Re: [Openstack-operators] glance, nova backed by NFS

2016-10-12 Thread Curtis
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 12:34 PM, James Penick wrote: > Are you backing both glance and nova-compute with NFS? If you're only > putting the glance store on NFS you don't need any special changes. It'll > Just Work. I've got both glance and nova backed by NFS. Haven't put up cinder yet, but that w

Re: [Openstack-operators] glance, nova backed by NFS

2016-10-12 Thread James Penick
Are you backing both glance and nova-compute with NFS? If you're only putting the glance store on NFS you don't need any special changes. It'll Just Work. On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Curtis wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Kris G. Lindgren > wrote: > > We don’t use shared storag

Re: [Openstack-operators] glance, nova backed by NFS

2016-10-12 Thread Curtis
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Kris G. Lindgren wrote: > We don’t use shared storage at all. But I do remember what you are talking > about. The issue is that compute nodes weren’t aware they were on shared > storage, and would nuke the backing mage from shared storage, after all vm’s > on

Re: [Openstack-operators] glance, nova backed by NFS

2016-10-12 Thread Kris G. Lindgren
Tobias does bring up something that we have ran into before. With NFSv3 user mapping is done by ID, so you need to ensure that all of your servers use the same UID for nova/glance. If you are using packages/automation that do useradd’s without the same userid its *VERY* easy to have mismatched

Re: [Openstack-operators] glance, nova backed by NFS

2016-10-12 Thread Tobias Schön
Hi, We have an environment with glance and cinder using NFS. It's important that they have the correct rights. The shares should be owned by nova on compute if mounted up on /var/lib/nova/instances And the same for nova and glance on the controller.. It's important that you map the glance and no

Re: [Openstack-operators] glance, nova backed by NFS

2016-10-12 Thread Kris G. Lindgren
We don’t use shared storage at all. But I do remember what you are talking about. The issue is that compute nodes weren’t aware they were on shared storage, and would nuke the backing mage from shared storage, after all vm’s on *that* compute node had stopped using it. Not after all vm’s had s