue drain``

#. wait until there are no more running jobs via ``gnt-job list``

#. restart the master or another node, or upgrade the software

#. resume the queue via ``queue undrain``

.. note:: this command only stores a local flag file, and if you

   failover the master, it will not have effect on the new master.

Watcher control

+++++++++++++++

The :manpage:`ganeti-watcher` is a program, usually scheduled via

``cron``, that takes care of cluster maintenance operations (restarting

downed instances, activating down DRBD disks, etc.). However, during

maintenance and troubleshooting, this can get in your way; disabling it

via commenting out the cron job is not so good as this can be

forgotten. Thus there are some commands for automated control of the

watcher: ``pause``, ``info`` and ``continue``::

  node1~# gnt-cluster watcher info

  The watcher is not paused.

  node1~# gnt-cluster watcher pause 1h

  The watcher is paused until Mon Oct 26 00:30:37 2009.

  node1~# gnt-cluster watcher info

  The watcher is paused until Mon Oct 26 00:30:37 2009.

  node1~# ganeti-watcher -d

  2009-10-25 23:30:47,984:  pid=28867 ganeti-watcher:486 DEBUG Pause has been set, exiting

  node1~# gnt-cluster watcher continue

  The watcher is no longer paused.

  node1~# ganeti-watcher -d

  2009-10-25 23:31:04,789:  pid=28976 ganeti-watcher:345 DEBUG Archived 0 jobs, left 0

  2009-10-25 23:31:05,884:  pid=28976 ganeti-watcher:280 DEBUG Got data from cluster, writing instance status file

  2009-10-25 23:31:06,061:  pid=28976 ganeti-watcher:150 DEBUG Data didn't change, just touching status file

  node1~# gnt-cluster watcher info

  The watcher is not paused.

  node1~#

The exact details of the argument to the ``pause`` command are available

in the manpage.

.. note:: this command only stores a local flag file, and if you

   failover the master, it will not have effect on the new master.

Removing a cluster entirely

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++

The usual method to cleanup a cluster is to run ``gnt-cluster destroy``

however if the Ganeti installation is broken in any way then this will

not run.

It is possible in such a case to cleanup manually most if not all traces

of a cluster installation by following these steps on all of the nodes:

1. Shutdown all instances. This depends on the virtualisation method

   used (Xen, KVM, etc.):

2. If using DRBD, shutdown all DRBD minors (which should by at this time

   no-longer in use by instances); on each node, run ``drbdsetup

3. If using LVM, cleanup the Ganeti volume group; if only Ganeti created

   logical volumes (and you are not sharing the volume group with the

   OS, for example), then simply running ``lvremove -f xenvg`` (replace

   'xenvg' with your volume group name) should do the required cleanup.

   /srv/ganeti/file-storage/*`` replacing the path with the correct path

   for your cluster.

``xen-br0`` for bridged mode, otherwise ``eth0`` or similar), by running

``ip a del $clusterip/32 dev xen-br0`` (use the correct cluster ip and

network device name).

you want to remove Ganeti completely, you need to also undo some of the

SSH changes and log directories:

- remove from ``/root/.ssh`` the keys that Ganeti added (check the

  ``authorized_keys`` and ``id_dsa`` files)

Tags handling

-------------

The tags handling (addition, removal, listing) is similar for all the

objects that support it (instances, nodes, and the cluster).

Limitations

+++++++++++

Note that the set of characters present in a tag and the maximum tag

length are restricted. Currently the maximum length is 128 characters,

there can be at most 4096 tags per object, and the set of characters is

comprised by alphanumeric characters and additionally ``.+*/:-``.

Operations

++++++++++

Tags can be added via ``add-tags``::

  gnt-instance add-tags INSTANCE a b c

  gnt-node add-tags INSTANCE a b c

  gnt-cluster add-tags a b c

The above commands add three tags to an instance, to a node and to the

cluster. Note that the cluster command only takes tags as arguments,

whereas the node and instance commands first required the node and

instance name.

Tags can also be added from a file, via the ``--from=FILENAME``

argument. The file is expected to contain one tag per line.

Tags can also be remove via a syntax very similar to the add one::

  gnt-instance remove-tags INSTANCE a b c

And listed via::

  gnt-instance list-tags

  gnt-node list-tags

  gnt-cluster list-tags

Global tag search

+++++++++++++++++

It is also possible to execute a global search on the all tags defined

in the cluster configuration, via a cluster command::

  gnt-cluster search-tags REGEXP

The parameter expected is a regular expression (see

:manpage:`regex(7)`). This will return all tags that match the search,

together with the object they are defined in (the names being show in a

hierarchical kind of way)::

  node1# gnt-cluster search-tags o

  /cluster foo

  /instances/instance1 owner:bar

Job operations

--------------

The various jobs submitted by the instance/node/cluster commands can be

examined, canceled and archived by various invocations of the

``gnt-job`` command.

