On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 9:27 AM Ron Gage <ron@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I have been working for the past week or so trying to get ceph-iscsi to > work - Octopus release. Even just getting a single node working would be a > major victory in this battle but so far, victory has proven elusive. > > My setup: a pair of Dell Optiplex 7010 desktops, each with 16 gig of > memory and 1 boot drive (USB 3) and 3 SATA drives (500 Gb SSHD drives). No > RAID controllers anywhere. Yes, I know that 3 nodes is the recommended > minimum number for a production system - this isn't production (this is > just seeing if the darned thing will even work). > > I am using Centos 8.1.1911 for the OS (4.18.0 kernel) with a basic or > minimal installation (no X-Window). Single Gigabit ethernet per node. I > have 2 MON and 2 Mgr installed and working, and I have a total of 6 OSDs > working. I created the RBD pool (named "rbd" per the published > instructions), creating it initially with 256 PGs (autoscale decided that > 32 was a better choice - whatever). The cluster is green and all 6 OSDs are > green (up and in). All deployment is via cephadm and all containers are > running via podman. > > Here is where things start to fall apart. > > I was able to find RPM packages for targetcli and python-rtslib (called > python3-rtslib) but was not able to find tcmu-runner nor ceph-iscsi > packages. OK, no big deal. Time to head over to the manual install guide. > http://download.ceph.com/ceph-iscsi/3/rpm/el8/noarch/ for the latter. > I was able to build tcmu-runner, install it and apparently it is running > (systemctl says it is active) so that appears to be OK. > > The problem is getting rbd-target-gw and rbd-target-api to work. They > appear to build OK and of course, I am able to get them registered with > systemd. They universally fail when trying to run them (systemctl start > rbd-target-gw or systemctl start rbd-target-api). Both report failure. > Looking in journalctl -xe shows no hints at all regarding why they failed > (only that they did). Looking in /var/log/rbd-target-api/ show nothing at > all (no files). Likewise in /var/log/rbd-target-gw/ (no files). > > HELP!! > > Now, some possibly germane questions: > 1) are any other Ceph services required for ceph-iscsi to work like > RADOSgw? > Nope. 2) since there are no apparent packages available for ceph-iscsi, can > anything be inferred to the production-readiness of the subsystem? > See above. 3) are there any known errata or missing steps in the instructions for > getting ceph-iscsi to work? > Not to my knowledge. > Thanks! > > Ron Gage > > _______________________________________________ > 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
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