ESXI 6.7 client creating Thick Eager zeroed vmdk files using ceph fsal
by Robert Toole
Hi,
I have a 3 node Ceph octopus 15.2.7 cluster running on fully up to date
Centos 7 with nfs-ganesha 3.5.
After following the Ceph install guide
https://docs.ceph.com/en/octopus/cephadm/install/#deploying-nfs-ganesha
I am able to create a NFS 4.1 Datastore in vmware using the ip address
of all three nodes. Everything appears to work OK..
The issue however is that for some reason esxi is creating thick
provisioned eager zeroed disks instead of thin provisioned disks on this
datastore, whether I am migrating, cloning, or creating new vms. Even
running vmkfstools -i disk.vmdk -d thin thin_disk.vmdk still results in
a thick eager zeroed vmdk file.
This should not be possible on an NFS datastore, because vmware requires
a VAAI NAS plugin to accomplish thick provisioning over NFS before it
can thick provision disks.
Linux clients to the same datastore can create thin qcow2 images, and
when looking at the images created by esxi from the linux hosts you can
see that the vmdks are indeed thick:
ls -lsh
total 81G
512 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 230 Mar 25 15:17 test_vm-2221e939.hlog
40G -rw-------. 1 root root 40G Mar 25 15:17 test_vm-flat.vmdk
40G -rw-------. 1 root root 40G Mar 25 15:56 test_vm_thin-flat.vmdk
512 -rw-------. 1 root root 501 Mar 25 15:57 test_vm_thin.vmdk
512 -rw-------. 1 root root 473 Mar 25 15:17 test_vm.vmdk
0 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jan 6 1970 test_vm.vmsd
2.0K -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 2.0K Mar 25 15:17 test_vm.vmx
but the qcow2 files from the linux hosts are thin as one would expect:
qemu-img create -f qcow2 big_disk_2.img 500G
ls -lsh
total 401K
200K -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 200K Mar 25 15:47 big_disk_2.img
200K -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 200K Mar 25 15:44 big_disk.img
512 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 81G Mar 25 15:57 test_vm
These ls -lsh results are the same from esx, linux nfs clients and from
cephfs kernel client.
What is happening here? Are there undocumented VAAI features in
nfs-ganesha with the cephfs fsal ? If so, how do I turn them off ? I
want thin provisioned disks.
ceph nfs export ls dev-nfs-cluster --detailed
[
{
"export_id": 1,
"path": "/Development-Datastore",
"cluster_id": "dev-nfs-cluster",
"pseudo": "/Development-Datastore",
"access_type": "RW",
"squash": "no_root_squash",
"security_label": true,
"protocols": [
4
],
"transports": [
"TCP"
],
"fsal": {
"name": "CEPH",
"user_id": "dev-nfs-cluster1",
"fs_name": "dev_cephfs_vol",
"sec_label_xattr": ""
},
"clients": []
}
]
rpm -qa | grep ganesha
nfs-ganesha-ceph-3.5-1.el7.x86_64
nfs-ganesha-rados-grace-3.5-1.el7.x86_64
nfs-ganesha-rados-urls-3.5-1.el7.x86_64
nfs-ganesha-3.5-1.el7.x86_64
centos-release-nfs-ganesha30-1.0-2.el7.centos.noarch
rpm -qa | grep ceph
python3-cephfs-15.2.7-0.el7.x86_64
nfs-ganesha-ceph-3.5-1.el7.x86_64
python3-ceph-argparse-15.2.7-0.el7.x86_64
python3-ceph-common-15.2.7-0.el7.x86_64
cephadm-15.2.7-0.el7.x86_64
libcephfs2-15.2.7-0.el7.x86_64
ceph-common-15.2.7-0.el7.x86_64
ceph -v
ceph version 15.2.7 (<ceph_uuid>) octopus (stable)
The ceph cluster is healthy using bluestore on raw 3.84TB sata 7200 rpm
disks.
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Robert Toole
rtoole(a)tooleweb.ca
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Mount Failed on a GlusterFS running on OEL 7.9
by mkanaga＠gmail.com
Greetings!
I have followed this example & created 3 Node Gluster FS (https://oracle.github.io/linux-labs/HA-NFS/)
Everything is working except When I tried to mount this export to a client, It fails:
---------------------------------------------
[root@master1 sysconfig]# pcs status
Cluster name: HA-NFS
Stack: corosync
Current DC: master1 (version 1.1.23-1.0.1.el7-9acf116022) - partition with quorum
Last updated: Wed Sep 22 04:56:33 2021
Last change: Wed Sep 22 02:28:21 2021 by root via cibadmin on master1
3 nodes configured
2 resource instances configured
Online: [ master1 master2 master3 ]
Full list of resources:
Resource Group: nfs_group
nfs_server (systemd:nfs-ganesha): Started master1
nfs_ip (ocf::heartbeat:IPaddr2): Started master1
Daemon Status:
corosync: active/enabled
pacemaker: active/enabled
pcsd: active/enabled
----------------------------------------------
Here is the Mount Error:
[root@client1 sysconfig]# mount -t nfs nfs.vagrant.vm:/data/glusterfs/sharedvol /sharedvol
mount.nfs: mounting nfs.vagrant.vm:/data/glusterfs/sharedvol failed, reason given by server: No such file or directory
[root@client1 sysconfig]#
Even showmount is not providing any info:
[root@client1 sysconfig]# showmount nfs.vagrant.vm
Hosts on nfs.vagrant.vm:
[root@client1 sysconfig]#
Any help or pointers would be very much appreciated.
Thank You
Murali
4 years
