On 04-Jun-2015, at 12:04 AM, Remi Bergsma <rberg...@schubergphilis.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I just had a look at this more closely and had a chat with Ian about it. The > only way for the original problem to happen (losing iptables rules) is if the > live migrate would fail and the hypervisor rebooted the vm. The cause is the > non-persistance of the router configuration, which is fixed in 4.6 by the > way. I would say failing live migrations does not happen often (I have never > seen it happening). > What about native HA in Vmware and HyperV? Say the original host has failed, Vmware will bring up the VR on another host as part of native HA. In this case also the configuration is lost. > Anyway, once this happens to the router, it is stuck in a state where it does > not have the linklocal configuration any more. Would CloudStack be able to > issue a aggregate command while it cannot reach it? Rebooting might be the > only way out after all. It’s just that rebooting by default in case of > out-of-band migrations I’d say is a little bit too much. CloudStack would > detect the problem anyway, as it cannot reach the linklocal anymore. > > The interesting situation is that we have releases out there that now reboot > by default. > > My proposal to solve it in 4.4 and 4.5: > - Implement a setting ‘reboot systemvm when out-of-band migration detected’. > The default should be false and release notes should mention a changed > behaviour from 4.4.3 and 4.5.1. To get the old behaviour, switch to true. A > small group of people should be interested in this. > > I guess this is the best of both worlds. Do you guys agree? > > The other option I see is to revert the commit, as I think that serves most > people. > > Who is willing to help implement it? > > Regards, Remi > > > On 03 Jun 2015, at 17:42, Rene Moser > <m...@renemoser.net<mailto:m...@renemoser.net>> wrote: > > Hi > > On 03.06.2015 17:06, Ian Southam wrote: > If the machine crashes and/or rebooted during the oob migration by a party > that is not the orchestrator, (read vCenter) then the rules will be lost. > > I fully agree, a reboot due a failing live migration, would cause a > reboot. So what? Then we blame VMware, the orchestration will reboot the > VR and everything is fine. This would cause seconds of outage. > > But then the missing persistence of the iptables would be the problem, > not the live migration task, right? > > We should fix the persistence of the rules during reboot and not try to > be more clever then the hypervisor cluster orchestration. > > Just my 2 cents. > > > > >