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<section xml:id="section_configuring-compute-migrations"
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<title>Configure migrations</title>
<note>
<para>Only cloud administrators can perform live migrations. If your cloud
is configured to use cells, you can perform live migration
within but not between cells.</para>
</note>
<para>Migration enables an administrator to move a virtual-machine instance from one compute host
to another. This feature is useful when a compute host requires maintenance. Migration can also
be useful to redistribute the load when many VM instances are running on a specific physical
machine.</para>
<para>The migration types are:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Migration</emphasis> (or non-live
migration). The instance is shut down (and the instance knows
that it was rebooted) for a period of time to be moved to
another hypervisor.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Live migration</emphasis> (or true live migration). Almost no
instance downtime. Useful when the instances must be kept running during the migration. The
types of <firstterm>live migration</firstterm> are:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Shared storage-based live
migration</emphasis>. Both hypervisors have access to shared
storage.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Block live migration</emphasis>. No
shared storage is required. Incompatible with read-only devices
such as CD-ROMs and <link
xlink:href="http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/config-drive.html"
>Configuration Drive (config_drive)</link>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Volume-backed live
migration</emphasis>. When instances are backed by volumes
rather than ephemeral disk, no shared storage is required, and
migration is supported (currently only in libvirt-based
hypervisors).</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>The following sections describe how to configure your hosts
and compute nodes for migrations by using the KVM and XenServer
hypervisors.</para>
<section xml:id="configuring-migrations-kvm-libvirt">
<title>KVM-Libvirt</title>
<itemizedlist>
<title>Prerequisites</title>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Hypervisor:</emphasis> KVM with
libvirt</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Shared storage:</emphasis>
<filename><replaceable>NOVA-INST-DIR</replaceable>/instances/</filename>
(for example, <filename>/var/lib/nova/instances</filename>)
has to be mounted by shared storage. This guide uses NFS but
other options, including the <link
xlink:href="http://gluster.org/community/documentation//index.php/OSConnect"
>OpenStack Gluster Connector</link> are available.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Instances:</emphasis> Instance can
be migrated with iSCSI based volumes</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<note>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Because the Compute service does not use the libvirt
live migration functionality by default, guests are
suspended before migration and might experience several
minutes of downtime. For details, see <xref
linkend="true-live-migration-kvm-libvirt"/>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>This guide assumes the default value for
<option>instances_path</option> in your
<filename>nova.conf</filename> file
(<filename><replaceable>NOVA-INST-DIR</replaceable>/instances</filename>).
If you have changed the <literal>state_path</literal> or
<literal>instances_path</literal> variables, modify
accordingly.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>You must specify
<literal>vncserver_listen=0.0.0.0</literal> or live
migration does not work correctly.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</note>
<section xml:id="section_example-compute-install">
<title>Example Compute installation environment</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Prepare at least three servers; for example, <literal>HostA</literal>,
<literal>HostB</literal>, and <literal>HostC</literal>: <itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><literal>HostA</literal> is the <firstterm baseform="cloud controller">Cloud
Controller</firstterm>, and should run these services: <systemitem
class="service">nova-api</systemitem>, <systemitem class="service"
>nova-scheduler</systemitem>, <literal>nova-network</literal>, <systemitem
class="service">cinder-volume</systemitem>, and
<literal>nova-objectstore</literal>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><literal>HostB</literal> and <literal>HostC</literal> are the <firstterm
baseform="compute node">compute nodes</firstterm> that run <systemitem
class="service">nova-compute</systemitem>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist></para>
<para>Ensure that <literal><replaceable>NOVA-INST-DIR</replaceable></literal> (set with
<literal>state_path</literal> in the <filename>nova.conf</filename> file) is the same
on all hosts.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>In this example, <literal>HostA</literal> is the NFSv4
server that exports
<filename><replaceable>NOVA-INST-DIR</replaceable>/instances</filename> directory.
<literal>HostB</literal> and <literal>HostC</literal>
are NFSv4 clients that mount it.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<procedure>
<title>To configure your system</title>
<step>
<para>Configure your DNS or <filename>/etc/hosts</filename>
and ensure it is consistent across all hosts. Make sure that
the three hosts can perform name resolution with each other.
