Troubleshooting Guide


Red Hat Ceph Storage 4

Troubleshooting Red Hat Ceph Storage

Red Hat Ceph Storage Documentation Team

Abstract

This document describes how to resolve common problems with Red Hat Ceph Storage.
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Chapter 1. Initial Troubleshooting

This chapter includes information on:

1.1. Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.

1.2. Identifying problems

To determine possible causes of the error with the Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster, answer the questions in the Procedure section.

Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.

Procedure

  1. Certain problems can arise when using unsupported configurations. Ensure that your configuration is supported.
  2. Do you know what Ceph component causes the problem?

    1. No. Follow Diagnosing the health of a Ceph storage cluster procedure in the Red Hat Ceph Storage Troubleshooting Guide.
    2. Ceph Monitors. See Troubleshooting Ceph Monitors section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage Troubleshooting Guide.
    3. Ceph OSDs. See Troubleshooting Ceph OSDs section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage Troubleshooting Guide.
    4. Ceph placement groups. See Troubleshooting Ceph placement groups section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage Troubleshooting Guide.
    5. Multi-site Ceph Object Gateway. See Troubleshooting a multi-site Ceph Object Gateway section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage Troubleshooting Guide.

Additional Resources

1.2.1. Diagnosing the health of a storage cluster

This procedure lists basic steps to diagnose the health of a Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.

Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.

Procedure

  1. Check the overall status of the storage cluster:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph health detail

    If the command returns HEALTH_WARN or HEALTH_ERR see Understanding Ceph health for details.

  2. Check the Ceph logs for any error messages listed in Understanding Ceph logs. The logs are located by default in the /var/log/ceph/ directory.
  3. If the logs do not include sufficient amount of information, increase the debugging level and try to reproduce the action that failed. See Configuring logging for details.

1.3. Understanding Ceph health

The ceph health command returns information about the status of the Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster:

  • HEALTH_OK indicates that the cluster is healthy.
  • HEALTH_WARN indicates a warning. In some cases, the Ceph status returns to HEALTH_OK automatically. For example when Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster finishes the rebalancing process. However, consider further troubleshooting if a cluster is in the HEALTH_WARN state for longer time.
  • HEALTH_ERR indicates a more serious problem that requires your immediate attention.

Use the ceph health detail and ceph -s commands to get a more detailed output.

Additional Resources

1.4. Understanding Ceph logs

1.4.1. Non containerized deployment

By default, Ceph stores its logs in the /var/log/ceph/ directory.

The CLUSTER_NAME.log is the main storage cluster log file that includes global events. By default, the log file name is ceph.log. Only the Ceph Monitor nodes include the main storage cluster log.

Each Ceph OSD and Monitor has its own log file, named CLUSTER_NAME-osd.NUMBER.log and CLUSTER_NAME-mon.HOSTNAME.log.

When you increase debugging level for Ceph subsystems, Ceph generates new log files for those subsystems as well.

1.4.2. Container-based deployment

For container-based deployment, by default, Ceph log to journald, accessible using the journactl command. However, you can configure Ceph to log to files in /var/log/ceph in the configuration settings.

  1. To enable logging Ceph Monitors, Ceph Manager, Ceph Object Gateway, and any other daemons, set log_to_file to true under [global] settings.

    Example

    [ceph: root@host01 ~]# ceph config set global log_to_file true

  2. To enable logging for Ceph Monitor cluster and audit logs, set mon_cluster_log_to_file to true.

    Example

    [ceph: root@host01 ~]# ceph config set mon mon_cluster_log_to_file true

Note

If you choose to log to files, it is recommended to disable logging to journald or else everything is logged twice. Run the following commands to disable logging to journald:

# ceph config set global log_to_journald false
# ceph config set global mon_cluster_log_to_journald false

Additional Resources

1.5. Gathering logs from multiple hosts in a Ceph cluster using Ansible

Starting with Red Hat Ceph Storage 4.2, you can use ceph-ansible to gather logs from multiple hosts in a Ceph cluster. It captures etc/ceph and /var/log/ceph directories from the Ceph nodes. This playbook can be used to collect logs for a bare-metal and containerized storage cluster.

Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  • Root-level access to the nodes.
  • The ceph-ansible package is installed on the node.

Procedure

  1. Log into the Ansible administration node as an ansible user.

    Note

    Ensure the node has adequate space to collect the logs from the hosts.

  2. Navigate to /usr/share/ceph-ansible directory:

    Example

    [ansible@admin ~]# cd /usr/share/ceph-ansible

  3. Run the Ansible playbook to gather the logs:

    Example

    ansible@admin ceph-ansible]$ ansible-playbook infrastructure-playbooks/gather-ceph-logs.yml -i hosts

    The logs are stored in the /tmp directory of the Ansible node.

Chapter 2. Configuring logging

This chapter describes how to configure logging for various Ceph subsystems.

Important

Logging is resource intensive. Also, verbose logging can generate a huge amount of data in a relatively short time. If you are encountering problems in a specific subsystem of the cluster, enable logging only of that subsystem. See Section 2.2, “Ceph subsystems” for more information.

In addition, consider setting up a rotation of log files. See Section 2.5, “Accelerating log rotation” for details.

Once you fix any problems you encounter, change the subsystems log and memory levels to their default values. See Appendix A, Ceph subsystems default logging level values for list of all Ceph subsystems and their default values.

You can configure Ceph logging by:

2.1. Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.

2.2. Ceph subsystems

This section contains information about Ceph subsystems and their logging levels.

Understanding Ceph Subsystems and Their Logging Levels

Ceph consists of several subsystems.

Each subsystem has a logging level of its:

  • Output logs that are stored by default in /var/log/ceph/ directory (log level)
  • Logs that are stored in a memory cache (memory level)

In general, Ceph does not send logs stored in memory to the output logs unless:

  • A fatal signal is raised
  • An assert in source code is triggered
  • You request it

You can set different values for each of these subsystems. Ceph logging levels operate on scale of 1 to 20, where 1 is terse and 20 is verbose.

Use a single value for the log level and memory level to set them both to the same value. For example, debug_osd = 5 sets the debug level for the ceph-osd daemon to 5.

To use different values for the output log level and the memory level, separate the values with a forward slash (/). For example, debug_mon = 1/5 sets the debug log level for the ceph-mon daemon to 1 and its memory log level to 5.

Note

For container-based deployment, Ceph generates logs to journald. You can enable logging to files in /var/log/ceph by setting log_to_file parameter to true under [global] in the Ceph configuration file. See Understanding ceph logs for more details.

Table 2.1. Ceph Subsystems and the Logging Default Values
SubsystemLog LevelMemory LevelDescription

asok

1

5

The administration socket

auth

1

5

Authentication

client

0

5

Any application or library that uses librados to connect to the cluster

bluestore

1

5

The BlueStore OSD backend

journal

1

5

The OSD journal

mds

1

5

The Metadata Servers

monc

0

5

The Monitor client handles communication between most Ceph daemons and Monitors

mon

1

5

Monitors

ms

0

5

The messaging system between Ceph components

osd

0

5

The OSD Daemons

paxos

0

5

The algorithm that Monitors use to establish a consensus

rados

0

5

Reliable Autonomic Distributed Object Store, a core component of Ceph

rbd

0

5

The Ceph Block Devices

rgw

1

5

The Ceph Object Gateway

Example Log Outputs

The following examples show the type of messages in the logs when you increase the verbosity for the Monitors and OSDs.

Monitor Debug Settings

debug_ms = 5
debug_mon = 20
debug_paxos = 20
debug_auth = 20

Example Log Output of Monitor Debug Settings

2016-02-12 12:37:04.278761 7f45a9afc700 10 mon.cephn2@0(leader).osd e322 e322: 2 osds: 2 up, 2 in
2016-02-12 12:37:04.278792 7f45a9afc700 10 mon.cephn2@0(leader).osd e322  min_last_epoch_clean 322
2016-02-12 12:37:04.278795 7f45a9afc700 10 mon.cephn2@0(leader).log v1010106 log
2016-02-12 12:37:04.278799 7f45a9afc700 10 mon.cephn2@0(leader).auth v2877 auth
2016-02-12 12:37:04.278811 7f45a9afc700 20 mon.cephn2@0(leader) e1 sync_trim_providers
2016-02-12 12:37:09.278914 7f45a9afc700 11 mon.cephn2@0(leader) e1 tick
2016-02-12 12:37:09.278949 7f45a9afc700 10 mon.cephn2@0(leader).pg v8126 v8126: 64 pgs: 64 active+clean; 60168 kB data, 172 MB used, 20285 MB / 20457 MB avail
2016-02-12 12:37:09.278975 7f45a9afc700 10 mon.cephn2@0(leader).paxosservice(pgmap 7511..8126) maybe_trim trim_to 7626 would only trim 115 < paxos_service_trim_min 250
2016-02-12 12:37:09.278982 7f45a9afc700 10 mon.cephn2@0(leader).osd e322 e322: 2 osds: 2 up, 2 in
2016-02-12 12:37:09.278989 7f45a9afc700  5 mon.cephn2@0(leader).paxos(paxos active c 1028850..1029466) is_readable = 1 - now=2016-02-12 12:37:09.278990 lease_expire=0.000000 has v0 lc 1029466
....
2016-02-12 12:59:18.769963 7f45a92fb700  1 -- 192.168.0.112:6789/0 <== osd.1 192.168.0.114:6800/2801 5724 ==== pg_stats(0 pgs tid 3045 v 0) v1 ==== 124+0+0 (2380105412 0 0) 0x5d96300 con 0x4d5bf40
2016-02-12 12:59:18.770053 7f45a92fb700  1 -- 192.168.0.112:6789/0 --> 192.168.0.114:6800/2801 -- pg_stats_ack(0 pgs tid 3045) v1 -- ?+0 0x550ae00 con 0x4d5bf40
2016-02-12 12:59:32.916397 7f45a9afc700  0 mon.cephn2@0(leader).data_health(1) update_stats avail 53% total 1951 MB, used 780 MB, avail 1053 MB
....
2016-02-12 13:01:05.256263 7f45a92fb700  1 -- 192.168.0.112:6789/0 --> 192.168.0.113:6800/2410 -- mon_subscribe_ack(300s) v1 -- ?+0 0x4f283c0 con 0x4d5b440

OSD Debug Settings

debug_ms = 5
debug_osd = 20

Example Log Output of OSD Debug Settings

2016-02-12 11:27:53.869151 7f5d55d84700  1 -- 192.168.17.3:0/2410 --> 192.168.17.4:6801/2801 -- osd_ping(ping e322 stamp 2016-02-12 11:27:53.869147) v2 -- ?+0 0x63baa00 con 0x578dee0
2016-02-12 11:27:53.869214 7f5d55d84700  1 -- 192.168.17.3:0/2410 --> 192.168.0.114:6801/2801 -- osd_ping(ping e322 stamp 2016-02-12 11:27:53.869147) v2 -- ?+0 0x638f200 con 0x578e040
2016-02-12 11:27:53.870215 7f5d6359f700  1 -- 192.168.17.3:0/2410 <== osd.1 192.168.0.114:6801/2801 109210 ==== osd_ping(ping_reply e322 stamp 2016-02-12 11:27:53.869147) v2 ==== 47+0+0 (261193640 0 0) 0x63c1a00 con 0x578e040
2016-02-12 11:27:53.870698 7f5d6359f700  1 -- 192.168.17.3:0/2410 <== osd.1 192.168.17.4:6801/2801 109210 ==== osd_ping(ping_reply e322 stamp 2016-02-12 11:27:53.869147) v2 ==== 47+0+0 (261193640 0 0) 0x6313200 con 0x578dee0
....
2016-02-12 11:28:10.432313 7f5d6e71f700  5 osd.0 322 tick
2016-02-12 11:28:10.432375 7f5d6e71f700 20 osd.0 322 scrub_random_backoff lost coin flip, randomly backing off
2016-02-12 11:28:10.432381 7f5d6e71f700 10 osd.0 322 do_waiters -- start
2016-02-12 11:28:10.432383 7f5d6e71f700 10 osd.0 322 do_waiters -- finish

2.3. Configuring logging at runtime

You can configure the logging of Ceph subsystems at system runtime to help troubleshoot any issues that might occur.

Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  • Access to Ceph debugger.

Procedure

  1. To activate the Ceph debugging output, dout(), at runtime:

    ceph tell TYPE.ID injectargs --debug-SUBSYSTEM VALUE [--NAME VALUE]
  2. Replace:

    • TYPE with the type of Ceph daemons (osd, mon, or mds)
    • ID with a specific ID of the Ceph daemon. Alternatively, use * to apply the runtime setting to all daemons of a particular type.
    • SUBSYSTEM with a specific subsystem.
    • VALUE with a number from 1 to 20, where 1 is terse and 20 is verbose.

      For example, to set the log level for the OSD subsystem on the OSD named osd.0 to 0 and the memory level to 5:

      # ceph tell osd.0 injectargs --debug-osd 0/5

To see the configuration settings at runtime:

  1. Log in to the host with a running Ceph daemon, for example ceph-osd or ceph-mon.
  2. Display the configuration:

    ceph daemon NAME config show | less

    Example

    # ceph daemon osd.0 config show | less

Additional Resources

2.4. Configuring logging in configuration file

Configure Ceph subsystems to log informational, warning, and error messages to the log file. You can specify the debugging level in the Ceph configuration file, by default /etc/ceph/ceph.conf.

Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.

Procedure

  1. To activate Ceph debugging output, dout() at boot time, add the debugging settings to the Ceph configuration file.

    1. For subsystems common to each daemon, add the settings under the [global] section.
    2. For subsystems for particular daemons, add the settings under a daemon section, such as [mon], [osd], or [mds].

      Example

      [global]
              debug_ms = 1/5
      
      [mon]
              debug_mon = 20
              debug_paxos = 1/5
              debug_auth = 2
      
      [osd]
              debug_osd = 1/5
              debug_monc = 5/20
      
      [mds]
              debug_mds = 1

Additional Resources

2.5. Accelerating log rotation

Increasing debugging level for Ceph components might generate a huge amount of data. If you have almost full disks, you can accelerate log rotation by modifying the Ceph log rotation file at /etc/logrotate.d/ceph. The Cron job scheduler uses this file to schedule log rotation.

Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  • Root-level access to the node.

Procedure

  1. Add the size setting after the rotation frequency to the log rotation file:

    rotate 7
    weekly
    size SIZE
    compress
    sharedscripts

    For example, to rotate a log file when it reaches 500 MB:

    rotate 7
    weekly
    size 500 MB
    compress
    sharedscripts
    size 500M
  2. Open the crontab editor:

    [root@mon ~]# crontab -e
  3. Add an entry to check the /etc/logrotate.d/ceph file. For example, to instruct Cron to check /etc/logrotate.d/ceph every 30 minutes:

    30 * * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/ceph >/dev/null 2>&1

Additional Resources

Chapter 3. Troubleshooting networking issues

This chapter lists basic troubleshooting procedures connected with networking and Network Time Protocol (NTP).

3.1. Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.

3.2. Basic networking troubleshooting

Red Hat Ceph Storage depends heavily on a reliable network connection. Red Hat Ceph Storage nodes use the network for communicating with each other. Networking issues can cause many problems with Ceph OSDs, such as them flapping, or being incorrectly reported as down. Networking issues can also cause the Ceph Monitor’s clock skew errors. In addition, packet loss, high latency, or limited bandwidth can impact the cluster performance and stability.

Prerequisites

  • Root-level access to the node.

Procedure

  1. Installing the net-tools and telnet packages can help when troubleshooting network issues that can occur in a Ceph storage cluster:

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

    [root@mon ~]# yum install net-tools
    [root@mon ~]# yum install telnet

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

    [root@mon ~]# dnf install net-tools
    [root@mon ~]# dnf install telnet

  2. Verify that the cluster_network and public_network parameters in the Ceph configuration file include the correct values:

    Example

    [root@mon ~]# cat /etc/ceph/ceph.conf | grep net
    cluster_network = 192.168.1.0/24
    public_network = 192.168.0.0/24

  3. Verify that the network interfaces are up:

    Example

    [root@mon ~]# ip link list
    1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
        link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    2: enp22s0f0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
        link/ether 40:f2:e9:b8:a0:48 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

  4. Verify that the Ceph nodes are able to reach each other using their short host names. Verify this on each node in the storage cluster:

    Syntax

    ping SHORT_HOST_NAME

    Example

    [root@mon ~]# ping osd01

  5. If you use a firewall, ensure that Ceph nodes are able to reach other on their appropriate ports. The firewall-cmd and telnet tools can validate the port status, and if the port is open respectively:

    Syntax

    firewall-cmd --info-zone=ZONE
    telnet IP_ADDRESS PORT

    Example

    [root@mon ~]# firewall-cmd --info-zone=public
    public (active)
      target: default
      icmp-block-inversion: no
      interfaces: enp1s0
      sources: 192.168.0.0/24
      services: ceph ceph-mon cockpit dhcpv6-client ssh
      ports: 9100/tcp 8443/tcp 9283/tcp 3000/tcp 9092/tcp 9093/tcp 9094/tcp 9094/udp
      protocols:
      masquerade: no
      forward-ports:
      source-ports:
      icmp-blocks:
      rich rules:
    
    [root@mon ~]# telnet 192.168.0.22 9100

  6. Verify that there are no errors on the interface counters. Verify that the network connectivity between nodes has expected latency, and that there is no packet loss.

    1. Using the ethtool command:

      Syntax

      ethtool -S INTERFACE

      Example

      [root@mon ~]# ethtool -S enp22s0f0 | grep errors
      NIC statistics:
           rx_fcs_errors: 0
           rx_align_errors: 0
           rx_frame_too_long_errors: 0
           rx_in_length_errors: 0
           rx_out_length_errors: 0
           tx_mac_errors: 0
           tx_carrier_sense_errors: 0
           tx_errors: 0
           rx_errors: 0

    2. Using the ifconfig command:

      Example

      [root@mon ~]# ifconfig
      enp22s0f0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
      inet 10.8.222.13  netmask 255.255.254.0  broadcast 10.8.223.255
      inet6 2620:52:0:8de:42f2:e9ff:feb8:a048  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
      inet6 fe80::42f2:e9ff:feb8:a048  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
      ether 40:f2:e9:b8:a0:48  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
      RX packets 4219130  bytes 2704255777 (2.5 GiB)
      RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0 1
      TX packets 1418329  bytes 738664259 (704.4 MiB)
      TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0 2
      device interrupt 16

    3. Using the netstat command:

      Example

      [root@mon ~]# netstat -ai
      Kernel Interface table
      Iface          MTU   RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR  TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
      docker0       1500       0      0      0 0           0      0      0      0 BMU
      eno2          1500       0      0      0 0           0      0      0      0 BMU
      eno3          1500       0      0      0 0           0      0      0      0 BMU
      eno4          1500       0      0      0 0           0      0      0      0 BMU
      enp0s20u13u5  1500  253277      0      0 0           0      0      0      0 BMRU
      enp22s0f0     9000  234160      0      0 0      432326      0      0      0 BMRU 1
      lo           65536   10366      0      0 0       10366      0      0      0 LRU

  7. For performance issues, in addition to the latency checks and to verify the network bandwidth between all nodes of the storage cluster, use the iperf3 tool. The iperf3 tool does a simple point-to-point network bandwidth test between a server and a client.

    1. Install the iperf3 package on the Red Hat Ceph Storage nodes you want to check the bandwidth:

      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

      [root@mon ~]# yum install iperf3

      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

      [root@mon ~]# dnf install iperf3

    2. On a Red Hat Ceph Storage node, start the iperf3 server:

      Example

      [root@mon ~]# iperf3 -s
      -----------------------------------------------------------
      Server listening on 5201
      -----------------------------------------------------------

      Note

      The default port is 5201, but can be set using the -P command argument.

    3. On a different Red Hat Ceph Storage node, start the iperf3 client:

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# iperf3 -c mon
      Connecting to host mon, port 5201
      [  4] local xx.x.xxx.xx port 52270 connected to xx.x.xxx.xx port 5201
      [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr  Cwnd
      [  4]   0.00-1.00   sec   114 MBytes   954 Mbits/sec    0    409 KBytes
      [  4]   1.00-2.00   sec   113 MBytes   945 Mbits/sec    0    409 KBytes
      [  4]   2.00-3.00   sec   112 MBytes   943 Mbits/sec    0    454 KBytes
      [  4]   3.00-4.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec    0    471 KBytes
      [  4]   4.00-5.00   sec   112 MBytes   940 Mbits/sec    0    471 KBytes
      [  4]   5.00-6.00   sec   113 MBytes   945 Mbits/sec    0    471 KBytes
      [  4]   6.00-7.00   sec   112 MBytes   937 Mbits/sec    0    488 KBytes
      [  4]   7.00-8.00   sec   113 MBytes   947 Mbits/sec    0    520 KBytes
      [  4]   8.00-9.00   sec   112 MBytes   939 Mbits/sec    0    520 KBytes
      [  4]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   939 Mbits/sec    0    520 KBytes
      - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
      [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
      [  4]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.10 GBytes   943 Mbits/sec    0             sender
      [  4]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.10 GBytes   941 Mbits/sec                  receiver
      
      iperf Done.

      This output shows a network bandwidth of 1.1 Gbits/second between the Red Hat Ceph Storage nodes, along with no retransmissions (Retr) during the test.

      Red Hat recommends you validate the network bandwidth between all the nodes in the storage cluster.

  8. Ensure that all nodes have the same network interconnect speed. Slower attached nodes might slow down the faster connected ones. Also, ensure that the inter switch links can handle the aggregated bandwidth of the attached nodes:

    Syntax

    ethtool INTERFACE

    Example

    [root@mon ~]# ethtool enp22s0f0
    Settings for enp22s0f0:
    Supported ports: [ TP ]
    Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                            100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                            1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
    Supported pause frame use: No
    Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
    Supported FEC modes: Not reported
    Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                            100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                            1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
    Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
    Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
    Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
    Link partner advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                         100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                         1000baseT/Full
    Link partner advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
    Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
    Link partner advertised FEC modes: Not reported
    Speed: 1000Mb/s 1
    Duplex: Full 2
    Port: Twisted Pair
    PHYAD: 1
    Transceiver: internal
    Auto-negotiation: on
    MDI-X: off
    Supports Wake-on: g
    Wake-on: d
    Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
           drv probe link timer ifdown ifup rx_err tx_err
    Link detected: yes 3

Additional Resources

3.3. Basic chrony NTP troubleshooting

This section includes basic chrony troubleshooting steps.

Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  • Root-level access to the Ceph Monitor node.

Procedure

  1. Verify that the chronyd daemon is running on the Ceph Monitor hosts:

    Example

    [root@mon ~]# systemctl status chronyd

  2. If chronyd is not running, enable and start it:

    Example

    [root@mon ~]# systemctl enable chronyd
    [root@mon ~]# systemctl start chronyd

  3. Ensure that chronyd is synchronizing the clocks correctly:

    Example

    [root@mon ~]# chronyc sources
    [root@mon ~]# chronyc sourcestats
    [root@mon ~]# chronyc tracking

Additional Resources

3.4. Basic NTP troubleshooting

This section includes basic NTP troubleshooting steps.

Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  • Root-level access to the Ceph Monitor node.

Procedure

  1. Verify that the ntpd daemon is running on the Ceph Monitor hosts:

    Example

    [root@mon ~]# systemctl status ntpd

  2. If ntpd is not running, enable and start it:

    Example

    [root@mon ~]# systemctl enable ntpd
    [root@mon ~]# systemctl start ntpd

  3. Ensure that ntpd is synchronizing the clocks correctly:

    Example

    [root@mon ~]# ntpq -p

Additional Resources

  • See the How to troubleshoot NTP issues solution on the Red Hat Customer Portal for advanced NTP troubleshooting steps.
  • See the Clock skew section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage Troubleshooting Guide for further details.

Chapter 4. Troubleshooting Ceph Monitors

This chapter contains information on how to fix the most common errors related to the Ceph Monitors.

4.1. Prerequisites

  • Verify the network connection.

4.2. Most common Ceph Monitor errors

The following tables list the most common error messages that are returned by the ceph health detail command, or included in the Ceph logs. The tables provide links to corresponding sections that explain the errors and point to specific procedures to fix the problems.

4.2.1. Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.

4.2.2. Ceph Monitor error messages

A table of common Ceph Monitor error messages, and a potential fix.

Error messageSee

HEALTH_WARN

mon.X is down (out of quorum)

Ceph Monitor is out of quorum

clock skew

Clock skew

store is getting too big!

The Ceph Monitor store is getting too big

4.2.3. Common Ceph Monitor error messages in the Ceph logs

A table of common Ceph Monitor error messages found in the Ceph logs, and a link to a potential fix.

Error messageLog fileSee

clock skew

Main cluster log

Clock skew

clocks not synchronized

Main cluster log

Clock skew

Corruption: error in middle of record

Monitor log

Ceph Monitor is out of quorum

Recovering the Ceph Monitor store

Corruption: 1 missing files

Monitor log

Ceph Monitor is out of quorum

Recovering the Ceph Monitor store

Caught signal (Bus error)

Monitor log

Ceph Monitor is out of quorum

4.2.4. Ceph Monitor is out of quorum

One or more Ceph Monitors are marked as down but the other Ceph Monitors are still able to form a quorum. In addition, the ceph health detail command returns an error message similar to the following one:

HEALTH_WARN 1 mons down, quorum 1,2 mon.b,mon.c
mon.a (rank 0) addr 127.0.0.1:6789/0 is down (out of quorum)

What This Means

Ceph marks a Ceph Monitor as down due to various reasons.

