Gateway removal is indeed supported since ceph-iscsi 3.0 (or was it 2.7?) and it works while it is offline :) Paul -- Paul Emmerich Looking for help with your Ceph cluster? Contact us at https://croit.io croit GmbH Freseniusstr. 31h 81247 München www.croit.io Tel: +49 89 1896585 90 On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 8:21 PM Jason Dillaman <jdillama@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If I recall correctly, the recent ceph-iscsi release supports the > removal of a gateway via the "gwcli". I think the Ceph dashboard can > do that as well. > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 1:59 PM Wesley Dillingham <wes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > We utilize 4 iSCSI gateways in a cluster and have noticed the following during patching cycles when we sequentially reboot single iSCSI-gateways: > > > > "gwcli" often hangs on the still-up iSCSI GWs but sometimes still functions and gives the message: > > > > "1 gateway is inaccessible - updates will be disabled" > > > > This got me thinking about what the course of action would be should an iSCSI gateway fail permanently or semi-permanently, say a hardware issue. What would be the best course of action to instruct the remaining iSCSI gateways that one of them is no longer available and that they should allow updates again and take ownership of the now-defunct-node's LUNS? > > > > I'm guessing pulling down the RADOS config object and rewriting it and re-put'ing it followed by a rbd-target-api restart might do the trick but am hoping there is a more "in-band" and less potentially devastating way to do this. > > > > Thanks for any insights. > > > > Respectfully, > > > > Wes Dillingham > > wes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > LinkedIn > > _______________________________________________ > > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx > > > > -- > Jason > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx
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