As a test, use the <command>ping</command> command to ping
each host from one another.</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>ping HostA</userinput>
<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>ping HostB</userinput>
<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>ping HostC</userinput></screen>
</step>
<step>
<para>Ensure that the UID and GID of your Compute and libvirt users are identical between
each of your servers. This ensures that the permissions on the NFS mount works
correctly.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Export <filename><replaceable>NOVA-INST-DIR</replaceable>/instances</filename> from
<literal>HostA</literal>, and have it readable and writable by the Compute user on
<literal>HostB</literal> and <literal>HostC</literal>.</para>
<para>For more information, see: <link
xlink:href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpNFSHowTo"
>SettingUpNFSHowTo</link> or <link
xlink:href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/centos-fedora-rhel-nfs-v4-configuration/"
>CentOS / Redhat: Setup NFS v4.0 File Server</link></para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Configure the NFS server at <literal>HostA</literal> by adding the following line to
the <filename>/etc/exports</filename> file:</para>
<programlisting><replaceable>NOVA-INST-DIR</replaceable>/instances HostA/255.255.0.0(rw,sync,fsid=0,no_root_squash)</programlisting>
<para>Change the subnet mask (<literal>255.255.0.0</literal>)
to the appropriate value to include the IP addresses of
<literal>HostB</literal> and <literal>HostC</literal>.
Then restart the NFS server:</para>
<screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>/etc/init.d/idmapd restart</userinput></screen>
</step>
<step>
<para>Set the 'execute/search' bit on your shared
directory.</para>
<para>On both compute nodes, make sure to enable the
'execute/search' bit to allow qemu to be able to use the
images within the directories. On all hosts, run the
following command:</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>chmod o+x <replaceable>NOVA-INST-DIR</replaceable>/instances</userinput> </screen>
</step>
<step>
<para>Configure NFS at HostB and HostC by adding the following line to the
<filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file:</para>
<programlisting>HostA:/ /<replaceable>NOVA-INST-DIR</replaceable>/instances nfs4 defaults 0 0</programlisting>
<para>Ensure that you can mount the exported directory can be mounted:</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>mount -a -v</userinput></screen>
<para>Check that HostA can see the
"<filename><replaceable>NOVA-INST-DIR</replaceable>/instances/</filename>"
directory:</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>ls -ld <filename><replaceable>NOVA-INST-DIR</replaceable>/instances/</filename></userinput></screen>
<screen><computeroutput>drwxr-xr-x 2 nova nova 4096 2012-05-19 14:34 nova-install-dir/instances/</computeroutput></screen>
<para>Perform the same check at HostB and HostC, paying special attention to the permissions
(Compute should be able to write):</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>ls -ld <filename><replaceable>NOVA-INST-DIR</replaceable>/instances/</filename></userinput></screen>
<screen><computeroutput>drwxr-xr-x 2 nova nova 4096 2012-05-07 14:34 nova-install-dir/instances/</computeroutput></screen>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>df -k</userinput></screen>
<screen><computeroutput>Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 921514972 4180880 870523828 1% /
none 16498340 1228 16497112 1% /dev
none 16502856 0 16502856 0% /dev/shm
none 16502856 368 16502488 1% /var/run
none 16502856 0 16502856 0% /var/lock
none 16502856 0 16502856 0% /lib/init/rw
HostA: 921515008 101921792 772783104 12% /var/lib/nova/instances ( &lt;--- this line is important.)</computeroutput></screen>
</step>
<step>
<para>Update the libvirt configurations so that the calls can be made securely. These methods enable remote access over TCP and are not documented here. Please consult your network administrator for assistance in deciding how to configure access.</para>
<para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>SSH tunnel to libvirtd's UNIX socket</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>libvirtd TCP socket, with GSSAPI/Kerberos for
auth+data encryption</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>libvirtd TCP socket, with TLS for encryption and x509 client certs for authentication</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>libvirtd TCP socket, with TLS for encryption and Kerberos for authentication</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>Restart libvirt. After you run the command, ensure that
libvirt is successfully restarted:</para>
<screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>stop libvirt-bin &amp;&amp; start libvirt-bin</userinput>
<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>ps -ef | grep libvirt</userinput></screen>
<screen><computeroutput>root 1145 1 0 Nov27 ? 00:00:03 /usr/sbin/libvirtd -d -l</computeroutput></screen>
</step>
<step>
<para>Configure your firewall to allow libvirt to communicate
between nodes.</para>
<para>By default, libvirt listens on TCP port 16509, and an ephemeral TCP range from 49152
to 49261 is used for the KVM communications. Based on the secure remote access TCP
configuration you chose, be careful choosing what ports you open and understand who has
access. For information about ports that are used with libvirt, see <link