If the ceph-mon daemon is not running, it might have a corrupted store or some other error is preventing the daemon from starting. Also, the /var/ partition might be full. As a consequence, ceph-mon is not able to perform any operations to the store located by default at /var/lib/ceph/mon-SHORT_HOST_NAME/store.db and terminates.

If the ceph-mon daemon is running but the Ceph Monitor is out of quorum and marked as down, the cause of the problem depends on the Ceph Monitor state:

  • If the Ceph Monitor is in the probing state longer than expected, it cannot find the other Ceph Monitors. This problem can be caused by networking issues, or the Ceph Monitor can have an outdated Ceph Monitor map (monmap) and be trying to reach the other Ceph Monitors on incorrect IP addresses. Alternatively, if the monmap is up-to-date, Ceph Monitor’s clock might not be synchronized.
  • If the Ceph Monitor is in the electing state longer than expected, the Ceph Monitor’s clock might not be synchronized.
  • If the Ceph Monitor changes its state from synchronizing to electing and back, the cluster state is advancing. This means that it is generating new maps faster than the synchronization process can handle.
  • If the Ceph Monitor marks itself as the leader or a peon, then it believes to be in a quorum, while the remaining cluster is sure that it is not. This problem can be caused by failed clock synchronization.

To Troubleshoot This Problem

  1. Verify that the ceph-mon daemon is running. If not, start it:

    [root@mon ~]# systemctl status ceph-mon@HOST_NAME
    [root@mon ~]# systemctl start ceph-mon@HOST_NAME

    Replace HOST_NAME with the short name of the host where the daemon is running. Use the hostname -s command when unsure.

  2. If you are not able to start ceph-mon, follow the steps in The ceph-mon daemon cannot start.
  3. If you are able to start the ceph-mon daemon but is is marked as down, follow the steps in The ceph-mon daemon is running, but marked as `down`.

The ceph-mon Daemon Cannot Start

  1. Check the corresponding Ceph Monitor log, by default located at /var/log/ceph/ceph-mon.HOST_NAME.log.
  2. If the log contains error messages similar to the following ones, the Ceph Monitor might have a corrupted store.

    Corruption: error in middle of record
    Corruption: 1 missing files; e.g.: /var/lib/ceph/mon/mon.0/store.db/1234567.ldb

    To fix this problem, replace the Ceph Monitor. See Replacing a failed monitor.

  3. If the log contains an error message similar to the following one, the /var/ partition might be full. Delete any unnecessary data from /var/.

    Caught signal (Bus error)
    Important

    Do not delete any data from the Monitor directory manually. Instead, use the ceph-monstore-tool to compact it. See Compacting the Ceph Monitor store for details.

  4. If you see any other error messages, open a support ticket. See Contacting Red Hat Support for service for details.

The ceph-mon Daemon Is Running, but Still Marked as down

  1. From the Ceph Monitor host that is out of the quorum, use the mon_status command to check its state:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph daemon ID mon_status

    Replace ID with the ID of the Ceph Monitor, for example:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph daemon mon.a mon_status
  2. If the status is probing, verify the locations of the other Ceph Monitors in the mon_status output.

    1. If the addresses are incorrect, the Ceph Monitor has incorrect Ceph Monitor map (monmap). To fix this problem, see Injecting a Ceph Monitor map.
    2. If the addresses are correct, verify that the Ceph Monitor clocks are synchronized. See Clock skew for details. In addition, troubleshoot any networking issues, see Troubleshooting Networking issues for details.
  3. If the status is electing, verify that the Ceph Monitor clocks are synchronized. See Clock skew for details.
  4. If the status changes from electing to synchronizing, open a support ticket. See Contacting Red Hat Support for service for details.
  5. If the Ceph Monitor is the leader or a peon, verify that the Ceph Monitor clocks are synchronized. See Clock skew for details. Open a support ticket if synchronizing the clocks does not solve the problem. See Contacting Red Hat Support for service for details.

Additional Resources

4.2.5. Clock skew

A Ceph Monitor is out of quorum, and the ceph health detail command output contains error messages similar to these:

mon.a (rank 0) addr 127.0.0.1:6789/0 is down (out of quorum)
mon.a addr 127.0.0.1:6789/0 clock skew 0.08235s > max 0.05s (latency 0.0045s)

In addition, Ceph logs contain error messages similar to these:

2015-06-04 07:28:32.035795 7f806062e700 0 log [WRN] : mon.a 127.0.0.1:6789/0 clock skew 0.14s > max 0.05s
2015-06-04 04:31:25.773235 7f4997663700 0 log [WRN] : message from mon.1 was stamped 0.186257s in the future, clocks not synchronized

What This Means

The clock skew error message indicates that Ceph Monitors' clocks are not synchronized. Clock synchronization is important because Ceph Monitors depend on time precision and behave unpredictably if their clocks are not synchronized.

The mon_clock_drift_allowed parameter determines what disparity between the clocks is tolerated. By default, this parameter is set to 0.05 seconds.

Important

Do not change the default value of mon_clock_drift_allowed without previous testing. Changing this value might affect the stability of the Ceph Monitors and the Ceph Storage Cluster in general.

Possible causes of the clock skew error include network problems or problems with Network Time Protocol (NTP) synchronization if that is configured. In addition, time synchronization does not work properly on Ceph Monitors deployed on virtual machines.

To Troubleshoot This Problem

  1. Verify that your network works correctly. For details, see Troubleshooting networking issues. In particular, troubleshoot any problems with NTP clients if you use NTP.

    1. If you use chrony for NTP, see Basic chrony NTP troubleshooting section for more information.
    2. If you use ntpd, see Basic NTP troubleshooting.
  2. If you use a remote NTP server, consider deploying your own NTP server on your network.

    1. For details, see the Using the Chrony suite to configure NTP chapter in the Configuring basic system settings for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
    2. See the Configuring NTP Using ntpd chapter in the System Administrator’s Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Note

Ceph evaluates time synchronization every five minutes only so there will be a delay between fixing the problem and clearing the clock skew messages.

4.2.6. The Ceph Monitor store is getting too big

The ceph health command returns an error message similar to the following one:

mon.ceph1 store is getting too big! 48031 MB >= 15360 MB -- 62% avail

What This Means

Ceph Monitors store is in fact a LevelDB database that stores entries as key–values pairs. The database includes a cluster map and is located by default at /var/lib/ceph/mon/CLUSTER_NAME-SHORT_HOST_NAME/store.db.

Querying a large Monitor store can take time. As a consequence, the Ceph Monitor can be delayed in responding to client queries.

In addition, if the /var/ partition is full, the Ceph Monitor cannot perform any write operations to the store and terminates. See Ceph Monitor is out of quorum for details on troubleshooting this issue.

To Troubleshoot This Problem

  1. Check the size of the database:

    du -sch /var/lib/ceph/mon/CLUSTER_NAME-SHORT_HOST_NAME/store.db

    Specify the name of the cluster and the short host name of the host where the ceph-mon is running.

    Example

    # du -sch /var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-host1/store.db
    47G     /var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-ceph1/store.db/
    47G     total

  2. Compact the Ceph Monitor store. For details, see Compacting the Ceph Monitor Store.

Additional Resources

4.2.7. Understanding Ceph Monitor status

The mon_status command returns information about a Ceph Monitor, such as:

  • State
  • Rank
  • Elections epoch
  • Monitor map (monmap)

If Ceph Monitors are able to form a quorum, use mon_status with the ceph command-line utility.

If Ceph Monitors are not able to form a quorum, but the ceph-mon daemon is running, use the administration socket to execute mon_status.

An example output of mon_status

{
    "name": "mon.3",
    "rank": 2,
    "state": "peon",
    "election_epoch": 96,
    "quorum": [
        1,
        2
    ],
    "outside_quorum": [],
    "extra_probe_peers": [],
    "sync_provider": [],
    "monmap": {
        "epoch": 1,
        "fsid": "d5552d32-9d1d-436c-8db1-ab5fc2c63cd0",
        "modified": "0.000000",
        "created": "0.000000",
        "mons": [
            {
                "rank": 0,
                "name": "mon.1",
                "addr": "172.25.1.10:6789\/0"
            },
            {
                "rank": 1,
                "name": "mon.2",
                "addr": "172.25.1.12:6789\/0"
            },
            {
                "rank": 2,
                "name": "mon.3",
                "addr": "172.25.1.13:6789\/0"
            }
        ]
    }
}

Ceph Monitor States

Leader
During the electing phase, Ceph Monitors are electing a leader. The leader is the Ceph Monitor with the highest rank, that is the rank with the lowest value. In the example above, the leader is mon.1.
Peon
Peons are the Ceph Monitors in the quorum that are not leaders. If the leader fails, the peon with the highest rank becomes a new leader.
Probing
A Ceph Monitor is in the probing state if it is looking for other Ceph Monitors. For example after you start the Ceph Monitors, they are probing until they find enough Ceph Monitors specified in the Ceph Monitor map (monmap) to form a quorum.
Electing
A Ceph Monitor is in the electing state if it is in the process of electing the leader. Usually, this status changes quickly.
Synchronizing
A Ceph Monitor is in the synchronizing state if it is synchronizing with the other Ceph Monitors to join the quorum. The smaller the Ceph Monitor store it, the faster the synchronization process. Therefore, if you have a large store, synchronization takes longer time.

Additional Resources

4.2.8. Additional Resources

4.3. Injecting a monmap

If a Ceph Monitor has an outdated or corrupted Ceph Monitor map (monmap), it cannot join a quorum because it is trying to reach the other Ceph Monitors on incorrect IP addresses.

The safest way to fix this problem is to obtain and inject the actual Ceph Monitor map from other Ceph Monitors.

Note

This action overwrites the existing Ceph Monitor map kept by the Ceph Monitor.

This procedure shows how to inject the Ceph Monitor map when the other Ceph Monitors are able to form a quorum, or when at least one Ceph Monitor has a correct Ceph Monitor map. If all Ceph Monitors have corrupted store and therefore also the Ceph Monitor map, see Recovering the Ceph Monitor store.

Prerequisites

  • Access to the Ceph Monitor Map.
  • Root-level access to the Ceph Monitor node.

Procedure

  1. If the remaining Ceph Monitors are able to form a quorum, get the Ceph Monitor map by using the ceph mon getmap command:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph mon getmap -o /tmp/monmap
  2. If the remaining Ceph Monitors are not able to form the quorum and you have at least one Ceph Monitor with a correct Ceph Monitor map, copy it from that Ceph Monitor:

    1. Stop the Ceph Monitor which you want to copy the Ceph Monitor map from:

      [root@mon ~]# systemctl stop ceph-mon@<host-name>

      For example, to stop the Ceph Monitor running on a host with the host1 short host name:

      [root@mon ~]# systemctl stop ceph-mon@host1
    2. Copy the Ceph Monitor map:

      [root@mon ~]# ceph-mon -i ID --extract-monmap /tmp/monmap

      Replace ID with the ID of the Ceph Monitor which you want to copy the Ceph Monitor map from:

      [root@mon ~]# ceph-mon -i mon.a  --extract-monmap /tmp/monmap
  3. Stop the Ceph Monitor with the corrupted or outdated Ceph Monitor map:

    [root@mon ~]# systemctl stop ceph-mon@HOST_NAME

    For example, to stop a Ceph Monitor running on a host with the host2 short host name:

    [root@mon ~]# systemctl stop ceph-mon@host2
  4. You can inject the Ceph Monitor map as a ceph user in two different ways:

    • Run the command as a ceph user:

      Syntax

      su - ceph -c 'ceph-mon -i ID --inject-monmap /tmp/monmap'

      Replace ID with the ID of the Ceph Monitor with the corrupted or outdated Ceph Monitor map:

      Example

      [root@mon ~]# su - ceph -c 'ceph-mon -i mon.c --inject-monmap /tmp/monmap'

    • Run the command as a root user and then run chown to change the permissions:

      1. Run the command as a root user:

        Syntax

        ceph-mon -i ID --inject-monmap /tmp/monmap

        Replace ID with the ID of the Ceph Monitor with the corrupted or outdated Ceph Monitor map:

        Example

        [root@mon ~]# ceph-mon -i mon.c --inject-monmap /tmp/monmap

      2. Change the file permissions:

        Example

        [root@mon ~]# chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-c/

  5. Start the Ceph Monitor:

    [root@mon ~]# systemctl start ceph-mon@host2

    If you copied the Ceph Monitor map from another Ceph Monitor, start that Ceph Monitor, too:

    [root@mon ~]# systemctl start ceph-mon@host1

4.4. Replacing a failed Monitor

When a Monitor has a corrupted store, the recommended way to fix this problem is to replace the Monitor by using the Ansible automation application.

Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  • Able to form a quroum.
  • Root-level access to Ceph Monitor node.

Procedure

  1. From the Monitor host, remove the Monitor store by default located at /var/lib/ceph/mon/CLUSTER_NAME-SHORT_HOST_NAME:

    rm -rf /var/lib/ceph/mon/CLUSTER_NAME-SHORT_HOST_NAME

    Specify the short host name of the Monitor host and the cluster name. For example, to remove the Monitor store of a Monitor running on host1 from a cluster called remote:

    [root@mon ~]# rm -rf /var/lib/ceph/mon/remote-host1
  2. Remove the Monitor from the Monitor map (monmap):

    ceph mon remove SHORT_HOST_NAME --cluster CLUSTER_NAME

    Specify the short host name of the Monitor host and the cluster name. For example, to remove the Monitor running on host1 from a cluster called remote:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph mon remove host1 --cluster remote
  3. Troubleshoot and fix any problems related to the underlying file system or hardware of the Monitor host.
  4. From the Ansible administration node, redeploy the Monitor by running the ceph-ansible playbook:

    $ /usr/share/ceph-ansible/ansible-playbook site.yml

Additional Resources

4.5. Compacting the monitor store

When the Monitor store has grown big in size, you can compact it:

  • Dynamically by using the ceph tell command.
  • Upon the start of the ceph-mon daemon.
  • By using the ceph-monstore-tool when the ceph-mon daemon is not running. Use this method when the previously mentioned methods fail to compact the Monitor store or when the Monitor is out of quorum and its log contains the Caught signal (Bus error) error message.
Important

Monitor store size changes when the cluster is not in the active+clean state or during the rebalancing process. For this reason, compact the Monitor store when rebalancing is completed. Also, ensure that the placement groups are in the active+clean state.

Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  • Root-level access to the Ceph Monitor node.

Procedure

  1. To compact the Monitor store when the ceph-mon daemon is running:

    ceph tell mon.HOST_NAME compact
  2. Replace HOST_NAME with the short host name of the host where the ceph-mon is running. Use the hostname -s command when unsure.

    # ceph tell mon.host1 compact
  3. Add the following parameter to the Ceph configuration under the [mon] section:

    [mon]
    mon_compact_on_start = true
  4. Restart the ceph-mon daemon:

    [root@mon ~]# systemctl restart ceph-mon@_HOST_NAME_

    Replace HOST_NAME with the short name of the host where the daemon is running. Use the hostname -s command when unsure.

    [root@mon ~]# systemctl restart ceph-mon@host1
  5. Ensure that Monitors have formed a quorum:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph mon stat
  6. Repeat these steps on other Monitors if needed.

    Note

    Before you start, ensure that you have the ceph-test package installed.

  7. Verify that the ceph-mon daemon with the large store is not running. Stop the daemon if needed.

    [root@mon ~]# systemctl status ceph-mon@HOST_NAME
    [root@mon ~]# systemctl stop ceph-mon@HOST_NAME

    Replace HOST_NAME with the short name of the host where the daemon is running. Use the hostname -s command when unsure.

    [root@mon ~]# systemctl status ceph-mon@host1
    [root@mon ~]# systemctl stop ceph-mon@host1
  8. Compact the Monitor store as a ceph user in two different ways:

    • Run the command as a ceph user:

      Syntax

      su - ceph -c 'ceph-monstore-tool /var/lib/ceph/mon/mon.HOST_NAME compact'

      Example

      [root@mon ~]# su - ceph -c 'ceph-monstore-tool /var/lib/ceph/mon/mon.node1 compact'

    • Run the command as a root user and then run chown to change the permissions:

      1. Run the command as a root user:

        Syntax

        ceph-monstore-tool /var/lib/ceph/mon/mon.HOST_NAME compact

        Example

        [root@mon ~]# ceph-monstore-tool /var/lib/ceph/mon/mon.node1 compact

      2. Change the file permissions:

        Example

        [root@mon ~]# chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/mon/mon.node1

  9. Start ceph-mon again:

    [root@mon ~]# systemctl start ceph-mon@HOST_NAME

    Example

    [root@mon ~]# systemctl start ceph-mon@host1

4.6. Opening port for Ceph manager

The ceph-mgr daemons receive placement group information from OSDs on the same range of ports as the ceph-osd daemons. If these ports are not open, a cluster will devolve from HEALTH_OK to HEALTH_WARN and will indicate that PGs are unknown with a percentage count of the PGs unknown.

Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  • Root-level access to Ceph manager.

Procedure

  1. To resolve this situation, for each host running ceph-mgr daemons, open ports 6800-7300.

    Example

    [root@ceph-mgr] # firewall-cmd --add-port 6800-7300/tcp
    [root@ceph-mgr] # firewall-cmd --add-port 6800-7300/tcp --permanent

  2. Restart the ceph-mgr daemons.

4.7. Recovering the Ceph Monitor for bare-metal deployments

If all the monitors are down in your Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster, and the ceph -s command does not execute as expected, you can recover the monitors using the monmaptool command. The monmaptool command rebuilds the Ceph monitor store from the keyring files of the daemons.

Note

This procedure is for bare-metal Red Hat Ceph Storage deployments only. For containerized Red Hat Ceph Storage deployments, see the Knowledgebase article MON recovery procedure for Red Hat Ceph Storage containerized deployment when all the three mon are down..

Prerequisites

  • Bare-metal deployed Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  • Root-level access to all the nodes.
  • All the Ceph monitors are down.

Procedure

  1. Log into the monitor node.
  2. From the monitor nodes, if you are unable to access the OSD nodes without being the root user, then copy the public key pair to the OSD nodes:

    1. Generate the SSH key pair, accept the default file name, and leave the passphrase empty:

      Example

      [root@mons-1 ~]# ssh-keygen

    2. Copy the public key to all the OSD nodes in the storage cluster:

      Example

      [root@mons-1 ~]#  ssh-copy-id root@osds-1
      [root@mons-1 ~]#  ssh-copy-id root@osds-2
      [root@mons-1 ~]#  ssh-copy-id root@osds-3

  3. Stop the OSD daemon service on all the OSD nodes:

    Example

    [root@osds-1 ~]#  sudo systemctl stop ceph-osd\*.service ceph-osd.target

  4. To collect the cluster map from all the OSD nodes, create the recovery file and execute the script:

    1. Create the recovery file:

      Example

      [root@mons-1 ~]# touch recover.sh

    2. Add the following content to the file and replace the OSD_NODES with either the IP addresses of all the OSD nodes or the hostname of the all OSD nodes in the Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster:

      Syntax

       --------------------------------------------------------------------------  NOTE: The directory names specified by 'ms', 'db', and 'db_slow' must end
       with a trailing / otherwise rsync will not operate properly.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------
      ms=/tmp/monstore/
      db=/root/db/
      db_slow=/root/db.slow/
      
      mkdir -p $ms $db $db_slow
      
       --------------------------------------------------------------------------  NOTE: Replace the contents inside double quotes for 'osd_nodes' below with
       the list of OSD nodes in the environment.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------
      osd_nodes="OSD_NODES_1 OSD_NODES_2 OSD_NODES_3..."
      
      for osd_node in $osd_nodes; do
      echo "Operating on $osd_node"
      rsync -avz --delete $ms $osd_node:$ms
      rsync -avz --delete $db $osd_node:$db
      rsync -avz --delete $db_slow $osd_node:$db_slow
      
      ssh -t $osd_node <<EOF
      for osd in /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-*; do
          ceph-objectstore-tool --type bluestore --data-path \$osd --op update-mon-db --no-mon-config --mon-store-path $ms
          if [ -e \$osd/keyring ]; then
              cat \$osd/keyring >> $ms/keyring
              echo '    caps mgr = "allow profile osd"' >> $ms/keyring
              echo '    caps mon = "allow profile osd"' >> $ms/keyring
              echo '    caps osd = "allow *"' >> $ms/keyring
          else
              echo WARNING: \$osd on $osd_node does not have a local keyring.
          fi
      done
      EOF
      
      rsync -avz --delete --remove-source-files $osd_node:$ms $ms
      rsync -avz --delete --remove-source-files $osd_node:$db $db
      rsync -avz --delete --remove-source-files $osd_node:$db_slow $db_slow
      done
       --------------------------------------------------------------------------  End of script
      ## --------------------------------------------------------------------------

    3. Provide executable permission on the file:

      Example

      [root@mons-1 ~]# chmod 755 recover.sh

    4. Execute the file to gather the keyrings of all the OSDs from all the OSD nodes in the storage cluster:

      Example

      [root@mons-1 ~]# ./recovery.sh

  5. Fetch the keyrings of other daemons from the respective nodes:

    1. For Ceph Monitor, the keyring is the same for all the Ceph monitors.

      Syntax

      cat /var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-MONITOR_NODE/keyring

      Example

      [root@mons-1 ~]# cat /var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-mons-1/keyring

    2. For Ceph Manager, fetch the keyring from all the manager nodes:

      Syntax

      cat /var/lib/ceph/mgr/ceph-MANAGER_NODE/keyring

      Example

      [root@mons-1 ~]# cat /var/lib/ceph/mgr/ceph-mons-1/keyring

    3. For Ceph OSDs, the keyrings are generated from the above script and stored in a temporary path:

      In this example, the OSD keyrings are stored in the /tmp/monstore/keyring file.

