On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 8:56 AM Nick Kas via Users <users@ovirt.org> wrote:

> Hello evryone,
> setup ovirt 4.4.1 on CentOS 8.2 as an experiment, and I am trying to get
> an iSCSI domain working but have issues. The little experimental cluster
> has 3 hosts. There is an ovirtmgmt network on the default vlan, and two
> iSCSI network (172.27.0/1.X) with vlans 20/21. ovirtmgmt has all the
> functions (Data, display, migration etc), and the iSCSI networks nothing
> yet, and they are not set as required.
> The SAN device is already serving a few iSCSI volumes to a vmware cluster,
> so I know things are fine on this end. It has two controllers, and four
> NICs per controller so a total of 8 NICs, half of the NICS per controller
> on 172.27.0.X and half on 172.27.1.X.
>
> When I create the iSCSI domain, I login to only one of the targets, and
> add the Volume, all is good and I can use the disc fine.
> However when I login to more than one of the targets, then I start having
> issues with the Volume. Even when I enabled multipath in the cluster, and I
> created a single multipath by selecting both of the 172.27.0/1.X networks,
> and all the targets, the end result was the same. The hosts have difficulty
> accessing the volume, they may even swing between 'non-operational' and
> 'up' if I transfer data to the volume. When I ssh to the hosts and i check
> things in the command line I also get inconsistent results between hosts,
> and blocks that appear with lsblk when I first setup iSCSI have dissapeared
> after I try to actively use the volume.
>
maybe /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log could tell more.

>
> I am new to iSCSI so I am not sure how to debug this. I am not sure if my
> multipath configuration is correct or not. The documentation on this part
> was not very detailed. I also tried to remove the domain, and try to
> experiment with mounting the iSCSI volume from the command line, but I
> cannot even discover the target from the command line, which is very
> bizarre. The command
> iscsiadm --mode discovery --target sendtargets --portal 172.27.0.55
> --discover
>
you are mixing "--target" with "--type", should be:
iscsiadm --mode discovery --type sendtargets --portal 172.27.0.55
--interface default

> returns the message 'iscsiadm: cannot make connection to 172.27.0.55: No
> route to host'. Yet through ovirt, and if I select only one target,
> everything work fine!
>
> Any suggestions on how to start debugging this would really be appreciated.
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