Re: vmware + iscsi + tgt + reservations

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Have you disabled the vaai functions in ESXi? I can't remember off the top of my head, but one of them makes everything slow to a crawl.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Oliver Dzombic
> Sent: 02 September 2016 09:50
> To: ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  vmware + iscsi + tgt + reservations
> 
> Hi,
> 
> VMFS-5.61 file system spanning 1 partitions.
> Mode: public
> 
> The Filesystem is working fine ( on the 1st node where multiple instances are started ). And it continues to work fine, also after
> mounting the same LUN to the 2nd node and trying write operations there.
> 
> So i have no reason to think that anything is corrupted.
> 
> The problem seems to be, that tgt simply does not support reservations.
> 
> And this way, the reservation of the lun of the 1st node got never released.
> 
> I could release it now by force, and maybe it will work, but i cant manually releasing locks every time vmotion or what ever
> administrativ operation is done.
> 
> So if there is no solution with tgt, i would have to try out to map the rbd locally to the iSCSI servers and provide the targets via LIO (
> which is slower and more complex from the solution, because i have to map the rbd locally ). I try to avoid that.
> 
> In that case, maybe it would better to switch to NFS, but that can not be used in high availbility style without a lot of complexity of the
> configuration ( loadbalancer in front of everything ).
> 
> Changing the whole cluster to SuSE because of that is also no option.
> 
> --
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> 
> Oliver Dzombic
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> 
> Am 02.09.2016 um 01:28 schrieb Brad Hubbard:
> > On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 7:41 AM, Oliver Dzombic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> i know, this is not really ceph related anymore. But i guess it could
> >> be helpful for others too.
> >>
> >> I was using:
> >>
> >> https://ceph.com/dev-notes/adding-support-for-rbd-to-stgt/
> >>
> >> and i am currently running in a problem, where
> >>
> >> ONE LUN
> >>
> >> is connected to
> >>
> >> TWO Nodes ( esxi 6.0 )
> >
> > What filesystem are you using on the LUN?
> >
> >>
> >> And the 2nd node is unable to do any kind of write operations on the
> >> (successful mounted, and readable ) lun.
> >
> > Depending on the filesystem you just corrupted it by mounting it
> > concurrently on two hosts.
> >
> >>
> >> As it seems, it has to do with reservations.
> >>
> >> So the question is now, how to solve that.
> >>
> >> The vmware log says:
> >>
> >> 2016-09-01T21:09:54.281Z cpu18:33538)NMP: nmp_PathDetermineFailure:3002:
> >> SCSI cmd RESERVE failed on path vmhba37:C0:T0:L1, reservation state
> >> on device naa.60000000000000000e00000000010001 is unknown.
> >>
> >>
> >> tgtd --version
> >> 1.0.55
> >>
> >> Any help / idea is appriciated !
> >>
> >> Thank you !
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards
> >>
> >> Oliver Dzombic
> >> IP-Interactive
> >>
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> >>
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> >>
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