    4. For the client, fetch the keyring from all the client nodes:

      Syntax

      cat /etc/ceph/CLIENT_KEYRING

      Example

      [root@client ~]# cat /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring

    5. For meta data server (MDS), fetch the keyring from all the Ceph MDS nodes:

      Syntax

      cat /var/lib/ceph/mds/ceph-MDS_NODE/keyring

      Example

      [root@mons-2 ~]# cat /var/lib/ceph/mds/ceph-mds-1/keyring

      For this key ring append the following caps if not exist:

      caps mds =  "allow"
      caps mon = "allow profile mds"
      caps osd = "allow *"
    6. For Ceph Object Gateway, fetch the keyring from all the Ceph Object Gateway nodes:

      Syntax

      cat /var/lib/ceph/radosgw/ceph-CEPH_OBJECT_GATEWAY_NODE/keyring

      Example

      [root@mons-3 ~]# cat /var/lib/ceph/radosgw/ceph-rgw-1/keyring

      For this key ring append the following caps if not exist:

      caps mon = "allow rw"
      caps osd = "allow *"
  6. On the Ansible administration node, create a file with all the keyrings fetched from the previous step:

    Example

    [root@admin ~]# cat /tmp/monstore/keyring
    
    [mon.]
    	key = AQAa+RxhAAAAABAApmwud0GQHX0raMBc9zTAYQ==
    	caps mon = "allow *"
    [client.admin]
    	key = AQAo+RxhcYWtGBAAiY4kKltMGnAXqPLM2A+B8w==
    	caps mds = "allow *"
    	caps mgr = "allow *"
    	caps mon = "allow *"
    	caps osd = "allow *"
    [mgr.mons-1]
    	key = AQA++RxhAAAAABAAKdG1ETTEMR8KPa9ZpfcIzw==
    	caps mds = "allow *"
    	caps mon = "allow profile mgr"
    	caps osd = "allow *"
    [mgr.mons-2]
    	key = AQA9+RxhAAAAABAAcCBxsoaIl0sdHTz3dqX4SQ==
    	caps mds = "allow *"
    	caps mon = "allow profile mgr"
    	caps osd = "allow *"
    [mgr.mons-3]
    	key = AQA/+RxhAAAAABAAwe/mwv0hS79fWP+00W6ypQ==
    	caps mds = "allow *"
    	caps mon = "allow profile mgr"
    	caps osd = "allow *"
    [osd.1]
    key = AQB/+RxhlH8rFxAAL3mb8Kdb+QuWWdJi+RvwGw==
        caps mgr = "allow profile osd"
        caps mon = "allow profile osd"
        caps osd = "allow *"
    [osd.5]
    key = AQCE+RxhKSNsHRAAIyLO5g75tqFVsl6MEEzwXw==
        caps mgr = "allow profile osd"
        caps mon = "allow profile osd"
        caps osd = "allow *"
    [osd.8]
    key = AQCJ+Rxhc0wHJhAA5Bb2kU9Nadpm3UCLASnCfw==
        caps mgr = "allow profile osd"
        caps mon = "allow profile osd"
        caps osd = "allow *"
    [osd.2]
    key = AQB/+RxhhrQCGRAAUhh77gIVhN8zsTbaKMJuHw==
        caps mgr = "allow profile osd"
        caps mon = "allow profile osd"
        caps osd = "allow *"
    [osd.4]
    key = AQCE+Rxh0mDxDRAApAeqKOJycW5bpP3IuAhSMw==
        caps mgr = "allow profile osd"
        caps mon = "allow profile osd"
        caps osd = "allow *"
    [osd.7]
    key = AQCJ+Rxhn+RAIhAAp1ImK1jiazBsDpmTQvVEVw==
        caps mgr = "allow profile osd"
        caps mon = "allow profile osd"
        caps osd = "allow *"
    [osd.0]
    key = AQB/+RxhPhh+FRAAc5b0nwiuK6o1AIbjVc6tQg==
        caps mgr = "allow profile osd"
        caps mon = "allow profile osd"
        caps osd = "allow *"
    [osd.3]
    key = AQCE+RxhJv8PARAAqCzH2br1xJmMTNnqH3I9mA==
        caps mgr = "allow profile osd"
        caps mon = "allow profile osd"
        caps osd = "allow *"
    [osd.6]
    key = AQCI+RxhAt4eIhAAYQEJqSNRT7l2WNl/rYQcKQ==
        caps mgr = "allow profile osd"
        caps mon = "allow profile osd"
        caps osd = "allow *"
    [osd.1]
    key = AQB/+RxhlH8rFxAAL3mb8Kdb+QuWWdJi+RvwGw==
        caps mgr = "allow profile osd"
        caps mon = "allow profile osd"
        caps osd = "allow *"
    [osd.5]
    key = AQCE+RxhKSNsHRAAIyLO5g75tqFVsl6MEEzwXw==
        caps mgr = "allow profile osd"
        caps mon = "allow profile osd"
        caps osd = "allow *"
    [osd.8]
    key = AQCJ+Rxhc0wHJhAA5Bb2kU9Nadpm3UCLASnCfw==
        caps mgr = "allow profile osd"
        caps mon = "allow profile osd"
        caps osd = "allow *"
    [osd.2]
    key = AQB/+RxhhrQCGRAAUhh77gIVhN8zsTbaKMJuHw==
        caps mgr = "allow profile osd"
        caps mon = "allow profile osd"
        caps osd = "allow *"
    [osd.0]
    key = AQB/+RxhPhh+FRAAc5b0nwiuK6o1AIbjVc6tQg==
        caps mgr = "allow profile osd"
        caps mon = "allow profile osd"
        caps osd = "allow *"
    [osd.3]
    key = AQCE+RxhJv8PARAAqCzH2br1xJmMTNnqH3I9mA==
        caps mgr = "allow profile osd"
        caps mon = "allow profile osd"
        caps osd = "allow *"
    [osd.6]
    key = AQCI+RxhAt4eIhAAYQEJqSNRT7l2WNl/rYQcKQ==
        caps mgr = "allow profile osd"
        caps mon = "allow profile osd"
        caps osd = "allow *"
    [mds.mds-1]
    	key = AQDs+RxhAF9vERAAdn6ArdUJ31RLr2sBVkzp3A==
            caps mds = "allow"
            caps mon = "allow profile mds"
            caps osd = "allow *"
    [mds.mds-2]
    	key = AQDs+RxhROoAFxAALAgMfM45wC5ht/vSFN2EzQ==
            caps mds = "allow"
            caps mon = "allow profile mds"
            caps osd = "allow *"
    [mds.mds-3]
    	key = AQDs+Rxhd092FRAArXLIHAhMp2z9zcWDCSoIDQ==
            caps mds = "allow"
            caps mon = "allow profile mds"
            caps osd = "allow *"
    [client.rgw.rgws-1.rgw0]
    	key = AQD9+Rxh0iP2MxAAYY76Js1AaZhzFG44cvcyOw==
            caps mon = "allow rw"
            caps osd = "allow *"

  7. Optional: On each Ceph Monitor node, ensure that the monitor map is not available:

    Example

    [root@mons-1 ~]# ceph-monstore-tool /tmp/monstore get monmap -- --out /tmp/monmap
    [root@mons-1 ~]# monmaptool /tmp/monmap --print
    
    monmaptool: monmap file /tmp/monmap
    monmaptool: couldn't open /tmp/monmap: (2) No such file or directory
    
    Notice theNo such file or directory  error message if monmap is missed
    
    Notice that the “No such file or directory”  error message if monmap is missed

  8. From each Ceph Monitor node, fetch the MONITOR_ID, IP_ADDRESS_OF_MONITOR, and FSID from the etc/ceph/ceph.conf file:

    Example

    [global]
    cluster network = 10.0.208.0/22
    fsid = 9877bde8-ccb2-4758-89c3-90ca9550ffea
    mon host = [v2:10.0.211.00:3300,v1:10.0.211.00:6789],[v2:10.0.211.13:3300,v1:10.0.211.13:6789],[v2:10.0.210.13:3300,v1:10.0.210.13:6789]
    mon initial members = ceph-mons-1, ceph-mons-2, ceph-mons-3

  9. On the Ceph Monitor node, rebuild the monitor map:

    Syntax

    monmaptool --create --addv MONITOR_ID IP_ADDRESS_OF_MONITOR --enable-all-features --clobber PATH_OF_MONITOR_MAP --fsid FSID

    Example

    [root@mons-1 ~]# monmaptool --create --addv mons-1 [v2:10.74.177.30:3300,v1:10.74.177.30:6789] --addv mons-2 [v2:10.74.179.197:3300,v1:10.74.179.197:6789] --addv mons-3 [v2:10.74.182.123:3300,v1:10.74.182.123:6789] --enable-all-features --clobber /root/monmap.mons-1 --fsid 6c01cb34-33bf-44d0-9aec-3432276f6be8
    
    monmaptool: monmap file /root/monmap.mons-1
    monmaptool: set fsid to 6c01cb34-33bf-44d0-9aec-3432276f6be8
    monmaptool: writing epoch 0 to /root/monmap.mon-a (3 monitors)

  10. On the Ceph Monitor node, check the generated monitor map:

    Syntax

    monmaptool PATH_OF_MONITOR_MAP --print

    Example

    [root@mons-1 ~]# monmaptool /root/monmap.mons-1 --print
    
    monmaptool: monmap file /root/monmap.mons-1
    epoch 0
    fsid 6c01cb34-33bf-44d0-9aec-3432276f6be8
    last_changed 2021-11-23 02:57:23.235505
    created 2021-11-23 02:57:23.235505
    min_mon_release 0 (unknown)
    election_strategy: 1
    0: [v2:10.74.177.30:3300/0,v1:10.74.177.30:6789/0] mon.mons-1
    1: [v2:10.74.179.197:3300/0,v1:10.74.179.197:6789/0] mon.mons-2
    2: [v2:10.74.182.123:3300/0,v1:10.74.182.123:6789/0] mon.mons-3

  11. On the Ceph Monitor node where we are recovering the monitors, rebuild the Ceph Monitor store from the collected map:

    Syntax

    ceph-monstore-tool /tmp/monstore rebuild -- --keyring KEYRING_PATH  --monmap PATH_OF_MONITOR_MAP

    In this example, the recovery is run on the mons-1 node.

    Example

    [root@mons-1 ~]# ceph-monstore-tool /tmp/monstore rebuild -- --keyring /tmp/monstore/keyring  --monmap /root/monmap.mons-1

  12. Change the ownership of monstore directory to ceph:

    Example

    [root@mons-1 ~]# chown -R ceph:ceph /tmp/monstore

  13. On all the Ceph Monitor nodes, take a back-up of the corrupted store:

    Example

    [root@mons-1 ~]# mv /var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-mons-1/store.db /var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-mons-1/store.db.corrupted

  14. On all the Ceph Monitor nodes, replace the corrupted store:

    Example

    [root@mons-1 ~]# scp -r /tmp/monstore/store.db mons-1:/var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-mons-1/

  15. On all the Ceph Monitor nodes, change the owner of the new store:

    Example

    [root@mons-1 ~]# chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-HOSTNAME/store.db

  16. On all the Ceph OSD nodes, start the OSDs:

    Example

    [root@osds-1 ~]# sudo systemctl start ceph-osd.target

  17. On all the Ceph Monitor nodes, start the monitors

    Example

    [root@mons-1 ~]# sudo systemctl start ceph-mon.target

4.8. Recovering the Ceph Monitor store

Ceph Monitors store the cluster map in a key–value store such as LevelDB. If the store is corrupted on a Monitor, the Monitor terminates unexpectedly and fails to start again. The Ceph logs might include the following errors:

Corruption: error in middle of record
Corruption: 1 missing files; e.g.: /var/lib/ceph/mon/mon.0/store.db/1234567.ldb

Production Red Hat Ceph Storage clusters use at least three Ceph Monitors so that if one fails, it can be replaced with another one. However, under certain circumstances, all Ceph Monitors can have corrupted stores. For example, when the Ceph Monitor nodes have incorrectly configured disk or file system settings, a power outage can corrupt the underlying file system.

If there is corruption on all Ceph Monitors, you can recover it with information stored on the OSD nodes by using utilities called ceph-monstore-tool and ceph-objectstore-tool.

Important

These procedures cannot recover the following information:

  • Metadata Daemon Server (MDS) keyrings and maps
  • Placement Group settings:

    • full ratio set by using the ceph pg set_full_ratio command
    • nearfull ratio set by using the ceph pg set_nearfull_ratio command
Important

Never restore the Ceph Monitor store from an old backup. Rebuild the Ceph Monitor store from the current cluster state using the following steps and restore from that.

4.8.1. Recovering the Ceph Monitor store when using BlueStore

Follow this procedure if the Ceph Monitor store is corrupted on all Ceph Monitors and you use the BlueStore back end.

In containerized environments, this method requires attaching Ceph repositories and restoring to a non-containerized Ceph Monitor first.

Warning

This procedure can cause data loss. If you are unsure about any step in this procedure, contact the Red Hat Technical Support for an assistance with the recovering process.

Prerequisites

  • Bare-metal deployments

    • The rsync and ceph-test packages are installed.
  • Container deployments

    • All OSDs containers are stopped.
    • Enable Ceph repositories on the Ceph nodes based on their roles.
    • The ceph-test and rsync packages are installed on the OSD and Monitor nodes.
    • The ceph-mon package is installed on the Monitor nodes.
    • The ceph-osd package is installed on the OSD nodes.

Procedure

  1. If you use Ceph in containers, mount all disk with Ceph data to a temporary location. Repeat this step for all OSD nodes.

    1. List the data partitions. Use ceph-volume or ceph-disk depending on which utility you used to set up the devices:

      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm list

      or

      [root@osd ~]# ceph-disk list
    2. Mount the data partitions to temporary location:

      mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-$i
    3. Restore the SELinux context:

      for i in {OSD_ID}; do restorecon /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-$i; done

      Replace OSD_ID with a numeric, space-separated list of Ceph OSD IDs on the OSD node.

    4. Change the owner and group to ceph:ceph:

      for i in {OSD_ID}; do chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-$i; done

      Replace OSD_ID with a numeric, space-separated list of Ceph OSD IDs on the OSD node.

      Important

      Due to a bug that causes the update-mon-db command to use additional db and db.slow directories for the Monitor database, you must also copy these directories. To do so:

      1. Prepare a temporary location outside the container to mount and access the OSD database and extract the OSD maps needed to restore the Ceph Monitor:

        ceph-bluestore-tool --cluster=ceph prime-osd-dir --dev OSD-DATA --path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-OSD-ID

        Replace OSD-DATA with the Volume Group (VG) or Logical Volume (LV) path to the to the OSD data and OSD-ID with the ID of the OSD.

      2. Create a symbolic link between the BlueStore database and block.db:

        ln -snf BLUESTORE DATABASE /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-OSD-ID/block.db

        Replace BLUESTORE-DATABASE with the Volume Group (VG) or Logical Volume (LV) path to the BlueStore database and OSD-ID with the ID of the OSD.

  2. Use the following commands from the Ceph Monitor node with the corrupted store. Repeat them for all OSDs on all nodes.

    1. Collect the cluster map from all OSD nodes:

      [root@ mon~]# cd /root/
      [root@mon ~]# ms=/tmp/monstore/
      [root@mon ~]# db=/root/db/
      [root@mon ~]# db_slow=/root/db.slow/
      
      [root@mon ~]# mkdir $ms
      [root@mon ~]# for host in $osd_nodes; do
                      echo "$host"
                      rsync -avz $ms $host:$ms
                      rsync -avz $db $host:$db
                      rsync -avz $db_slow $host:$db_slow
      
                      rm -rf $ms
                      rm -rf $db
                      rm -rf $db_slow
      
                      sh -t $host <<EOF
                        for osd in /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-*; do
                          ceph-objectstore-tool --type bluestore --data-path \$osd --op update-mon-db --mon-store-path $ms
      
                         done
                      EOF
      
                            rsync -avz $host:$ms $ms
                            rsync -avz $host:$db $db
                            rsync -avz $host:$db_slow $db_slow
                      done
    2. Set the appropriate capabilities:

      [root@mon ~]# ceph-authtool /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring -n mon. --cap mon 'allow *' --gen-key
      [root@mon ~]# cat /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring
        [mon.]
          key = AQCleqldWqm5IhAAgZQbEzoShkZV42RiQVffnA==
          caps mon = "allow *"
        [client.admin]
          key = AQCmAKld8J05KxAArOWeRAw63gAwwZO5o75ZNQ==
          auid = 0
          caps mds = "allow *"
          caps mgr = "allow *"
          caps mon = "allow *"
          caps osd = "allow *"
    3. Move all sst file from the db and db.slow directories to the temporary location:

      [root@mon ~]# mv /root/db/*.sst /root/db.slow/*.sst /tmp/monstore/store.db
    4. Rebuild the Monitor store from the collected map:

      [root@mon ~]# ceph-monstore-tool /tmp/monstore rebuild -- --keyring /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin
      Note

      After using this command, only keyrings extracted from the OSDs and the keyring specified on the ceph-monstore-tool command line are present in Ceph’s authentication database. You have to recreate or import all other keyrings, such as clients, Ceph Manager, Ceph Object Gateway, and others, so those clients can access the cluster.

    5. Back up the corrupted store. Repeat this step for all Ceph Monitor nodes:

      mv /var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-HOSTNAME/store.db /var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-HOSTNAME/store.db.corrupted

      Replace HOSTNAME with the host name of the Ceph Monitor node.

    6. Replace the corrupted store. Repeat this step for all Ceph Monitor nodes:

      scp -r /tmp/monstore/store.db HOSTNAME:/var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-HOSTNAME/

      Replace HOSTNAME with the host name of the Monitor node.

    7. Change the owner of the new store. Repeat this step for all Ceph Monitor nodes:

      chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-HOSTNAME/store.db

      Replace HOSTNAME with the host name of the Ceph Monitor node.

  3. If you use Ceph in containers, then unmount all the temporary mounted OSDs on all nodes:

    [root@osd ~]# umount /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-*
  4. Start all the Ceph Monitor daemons:

    [root@mon ~]# systemctl start ceph-mon *
  5. Ensure that the Monitors are able to form a quorum:

    • Bare-metal deployments

      [root@mon ~]# ceph -s
    • Containers

      [user@admin ~]$ docker exec ceph-mon-_HOSTNAME_ ceph -s

      Replace HOSTNAME with the host name of the Ceph Monitor node.

  6. Import the Ceph Manager keyring and start all Ceph Manager processes:

    ceph auth import -i /etc/ceph/ceph.mgr.HOSTNAME.keyring
    systemctl start ceph-mgr@HOSTNAME

    Replace HOSTNAME with the host name of the Ceph Manager node.

  7. Start all OSD processes across all OSD nodes:

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl start ceph-osd *
  8. Ensure that the OSDs are returning to service:

    • Bare-metal deployments

      [root@mon ~]# ceph -s
    • Containers

      [user@admin ~]$ docker exec ceph-mon-_HOSTNAME_ ceph -s

      Replace HOSTNAME with the host name of the Ceph Monitor node.

Additional Resources

4.9. Additional Resources

Chapter 5. Troubleshooting Ceph OSDs

This chapter contains information on how to fix the most common errors related to Ceph OSDs.

5.1. Prerequisites

5.2. Most common Ceph OSD errors

The following tables list the most common error messages that are returned by the ceph health detail command, or included in the Ceph logs. The tables provide links to corresponding sections that explain the errors and point to specific procedures to fix the problems.

5.2.1. Prerequisites

  • Root-level access to the Ceph OSD nodes.

5.2.2. Ceph OSD error messages

A table of common Ceph OSD error messages, and a potential fix.

Error messageSee

HEALTH_ERR

full osds

Full OSDS

HEALTH_WARN

backfillfull osds

Backfillfull OSDS

nearfull osds

Nearfull OSDS

osds are down

OSDS are down

Flapping OSDS

requests are blocked

Slow request or requests are blocked

slow requests

Slow request or requests are blocked

5.2.3. Common Ceph OSD error messages in the Ceph logs

A table of common Ceph OSD error messages found in the Ceph logs, and a link to a potential fix.

Error messageLog fileSee

heartbeat_check: no reply from osd.X

Main cluster log

Flapping OSDS

wrongly marked me down

Main cluster log

Flapping OSDS

osds have slow requests

Main cluster log

Slow request or requests are blocked

FAILED assert(0 == "hit suicide timeout")

OSD log

Down OSDs

5.2.4. Full OSDs

The ceph health detail command returns an error message similar to the following one:

HEALTH_ERR 1 full osds
osd.3 is full at 95%

What This Means

Ceph prevents clients from performing I/O operations on full OSD nodes to avoid losing data. It returns the HEALTH_ERR full osds message when the cluster reaches the capacity set by the mon_osd_full_ratio parameter. By default, this parameter is set to 0.95 which means 95% of the cluster capacity.

To Troubleshoot This Problem

Determine how many percent of raw storage (%RAW USED) is used:

# ceph df

If %RAW USED is above 70-75%, you can:

  • Delete unnecessary data. This is a short-term solution to avoid production downtime.
  • Scale the cluster by adding a new OSD node. This is a long-term solution recommended by Red Hat.

Additional Resources

5.2.5. Backfillfull OSDs

The ceph health detail command returns an error message similar to the following one:

health: HEALTH_WARN
3 backfillfull osd(s)
Low space hindering backfill (add storage if this doesn't resolve itself): 32 pgs backfill_toofull

What this means

When one or more OSDs has exceeded the backfillfull threshold, Ceph prevents data from rebalancing to this device. This is an early warning that rebalancing might not complete and that the cluster is approaching full. The default for the backfullfull threshold is 90%.

To troubleshoot this problem

Check utilization by pool:

ceph df

If %RAW USED is above 70-75%, you can carry out one of the following actions:

  • Delete unnecessary data. This is a short-term solution to avoid production downtime.
  • Scale the cluster by adding a new OSD node. This is a long-term solution recommended by Red Hat.
  • Increase the backfillfull ratio for the OSDs that contain the PGs stuck in backfull_toofull to allow the recovery process to continue. Add new storage to the cluster as soon as possible or remove data to prevent filling more OSDs.

    Syntax

    ceph osd set-backfillfull-ratio VALUE

    The range for VALUE is 0.0 to 1.0.

    Example

    [ceph: root@host01/]# ceph osd set-backfillfull-ratio 0.92

Additional Resources

5.2.6. Nearfull OSDs

The ceph health detail command returns an error message similar to the following one:

HEALTH_WARN 1 nearfull osds
osd.2 is near full at 85%

What This Means

Ceph returns the nearfull osds message when the cluster reaches the capacity set by the mon osd nearfull ratio defaults parameter. By default, this parameter is set to 0.85 which means 85% of the cluster capacity.

Ceph distributes data based on the CRUSH hierarchy in the best possible way but it cannot guarantee equal distribution. The main causes of the uneven data distribution and the nearfull osds messages are:

  • The OSDs are not balanced among the OSD nodes in the cluster. That is, some OSD nodes host significantly more OSDs than others, or the weight of some OSDs in the CRUSH map is not adequate to their capacity.
  • The Placement Group (PG) count is not proper as per the number of the OSDs, use case, target PGs per OSD, and OSD utilization.
  • The cluster uses inappropriate CRUSH tunables.
  • The back-end storage for OSDs is almost full.

To Troubleshoot This Problem:

  1. Verify that the PG count is sufficient and increase it if needed.
  2. Verify that you use CRUSH tunables optimal to the cluster version and adjust them if not.
  3. Change the weight of OSDs by utilization.
  4. Enable the Ceph Manager balancer module which optimizes the placement of placement groups (PGs) across OSDs in order to achieve a balanced distribution

    Example

    [root@mon ~]# ceph mgr module enable balancer

  5. Determine how much space is left on the disks used by OSDs.

    1. To view how much space OSDs use in general:

      [root@mon ~]# ceph osd df
    2. To view how much space OSDs use on particular nodes. Use the following command from the node containing nearful OSDs:

      $ df
    3. If needed, add a new OSD node.

Additional Resources

5.2.7. Down OSDs

The ceph health command returns an error similar to the following one:

HEALTH_WARN 1/3 in osds are down

What This Means

One of the ceph-osd processes is unavailable due to a possible service failure or problems with communication with other OSDs. As a consequence, the surviving ceph-osd daemons reported this failure to the Monitors.

If the ceph-osd daemon is not running, the underlying OSD drive or file system is either corrupted, or some other error, such as a missing keyring, is preventing the daemon from starting.

In most cases, networking issues cause the situation when the ceph-osd daemon is running but still marked as down.

To Troubleshoot This Problem

  1. Determine which OSD is down:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph health detail
    HEALTH_WARN 1/3 in osds are down
    osd.0 is down since epoch 23, last address 192.168.106.220:6800/11080
  2. Try to restart the ceph-osd daemon:

    [root@mon ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_NUMBER

    Replace OSD_NUMBER with the ID of the OSD that is down, for example:

    [root@mon ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0
    1. If you are not able start ceph-osd, follow the steps in The ceph-osd daemon cannot start.
    2. If you are able to start the ceph-osd daemon but it is marked as down, follow the steps in The ceph-osd daemon is running but still marked as `down`.

The ceph-osd daemon cannot start

  1. If you have a node containing a number of OSDs (generally, more than twelve), verify that the default maximum number of threads (PID count) is sufficient. See Increasing the PID count for details.
  2. Verify that the OSD data and journal partitions are mounted properly. You can use the ceph-volume lvm list command to list all devices and volumes associated with the Ceph Storage Cluster and then manually inspect if they are mounted properly. See the mount(8) manual page for details.
  3. If you got the ERROR: missing keyring, cannot use cephx for authentication error message, the OSD is a missing keyring.
  4. If you got the ERROR: unable to open OSD superblock on /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-1 error message, the ceph-osd daemon cannot read the underlying file system. See the following steps for instructions on how to troubleshoot and fix this error.

    Note

    If this error message is returned during boot time of the OSD host, open a support ticket as this might indicate a known issue tracked in the Red Hat Bugzilla 1439210.

  5. Check the corresponding log file to determine the cause of the failure. By default, Ceph stores log files in the /var/log/ceph/ directory for bare-metal deployments.

    Note

    For container-based deployment, Ceph generates logs to journald. You can enable logging to files in /var/log/ceph by setting log_to_file parameter to true under [global] in the Ceph configuration file. See Understanding ceph logs for more details.

    1. An EIO error message similar to the following one indicates a failure of the underlying disk:

      To fix this problem replace the underlying OSD disk. See Replacing an OSD drive for details.

    2. If the log includes any other FAILED assert errors, such as the following one, open a support ticket. See Contacting Red Hat Support for service for details.

      FAILED assert(0 == "hit suicide timeout")
  6. Check the dmesg output for the errors with the underlying file system or disk:

    $ dmesg
    1. If the dmesg output includes any SCSI error error messages, see the SCSI Error Codes Solution Finder solution on the Red Hat Customer Portal to determine the best way to fix the problem.
    2. Alternatively, if you are unable to fix the underlying file system, replace the OSD drive. See Replacing an OSD drive for details.
  7. If the OSD failed with a segmentation fault, such as the following one, gather the required information and open a support ticket. See Contacting Red Hat Support for service for details.

    Caught signal (Segmentation fault)

The ceph-osd is running but still marked as down

  1. Check the corresponding log file to determine the cause of the failure. By default, Ceph stores log files in the /var/log/ceph/ directory in bare-metal deployments.

    Note

    For container-based deployment, Ceph generates logs to journald. You can enable logging to files in /var/log/ceph by setting log_to_file parameter to true under [global] in the Ceph configuration file. See Understanding ceph logs for more details.

    1. If the log includes error messages similar to the following ones, see Flapping OSDs.

      wrongly marked me down
      heartbeat_check: no reply from osd.2 since back
    2. If you see any other errors, open a support ticket. See Contacting Red Hat Support for service for details.

Additional Resources

5.2.8. Flapping OSDs

The ceph -w | grep osds command shows OSDs repeatedly as down and then up again within a short period of time:

# ceph -w | grep osds
2021-04-05 06:27:20.810535 mon.0 [INF] osdmap e609: 9 osds: 8 up, 9 in
2021-04-05 06:27:24.120611 mon.0 [INF] osdmap e611: 9 osds: 7 up, 9 in
2021-04-05 06:27:25.975622 mon.0 [INF] HEALTH_WARN; 118 pgs stale; 2/9 in osds are down
2021-04-05 06:27:27.489790 mon.0 [INF] osdmap e614: 9 osds: 6 up, 9 in
2021-04-05 06:27:36.540000 mon.0 [INF] osdmap e616: 9 osds: 7 up, 9 in
2021-04-05 06:27:39.681913 mon.0 [INF] osdmap e618: 9 osds: 8 up, 9 in
2021-04-05 06:27:43.269401 mon.0 [INF] osdmap e620: 9 osds: 9 up, 9 in
2021-04-05 06:27:54.884426 mon.0 [INF] osdmap e622: 9 osds: 8 up, 9 in
2021-04-05 06:27:57.398706 mon.0 [INF] osdmap e624: 9 osds: 7 up, 9 in
2021-04-05 06:27:59.669841 mon.0 [INF] osdmap e625: 9 osds: 6 up, 9 in
2021-04-05 06:28:07.043677 mon.0 [INF] osdmap e628: 9 osds: 7 up, 9 in
2021-04-05 06:28:10.512331 mon.0 [INF] osdmap e630: 9 osds: 8 up, 9 in
2021-04-05 06:28:12.670923 mon.0 [INF] osdmap e631: 9 osds: 9 up, 9 in

In addition the Ceph log contains error messages similar to the following ones:

2021-07-25 03:44:06.510583 osd.50 127.0.0.1:6801/149046 18992 : cluster [WRN] map e600547 wrongly marked me down
2021-07-25 19:00:08.906864 7fa2a0033700 -1 osd.254 609110 heartbeat_check: no reply from osd.2 since back 2021-07-25 19:00:07.444113 front 2021-07-25 18:59:48.311935 (cutoff 2021-07-25 18:59:48.906862)

What This Means

The main causes of flapping OSDs are:

  • Certain storage cluster operations, such as scrubbing or recovery, take an abnormal amount of time, for example if you perform these operations on objects with a large index or large placement groups. Usually, after these operations finish, the flapping OSDs problem is solved.
  • Problems with the underlying physical hardware. In this case, the ceph health detail command also returns the slow requests error message.
  • Problems with network.

