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Hi all an update to the below. After further investigation, I concluded that the below was the result of some changes to the NIC configuration just prior to the upgrade. I thought I'd document something I found during my investigations. It was a long story, caused by xenserver allocating my desired devices with 2 new devices (eth7/8). In trying to fix this, I ended up with the host involved loosing connectivity to the pool, and eventually resulted in having to reset the network configuration from the console. What was interesting was that after doing so, xenserver refused to allocate 2 of my eth device names in the preferred order, and basically continued replacing eth1/2 with eth7/8. I tried the usual sequence of pif-forget, pif-scan and pif-introduce to change the device did not work - the last command resulted in an error message saying that the device and mac address did not match. The instructions at http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX129946 also could not be followed as no ifcfg-ethx configuration files existed. Further searches on the internet found that this was a common problem, encountered when trying to change NICs due to a faulty card for example, but no solution. There was one report of a solution, by manually editing the file /etc/udev/rules.d/60-net.rules and modifying the device name corresponding to the mac address, but in my case this also failed, as I understand this file is automatically generated by xenserver during restart based on its last known boot configuration. I did find a way around this however. There is another file which is apparently used by the xenserver installer to configure network cards on a clean installation. It transpires that this file is also used on restart to manually override the udev file. It can be found at /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/interface-rename-date/static-rules.conf. Basically you add a line consisting of the desired device name, a colon, and an identifier for the device. In my case, i modified the file to contain: eth1: mac=<addr1> eth2: mac=<addr2> There are other identifiers you can use - the file contains a short description. After this change, I simply rebooted, and the dom0 identified the desired device names to the interfaces. These could be seen with ifconfig -a. I then had to remove all bonds that were automatically replicated by xenserver from the pool (they were generated in the wrong order and thus given wrong bondx labels), did a pif-scan, recreated bonds etc. At this point, xenserver also recreated the pool vlans and I was back in business. I did take me 2-3 days to come to this point, so I hope this information is useful to anyone who has passed through a similar experience. One final point - the static configuration in the static-rules.conf file can be deleted as soon as xenserver has recognised the new configuration. This is because xenserver now starts reflecting the updated device configuration into the 60-net.rules file, so the updates persist. On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Black Bird <blackbird1758@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have just carried out a rolling pool upgrade of a 3-host pool from > XCP 1.1.0 (50674c) to XCP 1.6 Beta (61002c). I was able to bring up > the VMs as normal and network connectivity is ok. > > However when I tried to implement the first change I encountered a > problem. I tried to change a vif from one network (a physical > interface eth0, network uuid ef66fdda-e249-a01d-545c-e002f945bdc6) to > another (a pool vlan 255 on a bonded interface bond0 created with > slaves eth1 and eth2, network uuid > 7568abf3-470f-21fc-9ec2-24e854d4522c). The vif-destroy and vif-create > process were executed as normal, but on attempting to start the vm, I > got an error saying "stderr = ovs-vsctl: cannot create a port named > eth1 because an interface named eth1 already exists on bridge xapi3". > > My network configuration, on each of the 3 hosts, is: > > interface bond > eth0 n.a. > eth1 bond0 > eth2 bond0 > eth3 bond1 > eth4 bond1 > eth5 bond2 > eth6 bond2 > > I have a number of pool vlans created on bond0 and bond2. The > particular vlan involved in this report is vlan255, corresponding to > an 802.1q tag of 255, created on bond0 > > The command log follows. The vm and previous vif had their parameters > listed prior to the change. The attempt to startup the vm results in > the error. I thought it was strange that ovs-vsctl is attempting to > add eth1 to the bridge xapi3 (which corresponds to bond0) when the vm > starts - I would have expected this to take place on xenserver > startup. > > I have carried out this operation prior to the upgrade dozens of > times, so I know it should work. I'd be grateful for any advice. > > [root@xen3v3 ~]# xe vm-param-list uuid=449fb2b2-5df2-2c6b-33ca-7627d1eed6cb > uuid ( RO) : 449fb2b2-5df2-2c6b-33ca-7627d1eed6cb > name-label ( RW): efw2 > name-description ( RW): Installed via xe CLI > user-version ( RW): 1 > is-a-template ( RW): false > is-a-snapshot ( RO): false > snapshot-of ( RO): <not in database> > snapshots ( RO): > snapshot-time ( RO): 19700101T00:00:00Z > snapshot-info ( RO): > parent ( RO): <not in database> > children ( RO): > is-control-domain ( RO): false > power-state ( RO): running > memory-actual ( RO): 33505280 > memory-target ( RO): 33554432 > memory-overhead ( RO): 4194304 > memory-static-max ( RW): 33554432 > memory-dynamic-max ( RW): 33554432 > memory-dynamic-min ( RW): 33554432 > memory-static-min ( RW): 33554432 > suspend-VDI-uuid ( RW): <not in database> > suspend-SR-uuid ( RW): <not in database> > VCPUs-params (MRW): > VCPUs-max ( RW): 1 > VCPUs-at-startup ( RW): 1 > actions-after-shutdown ( RW): Destroy > actions-after-reboot ( RW): Restart > actions-after-crash ( RW): Restart > console-uuids (SRO): 146df0b4-a963-b399-8b97-f10646fd4f4b > platform (MRW): timeoffset: 0; nx: false; acpi: > true; apic: true; pae: true; viridian: true > allowed-operations (SRO): hard_reboot; hard_shutdown; pause > current-operations (SRO): > blocked-operations (MRW): > allowed-VBD-devices (SRO): 1; 2; 3 > allowed-VIF-devices (SRO): 2; 3 > possible-hosts ( RO): > 3e760f02-a3a5-470f-94f5-50023805f9c3; > 403452ad-6d8e-4757-a9c2-305e867134fd; > a53d1a5a-a9a3-4314-8295-1af5584cf02b > HVM-boot-policy ( RW): BIOS order > HVM-boot-params (MRW): order: dc > HVM-shadow-multiplier ( RW): 1.000 > PV-kernel ( RW): > PV-ramdisk ( RW): > PV-args ( RW): > PV-legacy-args ( RW): > PV-bootloader ( RW): > PV-bootloader-args ( RW): > last-boot-CPU-flags ( RO): vendor: AuthenticAMD; features: > 00002001-178bfbff-0000001f-ebd3fbff > last-boot-record ( RO): > 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> resident-on ( RO): 403452ad-6d8e-4757-a9c2-305e867134fd > affinity ( RW): <not in database> > other-config (MRW): vgpu_pci: ; last_shutdown_time: > 20121015T04:25:36Z; last_shutdown_action: Destroy; > last_shutdown_initiator: external; last_shutdown_reason: halted; > auto_poweron: true; import_task: > OpaqueRef:8ca87370-044d-3fcf-2718-0e31a989f87a; mac_seed: > b95defa9-572a-1f7f-7ce7-dd834400f8fb; install-methods: cdrom > dom-id ( RO): 2 > recommendations ( RO): <restrictions><restriction > field="memory-static-max" max="34359738368" /><restriction > field="vcpus-max" max="8" /><restriction property="number-of-vbds" > max="7" /><restriction property="number-of-vifs" max="7" > /></restrictions> > xenstore-data (MRW): vm-data: > ha-always-run ( RW) [DEPRECATED]: false > ha-restart-priority ( RW): best-effort > blobs ( RO): > start-time ( RO): 20121015T04:48:27Z > install-time ( RO): 19700101T00:00:00Z > VCPUs-number ( RO): 1 > VCPUs-utilisation (MRO): 0: 0.007 > os-version (MRO): <not in database> > PV-drivers-version (MRO): <not in database> > PV-drivers-up-to-date ( RO): <not in database> > memory (MRO): <not in database> > disks (MRO): <not in database> > networks (MRO): <not in database> > other (MRO): <not in database> > live ( RO): <not in database> > guest-metrics-last-updated ( RO): <not in database> > cooperative ( RO) [DEPRECATED]: true > protection-policy ( RW): <not in database> > is-snapshot-from-vmpp ( RO): false > tags (SRW): > appliance ( RW): <not in database> > start-delay ( RW): 0 > shutdown-delay ( RW): 0 > order ( RW): 0 > version ( RO): 0 > [root@xen3v3 ~]# > [root@xen3v3 ~]# xe vif-param-list uuid=d4403431-0363-d9a5-a708-8eddf85e531a > uuid ( RO) : d4403431-0363-d9a5-a708-8eddf85e531a > vm-uuid ( RO): 449fb2b2-5df2-2c6b-33ca-7627d1eed6cb > vm-name-label ( RO): efw2 > allowed-operations (SRO): attach > current-operations (SRO): > device ( RO): 1 > MAC ( RO): be:5c:1e:a2:77:3c > MAC-autogenerated ( RO): false > MTU ( RO): 1500 > currently-attached ( RO): false > qos_algorithm_type ( RW): > qos_algorithm_params (MRW): > qos_supported_algorithms (SRO): > other-config (MRW): > network-uuid ( RO): ef66fdda-e249-a01d-545c-e002f945bdc6 > network-name-label ( RO): Pool-wide network associated with eth0 > io_read_kbs ( RO): <unknown> > io_write_kbs ( RO): <unknown> > locking-mode ( RW): network_default > ipv4-allowed (SRW): > ipv6-allowed (SRW): > > [root@xen3v3 ~]# xe vif-destroy uuid=d4403431-0363-d9a5-a708-8eddf85e531a > [root@xen3v3 ~]# xe vif-create > vm-uuid=449fb2b2-5df2-2c6b-33ca-7627d1eed6cb > network-uuid=7568abf3-470f-21fc-9ec2-24e854d4522c device=1 > 56e4b508-7254-3315-f3af-eea22d2f826d > [root@xen3v3 ~]# xe vm-start uuid=449fb2b2-5df2-2c6b-33ca-7627d1eed6cb > An unknown error occurred while attempting to configure an interface. > PIF: 1ce7d205-df3a-f6c6-be8b-6d8f8585cd6f > msg: script error [script = /usr/bin/ovs-vsctl, args = --timeout=20 -- > --may-exist add-br xapi3 -- set bridge xapi3 > other-config:hwaddr="00:0e:0c:b5:66:8e" -- set bridge xapi3 > fail_mode=standalone -- remove bridge xapi3 other_config > disable-in-band -- br-set-external-id xapi3 xs-network-uuids > daaabcf2-8998-15c5-524f-5c19a5dd14b4 -- --may-exist add-port xapi3 > eth1 -- --may-exist add-port xapi3 eth2, code = 1, stdout = , stderr = > ovs-vsctl: cannot create a port named eth1 because an interface named > eth1 already exists on bridge xapi3] _______________________________________________ Xen-api mailing list Xen-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-api
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