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Commit 808753d4 authored by Manuel Franceschini's avatar Manuel Franceschini
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Remove deprecated disk templates from doc 

Since local_raid1 and remote_raid1 are deprecated they are removed
from the docs. This patch removes some old documentation sections
and bumps the documented version from 1.2 to 1.3.

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<articleinfo>
<title>Ganeti administrator's guide</title>
</articleinfo>
<para>Documents Ganeti version 1.2</para>
<para>Documents Ganeti version 1.3</para>
<sect1>
<title>Introduction</title>
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</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>local_raid1</term>
<listitem>
<para>A local mirror is set between LVM devices to back the
instance. This provides some redundancy for the instance's
data.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>remote_raid1</term>
<term>drbd</term>
<listitem>
<simpara><emphasis role="strong">Note:</emphasis> This is only
valid for multi-node clusters using drbd 0.7.</simpara>
valid for multi-node clusters using drbd 8.0.x</simpara>
<simpara>
A mirror is set between the local node and a remote one, which
must be specified with the second value of the --node option. Use
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</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>drbd</term>
<listitem>
<simpara><emphasis role="strong">Note:</emphasis> This is only
valid for multi-node clusters using drbd 8.0.</simpara>
<simpara>
This is similar to the
<replaceable>remote_raid1</replaceable> option, but uses
new features in drbd 8 to simplify the device
stack. From a user's point of view, this will improve
the speed of the <command>replace-disks</command>
command and (in future versions) provide more
functionality.
</simpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>
For example if you want to create an highly available instance use the
remote_raid1 or drbd disk templates:
<synopsis>gnt-instance add -n <replaceable>TARGET_NODE</replaceable><optional>:<replaceable>SECONDARY_NODE</replaceable></optional> -o <replaceable>OS_TYPE</replaceable> -t remote_raid1 \
drbd disk templates:
<synopsis>gnt-instance add -n <replaceable>TARGET_NODE</replaceable><optional>:<replaceable>SECONDARY_NODE</replaceable></optional> -o <replaceable>OS_TYPE</replaceable> -t drbd \
<replaceable>INSTANCE_NAME</replaceable></synopsis>
<para>
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failed, or you plan to remove a node from your cluster, and
you failed over all its instances, but it's still secondary
for some? The solution here is to replace the instance disks,
changing the secondary node. This is done in two ways, depending on the disk template type. For <literal>remote_raid1</literal>:
<synopsis>gnt-instance replace-disks <option>-n <replaceable>NEW_SECONDARY</replaceable></option> <replaceable>INSTANCE_NAME</replaceable></synopsis>
and for <literal>drbd</literal>:
<synopsis>gnt-instance replace-disks <option>-s</option> <option>-n <replaceable>NEW_SECONDARY</replaceable></option> <replaceable>INSTANCE_NAME</replaceable></synopsis>
changing the secondary node:
<synopsis>gnt-instance replace-disks <option>-s</option> <option>--new-secondary <replaceable>NODE</replaceable></option> <replaceable>INSTANCE_NAME</replaceable></synopsis>
This process is a bit longer, but involves no instance
This process is a bit long, but involves no instance
downtime, and at the end of it the instance has changed its
secondary node, to which it can if necessary be failed over.
</para>
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</para>
<para>
Supported DRBD versions: the <literal>0.7</literal> series
<emphasis role="strong">or</emphasis>
<literal>8.0.7</literal>. It's recommended to have at least
version <literal>0.7.24</literal> if you use
<command>udev</command> since older versions have a bug
related to device discovery which can be triggered in cases of
hard drive failure.
Supported DRBD versions: <literal>8.0.x</literal>.
It's recommended to have at least version <literal>8.0.7</literal>.