Ceph OSDs cannot manage situations where the private network for the storage cluster fails, or significant latency is on the public client-facing network.

Ceph OSDs use the private network for sending heartbeat packets to each other to indicate that they are up and in. If the private storage cluster network does not work properly, OSDs are unable to send and receive the heartbeat packets. As a consequence, they report each other as being down to the Ceph Monitors, while marking themselves as up.

The following parameters in the Ceph configuration file influence this behavior:

ParameterDescriptionDefault value

osd_heartbeat_grace_time

How long OSDs wait for the heartbeat packets to return before reporting an OSD as down to the Ceph Monitors.

20 seconds

mon_osd_min_down_reporters

How many OSDs must report another OSD as down before the Ceph Monitors mark the OSD as down

2

This table shows that in default configuration, the Ceph Monitors mark an OSD as down if only one OSD made three distinct reports about the first OSD being down. In some cases, if one single host encounters network issues, the entire cluster can experience flapping OSDs. This is because the OSDs that reside on the host will report other OSDs in the cluster as down.

Note

The flapping OSDs scenario does not include the situation when the OSD processes are started and then immediately killed.

To Troubleshoot This Problem

  1. Check the output of the ceph health detail command again. If it includes the slow requests error message, see for details on how to troubleshoot this issue.

    # ceph health detail
    HEALTH_WARN 30 requests are blocked > 32 sec; 3 osds have slow requests
    30 ops are blocked > 268435 sec
    1 ops are blocked > 268435 sec on osd.11
    1 ops are blocked > 268435 sec on osd.18
    28 ops are blocked > 268435 sec on osd.39
    3 osds have slow requests
  2. Determine which OSDs are marked as down and on what nodes they reside:

    # ceph osd tree | grep down
  3. On the nodes containing the flapping OSDs, troubleshoot and fix any networking problems. For details, see Troubleshooting networking issues.
  4. Alternatively, you can temporary force Monitors to stop marking the OSDs as down and up by setting the noup and nodown flags:

    # ceph osd set noup
    # ceph osd set nodown
    Important

    Using the noup and nodown flags does not fix the root cause of the problem but only prevents OSDs from flapping. To open a support ticket, see the Contacting Red Hat Support for service section for details.

Important

Flapping OSDs can be caused by MTU misconfiguration on Ceph OSD nodes, at the network switch level, or both. To resolve the issue, set MTU to a uniform size on all storage cluster nodes, including on the core and access network switches with a planned downtime. Do not tune osd heartbeat min size because changing this setting can hide issues within the network, and it will not solve actual network inconsistency.

Additional Resources

5.2.9. Slow requests or requests are blocked

The ceph-osd daemon is slow to respond to a request and the ceph health detail command returns an error message similar to the following one:

HEALTH_WARN 30 requests are blocked > 32 sec; 3 osds have slow requests
30 ops are blocked > 268435 sec
1 ops are blocked > 268435 sec on osd.11
1 ops are blocked > 268435 sec on osd.18
28 ops are blocked > 268435 sec on osd.39
3 osds have slow requests

In addition, the Ceph logs include an error message similar to the following ones:

2015-08-24 13:18:10.024659 osd.1 127.0.0.1:6812/3032 9 : cluster [WRN] 6 slow requests, 6 included below; oldest blocked for > 61.758455 secs
2016-07-25 03:44:06.510583 osd.50 [WRN] slow request 30.005692 seconds old, received at {date-time}: osd_op(client.4240.0:8 benchmark_data_ceph-1_39426_object7 [write 0~4194304] 0.69848840) v4 currently waiting for subops from [610]

What This Means

An OSD with slow requests is every OSD that is not able to service the I/O operations per second (IOPS) in the queue within the time defined by the osd_op_complaint_time parameter. By default, this parameter is set to 30 seconds.

The main causes of OSDs having slow requests are:

  • Problems with the underlying hardware, such as disk drives, hosts, racks, or network switches
  • Problems with network. These problems are usually connected with flapping OSDs. See Flapping OSDs for details.
  • System load

The following table shows the types of slow requests. Use the dump_historic_ops administration socket command to determine the type of a slow request. For details about the administration socket, see the Using the Ceph Administration Socket section in the Administration Guide for Red Hat Ceph Storage 4.

Slow request typeDescription

waiting for rw locks

The OSD is waiting to acquire a lock on a placement group for the operation.

waiting for subops

The OSD is waiting for replica OSDs to apply the operation to the journal.

no flag points reached

The OSD did not reach any major operation milestone.

waiting for degraded object

The OSDs have not replicated an object the specified number of times yet.

To Troubleshoot This Problem

  1. Determine if the OSDs with slow or block requests share a common piece of hardware, for example a disk drive, host, rack, or network switch.
  2. If the OSDs share a disk:

    1. Use the smartmontools utility to check the health of the disk or the logs to determine any errors on the disk.

      Note

      The smartmontools utility is included in the smartmontools package.

    2. Use the iostat utility to get the I/O wait report (%iowai) on the OSD disk to determine if the disk is under heavy load.

      Note

      The iostat utility is included in the sysstat package.

  3. If the OSDs share the node with another service:

    1. Check the RAM and CPU utilization
    2. Use the netstat utility to see the network statistics on the Network Interface Controllers (NICs) and troubleshoot any networking issues. See also Troubleshooting networking issues for further information.
  4. If the OSDs share a rack, check the network switch for the rack. For example, if you use jumbo frames, verify that the NIC in the path has jumbo frames set.
  5. If you are unable to determine a common piece of hardware shared by OSDs with slow requests, or to troubleshoot and fix hardware and networking problems, open a support ticket. See Contacting Red Hat support for service for details.

Additional Resources

5.3. Stopping and starting rebalancing

When an OSD fails or you stop it, the CRUSH algorithm automatically starts the rebalancing process to redistribute data across the remaining OSDs.

Rebalancing can take time and resources, therefore, consider stopping rebalancing during troubleshooting or maintaining OSDs.

Note

Placement groups within the stopped OSDs become degraded during troubleshooting and maintenance.

Prerequisites

  • Root-level access to the Ceph Monitor node.

Procedure

  1. To do so, set the noout flag before stopping the OSD:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph osd set noout
  2. When you finish troubleshooting or maintenance, unset the noout flag to start rebalancing:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph osd unset noout

Additional Resources

5.4. Mounting the OSD data partition

If the OSD data partition is not mounted correctly, the ceph-osd daemon cannot start. If you discover that the partition is not mounted as expected, follow the steps in this section to mount it.

This section is specific to bare-metal deployments only.

Prerequisites

  • Access to the ceph-osd daemon.
  • Root-level access to the Ceph Monitor node.

Procedure

  1. Mount the partition:

    [root@ceph-mon]# mount -o noatime PARTITION /var/lib/ceph/osd/CLUSTER_NAME-OSD_NUMBER

    Replace PARTITION with the path to the partition on the OSD drive dedicated to OSD data. Specify the cluster name and the OSD number.

    Example

    [root@ceph-mon]# mount -o noatime /dev/sdd1 /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0

  2. Try to start the failed ceph-osd daemon:

    [root@ceph-mon]# systemctl start ceph-osd@OSD_NUMBER

    Replace the OSD_NUMBER with the ID of the OSD.

    Example

    [root@ceph-mon]# systemctl start ceph-osd@0

Additional Resources

  • See the Down OSDs in the Red Hat Ceph Storage Troubleshooting Guide for more details.

5.5. Replacing an OSD drive

Ceph is designed for fault tolerance, which means that it can operate in a degraded state without losing data. Consequently, Ceph can operate even if a data storage drive fails. In the context of a failed drive, the degraded state means that the extra copies of the data stored on other OSDs will backfill automatically to other OSDs in the cluster. However, if this occurs, replace the failed OSD drive and recreate the OSD manually.

When a drive fails, Ceph reports the OSD as down:

HEALTH_WARN 1/3 in osds are down
osd.0 is down since epoch 23, last address 192.168.106.220:6800/11080
Note

Ceph can mark an OSD as down also as a consequence of networking or permissions problems. See Down OSDs for details.

Modern servers typically deploy with hot-swappable drives so you can pull a failed drive and replace it with a new one without bringing down the node. The whole procedure includes these steps:

  1. Remove the OSD from the Ceph cluster. For details, see the Removing an OSD from the Ceph Cluster procedure.
  2. Replace the drive. For details, see Replacing the physical drive] section.
  3. Add the OSD to the cluster. For details, see Adding an OSD to the Ceph Cluster] procedure.

Prerequisites

  • Root-level access to the Ceph Monitor node.
  • Determine which OSD is down:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph osd tree | grep -i down
    ID WEIGHT  TYPE NAME      UP/DOWN REWEIGHT PRIMARY-AFFINITY
     0 0.00999         osd.0     down  1.00000          1.00000
  • Ensure that the OSD process is stopped. Use the following command from the OSD node:

    [root@mon ~]# systemctl status ceph-osd@_OSD_NUMBER_
  • Replace OSD_NUMBER with the ID of the OSD marked as down, for example:

    [root@mon ~]# systemctl status ceph-osd@osd.0
    ...
       Active: inactive (dead)

    If the ceph-osd daemon is running. See Down OSDs for more details about troubleshooting OSDs that are marked as down but their corresponding ceph-osd daemon is running.

Procedure: Removing an OSD from the Ceph Cluster

  1. Mark the OSD as out:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph osd out osd.OSD_NUMBER

    Replace OSD_NUMBER with the ID of the OSD that is marked as down, for example:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph osd out osd.0
    marked out osd.0.
    Note

    If the OSD is down, Ceph marks it as out automatically after 600 seconds when it does not receive any heartbeat packet from the OSD. When this happens, other OSDs with copies of the failed OSD data begin backfilling to ensure that the required number of copies exists within the cluster. While the cluster is backfilling, the cluster will be in a degraded state.

  2. Ensure that the failed OSD is backfilling. The output will include information similar to the following one:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph -w | grep backfill
    2017-06-02 04:48:03.403872 mon.0 [INF] pgmap v10293282: 431 pgs: 1 active+undersized+degraded+remapped+backfilling, 28 active+undersized+degraded, 49 active+undersized+degraded+remapped+wait_backfill, 59 stale+active+clean, 294 active+clean; 72347 MB data, 101302 MB used, 1624 GB / 1722 GB avail; 227 kB/s rd, 1358 B/s wr, 12 op/s; 10626/35917 objects degraded (29.585%); 6757/35917 objects misplaced (18.813%); 63500 kB/s, 15 objects/s recovering
    2017-06-02 04:48:04.414397 mon.0 [INF] pgmap v10293283: 431 pgs: 2 active+undersized+degraded+remapped+backfilling, 75 active+undersized+degraded+remapped+wait_backfill, 59 stale+active+clean, 295 active+clean; 72347 MB data, 101398 MB used, 1623 GB / 1722 GB avail; 969 kB/s rd, 6778 B/s wr, 32 op/s; 10626/35917 objects degraded (29.585%); 10580/35917 objects misplaced (29.457%); 125 MB/s, 31 objects/s recovering
    2017-06-02 04:48:00.380063 osd.1 [INF] 0.6f starting backfill to osd.0 from (0'0,0'0] MAX to 2521'166639
    2017-06-02 04:48:00.380139 osd.1 [INF] 0.48 starting backfill to osd.0 from (0'0,0'0] MAX to 2513'43079
    2017-06-02 04:48:00.380260 osd.1 [INF] 0.d starting backfill to osd.0 from (0'0,0'0] MAX to 2513'136847
    2017-06-02 04:48:00.380849 osd.1 [INF] 0.71 starting backfill to osd.0 from (0'0,0'0] MAX to 2331'28496
    2017-06-02 04:48:00.381027 osd.1 [INF] 0.51 starting backfill to osd.0 from (0'0,0'0] MAX to 2513'87544
  3. Remove the OSD from the CRUSH map:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph osd crush remove osd.OSD_NUMBER

    Replace OSD_NUMBER with the ID of the OSD that is marked as down, for example:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph osd crush remove osd.0
    removed item id 0 name 'osd.0' from crush map
  4. Remove authentication keys related to the OSD:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph auth del osd.OSD_NUMBER

    Replace OSD_NUMBER with the ID of the OSD that is marked as down, for example:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph auth del osd.0
    updated
  5. Remove the OSD from the Ceph Storage Cluster:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph osd rm osd.OSD_NUMBER

    Replace OSD_NUMBER with the ID of the OSD that is marked as down, for example:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph osd rm osd.0
    removed osd.0

    If you have removed the OSD successfully, it is not present in the output of the following command:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph osd tree
  6. For bare-metal deployments, unmount the failed drive:

    [root@mon ~]# umount /var/lib/ceph/osd/CLUSTER_NAME-OSD_NUMBER

    Specify the name of the cluster and the ID of the OSD, for example:

    [root@mon ~]# umount /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/

    If you have unmounted the drive successfully, it is not present in the output of the following command:

    [root@mon ~]# df -h

Procedure: Replacing the physical drive

See the documentation for the hardware node for details on replacing the physical drive.

  1. If the drive is hot-swappable, replace the failed drive with a new one.
  2. If the drive is not hot-swappable and the node contains multiple OSDs, you might have to shut down the whole node and replace the physical drive. Consider preventing the cluster from backfilling. See the Stopping and Starting Rebalancing chapter in the Red Hat Ceph Storage Troubleshooting Guide for details.
  3. When the drive appears under the /dev/ directory, make a note of the drive path.
  4. If you want to add the OSD manually, find the OSD drive and format the disk.

Procedure: Adding an OSD to the Ceph Cluster

  1. Add the OSD again.

    1. If you used Ansible to deploy the cluster, run the ceph-ansible playbook again from the Ceph administration server:

      • Bare-metal deployments:

        Syntax

        ansible-playbook site.yml -i hosts --limit NEW_OSD_NODE_NAME

        Example

        [user@admin ceph-ansible]$ ansible-playbook site.yml -i hosts --limit node03

      • Container deployments:

        Syntax

        ansible-playbook site-container.yml -i hosts --limit NEW_OSD_NODE_NAME

        Example

        [user@admin ceph-ansible]$ ansible-playbook site-container.yml -i hosts --limit node03

    2. If you added the OSD manually, see the Adding a Ceph OSD with the Command-line Interface section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 Operations Guide.
  2. Ensure that the CRUSH hierarchy is accurate:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph osd tree
  3. If you are not satisfied with the location of the OSD in the CRUSH hierarchy, move the OSD to a desired location:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph osd crush move BUCKET_TO_MOVE BUCKET_TYPE=PARENT_BUCKET

    For example, to move the bucket located at sdd:row1 to the root bucket:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph osd crush move ssd:row1 root=ssd:root

Additional Resources

5.6. Increasing the PID count

If you have a node containing more than 12 Ceph OSDs, the default maximum number of threads (PID count) can be insufficient, especially during recovery. As a consequence, some ceph-osd daemons can terminate and fail to start again. If this happens, increase the maximum possible number of threads allowed.

Procedure

To temporary increase the number:

[root@mon ~]# sysctl -w kernel.pid.max=4194303

To permanently increase the number, update the /etc/sysctl.conf file as follows:

kernel.pid.max = 4194303

5.7. Deleting data from a full storage cluster

Ceph automatically prevents any I/O operations on OSDs that reached the capacity specified by the mon_osd_full_ratio parameter and returns the full osds error message.

This procedure shows how to delete unnecessary data to fix this error.

Note

The mon_osd_full_ratio parameter sets the value of the full_ratio parameter when creating a cluster. You cannot change the value of mon_osd_full_ratio afterwards. To temporarily increase the full_ratio value, increase the set-full-ratio instead.

Prerequisites

  • Root-level access to the Ceph Monitor node.

Procedure

  1. Determine the current value of full_ratio, by default it is set to 0.95:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph osd dump | grep -i full
    full_ratio 0.95
  2. Temporarily increase the value of set-full-ratio to 0.97:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph osd set-full-ratio 0.97
    Important

    Red Hat strongly recommends to not set the set-full-ratio to a value higher than 0.97. Setting this parameter to a higher value makes the recovery process harder. As a consequence, you might not be able to recover full OSDs at all.

  3. Verify that you successfully set the parameter to 0.97:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph osd dump | grep -i full
    full_ratio 0.97
  4. Monitor the cluster state:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph -w

    As soon as the cluster changes its state from full to nearfull, delete any unnecessary data.

  5. Set the value of full_ratio back to 0.95:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph osd set-full-ratio 0.95
  6. Verify that you successfully set the parameter to 0.95:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph osd dump | grep -i full
    full_ratio 0.95

Additional Resources

  • Full OSDs section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage Troubleshooting Guide.
  • Nearfull OSDs section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage Troubleshooting Guide.

5.8. Redeploying OSDs after upgrading the storage cluster

This section describes how to redeploy OSDS after upgrading from Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 to Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 with non-collocated daemons for OSDs with block.db on dedicated devices, without upgrading the operating system.

This procedure applies to both bare-metal and container deployments, unless specified.

After the upgrade, the playbook for redeploying OSDs can fail with the an error message:

GPT headers found, they must be removed on: /dev/vdb

You can redeploy the OSDs by creating a partition in the block.db device and running the Ansible playbook.

Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  • Root-level access to the Ansible Administration node.
  • Ansible user account created.

Procedure

  1. Create the partition on the block.db device. This sgdisk command uses the next available partition number automatically:

    Syntax

    sgdisk --new=0:0:_JOURNAL_SIZE_ -- NEW_DEVICE_PATH

    Example

    [root@admin ~]# sgdisk --new=0:0:+2G -- /dev/vdb

  2. Create the host_vars directory:

    [root@admin ~]# mkdir /usr/share/ceph-ansible/host_vars
  3. Navigate to the host_vars directory:

    [root@admin ~]# cd /usr/share/ceph-ansible/host_vars
  4. Create the hosts file on all the hosts of the storage cluster:

    Syntax

    touch NEW_OSD_HOST_NAME

    Example

    [root@admin host_vars]# touch osd5

  5. In the hosts file, define the data device:

    Syntax

    lvm_volumes:
    - data: DATA_DEVICE_PATH
      journal: NEW_DEVICE_PARTITION_PATH
    - data: RUNNING_OSD_DATA_DEVICE_PATH
        journal: PARTITION_PATH
    - data: RUNNING_OSD_DATA_DEVICE_PATH
        journal: PARTITION_PATH

    Example

    lvm_volumes:
    - data: /dev/vdd
      journal: /dev/vdb2
    - data: /dev/sdb
      journal: /dev/sdc1
    - data: /dev/sdb
      journal: /dev/sdc2

  6. Switch to the Ansible user and verify that Ansible can reach all the Ceph nodes:

    [admin@admin ~]$ ansible all -m ping
  7. Change directory to the Ansible configuration directory:

    [admin@admin ~]$ cd /usr/share/ceph-ansible
  8. Run the following Ansible playbook with --limit option:

    • Bare-metal deployments:

      [admin@admin ceph-ansible]$ ansible-playbook site.yml --limit osds -i hosts
    • Container deployments:

      [admin@admin ceph-ansible]$ ansible-playbook site-container.yml --limit osds -i hosts

Additional Resources

  • See the Handling a disk failure section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage Operations Guide for more details on deploying OSDs.

Chapter 6. Troubleshooting Ceph MDSs

As a storage administrator, you can troubleshoot the most common issues that can occur when using the Ceph Metadata Server (MDS). Some of the common errors that you might encounter:

  • An MDS node failure requiring a new MDS deployment.
  • An MDS node issue requiring redeployment of an MDS node.

6.1. Redeploying a Ceph MDS

Ceph Metadata Server (MDS) daemons are necessary for deploying a Ceph File System. If an MDS node in your cluster fails, you can redeploy a Ceph Metadata Server by removing an MDS server and adding a new or existing server. You can use the command-line interface or Ansible playbook to add or remove an MDS server.

6.1.1. Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.

6.1.2. Removing a Ceph MDS using Ansible

To remove a Ceph Metadata Server (MDS) using Ansible, use the shrink-mds playbook.

Note

If there is no replacement MDS to take over once the MDS is removed, the file system will become unavailable to clients. If that is not desirable, consider adding an additional MDS before removing the MDS you would like to take offline.

Prerequisites

  • At least one MDS node.
  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster deployed by Ansible.
  • Root or sudo access to an Ansible administration node.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Ansible administration node.
  2. Change to the /usr/share/ceph-ansible directory:

    Example

    [ansible@admin ~]$ cd /usr/share/ceph-ansible

  3. Run the Ansible shrink-mds.yml playbook, and when prompted, type yes to confirm shrinking the cluster:

    Syntax

    ansible-playbook infrastructure-playbooks/shrink-mds.yml -e mds_to_kill=ID -i hosts

    Replace ID with the ID of the MDS node you want to remove. You can remove only one Ceph MDS each time the playbook runs.

    Example

    [ansible @admin ceph-ansible]$ ansible-playbook infrastructure-playbooks/shrink-mds.yml -e mds_to_kill=node02 -i hosts

  4. As root or with sudo access, open and edit the /usr/share/ceph-ansible/hosts inventory file and remove the MDS node under the [mdss] section:

    Syntax

    [mdss]
    MDS_NODE_NAME
    MDS_NODE_NAME

    Example

    [mdss]
    node01
    node03

    In this example, node02 was removed from the [mdss] list.

Verification

  • Check the status of the MDS daemons:

    Syntax

    ceph fs dump

    Example

    [ansible@admin ceph-ansible]$ ceph fs dump
    
    [mds.node01 {0:115304} state up:active seq 5 addr [v2:172.25.250.10:6800/695510951,v1:172.25.250.10:6801/695510951]]
    
    Standby daemons:
    [mds.node03 {-1:144437} state up:standby seq 2 addr [v2:172.25.250.11:6800/172950087,v1:172.25.250.11:6801/172950087]]

Additional Resources

6.1.3. Removing a Ceph MDS using the command-line interface

You can manually remove a Ceph Metadata Server (MDS) using the command-line interface.

Note

If there is no replacement MDS to take over once the current MDS is removed, the file system will become unavailable to clients. If that is not desirable, consider adding an MDS before removing the existing MDS.

Prerequisites

  • The ceph-common package is installed.
  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  • Root or sudo access to the MDS nodes.

Procedure

  1. Log into the Ceph MDS node that you want to remove the MDS daemon from.
  2. Stop the Ceph MDS service:

    Syntax

    sudo systemctl stop ceph-mds@HOST_NAME

    Replace HOST_NAME with the short name of the host where the daemon is running.

    Example

    [admin@node02 ~]$ sudo systemctl stop ceph-mds@node02

  3. Disable the MDS service if you are not redeploying MDS to this node:

    Syntax

    sudo systemctl disable ceph-mds@HOST_NAME

    Replace HOST_NAME with the short name of the host to disable the daemon.

    Example

    [admin@node02 ~]$ sudo systemctl disable ceph-mds@node02

  4. Remove the /var/lib/ceph/mds/ceph-MDS_ID directory on the MDS node:

    Syntax

    sudo rm -fr /var/lib/ceph/mds/ceph-MDS_ID

    Replace MDS_ID with the ID of the MDS node that you want to remove the MDS daemon from.

    Example

    [admin@node02 ~]$ sudo rm -fr /var/lib/ceph/mds/ceph-node02

Verification

  • Check the status of the MDS daemons:

    Syntax

    ceph fs dump

    Example

    [ansible@admin ceph-ansible]$ ceph fs dump
    
    [mds.node01 {0:115304} state up:active seq 5 addr [v2:172.25.250.10:6800/695510951,v1:172.25.250.10:6801/695510951]]
    
    Standby daemons:
    [mds.node03 {-1:144437} state up:standby seq 2 addr [v2:172.25.250.11:6800/172950087,v1:172.25.250.11:6801/172950087]]

Additional Resources

6.1.4. Adding a Ceph MDS using Ansible

Use the Ansible playbook to add a Ceph Metadata Server (MDS).

Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster deployed by Ansible.
  • Root or sudo access to an Ansible administration node.
  • New or existing servers that can be provisioned as MDS nodes.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Ansible administration node
  2. Change to the /usr/share/ceph-ansible directory:

    Example

    [ansible@admin ~]$ cd /usr/share/ceph-ansible

  3. As root or with sudo access, open and edit the /usr/share/ceph-ansible/hosts inventory file and add the MDS node under the [mdss] section:

    Syntax

    [mdss]
    MDS_NODE_NAME
    NEW_MDS_NODE_NAME

    Replace NEW_MDS_NODE_NAME with the host name of the node where you want to install the MDS server.