First is the job list command::

  node1# gnt-job list

  17771 success INSTANCE_QUERY_DATA

  17773 success CLUSTER_VERIFY_DISKS

  17775 success CLUSTER_REPAIR_DISK_SIZES

  17776 error   CLUSTER_RENAME(cluster.example.com)

  17780 success CLUSTER_REDIST_CONF

  17792 success INSTANCE_REBOOT(instance1.example.com)

More detailed information about a job can be found via the ``info``

command::

  node1# gnt-job info 17776

  Job ID: 17776

    Status: error

    Received:         2009-10-25 23:18:02.180569

    Processing start: 2009-10-25 23:18:02.200335 (delta 0.019766s)

    Processing end:   2009-10-25 23:18:02.279743 (delta 0.079408s)

    Total processing time: 0.099174 seconds

    Opcodes:

      OP_CLUSTER_RENAME

        Status: error

        Processing start: 2009-10-25 23:18:02.200335

        Processing end:   2009-10-25 23:18:02.252282

        Input fields:

          name: cluster.example.com

        Result:

          OpPrereqError

          [Neither the name nor the IP address of the cluster has changed]

        Execution log:

During the execution of a job, it's possible to follow the output of a

job, similar to the log that one get from the ``gnt-`` commands, via the

watch command::

  node1# gnt-instance add --submit … instance1

  JobID: 17818

  node1# gnt-job watch 17818

  Output from job 17818 follows

  -----------------------------

  Mon Oct 26 00:22:48 2009  - INFO: Selected nodes for instance instance1 via iallocator dumb: node1, node2

  Mon Oct 26 00:22:49 2009 * creating instance disks...

  Mon Oct 26 00:22:52 2009 adding instance instance1 to cluster config

  Mon Oct 26 00:22:52 2009  - INFO: Waiting for instance instance1 to sync disks.

  …

  Mon Oct 26 00:23:03 2009 creating os for instance xen-devi-18.fra.corp.google.com on node mpgntac4.fra.corp.google.com

  Mon Oct 26 00:23:03 2009 * running the instance OS create scripts...

  Mon Oct 26 00:23:13 2009 * starting instance...

  node1#

This is useful if you need to follow a job's progress from multiple

terminals.

A job that has not yet started to run can be canceled::

  node1# gnt-job cancel 17810

But not one that has already started execution::

  node1# gnt-job cancel 17805

  Job 17805 is no longer waiting in the queue

There are two queues for jobs: the *current* and the *archive*

queue. Jobs are initially submitted to the current queue, and they stay

in that queue until they have finished execution (either successfully or

not). At that point, they can be moved into the archive queue, and the

ganeti-watcher script will do this automatically after 6 hours. The

ganeti-cleaner script will remove the jobs from the archive directory

after three weeks.

Note that only jobs in the current queue can be viewed via the list and

info commands; Ganeti itself doesn't examine the archive directory. If

you need to see an older job, either move the file manually in the

top-level queue directory, or look at its contents (it's a

JSON-formatted file).

Ganeti tools

------------

Beside the usual ``gnt-`` and ``ganeti-`` commands which are provided

and installed in ``$prefix/sbin`` at install time, there are a couple of

other tools installed which are used seldom but can be helpful in some

cases.

lvmstrap

++++++++

The ``lvmstrap`` tool, introduced in :ref:`configure-lvm-label` section,

has two modes of operation:

- ``diskinfo`` shows the discovered disks on the system and their status

- ``create`` takes all not-in-use disks and creates a volume group out

  of them

.. warning:: The ``create`` argument to this command causes data-loss!

cfgupgrade

++++++++++

The ``cfgupgrade`` tools is used to upgrade between major (and minor)

Ganeti versions. Point-releases are usually transparent for the admin.

More information about the upgrade procedure is listed on the wiki at

http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/wiki/UpgradeNotes.

cfgshell

++++++++

.. note:: This command is not actively maintained; make sure you backup

   your configuration before using it

This can be used as an alternative to direct editing of the

main configuration file if Ganeti has a bug and prevents you, for

example, from removing an instance or a node from the configuration

file.

.. _burnin-label:

burnin

++++++

.. warning:: This command will erase existing instances if given as

   arguments!

This tool is used to exercise either the hardware of machines or

alternatively the Ganeti software. It is safe to run on an existing

cluster **as long as you don't pass it existing instance names**.

The command will, by default, execute a comprehensive set of operations

against a list of instances, these being:

- creation

- disk replacement (for redundant instances)

- failover and migration (for redundant instances)

- move (for non-redundant instances)

- disk growth

- add disks, remove disk

- add NICs, remove NICs

- export and then import

- rename

- reboot

- shutdown/startup

- and finally removal of the test instances

Executing all these operations will test that the hardware performs

well: the creation, disk replace, disk add and disk growth will exercise

the storage and network; the migrate command will test the memory of the

systems. Depending on the passed options, it can also test that the

instance OS definitions are executing properly the rename, import and

export operations.

Other Ganeti projects

---------------------

There are two other Ganeti-related projects that can be useful in a

Ganeti deployment. These can be downloaded from the project site

(http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/) and the repositories are also on the

project git site (http://git.ganeti.org).

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