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Creating new instance

Creating new instances in OpenStack fall into 3 categories

  • Independent isolated instances
  • An IDMS Cluster
  • An RDF Cluster

Some notes/warnings

Adding a volume to an instance

Reference Material https://www.darwinbiler.com/openstack-creating-and-attaching-a-volume-into-an-instance/

When adding a volume to an instance, for example on a MySQL DB Instance you must manually edit the /etc/fstab

For example, as of now, the IDMS Ironman cluster has a DB instance - IronmanDB1.err

Volumes Attached

  • Attached To 7ce1bcf3-a494-4902-9c8b-42765d3c1a12 on /dev/vda
  • Attached To os4db1 on /dev/vdb

The os4db1 volume is defined as

  • Name os4db1
  • ID db6be9ca-b8c1-454e-973d-b55f4d75693b
  • Description snapshot created from or20-idmsdb1
  • Project ID 4cd57af0ccdc4827a7ffa979678943d5
  • Status In-use
  • Group. -
  • Size 650 GiB

The /etc/fstab is [scotty@ironmandb1 ~]$ cat /etc/fstab

  • #
  • # /etc/fstab
  • # Created by anaconda on Mon Jan 28 20:51:49 2019
  • #
  • # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
  • # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
  • #
  • UUID=f41e390f-835b-4223-a9bb-9b45984ddf8d / xfs defaults 0 0
  • #/dev/vdb none swap sw,comment=cloudconfig 0 0
  • UUID=51b68e38-676f-40c6-b690-c81b09c099c0 /mysql xfs defaults 0 1 *

The UUID is established on

  • [scotty@ironmandb1 ~]$ sudo blkid
  • [sudo] password for scotty:
  • /dev/vda1: UUID=“f41e390f-835b-4223-a9bb-9b45984ddf8d” TYPE=“xfs”
  • /dev/vdb1: UUID=“51b68e38-676f-40c6-b690-c81b09c099c0” TYPE=“xfs”

Troubleshooting

If volumes are stuck in a state i.e. deleting or creating, the cinder services may need a restart. Deleting or creating a volume should output to the /var/log/cinder/cinder-scheduler.log and /var/log/cinder/cinder-volume.log logs. If this is halted or slow, restart the cinder services.

sudo service cinder-scheduler restart
sudo service cinder-volume restart
openstack/creating_new_instance.txt · Last modified: 2022/01/24 15:41 by 10.91.120.28