    Alternatively, you can colocate the MDS daemon with the OSD daemon on one node by adding the same node under the [osds] and [mdss] sections.

    Example

    [mdss]
    node01
    node03

  4. As the ansible user, run the Ansible playbook to provision the MDS node:

    • Bare-metal deployments:

      [ansible@admin ceph-ansible]$ ansible-playbook site.yml --limit mdss -i hosts
    • Container deployments:

      [ansible@admin ceph-ansible]$ ansible-playbook site-container.yml --limit mdss -i hosts

      After the Ansible playbook has finished running, the new Ceph MDS node appears in the storage cluster.

Verification

  • Check the status of the MDS daemons:

    Syntax

    ceph fs dump

    Example

    [ansible@admin ceph-ansible]$ ceph fs dump
    
    [mds.node01 {0:115304} state up:active seq 5 addr [v2:172.25.250.10:6800/695510951,v1:172.25.250.10:6801/695510951]]
    
    Standby daemons:
    [mds.node03 {-1:144437} state up:standby seq 2 addr [v2:172.25.250.11:6800/172950087,v1:172.25.250.11:6801/172950087]]

  • Alternatively, you can use the ceph mds stat command to check if the MDS is in an active state:

    Syntax

    ceph mds stat

    Example

    [ansible@admin ceph-ansible]$ ceph mds stat
    cephfs:1 {0=node01=up:active} 1 up:standby

Additional Resources

6.1.5. Adding a Ceph MDS using the command-line interface

You can manually add a Ceph Metadata Server (MDS) using the command-line interface.

Prerequisites

  • The ceph-common package is installed.
  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  • Root or sudo access to the MDS nodes.
  • New or existing servers that can be provisioned as MDS nodes.

Procedure

  1. Add a new MDS node by logging into the node and creating an MDS mount point:

    Syntax

    sudo mkdir /var/lib/ceph/mds/ceph-MDS_ID

    Replace MDS_ID with the ID of the MDS node that you want to add the MDS daemon to.

    Example

    [admin@node03 ~]$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/ceph/mds/ceph-node03

  2. If this is a new MDS node, create the authentication key if you are using Cephx authentication:

    Syntax

    sudo ceph auth get-or-create mds.MDS_ID mon 'profile mds' mgr 'profile mds' mds 'allow *' osd 'allow *' > /var/lib/ceph/mds/ceph-MDS_ID/keyring

    Replace MDS_ID with the ID of the MDS node to deploy the MDS daemon on.

    Example

    [admin@node03 ~]$ sudo ceph auth get-or-create mds.node03 mon 'profile mds' mgr 'profile mds' mds 'allow *' osd 'allow *' > /var/lib/ceph/mds/ceph-node03/keyring

    Note

    Cephx authentication is enabled by default. See the Cephx authentication link in the Additional Resources section for more information about Cephx authentication.

  3. Start the MDS daemon:

    Syntax

    sudo systemctl start ceph-mds@HOST_NAME

    Replace HOST_NAME with the short name of the host to start the daemon.

    Example

    [admin@node03 ~]$ sudo systemctl start ceph-mds@node03

  4. Enable the MDS service:

    Syntax

    systemctl enable ceph-mds@HOST_NAME

    Replace HOST_NAME with the short name of the host to enable the service.

    Example

    [admin@node03 ~]$ sudo systemctl enable ceph-mds@node03

Verification

  • Check the status of the MDS daemons:

    Syntax

    ceph fs dump

    Example

    [admin@mon]$ ceph fs dump
    
    [mds.node01 {0:115304} state up:active seq 5 addr [v2:172.25.250.10:6800/695510951,v1:172.25.250.10:6801/695510951]]
    
    Standby daemons:
    [mds.node03 {-1:144437} state up:standby seq 2 addr [v2:172.25.250.11:6800/172950087,v1:172.25.250.11:6801/172950087]]

  • Alternatively, you can use the ceph mds stat command to check if the MDS is in an active state:

    Syntax

    ceph mds stat

    Example

    [ansible@admin ceph-ansible]$ ceph mds stat
    cephfs:1 {0=node01=up:active} 1 up:standby

Additional Resources

Chapter 7. Troubleshooting a multisite Ceph Object Gateway

This chapter contains information on how to fix the most common errors related to multisite Ceph Object Gateways configuration and operational conditions.

7.1. Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  • A running Ceph Object Gateway.

7.2. Error code definitions for the Ceph Object Gateway

The Ceph Object Gateway logs contain error and warning messages to assist in troubleshooting conditions in your environment. Some common ones are listed below with suggested resolutions.

Common error messages

data_sync: ERROR: a sync operation returned error
This is the high-level data sync process complaining that a lower-level bucket sync process returned an error. This message is redundant; the bucket sync error appears above it in the log.
data sync: ERROR: failed to sync object: BUCKET_NAME:_OBJECT_NAME_
Either the process failed to fetch the required object over HTTP from a remote gateway or the process failed to write that object to RADOS and it will be tried again.
data sync: ERROR: failure in sync, backing out (sync_status=2)
A low level message reflecting one of the above conditions, specifically that the data was deleted before it could sync and thus showing a -2 ENOENT status.
data sync: ERROR: failure in sync, backing out (sync_status=-5)
A low level message reflecting one of the above conditions, specifically that we failed to write that object to RADOS and thus showing a -5 EIO.
ERROR: failed to fetch remote data log info: ret=11
This is the EAGAIN generic error code from libcurl reflecting an error condition from another gateway. It will try again by default.
meta sync: ERROR: failed to read mdlog info with (2) No such file or directory
The shard of the mdlog was never created so there is nothing to sync.

Syncing error messages

failed to sync object
Either the process failed to fetch this object over HTTP from a remote gateway or it failed to write that object to RADOS and it will be tried again.
failed to sync bucket instance: (11) Resource temporarily unavailable
A connection issue between primary and secondary zones.
failed to sync bucket instance: (125) Operation canceled
A racing condition exists between writes to the same RADOS object.

Additional Resources

7.3. Syncing a multisite Ceph Object Gateway

A multisite sync reads the change log from other zones. To get a high-level view of the sync progress from the metadata and the data loags, you can use the following command:

radosgw-admin sync status

This command lists which log shards, if any, which are behind their source zone.

Note

Sometimes you might observe recovering shards when running the radosgw-admin sync status command. For data sync, there are 128 shards of replication logs that are each processed independently. If any of the actions triggered by these replication log events result in any error from the network, storage, or elsewhere, those errors get tracked so the operation can retry again later. While a given shard has errors that need a retry, radosgw-admin sync status command reports that shard as recovering. This recovery happens automatically, so the operator does not need to intervene to resolve them.

If the results of the sync status you have run above reports log shards are behind, run the following command substituting the shard-id for X.

Syntax

radosgw-admin data sync status --shard-id=X --source-zone=ZONE_NAME

Example

[root@rgw ~]# radosgw-admin data sync status --shard-id=27 --source-zone=_us-eest
{
  "shard_id": 27,
  "marker": {
         "status": "incremental-sync",
         "marker": "1_1534494893.816775_131867195.1",
         "next_step_marker": "",
         "total_entries": 1,
         "pos": 0,
         "timestamp": "0.000000"
   },
   "pending_buckets": [],
   "recovering_buckets": [
         "pro-registry:4ed07bb2-a80b-4c69-aa15-fdc17ae6f5f2.314303.1:26"
   ]
}

The output lists which buckets are next to sync and which buckets, if any, are going to be retried due to previous errors.

Inspect the status of individual buckets with the following command, substituting the bucket id for X.

radosgw-admin bucket sync status --bucket=X.
Replace…​
X with the ID number of the bucket.

The result shows which bucket index log shards are behind their source zone.

A common error in sync is EBUSY, which means the sync is already in progress, often on another gateway. Read errors written to the sync error log, which can be read with the following command:

radosgw-admin sync error list

The syncing process will try again until it is successful. Errors can still occur that can require intervention.

7.3.1. Performance counters for multi-site Ceph Object Gateway data sync

The following performance counters are available for multi-site configurations of the Ceph Object Gateway to measure data sync:

  • poll_latency measures the latency of requests for remote replication logs.
  • fetch_bytes measures the number of objects and bytes fetched by data sync.

Use the ceph daemon command to view the current metric data for the performance counters:

Syntax

ceph daemon /var/run/ceph/ceph-client.rgw.RGW_ID.asok perf dump data-sync-from-ZONE_NAME

Example

[root@rgw ~]#  ceph daemon /var/run/ceph/ceph-client.rgw.host02-rgw0.103.94309060818504.asok perf dump data-sync-from-us-west

{
    "data-sync-from-us-west": {
        "fetch bytes": {
            "avgcount": 54,
            "sum": 54526039885
        },
        "fetch not modified": 7,
        "fetch errors": 0,
        "poll latency": {
            "avgcount": 41,
            "sum": 2.533653367,
            "avgtime": 0.061796423
        },
        "poll errors": 0
    }
}

Note

You must run the ceph daemon command from the node running the daemon.

Additional Resources

  • See the Ceph performance counters chapter in the Red Hat Ceph Storage Administration Guide for more information about performance counters.

Chapter 8. Troubleshooting the Ceph iSCSI gateway (Limited Availability)

As a storage administrator, you can troubleshoot most common errors that can occur when using the Ceph iSCSI gateway. These are some of the common errors that you might encounter:

  • iSCSI login issues.
  • VMware ESXi reporting various connection failures.
  • Timeout errors.
Note

This technology is Limited Availability. See the Deprecated functionality chapter for additional information.

8.1. Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  • A running Ceph iSCSI gateway.
  • Verify the network connections.

8.2. Gathering information for lost connections causing storage failures on VMware ESXi

Collecting system and disk information helps determine which iSCSI target has lost a connection and is possibly causing storage failures. If needed, gathering this information can also be provided to Red Hat’s Global Support Service to aid you in troubleshooting any Ceph iSCSI gateway issues.

Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  • A running Ceph iSCSI gateway, the iSCSI target.
  • A running VMware ESXi environment, the iSCSI initiator.
  • Root-level access to the VMware ESXi node.

Procedure

  1. On the VWware ESXi node, open the kernel log:

    [root@esx:~]# more /var/log/vmkernel.log
  2. Gather information from the following error messages in the VMware ESXi kernel log:

    Example

    2020-03-30T11:07:07.570Z cpu32:66506)iscsi_vmk:
    iscsivmk_ConnRxNotifyFailure: Sess [ISID: 00023d000005 TARGET:
    iqn.2017-12.com.redhat.iscsi-gw:ceph-igw TPGT: 3 TSIH: 0]

    From this message, make a note of the ISID number, the TARGET name, and the Target Portal Group Tag (TPGT) number. For this example, we have the following:

    ISID: 00023d000005
    TARGET: iqn.2017-12.com.redhat.iscsi-gw:ceph-igw
    TPGT: 3

    Example

    2020-03-30T11:07:07.570Z cpu32:66506)iscsi_vmk:
    iscsivmk_ConnRxNotifyFailure: vmhba64:CH:4 T:0 CN:0: Connection rx
    notifying failure: Failed to Receive. State=Bound

    From this message, make a note of the adapter channel (CH) number. For this example, we have the following:

    vmhba64:CH:4 T:0
  3. To find the remote address of the Ceph iSCSI gateway node:

    [root@esx:~]# esxcli iscsi session connection list

    Example

    ...
    vmhba64,iqn.2017-12.com.redhat.iscsi-gw:ceph-igw,00023d000003,0
       Adapter: vmhba64
       Target: iqn.2017-12.com.redhat.iscsi-gw:ceph-igw 1
       ISID: 00023d000003 2
       CID: 0
       DataDigest: NONE
       HeaderDigest: NONE
       IFMarker: false
       IFMarkerInterval: 0
       MaxRecvDataSegmentLength: 131072
       MaxTransmitDataSegmentLength: 262144
       OFMarker: false
       OFMarkerInterval: 0
       ConnectionAddress: 10.2.132.2
       RemoteAddress: 10.2.132.2 3
       LocalAddress: 10.2.128.77
       SessionCreateTime: 03/28/18 21:45:19
       ConnectionCreateTime: 03/28/18 21:45:19
       ConnectionStartTime: 03/28/18 21:45:19
       State: xpt_wait
    ...

    From the command output, match the ISID value, and the TARGET name value gathered previously, then make a note of the RemoteAddress value. From this example, we have the following:

    Target: iqn.2017-12.com.redhat.iscsi-gw:ceph-igw
    ISID: 00023d000003
    RemoteAddress: 10.2.132.2

    Now, you can collect more information from the Ceph iSCSI gateway node to further troubleshoot the issue.

    1. On the Ceph iSCSI gateway node mentioned by the RemoteAddress value, run an sosreport to gather system information:

      [root@igw ~]# sosreport
  4. To find a disk that went into a dead state:

    [root@esx:~]# esxcli storage nmp device list

    Example

    ...
    iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:d04-nmgjd-pa-zyc-sv039-rh2288h-xnh-732d78fd-00023d000004,iqn.2017-12.com.redhat.iscsi-gw:ceph-igw,t,3-naa.60014054a5d46697f85498e9a257567c
       Runtime Name: vmhba64:C4:T0:L4 1
       Device: naa.60014054a5d46697f85498e9a257567c 2
       Device Display Name: LIO-ORG iSCSI Disk
    (naa.60014054a5d46697f85498e9a257567c)
       Group State: dead 3
       Array Priority: 0
       Storage Array Type Path Config:
    {TPG_id=3,TPG_state=ANO,RTP_id=3,RTP_health=DOWN} 4
       Path Selection Policy Path Config: {non-current path; rank: 0}
    ...

    From the command output, match the CH number, and the TPGT number gathered previously, then make a note of the Device value. For this example, we have the following:

    vmhba64:C4:T0
    Device: naa.60014054a5d46697f85498e9a257567c
    TPG_id=3

    With the device name, you can gather some additional information on each iSCSI disk in a dead state.

    1. Gather more information on the iSCSI disk:

      Syntax

      esxcli storage nmp path list -d ISCSI_DISK_DEVICE > /tmp/esxcli_storage_nmp_path_list.txt
      esxcli storage core device list -d ISCSI_DISK_DEVICE > /tmp/esxcli_storage_core_device_list.txt

      Example

      [root@esx:~]# esxcli storage nmp path list -d naa.60014054a5d46697f85498e9a257567c > /tmp/esxcli_storage_nmp_path_list.txt
      [root@esx:~]# esxcli storage core device list -d naa.60014054a5d46697f85498e9a257567c > /tmp/esxcli_storage_core_device_list.txt

  5. Gather additional information on the VMware ESXi environment:

    [root@esx:~]# esxcli storage vmfs extent list > /tmp/esxcli_storage_vmfs_extent_list.txt
    [root@esx:~]# esxcli storage filesystem list > /tmp/esxcli_storage_filesystem_list.txt
    [root@esx:~]# esxcli iscsi session list > /tmp/esxcli_iscsi_session_list.txt
    [root@esx:~]# esxcli iscsi session connection list > /tmp/esxcli_iscsi_session_connection_list.txt
  6. Check for potential iSCSI login issues:

Additional Resources

  • See Red Hat’s Knowledgebase solution on creating an sosreport for Red Hat Global Support Services.
  • See Red Hat’s Knowledgebase solution on uploading files for Red Hat Global Support Services.
  • How to open a Red Hat support case on the Customer Portal?

8.3. Checking iSCSI login failures because data was not sent

On the iSCSI gateway node, you might see generic login negotiation failure messages in the system log, by default /var/log/messages.

Example

Apr  2 23:17:05 osd1 kernel: rx_data returned 0, expecting 48.
Apr  2 23:17:05 osd1 kernel: iSCSI Login negotiation failed.

While the system is in this state, start collecting system information as suggested in this procedure.

Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  • A running Ceph iSCSI gateway, the iSCSI target.
  • A running VMware ESXi environment, the iSCSI initiator.
  • Root-level access to the Ceph iSCSI gateway node.
  • Root-level access to the VMware ESXi node.

Procedure

  1. Enable additional logging:

    [root@igw ~]# echo "module iscsi_target_mod +p" > /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control
    [root@igw ~]# echo "module target_core_mod +p" > /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control
  2. Wait a couple of minutes for the extra debugging information to populate the system log.
  3. Disable the additional logging:

    [root@igw ~]# echo "module iscsi_target_mod -p" > /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control
    [root@igw ~]# echo "module target_core_mod -p" > /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control
  4. Run an sosreport to gather system information:

    [root@igw ~]# sosreport
  5. Capture network traffic for the Ceph iSCSI gateway and the VMware ESXi nodes simultaneously:

    Syntax

    tcpdump -s0 -i NETWORK_INTERFACE -w OUTPUT_FILE_PATH

    Example

    [root@igw ~]# tcpdump -s 0 -i eth0 -w /tmp/igw-eth0-tcpdump.pcap

    Note

    Look for traffic on port 3260.

    1. Network packet capture files can be large, so compress the tcpdump output from the iSCSI target and initiators before uploading any files to Red Hat Global Support Services:

      Syntax

      gzip OUTPUT_FILE_PATH

      Example

      [root@igw ~]# gzip /tmp/igw-eth0-tcpdump.pcap

  6. Gather additional information on the VMware ESXi environment:

    [root@esx:~]# esxcli iscsi session list > /tmp/esxcli_iscsi_session_list.txt
    [root@esx:~]# esxcli iscsi session connection list > /tmp/esxcli_iscsi_session_connection_list.txt
    1. List and collect more information on each iSCSI disk:

      Syntax

      esxcli storage nmp path list -d ISCSI_DISK_DEVICE > /tmp/esxcli_storage_nmp_path_list.txt

      Example

      [root@esx:~]# esxcli storage nmp device list
      [root@esx:~]# esxcli storage nmp path list -d naa.60014054a5d46697f85498e9a257567c > /tmp/esxcli_storage_nmp_path_list.txt
      [root@esx:~]# esxcli storage core device list -d naa.60014054a5d46697f85498e9a257567c > /tmp/esxcli_storage_core_device_list.txt

Additional Resources

8.4. Checking iSCSI login failures because of a timeout or not able to find a portal group

On the iSCSI gateway node, you might see timeout or unable to locate a target portal group messages in the system log, by default /var/log/messages.

Example

Mar 28 00:29:01 osd2 kernel: iSCSI Login timeout on Network Portal 10.2.132.2:3260

or

Example

Mar 23 20:25:39 osd1 kernel: Unable to locate Target Portal Group on iqn.2017-12.com.redhat.iscsi-gw:ceph-igw

While the system is in this state, start collecting system information as suggested in this procedure.

Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  • A running Ceph iSCSI gateway.
  • Root-level access to the Ceph iSCSI gateway node.

Procedure

  1. Enable the dumping of waiting tasks and write them to a file:

    [root@igw ~]# dmesg -c ; echo w > /proc/sysrq-trigger ; dmesg -c > /tmp/waiting-tasks.txt
  2. Review the list of waiting tasks for the following messages:

    • iscsit_tpg_disable_portal_group
    • core_tmr_abort_task
    • transport_generic_free_cmd

    If any of these messages appear in the waiting task list, then this is an indication that something went wrong with the tcmu-runner service. Maybe the tcmu-runner service was not restarted properly, or maybe the tcmu-runner service has crashed.

  3. Verify if the tcmu-runner service is running:

    [root@igw ~]# systemctl status tcmu-runner
    1. If the tcmu-runner service is not running, then stop the rbd-target-gw service before restarting the tcmu-runner service:

      [root@igw ~]# systemctl stop rbd-target-api
      [root@igw ~]# systemctl stop rbd-target-gw
      [root@igw ~]# systemctl stop tcmu-runner
      [root@igw ~]# systemctl start tcmu-runner
      [root@igw ~]# systemctl start rbd-target-gw
      [root@igw ~]# systemctl start rbd-target-api
      Important

      Stopping the Ceph iSCSI gateway first prevents IOs from getting stuck while the tcmu-runner service is down.

    2. If the tcmu-runner service is running, the this might be a new bug. Open a new Red Hat support case.

Additional Resources

  • See Red Hat’s Knowledgebase solution on creating an sosreport for Red Hat Global Support Services.
  • See Red Hat’s Knowledgebase solution on uploading files for Red Hat Global Support Services.
  • How to open a Red Hat support case on the Customer Portal?

8.5. Timeout command errors

The Ceph iSCSI gateway might report command timeout errors when a SCSI command has failed in the system log.

Example

Mar 23 20:03:14 igw tcmu-runner: 2018-03-23 20:03:14.052 2513 [ERROR] tcmu_rbd_handle_timedout_cmd:669 rbd/rbd.gw1lun011: Timing out cmd.

or

Example

Mar 23 20:03:14 igw tcmu-runner: tcmu_notify_conn_lost:176 rbd/rbd.gw1lun011: Handler connection lost (lock state 1)

What This Means

It is possible there are other stuck tasks waiting to be processed, causing the SCSI command to timeout because a response was not received in a timely manner. Another reason for these error messages, might be related to an unhealthy Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.

To Troubleshoot This Problem

  1. Check to see if there are waiting tasks that might be holding things up.
  2. Check the health of the Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  3. Collect system information from each device in the path from the Ceph iSCSI gateway node to the iSCSI initiator node.

Additional Resources

8.6. Abort task errors

The Ceph iSCSI gateway might report abort task errors in the system log.

Example

Apr  1 14:23:58 igw kernel: ABORT_TASK: Found referenced iSCSI task_tag: 1085531

What This Means

It is possible that some other network disruptions, such as a failed switch or bad port, is causing this type of error message. Another possibility, is an unhealthy Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.

To Troubleshoot This Problem

  1. Check for any network disruptions in the environment.
  2. Check the health of the Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  3. Collect system information from each device in the path from the Ceph iSCSI gateway node to the iSCSI initiator node.

Additional Resources

8.7. Additional Resources

Chapter 9. Troubleshooting Ceph placement groups

This section contains information about fixing the most common errors related to the Ceph Placement Groups (PGs).

9.1. Prerequisites

  • Verify your network connection.
  • Ensure that Monitors are able to form a quorum.
  • Ensure that all healthy OSDs are up and in, and the backfilling and recovery processes are finished.

9.2. Most common Ceph placement groups errors

The following table lists the most common errors messages that are returned by the ceph health detail command. The table provides links to corresponding sections that explain the errors and point to specific procedures to fix the problems.

In addition, you can list placement groups that are stuck in a state that is not optimal. See Section 9.3, “Listing placement groups stuck in stale, inactive, or unclean state” for details.

9.2.1. Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  • A running Ceph Object Gateway.

9.2.2. Placement group error messages

A table of common placement group error messages, and a potential fix.

Error messageSee

HEALTH_ERR

pgs down

Placement groups are down

pgs inconsistent

Inconsistent placement groups

scrub errors

Inconsistent placement groups

HEALTH_WARN

pgs stale

Stale placement groups

unfound

Unfound objects

9.2.3. Stale placement groups

The ceph health command lists some Placement Groups (PGs) as stale:

HEALTH_WARN 24 pgs stale; 3/300 in osds are down

What This Means

The Monitor marks a placement group as stale when it does not receive any status update from the primary OSD of the placement group’s acting set or when other OSDs reported that the primary OSD is down.

Usually, PGs enter the stale state after you start the storage cluster and until the peering process completes. However, when the PGs remain stale for longer than expected, it might indicate that the primary OSD for those PGs is down or not reporting PG statistics to the Monitor. When the primary OSD storing stale PGs is back up, Ceph starts to recover the PGs.

The mon_osd_report_timeout setting determines how often OSDs report PGs statistics to Monitors. Be default, this parameter is set to 0.5, which means that OSDs report the statistics every half a second.

To Troubleshoot This Problem

  1. Identify which PGs are stale and on what OSDs they are stored. The error message will include information similar to the following example:

    Example

    # ceph health detail
    HEALTH_WARN 24 pgs stale; 3/300 in osds are down
    ...
    pg 2.5 is stuck stale+active+remapped, last acting [2,0]
    ...
    osd.10 is down since epoch 23, last address 192.168.106.220:6800/11080
    osd.11 is down since epoch 13, last address 192.168.106.220:6803/11539
    osd.12 is down since epoch 24, last address 192.168.106.220:6806/11861

  2. Troubleshoot any problems with the OSDs that are marked as down. For details, see Down OSDs.

Additional Resources

9.2.4. Inconsistent placement groups

Some placement groups are marked as active + clean + inconsistent and the ceph health detail returns an error messages similar to the following one:

HEALTH_ERR 1 pgs inconsistent; 2 scrub errors
pg 0.6 is active+clean+inconsistent, acting [0,1,2]
2 scrub errors

What This Means

When Ceph detects inconsistencies in one or more replicas of an object in a placement group, it marks the placement group as inconsistent. The most common inconsistencies are:

  • Objects have an incorrect size.
  • Objects are missing from one replica after a recovery finished.

In most cases, errors during scrubbing cause inconsistency within placement groups.

To Troubleshoot This Problem

  1. Determine which placement group is in the inconsistent state:

    # ceph health detail
    HEALTH_ERR 1 pgs inconsistent; 2 scrub errors
    pg 0.6 is active+clean+inconsistent, acting [0,1,2]
    2 scrub errors
  2. Determine why the placement group is inconsistent.

