Bug 1286650

Summary: An option to do unsafe live migration of VirtualDomain
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Oyvind Albrigtsen <oalbrigt>
Component: resource-agentsAssignee: Oyvind Albrigtsen <oalbrigt>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: cluster-qe <cluster-qe>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.8CC: agk, cluster-maint, cluster-qe, djansa, fdinitto, urusha.v1.0
Target Milestone: rc   
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Fixed In Version: resource-agents-3.9.5-28.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of: 1242181 Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-05-10 19:15:38 UTC Type: Bug
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Comment 2 Oyvind Albrigtsen 2015-12-01 10:54:35 UTC
Created attachment 1100831 [details]
Working patch

Comment 3 Oyvind Albrigtsen 2015-12-01 10:55:11 UTC
Updated patch for RHEL6 and tested and confirmed that it's working.

Comment 4 Oyvind Albrigtsen 2015-12-21 12:29:16 UTC
Before:
Unable to do live migration when cache mode isnt set to none.

After:
Able to do live migration when cache mode isnt set to none by setting migrate_options="--unsafe"

Comment 5 Oyvind Albrigtsen 2016-01-08 09:54:01 UTC
# pcs resource create VM VirtualDomain config=/etc/libvirt/qemu/vm.xml migration_transport=ssh meta allow-migrate=true


Before:
# rpm -q resource-agents
resource-agents-3.9.5-24.el6_7.1.x86_64

# pcs resource move VM host2
# tail -f /var/log/cluster/corosync.log
Live migration fails with: Unsafe migration: Migration may lead to data corruption if disks use cache != none


After:
# rpm -q resource-agents
resource-agents-3.9.5-28.el6.x86_64

# pcs resource update VM migrate_options="--unsafe"
# pcs resource move VM host2
# tail -f /var/log/cluster/corosync.log
INFO: vmhost: Starting live migration to host2 (using virsh --connect=qemu:///system --quiet migrate --live --unsafe vmhost qemu+ssh://host2/system ).
INFO: vmhost: live migration to host2 succeeded.

Comment 7 Jaroslav Kortus 2016-04-12 21:06:42 UTC
without migrate_options:

VirtualDomain(vm)[14290]:	2016/04/12_22:52:09 INFO: rhel6.5: Starting live migration to duck-01 (using virsh --connect=qemu:///system --quiet migrate --live  rhel6.5 qemu+ssh://duck-01/system ).

with migrate_options="--unsafe"
VirtualDomain(vm)[15261]:	2016/04/12_22:54:39 INFO: rhel6.5: Starting live migration to duck-01 (using virsh --connect=qemu:///system --quiet migrate --live --unsafe rhel6.5 qemu+ssh://duck-01/system ).

The domain migrated successfully.

Thing to add here:
* if GFS2 is used that migration is already considered safe and --unsafe is not needed (same applies to OCFS, SMB and NFS shares and perhaps others).

Verified with resource-agents-3.9.5-34.el6.x86_64.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-10 19:15:38 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-0735.html