Description of problem: The "Technical Reference" document, section 2.9 (Storage Pool Manager Selection Process) states: "If the Storage Pool Manager role assignment fails on a new host, the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager adds the host to a list containing the hosts the operation has failed on. On subsequent iterations of the SPM selection, the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager attempts to assign the role to a host that is not included in the list." But it does not say what happens when all hosts are in this list. Does the selection process stops? When it resumes? Is this list cleared? Does the user need to take some steps? I was digging through the engine code and found that this list might be cleared during "getCurrentIrsProxyData", in backend/manager/modules/vdsbroker/src/main/java/org/ovirt/engine/core/vdsbroker/irsbroker/IrsBrokerCommand.java. But I am not really sure under which conditions that code is reached.
Thanks for raising this bug, Germano. Allon, are you able to shed any light on this?
Liron - you know these areas of the code better than anyone. Can you help Germano and Andrew out here please?
Hi All, The quoted test refers to the failover process when executing one operation, when new operation is executed the list will be cleared and we'll try all the relevant hosts again. for example, let's assume we perform operation A on host 1 and fail, if the failure is one that we determine as host specific we will try then host 2 and then host 3, we'll stop retrying on different hosts when one of the following is true: 1. we tried all the applicable hosts 2. we reached the value of SpmCommandFailOverRetries config value. When we perform another operation, we'll try executing on host 1 again and so on. let me know if there are any further questions. thanks, Liron.
Hi Liron. Thank you for your reply. So the list is cleared for each operation. Perhaps we should put this more clearly in the documentation. The following confused the me and the customer: "On subsequent iterations of the SPM selection, the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager attempts to assign the role to a host that is not included in the list." Andrew, what do you think? Cheers, Germano
Thanks for that, Liron. Makes perfect sense now. I'll update the para in question so as to read: " If the SPM role assignment fails on a new host, the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager adds the host to a list containing the hosts the operation has failed on, marking these hosts as ineligible for the SPM role. This list is cleared at the beginning of the SPM selection process so that all hosts are again eligible. "
Made some minor edits based on the discussion with Andrew B. Added revision history entry in both guides. Moving this bug to VERIFIED. Cheers, Julie
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