    1. Start the deep scrubbing process on the placement group:

      [root@mon ~]# ceph pg deep-scrub ID

      Replace ID with the ID of the inconsistent placement group, for example:

      [root@mon ~]# ceph pg deep-scrub 0.6
      instructing pg 0.6 on osd.0 to deep-scrub
    2. Search the output of the ceph -w for any messages related to that placement group:

      ceph -w | grep ID

      Replace ID with the ID of the inconsistent placement group, for example:

      [root@mon ~]# ceph -w | grep 0.6
      2015-02-26 01:35:36.778215 osd.106 [ERR] 0.6 deep-scrub stat mismatch, got 636/635 objects, 0/0 clones, 0/0 dirty, 0/0 omap, 0/0 hit_set_archive, 0/0 whiteouts, 1855455/1854371 bytes.
      2015-02-26 01:35:36.788334 osd.106 [ERR] 0.6 deep-scrub 1 errors
  3. If the output includes any error messages similar to the following ones, you can repair the inconsistent placement group. See Repairing inconsistent placement groups for details.

    PG.ID shard OSD: soid OBJECT missing attr , missing attr _ATTRIBUTE_TYPE
    PG.ID shard OSD: soid OBJECT digest 0 != known digest DIGEST, size 0 != known size SIZE
    PG.ID shard OSD: soid OBJECT size 0 != known size SIZE
    PG.ID deep-scrub stat mismatch, got MISMATCH
    PG.ID shard OSD: soid OBJECT candidate had a read error, digest 0 != known digest DIGEST
  4. If the output includes any error messages similar to the following ones, it is not safe to repair the inconsistent placement group because you can lose data. Open a support ticket in this situation. See Contacting Red Hat support for details.

    PG.ID shard OSD: soid OBJECT digest DIGEST != known digest DIGEST
    PG.ID shard OSD: soid OBJECT omap_digest DIGEST != known omap_digest DIGEST

Additional Resources

9.2.5. Unclean placement groups

The ceph health command returns an error message similar to the following one:

HEALTH_WARN 197 pgs stuck unclean

What This Means

Ceph marks a placement group as unclean if it has not achieved the active+clean state for the number of seconds specified in the mon_pg_stuck_threshold parameter in the Ceph configuration file. The default value of mon_pg_stuck_threshold is 300 seconds.

If a placement group is unclean, it contains objects that are not replicated the number of times specified in the osd_pool_default_size parameter. The default value of osd_pool_default_size is 3, which means that Ceph creates three replicas.

Usually, unclean placement groups indicate that some OSDs might be down.

To Troubleshoot This Problem

  1. Determine which OSDs are down:

    # ceph osd tree
  2. Troubleshoot and fix any problems with the OSDs. See Down OSDs for details.

9.2.6. Inactive placement groups

The ceph health command returns a error message similar to the following one:

HEALTH_WARN 197 pgs stuck inactive

What This Means

Ceph marks a placement group as inactive if it has not be active for the number of seconds specified in the mon_pg_stuck_threshold parameter in the Ceph configuration file. The default value of mon_pg_stuck_threshold is 300 seconds.

Usually, inactive placement groups indicate that some OSDs might be down.

To Troubleshoot This Problem

  1. Determine which OSDs are down:

    # ceph osd tree
  2. Troubleshoot and fix any problems with the OSDs.

9.2.7. Placement groups are down

The ceph health detail command reports that some placement groups are down:

HEALTH_ERR 7 pgs degraded; 12 pgs down; 12 pgs peering; 1 pgs recovering; 6 pgs stuck unclean; 114/3300 degraded (3.455%); 1/3 in osds are down
...
pg 0.5 is down+peering
pg 1.4 is down+peering
...
osd.1 is down since epoch 69, last address 192.168.106.220:6801/8651

What This Means

In certain cases, the peering process can be blocked, which prevents a placement group from becoming active and usable. Usually, a failure of an OSD causes the peering failures.

To Troubleshoot This Problem

Determine what blocks the peering process:

[root@mon ~]# ceph pg ID query

Replace ID with the ID of the placement group that is down, for example:

[root@mon ~]# ceph pg 0.5 query

{ "state": "down+peering",
  ...
  "recovery_state": [
       { "name": "Started\/Primary\/Peering\/GetInfo",
         "enter_time": "2012-03-06 14:40:16.169679",
         "requested_info_from": []},
       { "name": "Started\/Primary\/Peering",
         "enter_time": "2012-03-06 14:40:16.169659",
         "probing_osds": [
               0,
               1],
         "blocked": "peering is blocked due to down osds",
         "down_osds_we_would_probe": [
               1],
         "peering_blocked_by": [
               { "osd": 1,
                 "current_lost_at": 0,
                 "comment": "starting or marking this osd lost may let us proceed"}]},
       { "name": "Started",
         "enter_time": "2012-03-06 14:40:16.169513"}
   ]
}

The recovery_state section includes information why the peering process is blocked.

Additional Resources

  • The Ceph OSD peering section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage Administration Guide.

9.2.8. Unfound objects

The ceph health command returns an error message similar to the following one, containing the unfound keyword:

HEALTH_WARN 1 pgs degraded; 78/3778 unfound (2.065%)

What This Means

Ceph marks objects as unfound when it knows these objects or their newer copies exist but it is unable to find them. As a consequence, Ceph cannot recover such objects and proceed with the recovery process.

An Example Situation

A placement group stores data on osd.1 and osd.2.

  1. osd.1 goes down.
  2. osd.2 handles some write operations.
  3. osd.1 comes up.
  4. A peering process between osd.1 and osd.2 starts, and the objects missing on osd.1 are queued for recovery.
  5. Before Ceph copies new objects, osd.2 goes down.

As a result, osd.1 knows that these objects exist, but there is no OSD that has a copy of the objects.

In this scenario, Ceph is waiting for the failed node to be accessible again, and the unfound objects blocks the recovery process.

To Troubleshoot This Problem

  1. Determine which placement group contain unfound objects:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph health detail
    HEALTH_WARN 1 pgs recovering; 1 pgs stuck unclean; recovery 5/937611 objects degraded (0.001%); 1/312537 unfound (0.000%)
    pg 3.8a5 is stuck unclean for 803946.712780, current state active+recovering, last acting [320,248,0]
    pg 3.8a5 is active+recovering, acting [320,248,0], 1 unfound
    recovery 5/937611 objects degraded (0.001%); **1/312537 unfound (0.000%)**
  2. List more information about the placement group:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph pg ID query

    Replace ID with the ID of the placement group containing the unfound objects, for example:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph pg 3.8a5 query
    { "state": "active+recovering",
      "epoch": 10741,
      "up": [
            320,
            248,
            0],
      "acting": [
            320,
            248,
            0],
    <snip>
      "recovery_state": [
            { "name": "Started\/Primary\/Active",
              "enter_time": "2015-01-28 19:30:12.058136",
              "might_have_unfound": [
                    { "osd": "0",
                      "status": "already probed"},
                    { "osd": "248",
                      "status": "already probed"},
                    { "osd": "301",
                      "status": "already probed"},
                    { "osd": "362",
                      "status": "already probed"},
                    { "osd": "395",
                      "status": "already probed"},
                    { "osd": "429",
                      "status": "osd is down"}],
              "recovery_progress": { "backfill_targets": [],
                  "waiting_on_backfill": [],
                  "last_backfill_started": "0\/\/0\/\/-1",
                  "backfill_info": { "begin": "0\/\/0\/\/-1",
                      "end": "0\/\/0\/\/-1",
                      "objects": []},
                  "peer_backfill_info": [],
                  "backfills_in_flight": [],
                  "recovering": [],
                  "pg_backend": { "pull_from_peer": [],
                      "pushing": []}},
              "scrub": { "scrubber.epoch_start": "0",
                  "scrubber.active": 0,
                  "scrubber.block_writes": 0,
                  "scrubber.finalizing": 0,
                  "scrubber.waiting_on": 0,
                  "scrubber.waiting_on_whom": []}},
            { "name": "Started",
              "enter_time": "2015-01-28 19:30:11.044020"}],

    The might_have_unfound section includes OSDs where Ceph tried to locate the unfound objects:

    • The already probed status indicates that Ceph cannot locate the unfound objects in that OSD.
    • The osd is down status indicates that Ceph cannot contact that OSD.
  3. Troubleshoot the OSDs that are marked as down. See Down OSDs for details.
  4. If you are unable to fix the problem that causes the OSD to be down, open a support ticket. See Contacting Red Hat Support for service for details.

9.3. Listing placement groups stuck in stale, inactive, or unclean state

After a failure, placement groups enter states like degraded or peering. This states indicate normal progression through the failure recovery process.

However, if a placement group stays in one of these states for a longer time than expected, it can be an indication of a larger problem. The Monitors reports when placement groups get stuck in a state that is not optimal.

The mon_pg_stuck_threshold option in the Ceph configuration file determines the number of seconds after which placement groups are considered inactive, unclean, or stale.

The following table lists these states together with a short explanation.

StateWhat it meansMost common causesSee

inactive

The PG has not been able to service read/write requests.

  • Peering problems

Inactive placement groups

unclean

The PG contains objects that are not replicated the desired number of times. Something is preventing the PG from recovering.

  • unfound objects
  • OSDs are down
  • Incorrect configuration

Unclean placement groups

stale

The status of the PG has not been updated by a ceph-osd daemon.

  • OSDs are down

Stale placement groups

Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  • Root-level access to the node.

Procedure

  1. List the stuck PGs:

    [root@mon ~]# ceph pg dump_stuck inactive
    [root@mon ~]# ceph pg dump_stuck unclean
    [root@mon ~]# ceph pg dump_stuck stale

Additional Resources

9.4. Listing placement group inconsistencies

Use the rados utility to list inconsistencies in various replicas of an objects. Use the --format=json-pretty option to list a more detailed output.

This section covers the listing of:

  • Inconsistent placement group in a pool
  • Inconsistent objects in a placement group
  • Inconsistent snapshot sets in a placement group

Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster in a healthy state.
  • Root-level access to the node.

Procedure

rados list-inconsistent-pg POOL --format=json-pretty

For example, list all inconsistent placement groups in a pool named data:

# rados list-inconsistent-pg data --format=json-pretty
[0.6]
rados list-inconsistent-obj PLACEMENT_GROUP_ID

For example, list inconsistent objects in a placement group with ID 0.6:

# rados list-inconsistent-obj 0.6
{
    "epoch": 14,
    "inconsistents": [
        {
            "object": {
                "name": "image1",
                "nspace": "",
                "locator": "",
                "snap": "head",
                "version": 1
            },
            "errors": [
                "data_digest_mismatch",
                "size_mismatch"
            ],
            "union_shard_errors": [
                "data_digest_mismatch_oi",
                "size_mismatch_oi"
            ],
            "selected_object_info": "0:602f83fe:::foo:head(16'1 client.4110.0:1 dirty|data_digest|omap_digest s 968 uv 1 dd e978e67f od ffffffff alloc_hint [0 0 0])",
            "shards": [
                {
                    "osd": 0,
                    "errors": [],
                    "size": 968,
                    "omap_digest": "0xffffffff",
                    "data_digest": "0xe978e67f"
                },
                {
                    "osd": 1,
                    "errors": [],
                    "size": 968,
                    "omap_digest": "0xffffffff",
                    "data_digest": "0xe978e67f"
                },
                {
                    "osd": 2,
                    "errors": [
                        "data_digest_mismatch_oi",
                        "size_mismatch_oi"
                    ],
                    "size": 0,
                    "omap_digest": "0xffffffff",
                    "data_digest": "0xffffffff"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

The following fields are important to determine what causes the inconsistency:

  • name: The name of the object with inconsistent replicas.
  • nspace: The namespace that is a logical separation of a pool. It’s empty by default.
  • locator: The key that is used as the alternative of the object name for placement.
  • snap: The snapshot ID of the object. The only writable version of the object is called head. If an object is a clone, this field includes its sequential ID.
  • version: The version ID of the object with inconsistent replicas. Each write operation to an object increments it.
  • errors: A list of errors that indicate inconsistencies between shards without determining which shard or shards are incorrect. See the shard array to further investigate the errors.

    • data_digest_mismatch: The digest of the replica read from one OSD is different from the other OSDs.
    • size_mismatch: The size of a clone or the head object does not match the expectation.
    • read_error: This error indicates inconsistencies caused most likely by disk errors.
  • union_shard_error: The union of all errors specific to shards. These errors are connected to a faulty shard. The errors that end with oi indicate that you have to compare the information from a faulty object to information with selected objects. See the shard array to further investigate the errors.

    In the above example, the object replica stored on osd.2 has different digest than the replicas stored on osd.0 and osd.1. Specifically, the digest of the replica is not 0xffffffff as calculated from the shard read from osd.2, but 0xe978e67f. In addition, the size of the replica read from osd.2 is 0, while the size reported by osd.0 and osd.1 is 968.

rados list-inconsistent-snapset PLACEMENT_GROUP_ID

For example, list inconsistent sets of snapshots (snapsets) in a placement group with ID 0.23:

# rados list-inconsistent-snapset 0.23 --format=json-pretty
{
    "epoch": 64,
    "inconsistents": [
        {
            "name": "obj5",
            "nspace": "",
            "locator": "",
            "snap": "0x00000001",
            "headless": true
        },
        {
            "name": "obj5",
            "nspace": "",
            "locator": "",
            "snap": "0x00000002",
            "headless": true
        },
        {
            "name": "obj5",
            "nspace": "",
            "locator": "",
            "snap": "head",
            "ss_attr_missing": true,
            "extra_clones": true,
            "extra clones": [
                2,
                1
            ]
        }
    ]

The command returns the following errors:

  • ss_attr_missing: One or more attributes are missing. Attributes are information about snapshots encoded into a snapshot set as a list of key-value pairs.
  • ss_attr_corrupted: One or more attributes fail to decode.
  • clone_missing: A clone is missing.
  • snapset_mismatch: The snapshot set is inconsistent by itself.
  • head_mismatch: The snapshot set indicates that head exists or not, but the scrub results report otherwise.
  • headless: The head of the snapshot set is missing.
  • size_mismatch: The size of a clone or the head object does not match the expectation.

Additional Resources

9.5. Repairing inconsistent placement groups

Due to an error during deep scrubbing, some placement groups can include inconsistencies. Ceph reports such placement groups as inconsistent:

HEALTH_ERR 1 pgs inconsistent; 2 scrub errors
pg 0.6 is active+clean+inconsistent, acting [0,1,2]
2 scrub errors
Warning

You can repair only certain inconsistencies.

Do not repair the placement groups if the Ceph logs include the following errors:

_PG_._ID_ shard _OSD_: soid _OBJECT_ digest _DIGEST_ != known digest _DIGEST_
_PG_._ID_ shard _OSD_: soid _OBJECT_ omap_digest _DIGEST_ != known omap_digest _DIGEST_

Open a support ticket instead. See Contacting Red Hat Support for service for details.

Prerequisites

  • Root-level access to the Ceph Monitor node.

Procedure

  1. Repair the inconsistent placement groups:
[root@mon ~]# ceph pg repair ID
  1. Replace ID with the ID of the inconsistent placement group.

Additional Resources

9.6. Increasing the placement group

Insufficient Placement Group (PG) count impacts the performance of the Ceph cluster and data distribution. It is one of the main causes of the nearfull osds error messages.

The recommended ratio is between 100 and 300 PGs per OSD. This ratio can decrease when you add more OSDs to the cluster.

The pg_num and pgp_num parameters determine the PG count. These parameters are configured per each pool, and therefore, you must adjust each pool with low PG count separately.

Important

Increasing the PG count is the most intensive process that you can perform on a Ceph cluster. This process might have serious performance impact if not done in a slow and methodical way. Once you increase pgp_num, you will not be able to stop or reverse the process and you must complete it. Consider increasing the PG count outside of business critical processing time allocation, and alert all clients about the potential performance impact. Do not change the PG count if the cluster is in the HEALTH_ERR state.

Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster in a healthy state.
  • Root-level access to the node.

Procedure

  1. Reduce the impact of data redistribution and recovery on individual OSDs and OSD hosts:

    1. Lower the value of the osd max backfills, osd_recovery_max_active, and osd_recovery_op_priority parameters:

      [root@mon ~]# ceph tell osd.* injectargs '--osd_max_backfills 1 --osd_recovery_max_active 1 --osd_recovery_op_priority 1'
    2. Disable the shallow and deep scrubbing:

      [root@mon ~]# ceph osd set noscrub
      [root@mon ~]# ceph osd set nodeep-scrub
  2. Use the Ceph Placement Groups (PGs) per Pool Calculator to calculate the optimal value of the pg_num and pgp_num parameters.
  3. Increase the pg_num value in small increments until you reach the desired value.

    1. Determine the starting increment value. Use a very low value that is a power of two, and increase it when you determine the impact on the cluster. The optimal value depends on the pool size, OSD count, and client I/O load.
    2. Increment the pg_num value:

      ceph osd pool set POOL pg_num VALUE

      Specify the pool name and the new value, for example:

      # ceph osd pool set data pg_num 4
    3. Monitor the status of the cluster:

      # ceph -s

      The PGs state will change from creating to active+clean. Wait until all PGs are in the active+clean state.

  4. Increase the pgp_num value in small increments until you reach the desired value:

    1. Determine the starting increment value. Use a very low value that is a power of two, and increase it when you determine the impact on the cluster. The optimal value depends on the pool size, OSD count, and client I/O load.
    2. Increment the pgp_num value:

      ceph osd pool set POOL pgp_num VALUE

      Specify the pool name and the new value, for example:

      # ceph osd pool set data pgp_num 4
    3. Monitor the status of the cluster:

      # ceph -s

      The PGs state will change through peering, wait_backfill, backfilling, recover, and others. Wait until all PGs are in the active+clean state.

  5. Repeat the previous steps for all pools with insufficient PG count.
  6. Set osd max backfills, osd_recovery_max_active, and osd_recovery_op_priority to their default values:

    # ceph tell osd.* injectargs '--osd_max_backfills 1 --osd_recovery_max_active 3 --osd_recovery_op_priority 3'
  7. Enable the shallow and deep scrubbing:

    # ceph osd unset noscrub
    # ceph osd unset nodeep-scrub

Additional Resources

9.7. Additional Resources

Chapter 10. Troubleshooting Ceph objects

As a storage administrator, you can use the ceph-objectstore-tool utility to perform high-level or low-level object operations. The ceph-objectstore-tool utility can help you troubleshoot problems related to objects within a particular OSD or placement group.

You can also start OSD containers in rescue/maintenance mode to repair OSDs without installing Ceph packages on the OSD node.

Important

Manipulating objects can cause unrecoverable data loss. Contact Red Hat support before using the ceph-objectstore-tool utility.

10.1. Prerequisites

  • Verify there are no network-related issues.

10.2. Troubleshooting Ceph objects in a containerized environment

The OSD container can be started in rescue/maintenance mode to repair OSDs in Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 without installing Ceph packages on the OSD node.

You can use ceph-bluestore-tool to run consistency check with fsck command, or to run consistency check and repair any errors with repair command.

Important

This procedure is specific to containerized deployments only. Skip this section for bare-metal deployments

Prerequisites

  • A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
  • Root-level access to the Ceph OSD node.
  • Stopping the ceph-osd daemon.

Procedure

  1. Set noout flag on cluster.

    Example

    [root@mon ~]# ceph osd set noout

  2. Login to the node hosting the OSD container.
  3. Backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file to /root directory.

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup

  4. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /root.

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /root

  5. Edit /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file and add -it --entrypoint /bin/bash option to podman command.

    Example

    # Please do not change this file directly since it is managed by Ansible and will be overwritten
    [Unit]
    Description=Ceph OSD
    After=network.target
    
    [Service]
    EnvironmentFile=-/etc/environment
    ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/rm -f /%t/%n-pid /%t/%n-cid
    ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/podman rm -f ceph-osd-%i
    ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run -it --entrypoint /bin/bash \
      -d --conmon-pidfile /%t/%n-pid --cidfile /%t/%n-cid \
      --rm \
      --net=host \
      --privileged=true \
      --pid=host \
      --ipc=host \
      --cpus=2 \
      -v /dev:/dev \
      -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
      -v /var/lib/ceph:/var/lib/ceph:z \
      -v /etc/ceph:/etc/ceph:z \
      -v /var/run/ceph:/var/run/ceph:z \
      -v /var/run/udev/:/var/run/udev/ \
      -v /var/log/ceph:/var/log/ceph:z \
      -e OSD_BLUESTORE=1 -e OSD_FILESTORE=0 -e OSD_DMCRYPT=0 \
      -e CLUSTER=ceph \
      -v /run/lvm/:/run/lvm/ \
      -e CEPH_DAEMON=OSD_CEPH_VOLUME_ACTIVATE \
      -e CONTAINER_IMAGE=registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest \
      -e OSD_ID=%i \
      -e DEBUG=stayalive \
      --name=ceph-osd-%i \
       \
      registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest
    ExecStop=-/usr/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/podman rm -f `cat /%t/%n-cid`"
    KillMode=none
    Restart=always
    RestartSec=10s
    TimeoutStartSec=120
    TimeoutStopSec=15
    Type=forking
    PIDFile=/%t/%n-pid
    
    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target

  6. Reload systemd manager configuration.

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

  7. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

    Syntax

    systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

    Replace OSD_ID with the ID of the OSD.

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

  8. Login to the container associated with the OSD_ID.

    Syntax

    podman exec -it ceph-osd-OSD_ID /bin/bash

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# podman exec -it ceph-osd-0 /bin/bash

  9. Get osd fsid and activate the OSD to mount OSD’s logical volume (LV).

    Syntax

    ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.OSD_ID"|grep "osd fsid"
    ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore OSD_ID OSD_FSID

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.0"|grep "osd fsid"
                  osd fsid                  087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
    [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore 0 087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
    Running command: /usr/bin/mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
    Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
    Running command: /usr/bin/ceph-bluestore-tool --cluster=ceph prime-osd-dir --dev /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc --path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --no-mon-config
    Running command: /usr/bin/ln -snf /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
    Running command: /usr/bin/chown -h ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
    Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /dev/mapper/ceph--41c69f8f--30e2--4685--9c5c--c605898c5537-osd--data--d073e8b3--0b89--4271--af5b--83045fd000dc
    Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
    Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
     stderr: Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-volume@.service.
    Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable --runtime ceph-osd@0
     stderr: Created symlink /run/systemd/system/ceph-osd.target.wants/ceph osd@0.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service.
    Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl start ceph-osd@0
     stderr: Running in chroot, ignoring request: start
    --> ceph-volume lvm activate successful for osd ID: 0

  10. Run fsck and repair commands.

    Syntax

    ceph-bluestore-tool fsck --path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-OSD_ID
    ceph-bluestore-tool repair --path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-OSD_ID

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-bluestore-tool fsck --path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
    fsck success

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-bluestore-tool repair --path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
    repair success
  11. After exiting the container, copy /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file from /root directory.

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.modified
    [root@osd ~]# cp /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service

  12. Reload systemd manager configuration.

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

  13. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /tmp.

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /tmp

  14. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

    Syntax

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

Additional Resources

10.3. Troubleshooting high-level object operations

As a storage administrator, you can use the ceph-objectstore-tool utility to perform high-level object operations. The ceph-objectstore-tool utility supports the following high-level object operations:

  • List objects
  • List lost objects
  • Fix lost objects
Important

Manipulating objects can cause unrecoverable data loss. Contact Red Hat support before using the ceph-objectstore-tool utility.

10.3.1. Prerequisites

  • Root-level access to the Ceph OSD nodes.

10.3.2. Listing objects

The OSD can contain zero to many placement groups, and zero to many objects within a placement group (PG). The ceph-objectstore-tool utility allows you to list objects stored within an OSD.

Prerequisites

  • Root-level access to the Ceph OSD node.
  • Stopping the ceph-osd daemon.

Procedure

  1. Verify the appropriate OSD is down:

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl status ceph-osd@OSD_NUMBER

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl status ceph-osd@1

  2. For containerized deployments, to access the bluestore tool, follow the below steps:

    1. Set noout flag on cluster.

      Example

      [root@mon ~]# ceph osd set noout

    2. Login to the node hosting the OSD container.
    3. Backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file to /root directory.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup

    4. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /root.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /root

    5. Edit /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file and add -it --entrypoint /bin/bash option to podman command.

