I do it in production
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 2:47 AM John Hearns <hearnsj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ronny, talking about reboots, has anyone had experience of live kernel patching with CEPH? I am asking out of simple curiosity._______________________________________________On 25 April 2018 at 19:40, Ronny Aasen <ronny+ceph-users@xxxxxxxx> wrote:the difference in cost between 2 and 3 servers are not HUGE. but the reliability difference between a size 2/1 pool and a 3/2 pool is massive. a 2/1 pool is just a single fault during maintenance away from dataloss. but you need multiple simultaneous faults, and have very bad luck to break a 3/2 pool
I would recommend rather using 2/2 pools if you are willing to accept a little downtime when a disk dies. the cluster io would stop until the disks backfill to cover for the lost disk.
but it is better then having inconsistent pg's or dataloss because a disk crashed during a routine reboot, or 2 disks
also worth to read this link https://www.spinics.net/lists/ceph-users/msg32895.html a good explanation.
you have good backups and are willing to restore the whole pool. And it is of course your privilege to run 2/1 pools but be mind full of the risks of doing so.
kind regards
Ronny Aasen
BTW: i did not know ubuntu automagically rebooted after a upgrade. you can probably avoid that reboot somehow in ubuntu. and do the restarts of services manually. if you wish to maintain service during upgrade
On 25.04.2018 11:52, Ranjan Ghosh wrote:
Thanks a lot for your detailed answer. The problem for us, however, was that we use the Ceph packages that come with the Ubuntu distribution. If you do a Ubuntu upgrade, all packages are upgraded in one go and the server is rebooted. You cannot influence anything or start/stop services one-by-one etc. This was concering me, because the upgrade instructions didn't mention anything about an alternative or what to do in this case. But someone here enlightened me that - in general - it all doesnt matter that much *if you are just accepting a downtime*. And, indeed, it all worked nicely. We stopped all services on all servers, upgraded the Ubuntu version, rebooted all servers and were ready to go again. Didn't encounter any problems there. The only problem turned out to be our own fault and simply a firewall misconfiguration.
And, yes, we're running a "size:2 min_size:1" because we're on a very tight budget. If I understand correctly, this means: Make changes of files to one server. *Eventually* copy them to the other server. I hope this *eventually* means after a few minutes. Up until now I've never experienced *any* problems with file integrity with this configuration. In fact, Ceph is incredibly stable. Amazing. I have never ever had any issues whatsoever with broken files/partially written files, files that contain garbage etc. Even after starting/stopping services, rebooting etc. With GlusterFS and other Cluster file system I've experienced many such problems over the years, so this is what makes Ceph so great. I have now a lot of trust in Ceph, that it will eventually repair everything :-) And: If a file that has been written a few seconds ago is really lost it wouldnt be that bad for our use-case. It's a web-server. Most important stuff is in the DB. We have hourly backups of everything. In a huge emergency, we could even restore the backup from an hour ago if we really had to. Not nice, but if it happens every 6 years or sth due to some freak hardware failure, I think it is manageable. I accept it's not the recommended/perfect solution if you have infinite amounts of money at your hands, but in our case, I think it's not extremely audacious either to do it like this, right?
Am 11.04.2018 um 19:25 schrieb Ronny Aasen:
ceph upgrades are usualy not a problem:
ceph have to be upgraded in the right order. normally when each service is on its own machine this is not difficult.
but when you have mon, mgr, osd, mds, and klients on the same host you have to do it a bit carefully..
i tend to have a terminal open with "watch ceph -s" running, and i never do another service until the health is ok again.
first apt upgrade the packages on all the hosts. This only update the software on disk and not the running services.
then do the restart of services in the right order. and only on one host at the time
mons: first you restart the mon service on all mon running hosts.
all the 3 mons are active at the same time, so there is no "shifting around" but make sure the quorum is ok again before you do the next mon.
mgr: then restart mgr on all hosts that run mgr. there is only one active mgr at the time now, so here there will be a bit of shifting around. but it is only for statistics/management so it may affect your ceph -s command, but not the cluster operation.
osd: restart osd processes one osd at the time, make sure health_ok before doing the next osd process. do this for all hosts that have osd's
mds: restart mds's one at the time. you will notice the standby mds taking over for the mds that was restarted. do both.
klients: restart clients, that means remount filesystems, migrate or restart vm's. or restart whatever process uses the old ceph libraries.
about pools:
since you only have 2 osd's you can obviously not be running the recommended 3 replication pools. ? this makes me worry that you may be running size:2 min_size:1 pools. and are daily running risk of dataloss due to corruption and inconsistencies. especially when you restart osd's
if your pools are size:2 min_size:2 then your cluster will fail when any osd is restarted, until the osd is up and healthy again. but you have less chance for dataloss then 2/1 pools.
if you added a osd on a third host you can run size:3 min_size:2 . the recommended config when you can have both redundancy and high availabillity.
kind regards
Ronny Aasen
On 11.04.2018 17:42, Ranjan Ghosh wrote:
Ah, nevermind, we've solved it. It was a firewall issue. The only thing that's weird is that it became an issue immediately after an update. Perhaps it has sth. to do with monitor nodes shifting around or anything. Well, thanks again for your quick support, though. It's much appreciated.
BR
Ranjan
Am 11.04.2018 um 17:07 schrieb Ranjan Ghosh:
Thank you for your answer. Do you have any specifics on which thread you're talking about? Would be very interested to read about a success story, because I fear that if I update the other node that the whole cluster comes down.
Am 11.04.2018 um 10:47 schrieb Marc Roos:
I think you have to update all osd's, mon's etc. I can remember running
into similar issue. You should be able to find more about this in
mailing list archive.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ranjan Ghosh [mailto:ghosh@xxxxxx]
Sent: woensdag 11 april 2018 16:02
To: ceph-users
Subject: Cluster degraded after Ceph Upgrade 12.2.1 =>
12.2.2
Hi all,
We have a two-cluster-node (with a third "monitoring-only" node). Over
the last months, everything ran *perfectly* smooth. Today, I did an
Ubuntu "apt-get upgrade" on one of the two servers. Among others, the
ceph packages were upgraded from 12.2.1 to 12.2.2. A minor release
update, one might think. But, to my surprise, after restarting the
services, Ceph is now in degraded state :-( (see below). Only the first
node - which ist still on 12.2.1 - seems to be running. I did a bit of
research and found this:
https://ceph.com/community/new-luminous-pg-overdose-protection/
I did set "mon_max_pg_per_osd = 300" to no avail. Don't know if this is
the problem at all.
Looking at the status it seems we have 264 pgs, right? When I enter
"ceph osd df" (which I found on another website claiming it should print
the number of PGs per OSD), it just hangs (need to abort with Ctrl+C).
Hope anybody can help me. The cluster know works with the single node,
but it is definively quite worrying because we don't have redundancy.
Thanks in advance,
Ranjan
root@tukan2 /var/www/projects # ceph -s
cluster:
id: 19895e72-4a0c-4d5d-ae23-7f631ec8c8e4
health: HEALTH_WARN
insufficient standby MDS daemons available
Reduced data availability: 264 pgs inactive
Degraded data redundancy: 264 pgs unclean
services:
mon: 3 daemons, quorum tukan1,tukan2,tukan0
mgr: tukan0(active), standbys: tukan2
mds: cephfs-1/1/1 up {0=tukan2=up:active}
osd: 2 osds: 2 up, 2 in
data:
pools: 3 pools, 264 pgs
objects: 0 objects, 0 bytes
usage: 0 kB used, 0 kB / 0 kB avail
pgs: 100.000% pgs unknown
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