</para>
<para>
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you have the DRBD utils installed and the module in your
kernel you're fine. Please check that your system is
configured to load the module at every boot, and that it
passes the following option to the module (for
<literal>0.7.x</literal>:
<computeroutput>minor_count=64</computeroutput> (this will
allow you to use up to 32 instances per node) or for
<literal>8.0.x</literal> you can use up to
<constant>255</constant>
(i.e. <computeroutput>minor_count=255</computeroutput>, but
for most clusters <constant>128</constant> should be enough).
passes the following option to the module
<computeroutput>minor_count=255</computeroutput>. This will
allow you to use up to 128 instances per node (for most clusters
<constant>128 </constant> should be enough, though).
</para>
<formalpara><title>Debian</title>
<para>
You can just install (build) the DRBD 0.7 module with the
You can just install (build) the DRBD 8.0.x module with the
following commands (make sure you are running the Xen
kernel):
</para>
</formalpara>
<screen>
apt-get install drbd0.7-module-source drbd0.7-utils
m-a update
m-a a-i drbd0.7
echo drbd minor_count=64 >> /etc/modules
modprobe drbd minor_count=64
</screen>
<para>
or for using DRBD <literal>8.x</literal> from the etch
backports (note: you need at least 8.0.7, older version have
a bug that breaks ganeti's usage of drbd):
</para>
<screen>
apt-get install -t etch-backports drbd8-module-source drbd8-utils
m-a update
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<para>
It is also recommended that you comment out the default
resources in the <filename>/etc/dbrd.conf</filename> file, so
resources in the <filename>/etc/drbd.conf</filename> file, so
that the init script doesn't try to configure any drbd
devices. You can do this by prefixing all
<literal>resource</literal> lines in the file with the keyword
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url="ftp://ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-routing/iputils-current.tar.gz">arping</ulink>
(part of iputils package)</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara><ulink
url="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/">mdadm</ulink>
(Linux Software Raid tools)</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara><ulink url="http://www.python.org">Python 2.4</ulink></simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara><ulink url="http://twistedmatrix.com/">Python
Twisted library</ulink> - the core library is
enough</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara><ulink
url="http://pyopenssl.sourceforge.net/">Python OpenSSL
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</formalpara>
<screen>
# apt-get install lvm2 ssh bridge-utils iproute iputils-arping \
python2.4 python-twisted-core python-pyopenssl openssl \
mdadm python-pyparsing python-simplejson
python2.4 python-pyopenssl openssl python-pyparsing python-simplejson
</screen>
</sect2>
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This step shows how to setup a virtual instance with either
non-mirrored disks (<computeroutput>plain</computeroutput>) or
with network mirrored disks
(<computeroutput>remote_raid1</computeroutput> for drbd 0.7
and <computeroutput>drbd</computeroutput> for drbd 8.x). All
(<computeroutput>drbd</computeroutput>). All
commands need to be executed on the Ganeti master node (the
one on which <computeroutput>gnt-cluster init</computeroutput>
was run). Verify that the OS scripts are present on all
......@@ -872,14 +839,13 @@ creating os for instance inst1.example.com on node node1.example.com
<para>
To create a network mirrored instance, change the argument to
the <option>-t</option> option from <literal>plain</literal>
to <literal>remote_raid1</literal> (drbd 0.7) or
<literal>drbd</literal> (drbd 8.0) and specify the node on
to <literal>drbd</literal> and specify the node on
which the mirror should reside with the second value of the
<option>--node</option> option, like this:
</para>
<screen>
# gnt-instance add -t remote_raid1 -n node1:node2 -o debian-etch instance2
# gnt-instance add -t drbd -n node1:node2 -o debian-etch instance2
* creating instance disks...
adding instance instance2 to cluster config
Waiting for instance instance1 to sync disks.
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<para>
To failover an instance to its secondary node (only possible
in <literal>remote_raid1</literal> or <literal>drbd</literal>
disk templates), use <computeroutput>gnt-instance failover
with <literal>drbd</literal> disk templates), use
<computeroutput>gnt-instance failover
<replaceable>INSTANCENAME</replaceable></computeroutput>.
</para>
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