      Example

      # Please do not change this file directly since it is managed by Ansible and will be overwritten
      [Unit]
      Description=Ceph OSD
      After=network.target
      
      [Service]
      EnvironmentFile=-/etc/environment
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/rm -f /%t/%n-pid /%t/%n-cid
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/podman rm -f ceph-osd-%i
      ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run -it --entrypoint /bin/bash \
        -d --conmon-pidfile /%t/%n-pid --cidfile /%t/%n-cid \
        --rm \
        --net=host \
        --privileged=true \
        --pid=host \
        --ipc=host \
        --cpus=2 \
        -v /dev:/dev \
        -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
        -v /var/lib/ceph:/var/lib/ceph:z \
        -v /etc/ceph:/etc/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/ceph:/var/run/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/udev/:/var/run/udev/ \
        -v /var/log/ceph:/var/log/ceph:z \
        -e OSD_BLUESTORE=1 -e OSD_FILESTORE=0 -e OSD_DMCRYPT=0 \
        -e CLUSTER=ceph \
        -v /run/lvm/:/run/lvm/ \
        -e CEPH_DAEMON=OSD_CEPH_VOLUME_ACTIVATE \
        -e CONTAINER_IMAGE=registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest \
        -e OSD_ID=%i \
        -e DEBUG=stayalive \
        --name=ceph-osd-%i \
         \
        registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest
      ExecStop=-/usr/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/podman rm -f `cat /%t/%n-cid`"
      KillMode=none
      Restart=always
      RestartSec=10s
      TimeoutStartSec=120
      TimeoutStopSec=15
      Type=forking
      PIDFile=/%t/%n-pid
      
      [Install]
      WantedBy=multi-user.target

    6. Reload systemd manager configuration.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

    7. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

      Replace OSD_ID with the ID of the OSD.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

    8. Login to the container associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      podman exec -it ceph-osd-OSD_ID /bin/bash

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# podman exec -it ceph-osd-0 /bin/bash

    9. Get osd fsid and activate the OSD to mount OSD’s logical volume (LV).

      Syntax

      ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.OSD_ID"|grep "osd fsid"
      ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore OSD_ID OSD_FSID

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.0"|grep "osd fsid"
                    osd fsid                  087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore 0 087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
      Running command: /usr/bin/mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/ceph-bluestore-tool --cluster=ceph prime-osd-dir --dev /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc --path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --no-mon-config
      Running command: /usr/bin/ln -snf /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -h ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /dev/mapper/ceph--41c69f8f--30e2--4685--9c5c--c605898c5537-osd--data--d073e8b3--0b89--4271--af5b--83045fd000dc
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
       stderr: Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-volume@.service.
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable --runtime ceph-osd@0
       stderr: Created symlink /run/systemd/system/ceph-osd.target.wants/ceph osd@0.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service.
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl start ceph-osd@0
       stderr: Running in chroot, ignoring request: start
      --> ceph-volume lvm activate successful for osd ID: 0

  3. Identify all the objects within an OSD, regardless of their placement group:

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD --op list

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --op list

  4. Identify all the objects within a placement group:

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD --pgid PG_ID --op list

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --pgid 0.1c --op list

  5. Identify the PG an object belongs to:

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD --op list OBJECT_ID

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --op list default.region

  6. For containerized deployments, to revert the changes, follow the below steps:

    1. After exiting the container, copy /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file from /root directory.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.modified
      [root@osd ~]# cp /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service

    2. Reload systemd manager configuration.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

    3. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /tmp.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /tmp

    4. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

Additional Resources

10.3.3. Listing lost objects

An OSD can mark objects as lost or unfound. You can use the ceph-objectstore-tool to list the lost and unfound objects stored within an OSD.

Prerequisites

  • Root-level access to the Ceph OSD node.
  • Stopping the ceph-osd daemon.

Procedure

  1. Verify the appropriate OSD is down:

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl status ceph-osd@OSD_NUMBER

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl status ceph-osd@1

  2. For containerized deployments, to access the bluestore tool, follow the below steps:

    1. Set noout flag on cluster.

      Example

      [root@mon ~]# ceph osd set noout

    2. Login to the node hosting the OSD container.
    3. Backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file to /root directory.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup

    4. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /root.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /root

    5. Edit /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file and add -it --entrypoint /bin/bash option to podman command.

      Example

      # Please do not change this file directly since it is managed by Ansible and will be overwritten
      [Unit]
      Description=Ceph OSD
      After=network.target
      
      [Service]
      EnvironmentFile=-/etc/environment
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/rm -f /%t/%n-pid /%t/%n-cid
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/podman rm -f ceph-osd-%i
      ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run -it --entrypoint /bin/bash \
        -d --conmon-pidfile /%t/%n-pid --cidfile /%t/%n-cid \
        --rm \
        --net=host \
        --privileged=true \
        --pid=host \
        --ipc=host \
        --cpus=2 \
        -v /dev:/dev \
        -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
        -v /var/lib/ceph:/var/lib/ceph:z \
        -v /etc/ceph:/etc/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/ceph:/var/run/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/udev/:/var/run/udev/ \
        -v /var/log/ceph:/var/log/ceph:z \
        -e OSD_BLUESTORE=1 -e OSD_FILESTORE=0 -e OSD_DMCRYPT=0 \
        -e CLUSTER=ceph \
        -v /run/lvm/:/run/lvm/ \
        -e CEPH_DAEMON=OSD_CEPH_VOLUME_ACTIVATE \
        -e CONTAINER_IMAGE=registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest \
        -e OSD_ID=%i \
        -e DEBUG=stayalive \
        --name=ceph-osd-%i \
         \
        registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest
      ExecStop=-/usr/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/podman rm -f `cat /%t/%n-cid`"
      KillMode=none
      Restart=always
      RestartSec=10s
      TimeoutStartSec=120
      TimeoutStopSec=15
      Type=forking
      PIDFile=/%t/%n-pid
      
      [Install]
      WantedBy=multi-user.target

    6. Reload systemd manager configuration.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

    7. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

      Replace OSD_ID with the ID of the OSD.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

    8. Login to the container associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      podman exec -it ceph-osd-OSD_ID /bin/bash

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# podman exec -it ceph-osd-0 /bin/bash

    9. Get osd fsid and activate the OSD to mount OSD’s logical volume (LV).

      Syntax

      ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.OSD_ID"|grep "osd fsid"
      ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore OSD_ID OSD_FSID

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.0"|grep "osd fsid"
                    osd fsid                  087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore 0 087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
      Running command: /usr/bin/mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/ceph-bluestore-tool --cluster=ceph prime-osd-dir --dev /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc --path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --no-mon-config
      Running command: /usr/bin/ln -snf /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -h ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /dev/mapper/ceph--41c69f8f--30e2--4685--9c5c--c605898c5537-osd--data--d073e8b3--0b89--4271--af5b--83045fd000dc
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
       stderr: Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-volume@.service.
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable --runtime ceph-osd@0
       stderr: Created symlink /run/systemd/system/ceph-osd.target.wants/ceph osd@0.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service.
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl start ceph-osd@0
       stderr: Running in chroot, ignoring request: start
      --> ceph-volume lvm activate successful for osd ID: 0

  3. Use the ceph-objectstore-tool utility to list lost and unfound objects. Select the appropriate circumstance:

    1. To list all the lost objects:

      [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD --op list-lost

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --op list-lost

    2. To list all the lost objects within a placement group:

      [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD --pgid PG_ID --op list-lost

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --pgid 0.1c --op list-lost

    3. To list a lost object by its identifier:

      [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD --op list-lost OBJECT_ID

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --op list-lost default.region

  4. For containerized deployments, to revert the changes, follow the below steps:

    1. After exiting the container, copy /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file from /root directory.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.modified
      [root@osd ~]# cp /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service

    2. Reload systemd manager configuration.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

    3. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /tmp.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /tmp

    4. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

Additional Resources

10.3.4. Fixing lost objects

You can use the ceph-objectstore-tool utility to list and fix lost and unfound objects stored within a Ceph OSD. This procedure applies only to legacy objects.

Prerequisites

  • Root-level access to the Ceph OSD node.
  • Stopping the ceph-osd daemon.

Procedure

  1. Verify the appropriate OSD is down:

    Syntax

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl status ceph-osd@OSD_NUMBER

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl status ceph-osd@1

  2. For containerized deployments, to access the bluestore tool, follow the below steps:

    1. Set noout flag on cluster.

      Example

      [root@mon ~]# ceph osd set noout

    2. Login to the node hosting the OSD container.
    3. Backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file to /root directory.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup

    4. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /root.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /root

    5. Edit /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file and add -it --entrypoint /bin/bash option to podman command.

      Example

      # Please do not change this file directly since it is managed by Ansible and will be overwritten
      [Unit]
      Description=Ceph OSD
      After=network.target
      
      [Service]
      EnvironmentFile=-/etc/environment
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/rm -f /%t/%n-pid /%t/%n-cid
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/podman rm -f ceph-osd-%i
      ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run -it --entrypoint /bin/bash \
        -d --conmon-pidfile /%t/%n-pid --cidfile /%t/%n-cid \
        --rm \
        --net=host \
        --privileged=true \
        --pid=host \
        --ipc=host \
        --cpus=2 \
        -v /dev:/dev \
        -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
        -v /var/lib/ceph:/var/lib/ceph:z \
        -v /etc/ceph:/etc/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/ceph:/var/run/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/udev/:/var/run/udev/ \
        -v /var/log/ceph:/var/log/ceph:z \
        -e OSD_BLUESTORE=1 -e OSD_FILESTORE=0 -e OSD_DMCRYPT=0 \
        -e CLUSTER=ceph \
        -v /run/lvm/:/run/lvm/ \
        -e CEPH_DAEMON=OSD_CEPH_VOLUME_ACTIVATE \
        -e CONTAINER_IMAGE=registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest \
        -e OSD_ID=%i \
        -e DEBUG=stayalive \
        --name=ceph-osd-%i \
         \
        registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest
      ExecStop=-/usr/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/podman rm -f `cat /%t/%n-cid`"
      KillMode=none
      Restart=always
      RestartSec=10s
      TimeoutStartSec=120
      TimeoutStopSec=15
      Type=forking
      PIDFile=/%t/%n-pid
      
      [Install]
      WantedBy=multi-user.target

    6. Reload systemd manager configuration.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

    7. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

      Replace OSD_ID with the ID of the OSD.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

    8. Login to the container associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      podman exec -it ceph-osd-OSD_ID /bin/bash

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# podman exec -it ceph-osd-0 /bin/bash

    9. Get osd fsid and activate the OSD to mount OSD’s logical volume (LV).

      Syntax

      ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.OSD_ID"|grep "osd fsid"
      ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore OSD_ID OSD_FSID

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.0"|grep "osd fsid"
                    osd fsid                  087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore 0 087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
      Running command: /usr/bin/mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/ceph-bluestore-tool --cluster=ceph prime-osd-dir --dev /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc --path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --no-mon-config
      Running command: /usr/bin/ln -snf /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -h ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /dev/mapper/ceph--41c69f8f--30e2--4685--9c5c--c605898c5537-osd--data--d073e8b3--0b89--4271--af5b--83045fd000dc
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
       stderr: Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-volume@.service.
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable --runtime ceph-osd@0
       stderr: Created symlink /run/systemd/system/ceph-osd.target.wants/ceph osd@0.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service.
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl start ceph-osd@0
       stderr: Running in chroot, ignoring request: start
      --> ceph-volume lvm activate successful for osd ID: 0

  3. To list all the lost legacy objects:

    Syntax

    ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD --op fix-lost --dry-run

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --op fix-lost --dry-run

  4. Use the ceph-objectstore-tool utility to fix lost and unfound objects as a ceph user. Select the appropriate circumstance:

    • To fix all lost objects:

      Syntax

      su - ceph -c 'ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD --op fix-lost'

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# su - ceph -c 'ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --op fix-lost'

    • To fix all the lost objects within a placement group:

      su - ceph -c 'ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path _PATH_TO_OSD_ --pgid _PG_ID_ --op fix-lost'

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# su - ceph -c 'ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --pgid 0.1c --op fix-lost'

    • To fix a lost object by its identifier:

      Syntax

      su - ceph -c 'ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD --op fix-lost OBJECT_ID'

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# su - ceph -c 'ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --op fix-lost default.region'

  5. For containerized deployments, to revert the changes, follow the below steps:

    1. After exiting the container, copy /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file from /root directory.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.modified
      [root@osd ~]# cp /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service

    2. Reload systemd manager configuration.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

    3. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /tmp.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /tmp

    4. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

Additional Resources

10.4. Troubleshooting low-level object operations

As a storage administrator, you can use the ceph-objectstore-tool utility to perform low-level object operations. The ceph-objectstore-tool utility supports the following low-level object operations:

  • Manipulate the object’s content
  • Remove an object
  • List the object map (OMAP)
  • Manipulate the OMAP header
  • Manipulate the OMAP key
  • List the object’s attributes
  • Manipulate the object’s attribute key
Important

Manipulating objects can cause unrecoverable data loss. Contact Red Hat support before using the ceph-objectstore-tool utility.

10.4.1. Prerequisites

  • Root-level access to the Ceph OSD nodes.

10.4.2. Manipulating the object’s content

With the ceph-objectstore-tool utility, you can get or set bytes on an object.

Important

Setting the bytes on an object can cause unrecoverable data loss. To prevent data loss, make a backup copy of the object.

Prerequisites

  • Root-level access to the Ceph OSD node.
  • Stopping the ceph-osd daemon.

Procedure

  1. Verify the appropriate OSD is down:

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl status ceph-osd@$OSD_NUMBER

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl status ceph-osd@1

  2. For containerized deployments, to access the bluestore tool, follow the below steps:

    1. Set noout flag on cluster.

      Example

      [root@mon ~]# ceph osd set noout

    2. Login to the node hosting the OSD container.
    3. Backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file to /root directory.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup

    4. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /root.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /root

    5. Edit /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file and add -it --entrypoint /bin/bash option to podman command.

      Example

      # Please do not change this file directly since it is managed by Ansible and will be overwritten
      [Unit]
      Description=Ceph OSD
      After=network.target
      
      [Service]
      EnvironmentFile=-/etc/environment
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/rm -f /%t/%n-pid /%t/%n-cid
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/podman rm -f ceph-osd-%i
      ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run -it --entrypoint /bin/bash \
        -d --conmon-pidfile /%t/%n-pid --cidfile /%t/%n-cid \
        --rm \
        --net=host \
        --privileged=true \
        --pid=host \
        --ipc=host \
        --cpus=2 \
        -v /dev:/dev \
        -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
        -v /var/lib/ceph:/var/lib/ceph:z \
        -v /etc/ceph:/etc/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/ceph:/var/run/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/udev/:/var/run/udev/ \
        -v /var/log/ceph:/var/log/ceph:z \
        -e OSD_BLUESTORE=1 -e OSD_FILESTORE=0 -e OSD_DMCRYPT=0 \
        -e CLUSTER=ceph \
        -v /run/lvm/:/run/lvm/ \
        -e CEPH_DAEMON=OSD_CEPH_VOLUME_ACTIVATE \
        -e CONTAINER_IMAGE=registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest \
        -e OSD_ID=%i \
        -e DEBUG=stayalive \
        --name=ceph-osd-%i \
         \
        registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest
      ExecStop=-/usr/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/podman rm -f `cat /%t/%n-cid`"
      KillMode=none
      Restart=always
      RestartSec=10s
      TimeoutStartSec=120
      TimeoutStopSec=15
      Type=forking
      PIDFile=/%t/%n-pid
      
      [Install]
      WantedBy=multi-user.target

    6. Reload systemd manager configuration.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

    7. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

      Replace OSD_ID with the ID of the OSD.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

    8. Login to the container associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      podman exec -it ceph-osd-OSD_ID /bin/bash

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# podman exec -it ceph-osd-0 /bin/bash

    9. Get osd fsid and activate the OSD to mount OSD’s logical volume (LV).

      Syntax

      ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.OSD_ID"|grep "osd fsid"
      ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore OSD_ID OSD_FSID

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.0"|grep "osd fsid"
                    osd fsid                  087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore 0 087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
      Running command: /usr/bin/mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/ceph-bluestore-tool --cluster=ceph prime-osd-dir --dev /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc --path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --no-mon-config
      Running command: /usr/bin/ln -snf /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -h ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /dev/mapper/ceph--41c69f8f--30e2--4685--9c5c--c605898c5537-osd--data--d073e8b3--0b89--4271--af5b--83045fd000dc
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
       stderr: Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-volume@.service.
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable --runtime ceph-osd@0
       stderr: Created symlink /run/systemd/system/ceph-osd.target.wants/ceph osd@0.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service.
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl start ceph-osd@0
       stderr: Running in chroot, ignoring request: start
      --> ceph-volume lvm activate successful for osd ID: 0

  3. Find the object by listing the objects of the OSD or placement group (PG).
  4. Before setting the bytes on an object, make a backup and a working copy of the object:

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD --pgid PG_ID \
    OBJECT \
    get-bytes > OBJECT_FILE_NAME
    
    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD --pgid PG_ID \
    OBJECT \
    get-bytes > OBJECT_FILE_NAME

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --pgid 0.1c \
    '{"oid":"zone_info.default","key":"","snapid":-2,"hash":235010478,"max":0,"pool":11,"namespace":""}'  \
    get-bytes > zone_info.default.backup
    
    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --pgid 0.1c \
    '{"oid":"zone_info.default","key":"","snapid":-2,"hash":235010478,"max":0,"pool":11,"namespace":""}'  \
    get-bytes > zone_info.default.working-copy

  5. Edit the working copy object file and modify the object contents accordingly.
  6. Set the bytes of the object:

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD --pgid PG_ID \
    OBJECT \
    set-bytes < OBJECT_FILE_NAME

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --pgid 0.1c \
    '{"oid":"zone_info.default","key":"","snapid":-2,"hash":235010478,"max":0,"pool":11,"namespace":""}' \
    set-bytes < zone_info.default.working-copy

  7. For containerized deployments, to revert the changes, follow the below steps:

    1. After exiting the container, copy /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file from /root directory.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.modified
      [root@osd ~]# cp /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service

    2. Reload systemd manager configuration.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

    3. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /tmp.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /tmp

    4. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

Additional Resources

10.4.3. Removing an object

Use the ceph-objectstore-tool utility to remove an object. By removing an object, its contents and references are removed from the placement group (PG).

Important

You cannot recreate an object once it is removed.

Prerequisites

  • Root-level access to the Ceph OSD node.
  • Stopping the ceph-osd daemon.

Procedure

  1. Verify the appropriate OSD is down:

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl status ceph-osd@$OSD_NUMBER

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl status ceph-osd@1

  2. For containerized deployments, to access the bluestore tool, follow the below steps:

    1. Set noout flag on cluster.

      Example

      [root@mon ~]# ceph osd set noout

    2. Login to the node hosting the OSD container.
    3. Backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file to /root directory.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup

    4. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /root.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /root

    5. Edit /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file and add -it --entrypoint /bin/bash option to podman command.

      Example

      # Please do not change this file directly since it is managed by Ansible and will be overwritten
      [Unit]
      Description=Ceph OSD
      After=network.target
      
      [Service]
      EnvironmentFile=-/etc/environment
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/rm -f /%t/%n-pid /%t/%n-cid
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/podman rm -f ceph-osd-%i
      ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run -it --entrypoint /bin/bash \
        -d --conmon-pidfile /%t/%n-pid --cidfile /%t/%n-cid \
        --rm \
        --net=host \
        --privileged=true \
        --pid=host \
        --ipc=host \
        --cpus=2 \
        -v /dev:/dev \
        -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
        -v /var/lib/ceph:/var/lib/ceph:z \
        -v /etc/ceph:/etc/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/ceph:/var/run/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/udev/:/var/run/udev/ \
        -v /var/log/ceph:/var/log/ceph:z \
        -e OSD_BLUESTORE=1 -e OSD_FILESTORE=0 -e OSD_DMCRYPT=0 \
        -e CLUSTER=ceph \
        -v /run/lvm/:/run/lvm/ \
        -e CEPH_DAEMON=OSD_CEPH_VOLUME_ACTIVATE \
        -e CONTAINER_IMAGE=registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest \
        -e OSD_ID=%i \
        -e DEBUG=stayalive \
        --name=ceph-osd-%i \
         \
        registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest
      ExecStop=-/usr/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/podman rm -f `cat /%t/%n-cid`"
      KillMode=none
      Restart=always
      RestartSec=10s
      TimeoutStartSec=120
      TimeoutStopSec=15
      Type=forking
      PIDFile=/%t/%n-pid
      
      [Install]
      WantedBy=multi-user.target

    6. Reload systemd manager configuration.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

    7. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

      Replace OSD_ID with the ID of the OSD.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

    8. Login to the container associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      podman exec -it ceph-osd-OSD_ID /bin/bash

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# podman exec -it ceph-osd-0 /bin/bash

    9. Get osd fsid and activate the OSD to mount OSD’s logical volume (LV).

      Syntax

      ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.OSD_ID"|grep "osd fsid"
      ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore OSD_ID OSD_FSID

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.0"|grep "osd fsid"
                    osd fsid                  087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore 0 087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
      Running command: /usr/bin/mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/ceph-bluestore-tool --cluster=ceph prime-osd-dir --dev /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc --path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --no-mon-config
      Running command: /usr/bin/ln -snf /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -h ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /dev/mapper/ceph--41c69f8f--30e2--4685--9c5c--c605898c5537-osd--data--d073e8b3--0b89--4271--af5b--83045fd000dc
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
       stderr: Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-volume@.service.
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable --runtime ceph-osd@0
       stderr: Created symlink /run/systemd/system/ceph-osd.target.wants/ceph osd@0.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service.
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl start ceph-osd@0
       stderr: Running in chroot, ignoring request: start
      --> ceph-volume lvm activate successful for osd ID: 0

  3. Remove an object:

    Syntax

    ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD --pgid PG_ID \
    OBJECT \
    remove

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --pgid 0.1c \
    '{"oid":"zone_info.default","key":"","snapid":-2,"hash":235010478,"max":0,"pool":11,"namespace":""}' \
    remove

  4. For containerized deployments, to revert the changes, follow the below steps:

    1. After exiting the container, copy /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file from /root directory.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.modified
      [root@osd ~]# cp /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service

    2. Reload systemd manager configuration.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

    3. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /tmp.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /tmp

    4. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

Additional Resources

10.4.4. Listing the object map

Use the ceph-objectstore-tool utility to list the contents of the object map (OMAP). The output provides you a list of keys.

Prerequisites

  • Root-level access to the Ceph OSD node.
  • Stopping the ceph-osd daemon.

Procedure

  1. Verify the appropriate OSD is down:

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl status ceph-osd@OSD_NUMBER

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl status ceph-osd@1

  2. For containerized deployments, to access the bluestore tool, follow the below steps:

    1. Set noout flag on cluster.

      Example

      [root@mon ~]# ceph osd set noout

    2. Login to the node hosting the OSD container.
    3. Backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file to /root directory.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup

    4. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /root.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /root

    5. Edit /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file and add -it --entrypoint /bin/bash option to podman command.

      Example

      # Please do not change this file directly since it is managed by Ansible and will be overwritten
      [Unit]
      Description=Ceph OSD
      After=network.target
      
      [Service]
      EnvironmentFile=-/etc/environment
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/rm -f /%t/%n-pid /%t/%n-cid
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/podman rm -f ceph-osd-%i
      ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run -it --entrypoint /bin/bash \
        -d --conmon-pidfile /%t/%n-pid --cidfile /%t/%n-cid \
        --rm \
        --net=host \
        --privileged=true \
        --pid=host \
        --ipc=host \
        --cpus=2 \
        -v /dev:/dev \
        -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
        -v /var/lib/ceph:/var/lib/ceph:z \
        -v /etc/ceph:/etc/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/ceph:/var/run/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/udev/:/var/run/udev/ \
        -v /var/log/ceph:/var/log/ceph:z \
        -e OSD_BLUESTORE=1 -e OSD_FILESTORE=0 -e OSD_DMCRYPT=0 \
        -e CLUSTER=ceph \
        -v /run/lvm/:/run/lvm/ \
        -e CEPH_DAEMON=OSD_CEPH_VOLUME_ACTIVATE \
        -e CONTAINER_IMAGE=registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest \
        -e OSD_ID=%i \
        -e DEBUG=stayalive \
        --name=ceph-osd-%i \
         \
        registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest
      ExecStop=-/usr/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/podman rm -f `cat /%t/%n-cid`"
      KillMode=none
      Restart=always
      RestartSec=10s
      TimeoutStartSec=120
      TimeoutStopSec=15
      Type=forking
      PIDFile=/%t/%n-pid
      
      [Install]
      WantedBy=multi-user.target

    6. Reload systemd manager configuration.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

    7. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

      Replace OSD_ID with the ID of the OSD.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

    8. Login to the container associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      podman exec -it ceph-osd-OSD_ID /bin/bash

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# podman exec -it ceph-osd-0 /bin/bash

    9. Get osd fsid and activate the OSD to mount OSD’s logical volume (LV).

      Syntax

      ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.OSD_ID"|grep "osd fsid"
      ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore OSD_ID OSD_FSID

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.0"|grep "osd fsid"
                    osd fsid                  087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore 0 087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
      Running command: /usr/bin/mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/ceph-bluestore-tool --cluster=ceph prime-osd-dir --dev /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc --path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --no-mon-config
      Running command: /usr/bin/ln -snf /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -h ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /dev/mapper/ceph--41c69f8f--30e2--4685--9c5c--c605898c5537-osd--data--d073e8b3--0b89--4271--af5b--83045fd000dc
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
       stderr: Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-volume@.service.
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable --runtime ceph-osd@0
       stderr: Created symlink /run/systemd/system/ceph-osd.target.wants/ceph osd@0.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service.
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl start ceph-osd@0
       stderr: Running in chroot, ignoring request: start
      --> ceph-volume lvm activate successful for osd ID: 0

  3. List the object map:

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD --pgid PG_ID \
    OBJECT \
    list-omap

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --pgid 0.1c \
    '{"oid":"zone_info.default","key":"","snapid":-2,"hash":235010478,"max":0,"pool":11,"namespace":""}' \
    list-omap

  4. For containerized deployments, to revert the changes, follow the below steps:

    1. After exiting the container, copy /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file from /root directory.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.modified
      [root@osd ~]# cp /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service

    2. Reload systemd manager configuration.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

    3. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /tmp.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /tmp

    4. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

Additional Resources

10.4.5. Manipulating the object map header

The ceph-objectstore-tool utility will output the object map (OMAP) header with the values associated with the object’s keys.

Prerequisites

  • Root-level access to the Ceph OSD node.
  • Stopping the ceph-osd daemon.

