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Gluster Import Existing Cluster
Summary
This allows the user to import an existing gluster supported cluster to engine. All the hosts part of the cluster will be imported.
Owner
- Feature owner: Shireesh Anjal
- GUI Component owner: Kanagaraj Mayilsamy
- REST Component owner: Shireesh Anjal
- Engine Component owner: Dhandapani Gopal dgopal@redhat.com
- QA Owner: Sudhir Dharanendraiah sdharane@redhat.com
Current Status
- Status: Complete
- Last updated date: Fri Sep 25 2012
Detailed Description
This feature provides the support for importing a storage cluster (gluster enabled) to oVirt engine. The hosts in the cluster will not have vdsm installed. The user needs to provide the details of any host in the cluster which includes IP/Host name of the host and password. “gluster peer status” command will be executed on that host through ssh, the result of the command will provide the list of hosts part of the cluster. Once everything is successful, the list of hosts will be shown to the user. The user verifies(manually) the fingerprint of each and every host and provides passwords for them, the AddHost flow continues from here onwards.
Design
Fetching Gluster Hosts
The Import existing cluster configuration section will be shown only if the user select Enable Gluster Service. When the user types the host Address and tab out or click outside, the fingerprint will be fetched and shown to the user. If the engine is not able to fetch the fingerprint either because of host is down or network issue, an error Error in fetching fingerprint will be shown in the fingerprint field. If the fingerprint is correct(to make sure we are communicating with the actual host not with some one else), the user will enter the password for the host and click Ok. The “gluster peer status” command will be executed through ssh in the remote host. This command will fail if the gluster is not running on the host or password is incorrect. The appropriate error message will be shown in the same place. The user will not be allowed to import even if one of the hosts in the cluster is down or not reachable. If everything is successful, the user will be shown the Add Hosts dialog which lists the hosts part of the cluster.
Importing Gluster Hosts
The list of hosts which are part of the cluster will be shown. The Name column for each host will have the same values as the Hostname/IP column, the user can change the name of the host. The user needs to enter the Password for all the hosts shown in the table. If the passwords for all the hosts are same, the user can select Use a common password, enter the Root Password and click on Apply. The same password will be assigned for all the hosts. The user needs to verify the Fingerprint of all the hosts before submitting the details. If the passwords provided for the hosts are correct, the hosts will be added to the engine and available under the Hosts tab. The normal Add Host flow of bootstrapping, restart,etc continues from here onwards. As the newly imported hosts will not have vdsm installed, the bootstrap script will install all the necessary vdsm packages on the hosts.
User Work flow
- Click on New in Cluster Main Tab, the Create Cluster dialog opens
- Select Enable Gluster Service and Import existing gluster configuration checkboxes.
- Enter the IP Address/Host name of any server in the cluster
- Wait for the Fingerprint to load, and make sure we are communicating with the correct host
- Provide the Root Password for the server, and Click Ok
- gluster peer status command will be executed on that server
- Add Hosts dialog will be shown with the list of hosts in the cluster
- Edit the Name of the hosts if required and provide Root Passwords. Same password can be provided for the all the hosts by selecting Use a common password. Click on Apply to set the entered password all hosts. The user can provide a different password for one host by editing the Root Password field of the respective host.
- Make sure the fingerprints are valid and submit the details by clicking Ok
None of the hosts will be imported even if the password for a host is wrong or one of the host is not reachable.