xlink:href="http://libvirt.org/remote.html#Remote_libvirtd_configuration">the libvirt
documentation</link>.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>You can now configure options for live migration. In
most cases, you do not need to configure any options. The
following chart is for advanced usage only.</para>
</step>
</procedure>
<xi:include href="../../common/tables/nova-livemigration.xml"/>
</section>
<section xml:id="true-live-migration-kvm-libvirt">
<title>Enable true live migration</title>
<para>By default, the Compute service does not use the libvirt
live migration functionality. To enable this functionality,
add the following line to the <filename>nova.conf</filename>
file:</para>
<programlisting>live_migration_flag=VIR_MIGRATE_UNDEFINE_SOURCE,VIR_MIGRATE_PEER2PEER,VIR_MIGRATE_LIVE</programlisting>
<para>The Compute service does not use libvirt's live migration
by default because there is a risk that the migration process
never ends. This can happen if the guest operating system
dirties blocks on the disk faster than they can be
migrated.</para>
</section>
</section>
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<section xml:id="configuring-migrations-xenserver">
<title>XenServer</title>
<section xml:id="configuring-migrations-xenserver-shared-storage">
<title>Shared storage</title>
<itemizedlist>
<title>Prerequisites</title>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Compatible XenServer
hypervisors</emphasis>. For more information, see the
<link
xlink:href="http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#pooling_homogeneity_requirements"
>Requirements for Creating Resource Pools</link> section
of the <citetitle>XenServer Administrator's
Guide</citetitle>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Shared storage</emphasis>. An NFS export, visible to all
XenServer hosts.</para>
<note>
<para>For the supported NFS versions, see the <link
xlink:href="http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#id1002701"
>NFS VHD</link> section of the <citetitle>XenServer
Administrator's Guide</citetitle>.</para>
</note>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>To use shared storage live migration with XenServer
hypervisors, the hosts must be joined to a XenServer pool. To
create that pool, a host aggregate must be created with
special metadata. This metadata is used by the XAPI plug-ins
to establish the pool.</para>
<procedure>
<title>To use shared storage live migration with XenServer
hypervisors</title>
<step>
<para>Add an NFS VHD storage to your master XenServer, and
set it as default SR. For more information, please refer
to the <link
xlink:href="http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#id1002701"
>NFS VHD</link> section in the <citetitle>XenServer
Administrator's Guide</citetitle>.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Configure all the compute nodes to use the default sr
for pool operations. Add this line to your
<filename>nova.conf</filename> configuration files
across your compute
nodes:<programlisting>sr_matching_filter=default-sr:true</programlisting></para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Create a host aggregate:</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova aggregate-create &lt;name-for-pool&gt; &lt;availability-zone&gt;</userinput></screen>
<para>The command displays a table that contains the ID of
the newly created aggregate.</para>
<para>Now add special metadata to the aggregate, to mark it
as a hypervisor pool:</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova aggregate-set-metadata &lt;aggregate-id&gt; hypervisor_pool=true</userinput></screen>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova aggregate-set-metadata &lt;aggregate-id&gt; operational_state=created</userinput></screen>
<para>Make the first compute node part of that
aggregate:</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova aggregate-add-host &lt;aggregate-id&gt; &lt;name-of-master-compute&gt;</userinput></screen>
<para>At this point, the host is part of a XenServer
pool.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Add additional hosts to the pool:</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova aggregate-add-host &lt;aggregate-id&gt; &lt;compute-host-name&gt;</userinput></screen>
<note>
<para>At this point, the added compute node and the host
are shut down, to join the host to the XenServer pool.
The operation fails, if any server other than the
compute node is running/suspended on your host.</para>
</note>
</step>
</procedure>
</section>
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<section xml:id="configuring-migrations-xenserver-block-migration">
<title>Block migration</title>
<itemizedlist>
<title>Prerequisites</title>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Compatible XenServer
hypervisors</emphasis>. The hypervisors must support the
Storage XenMotion feature. See your XenServer manual to
make sure your edition has this feature.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<note>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>To use block migration, you must use the
CHANGE THIS == <parameter>==block-migrate</parameter> parameter with
the live migration command.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Block migration works only with EXT local storage
SRs, and the server must not have any volumes
attached.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</note>
</section>
<!-- End of Block migration -->
</section>
</section>
<!-- End of configuring migrations -->