Procedure

  1. For containerized deployments, to access the bluestore tool, follow the below steps:

    1. Set noout flag on cluster.

      Example

      [root@mon ~]# ceph osd set noout

    2. Login to the node hosting the OSD container.
    3. Backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file to /root directory.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup

    4. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /root.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /root

    5. Edit /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file and add -it --entrypoint /bin/bash option to podman command.

      Example

      # Please do not change this file directly since it is managed by Ansible and will be overwritten
      [Unit]
      Description=Ceph OSD
      After=network.target
      
      [Service]
      EnvironmentFile=-/etc/environment
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/rm -f /%t/%n-pid /%t/%n-cid
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/podman rm -f ceph-osd-%i
      ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run -it --entrypoint /bin/bash \
        -d --conmon-pidfile /%t/%n-pid --cidfile /%t/%n-cid \
        --rm \
        --net=host \
        --privileged=true \
        --pid=host \
        --ipc=host \
        --cpus=2 \
        -v /dev:/dev \
        -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
        -v /var/lib/ceph:/var/lib/ceph:z \
        -v /etc/ceph:/etc/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/ceph:/var/run/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/udev/:/var/run/udev/ \
        -v /var/log/ceph:/var/log/ceph:z \
        -e OSD_BLUESTORE=1 -e OSD_FILESTORE=0 -e OSD_DMCRYPT=0 \
        -e CLUSTER=ceph \
        -v /run/lvm/:/run/lvm/ \
        -e CEPH_DAEMON=OSD_CEPH_VOLUME_ACTIVATE \
        -e CONTAINER_IMAGE=registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest \
        -e OSD_ID=%i \
        -e DEBUG=stayalive \
        --name=ceph-osd-%i \
         \
        registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest
      ExecStop=-/usr/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/podman rm -f `cat /%t/%n-cid`"
      KillMode=none
      Restart=always
      RestartSec=10s
      TimeoutStartSec=120
      TimeoutStopSec=15
      Type=forking
      PIDFile=/%t/%n-pid
      
      [Install]
      WantedBy=multi-user.target

    6. Reload systemd manager configuration.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

    7. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

      Replace OSD_ID with the ID of the OSD.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

    8. Login to the container associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      podman exec -it ceph-osd-OSD_ID /bin/bash

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# podman exec -it ceph-osd-0 /bin/bash

    9. Get osd fsid and activate the OSD to mount OSD’s logical volume (LV).

      Syntax

      ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.OSD_ID"|grep "osd fsid"
      ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore OSD_ID OSD_FSID

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.0"|grep "osd fsid"
                    osd fsid                  087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore 0 087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
      Running command: /usr/bin/mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/ceph-bluestore-tool --cluster=ceph prime-osd-dir --dev /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc --path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --no-mon-config
      Running command: /usr/bin/ln -snf /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -h ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /dev/mapper/ceph--41c69f8f--30e2--4685--9c5c--c605898c5537-osd--data--d073e8b3--0b89--4271--af5b--83045fd000dc
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
       stderr: Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-volume@.service.
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable --runtime ceph-osd@0
       stderr: Created symlink /run/systemd/system/ceph-osd.target.wants/ceph osd@0.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service.
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl start ceph-osd@0
       stderr: Running in chroot, ignoring request: start
      --> ceph-volume lvm activate successful for osd ID: 0

  2. Verify the appropriate OSD is down:

    Syntax

    systemctl status ceph-osd@OSD_NUMBER

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl status ceph-osd@1

  3. Get the object map header:

    Syntax

    ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD \
    --pgid PG_ID OBJECT \
    get-omaphdr > OBJECT_MAP_FILE_NAME

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 \
    --pgid 0.1c '{"oid":"zone_info.default","key":"","snapid":-2,"hash":235010478,"max":0,"pool":11,"namespace":""}'  \
    get-omaphdr > zone_info.default.omaphdr.txt

  4. Set the object map header:

    Syntax

    ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD \
    --pgid PG_ID OBJECT \
    get-omaphdr < OBJECT_MAP_FILE_NAME

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# su - ceph -c 'ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 \
    --pgid 0.1c '{"oid":"zone_info.default","key":"","snapid":-2,"hash":235010478,"max":0,"pool":11,"namespace":""}'  \
    set-omaphdr < zone_info.default.omaphdr.txt

  5. For containerized deployments, to revert the changes, follow the below steps:

    1. After exiting the container, copy /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file from /root directory.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.modified
      [root@osd ~]# cp /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service

    2. Reload systemd manager configuration.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

    3. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /tmp.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /tmp

    4. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

Additional Resources

10.4.6. Manipulating the object map key

Use the ceph-objectstore-tool utility to change the object map (OMAP) key. You need to provide the data path, the placement group identifier (PG ID), the object, and the key in the OMAP.

Prerequisites

  • Root-level access to the Ceph OSD node.
  • Stopping the ceph-osd daemon.

Procedure

  1. For containerized deployments, to access the bluestore tool, follow the below steps:

    1. Set noout flag on cluster.

      Example

      [root@mon ~]# ceph osd set noout

    2. Login to the node hosting the OSD container.
    3. Backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file to /root directory.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup

    4. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /root.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /root

    5. Edit /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file and add -it --entrypoint /bin/bash option to podman command.

      Example

      # Please do not change this file directly since it is managed by Ansible and will be overwritten
      [Unit]
      Description=Ceph OSD
      After=network.target
      
      [Service]
      EnvironmentFile=-/etc/environment
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/rm -f /%t/%n-pid /%t/%n-cid
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/podman rm -f ceph-osd-%i
      ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run -it --entrypoint /bin/bash \
        -d --conmon-pidfile /%t/%n-pid --cidfile /%t/%n-cid \
        --rm \
        --net=host \
        --privileged=true \
        --pid=host \
        --ipc=host \
        --cpus=2 \
        -v /dev:/dev \
        -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
        -v /var/lib/ceph:/var/lib/ceph:z \
        -v /etc/ceph:/etc/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/ceph:/var/run/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/udev/:/var/run/udev/ \
        -v /var/log/ceph:/var/log/ceph:z \
        -e OSD_BLUESTORE=1 -e OSD_FILESTORE=0 -e OSD_DMCRYPT=0 \
        -e CLUSTER=ceph \
        -v /run/lvm/:/run/lvm/ \
        -e CEPH_DAEMON=OSD_CEPH_VOLUME_ACTIVATE \
        -e CONTAINER_IMAGE=registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest \
        -e OSD_ID=%i \
        -e DEBUG=stayalive \
        --name=ceph-osd-%i \
         \
        registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest
      ExecStop=-/usr/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/podman rm -f `cat /%t/%n-cid`"
      KillMode=none
      Restart=always
      RestartSec=10s
      TimeoutStartSec=120
      TimeoutStopSec=15
      Type=forking
      PIDFile=/%t/%n-pid
      
      [Install]
      WantedBy=multi-user.target

    6. Reload systemd manager configuration.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

    7. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

      Replace OSD_ID with the ID of the OSD.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

    8. Login to the container associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      podman exec -it ceph-osd-OSD_ID /bin/bash

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# podman exec -it ceph-osd-0 /bin/bash

    9. Get osd fsid and activate the OSD to mount OSD’s logical volume (LV).

      Syntax

      ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.OSD_ID"|grep "osd fsid"
      ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore OSD_ID OSD_FSID

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.0"|grep "osd fsid"
                    osd fsid                  087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore 0 087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
      Running command: /usr/bin/mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/ceph-bluestore-tool --cluster=ceph prime-osd-dir --dev /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc --path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --no-mon-config
      Running command: /usr/bin/ln -snf /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -h ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /dev/mapper/ceph--41c69f8f--30e2--4685--9c5c--c605898c5537-osd--data--d073e8b3--0b89--4271--af5b--83045fd000dc
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
       stderr: Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-volume@.service.
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable --runtime ceph-osd@0
       stderr: Created symlink /run/systemd/system/ceph-osd.target.wants/ceph osd@0.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service.
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl start ceph-osd@0
       stderr: Running in chroot, ignoring request: start
      --> ceph-volume lvm activate successful for osd ID: 0

  2. Get the object map key:

    Syntax

    ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD \
    --pgid PG_ID OBJECT \
    get-omap KEY > OBJECT_MAP_FILE_NAME

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 \
    --pgid 0.1c '{"oid":"zone_info.default","key":"","snapid":-2,"hash":235010478,"max":0,"pool":11,"namespace":""}'  \
    get-omap "" > zone_info.default.omap.txt

  3. Set the object map key:

    Syntax

    ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD \
    --pgid PG_ID OBJECT \
    set-omap KEY < OBJECT_MAP_FILE_NAME

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 \
    --pgid 0.1c '{"oid":"zone_info.default","key":"","snapid":-2,"hash":235010478,"max":0,"pool":11,"namespace":""}'  \
    set-omap "" < zone_info.default.omap.txt

    • Remove the object map key:

      Syntax

      ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD \
      --pgid PG_ID OBJECT \
      rm-omap KEY

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 \
      --pgid 0.1c '{"oid":"zone_info.default","key":"","snapid":-2,"hash":235010478,"max":0,"pool":11,"namespace":""}'  \
      rm-omap ""

  4. For containerized deployments, to revert the changes, follow the below steps:

    1. After exiting the container, copy /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file from /root directory.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.modified
      [root@osd ~]# cp /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service

    2. Reload systemd manager configuration.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

    3. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /tmp.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /tmp

    4. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

Additional Resources

10.4.7. Listing the object’s attributes

Use the ceph-objectstore-tool utility to list an object’s attributes. The output provides you with the object’s keys and values.

Prerequisites

  • Root-level access to the Ceph OSD node.
  • Stopping the ceph-osd daemon.

Procedure

  1. Verify the appropriate OSD is down:

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl status ceph-osd@OSD_NUMBER

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl status ceph-osd@1

  2. For containerized deployments, to access the bluestore tool, follow the below steps:

    1. Set noout flag on cluster.

      Example

      [root@mon ~]# ceph osd set noout

    2. Login to the node hosting the OSD container.
    3. Backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file to /root directory.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup

    4. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /root.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /root

    5. Edit /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file and add -it --entrypoint /bin/bash option to podman command.

      Example

      # Please do not change this file directly since it is managed by Ansible and will be overwritten
      [Unit]
      Description=Ceph OSD
      After=network.target
      
      [Service]
      EnvironmentFile=-/etc/environment
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/rm -f /%t/%n-pid /%t/%n-cid
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/podman rm -f ceph-osd-%i
      ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run -it --entrypoint /bin/bash \
        -d --conmon-pidfile /%t/%n-pid --cidfile /%t/%n-cid \
        --rm \
        --net=host \
        --privileged=true \
        --pid=host \
        --ipc=host \
        --cpus=2 \
        -v /dev:/dev \
        -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
        -v /var/lib/ceph:/var/lib/ceph:z \
        -v /etc/ceph:/etc/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/ceph:/var/run/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/udev/:/var/run/udev/ \
        -v /var/log/ceph:/var/log/ceph:z \
        -e OSD_BLUESTORE=1 -e OSD_FILESTORE=0 -e OSD_DMCRYPT=0 \
        -e CLUSTER=ceph \
        -v /run/lvm/:/run/lvm/ \
        -e CEPH_DAEMON=OSD_CEPH_VOLUME_ACTIVATE \
        -e CONTAINER_IMAGE=registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest \
        -e OSD_ID=%i \
        -e DEBUG=stayalive \
        --name=ceph-osd-%i \
         \
        registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest
      ExecStop=-/usr/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/podman rm -f `cat /%t/%n-cid`"
      KillMode=none
      Restart=always
      RestartSec=10s
      TimeoutStartSec=120
      TimeoutStopSec=15
      Type=forking
      PIDFile=/%t/%n-pid
      
      [Install]
      WantedBy=multi-user.target

    6. Reload systemd manager configuration.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

    7. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

      Replace OSD_ID with the ID of the OSD.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

    8. Login to the container associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      podman exec -it ceph-osd-OSD_ID /bin/bash

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# podman exec -it ceph-osd-0 /bin/bash

    9. Get osd fsid and activate the OSD to mount OSD’s logical volume (LV).

      Syntax

      ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.OSD_ID"|grep "osd fsid"
      ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore OSD_ID OSD_FSID

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.0"|grep "osd fsid"
                    osd fsid                  087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore 0 087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
      Running command: /usr/bin/mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/ceph-bluestore-tool --cluster=ceph prime-osd-dir --dev /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc --path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --no-mon-config
      Running command: /usr/bin/ln -snf /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -h ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /dev/mapper/ceph--41c69f8f--30e2--4685--9c5c--c605898c5537-osd--data--d073e8b3--0b89--4271--af5b--83045fd000dc
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
       stderr: Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-volume@.service.
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable --runtime ceph-osd@0
       stderr: Created symlink /run/systemd/system/ceph-osd.target.wants/ceph osd@0.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service.
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl start ceph-osd@0
       stderr: Running in chroot, ignoring request: start
      --> ceph-volume lvm activate successful for osd ID: 0

  3. List the object’s attributes:

    ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD \
    --pgid PG_ID OBJECT \
    list-attrs

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 \
    --pgid 0.1c '{"oid":"zone_info.default","key":"","snapid":-2,"hash":235010478,"max":0,"pool":11,"namespace":""}' \
    list-attrs

  4. For containerized deployments, to revert the changes, follow the below steps:

    1. After exiting the container, copy /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file from /root directory.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.modified
      [root@osd ~]# cp /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service

    2. Reload systemd manager configuration.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

    3. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /tmp.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /tmp

    4. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

Additional Resources

10.4.8. Manipulating the object attribute key

Use the ceph-objectstore-tool utility to change an object’s attributes. To manipulate the object’s attributes you need the data and journal paths, the placement group identifier (PG ID), the object, and the key in the object’s attribute.

Prerequisites

  • Root-level access to the Ceph OSD node.
  • Stopping the ceph-osd daemon.

Procedure

  1. Verify the appropriate OSD is down:

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl status ceph-osd@$OSD_NUMBER

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# systemctl status ceph-osd@1

  2. For containerized deployments, to access the bluestore tool, follow the below steps:

    1. Set noout flag on cluster.

      Example

      [root@mon ~]# ceph osd set noout

    2. Login to the node hosting the OSD container.
    3. Backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file to /root directory.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup

    4. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /root.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /root

    5. Edit /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file and add -it --entrypoint /bin/bash option to podman command.

      Example

      # Please do not change this file directly since it is managed by Ansible and will be overwritten
      [Unit]
      Description=Ceph OSD
      After=network.target
      
      [Service]
      EnvironmentFile=-/etc/environment
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/rm -f /%t/%n-pid /%t/%n-cid
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/podman rm -f ceph-osd-%i
      ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run -it --entrypoint /bin/bash \
        -d --conmon-pidfile /%t/%n-pid --cidfile /%t/%n-cid \
        --rm \
        --net=host \
        --privileged=true \
        --pid=host \
        --ipc=host \
        --cpus=2 \
        -v /dev:/dev \
        -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
        -v /var/lib/ceph:/var/lib/ceph:z \
        -v /etc/ceph:/etc/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/ceph:/var/run/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/udev/:/var/run/udev/ \
        -v /var/log/ceph:/var/log/ceph:z \
        -e OSD_BLUESTORE=1 -e OSD_FILESTORE=0 -e OSD_DMCRYPT=0 \
        -e CLUSTER=ceph \
        -v /run/lvm/:/run/lvm/ \
        -e CEPH_DAEMON=OSD_CEPH_VOLUME_ACTIVATE \
        -e CONTAINER_IMAGE=registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest \
        -e OSD_ID=%i \
        -e DEBUG=stayalive \
        --name=ceph-osd-%i \
         \
        registry.redhat.io/rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8:latest
      ExecStop=-/usr/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/podman rm -f `cat /%t/%n-cid`"
      KillMode=none
      Restart=always
      RestartSec=10s
      TimeoutStartSec=120
      TimeoutStopSec=15
      Type=forking
      PIDFile=/%t/%n-pid
      
      [Install]
      WantedBy=multi-user.target

    6. Reload systemd manager configuration.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

    7. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

      Replace OSD_ID with the ID of the OSD.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

    8. Login to the container associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      podman exec -it ceph-osd-OSD_ID /bin/bash

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# podman exec -it ceph-osd-0 /bin/bash

    9. Get osd fsid and activate the OSD to mount OSD’s logical volume (LV).

      Syntax

      ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.OSD_ID"|grep "osd fsid"
      ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore OSD_ID OSD_FSID

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm list |grep -A15 "osd\.0"|grep "osd fsid"
                    osd fsid                  087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
      [root@osd ~]# ceph-volume lvm activate --bluestore 0 087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
      Running command: /usr/bin/mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/ceph-bluestore-tool --cluster=ceph prime-osd-dir --dev /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc --path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 --no-mon-config
      Running command: /usr/bin/ln -snf /dev/ceph-41c69f8f-30e2-4685-9c5c-c605898c5537/osd-data-d073e8b3-0b89-4271-af5b-83045fd000dc /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -h ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0/block
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /dev/mapper/ceph--41c69f8f--30e2--4685--9c5c--c605898c5537-osd--data--d073e8b3--0b89--4271--af5b--83045fd000dc
      Running command: /usr/bin/chown -R ceph:ceph /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff
       stderr: Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ceph-volume@lvm-0-087eee15-6561-40a3-8fe4-9583ba64a4ff.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-volume@.service.
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl enable --runtime ceph-osd@0
       stderr: Created symlink /run/systemd/system/ceph-osd.target.wants/ceph osd@0.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service.
      Running command: /usr/bin/systemctl start ceph-osd@0
       stderr: Running in chroot, ignoring request: start
      --> ceph-volume lvm activate successful for osd ID: 0

  3. Get the object’s attributes:

    Syntax

    ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD \
    --pgid PG_ID OBJECT \
    get-attrs KEY > OBJECT_ATTRS_FILE_NAME

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 \
    --pgid 0.1c '{"oid":"zone_info.default","key":"","snapid":-2,"hash":235010478,"max":0,"pool":11,"namespace":""}' \
    get-attrs "oid" > zone_info.default.attr.txt

  4. Set an object’s attributes:

    Syntax

    ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD \
    --pgid PG_ID OBJECT \
    set-attrs KEY < OBJECT_ATTRS_FILE_NAME

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 \
    --pgid 0.1c '{"oid":"zone_info.default","key":"","snapid":-2,"hash":235010478,"max":0,"pool":11,"namespace":""}' \
    set-attrs "oid" < zone_info.default.attr.txt

  5. Remove an object’s attributes:

    Syntax

    ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path PATH_TO_OSD \
    --pgid PG_ID OBJECT  \
    rm-attrs KEY

    Example

    [root@osd ~]# ceph-objectstore-tool --data-path /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 \
    --pgid 0.1c '{"oid":"zone_info.default","key":"","snapid":-2,"hash":235010478,"max":0,"pool":11,"namespace":""}' \
    rm-attrs "oid"

  6. For containerized deployments, to revert the changes, follow the below steps:

    1. After exiting the container, copy /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service unit file from /root directory.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service /root/ceph-osd@.service.modified
      [root@osd ~]# cp /root/ceph-osd@.service.backup /etc/systemd/system/ceph-osd@.service

    2. Reload systemd manager configuration.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl daemon-reload

    3. Move /run/ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service-cid file to /tmp.

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# mv /run/ceph-osd@0.service-cid /tmp

    4. Restart the OSD service associated with the OSD_ID.

      Syntax

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@OSD_ID.service

      Example

      [root@osd ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@0.service

Additional Resources

10.5. Additional Resources

Chapter 11. Contacting Red Hat support for service

If the information in this guide did not help you to solve the problem, this chapter explains how you contact the Red Hat support service.

11.1. Prerequisites

  • Red Hat support account.

11.2. Providing information to Red Hat Support engineers

If you are unable to fix problems related to Red Hat Ceph Storage, contact the Red Hat Support Service and provide sufficient amount of information that helps the support engineers to faster troubleshoot the problem you encounter.

Prerequisites

  • Root-level access to the node.
  • Red Hat support account.

Procedure

  1. Open a support ticket on the Red Hat Customer Portal.
  2. Ideally, attach an sosreport to the ticket. See the What is a sosreport and how to create one in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6 and later? solution for details.
  3. If the Ceph daemons fail with a segmentation fault, consider generating a human-readable core dump file. See Generating readable core dump files for details.

11.3. Generating readable core dump files

When a Ceph daemon terminates unexpectedly with a segmentation fault, gather the information about its failure and provide it to the Red Hat Support Engineers.

Such information speeds up the initial investigation. Also, the Support Engineers can compare the information from the core dump files with Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster known issues.

11.3.1. Prerequisites

  1. Install the ceph-debuginfo package if it is not installed already.

    1. Enable the repository containing the ceph-debuginfo package:

      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:

      subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-rhceph-4-DAEMON-debug-rpms

      Replace DAEMON with osd or mon depending on the type of Ceph node.

      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8:

      subscription-manager repos --enable=rhceph-4-tools-for-rhel-8-x86_64-debug-rpms

    2. Install the ceph-debuginfo package:

      [root@mon ~]# yum install ceph-debuginfo
  2. Ensure that the gdb package is installed and if it is not, install it:

    [root@mon ~]# yum install gdb

Continue with the procedure based on the type of your deployment:

11.3.2. Generating readable core dump files on bare-metal deployments

Follow this procedure to generate a core dump file if you use Red Hat Ceph Storage on bare-metal.

Procedure

  1. Enable generating core dump files for Ceph.

    1. Set the proper ulimits for the core dump files by adding the following parameter to the /etc/systemd/system.conf file:

      DefaultLimitCORE=infinity
    2. Comment out the PrivateTmp=true parameter in the Ceph daemon service file, by default located at /lib/systemd/system/CLUSTER_NAME-DAEMON@.service:

      [root@mon ~]# PrivateTmp=true
    3. Set the suid_dumpable flag to 2 to allow the Ceph daemons to generate dump core files:

      [root@mon ~]# sysctl fs.suid_dumpable=2
    4. Adjust the core dump files location:

      [root@mon ~]# sysctl kernel.core_pattern=/tmp/core
    5. Modify /etc/systemd/coredump.conf file by adding the following lines under section [Coredump]:

      ProcessSizeMax=8G
      ExternalSizeMax=8G
      JournalSizeMax=8G
    6. Reload the systemd service for the changes to take effect:

      [root@mon ~]# systemctl daemon-reload
    7. Restart the Ceph daemon for the changes to take effect:

      [root@mon ~]# systemctl restart ceph-DAEMON@ID

      Specify the daemon type (osd or mon) and its ID (numbers for OSDs, or short host names for Monitors) for example:

      [root@mon ~]# systemctl restart ceph-osd@1
  2. Reproduce the failure, for example try to start the daemon again.
  3. Use the GNU Debugger (GDB) to generate a readable backtrace from an application core dump file:

    gdb /usr/bin/ceph-DAEMON /tmp/core.PID

    Specify the daemon type and the PID of the failed process, for example:

    $ gdb /usr/bin/ceph-osd /tmp/core.123456

    In the GDB command prompt disable paging and enable logging to a file by entering the commands set pag off and set log on:

    (gdb) set pag off
    (gdb) set log on

    Apply the backtrace command to all threads of the process by entering thr a a bt full:

    (gdb) thr a a bt full

    After the backtrace is generated turn off logging by entering set log off:

    (gdb) set log off
  4. Transfer the log file gdb.txt to the system you access the Red Hat Customer Portal from and attach it to a support ticket.

11.3.3. Generating readable core dump files in containerized deployments

Follow this procedure to generate a core dump file if you use Red Hat Ceph Storage in containers. The procedure involves two scenarios of capturing the core dump file:

  • When a Ceph process terminates unexpectedly due to the SIGILL, SIGTRAP, SIGABRT, or SIGSEGV error.

or

  • Manually, for example for debugging issues such as Ceph processes are consuming high CPU cycles, or are not responding.

Prerequisites

  • Root-level access to the container node running the Ceph containers.
  • Installation of the appropriate debugging packages.
  • Installation of the GNU Project Debugger (gdb) package.

Procedure

  1. If a Ceph process terminates unexpectedly due to the SIGILL, SIGTRAP, SIGABRT, or SIGSEGV error:

    1. Set the core pattern to the systemd-coredump service on the node where the container with the failed Ceph process is running, for example:

      [root@mon]# echo "| /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump %P %u %g %s %t %e" > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
    2. Watch for the next container failure due to a Ceph process and search for a core dump file in the /var/lib/systemd/coredump/ directory, for example:

      [root@mon]# ls -ltr /var/lib/systemd/coredump
      total 8232
      -rw-r-----. 1 root root 8427548 Jan 22 19:24 core.ceph-osd.167.5ede29340b6c4fe4845147f847514c12.15622.1584573794000000.xz
  2. To manually capture a core dump file for the Ceph Monitors and Ceph Managers:

    1. Get the ceph-mon package details of the Ceph daemon from the container:

      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:

      [root@mon]# docker exec -it NAME /bin/bash
      [root@mon]# rpm -qa | grep ceph

      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8:

      [root@mon]# podman exec -it NAME /bin/bash
      [root@mon]# rpm -qa | grep ceph

      Replace NAME with the name of the Ceph container.

    2. Make a backup copy and open for editing the ceph-mon@.service file:

      [root@mon]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-mon@.service /etc/systemd/system/ceph-mon@.service.orig
    3. In the ceph-mon@.service file, add these three options to the [Service] section, each on a separate line:

      --pid=host \
      --ipc=host \
      --cap-add=SYS_PTRACE \

      Example

      [Unit]
      Description=Ceph Monitor
      After=docker.service
      
      [Service]
      EnvironmentFile=-/etc/environment
      ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker rm ceph-mon-%i
      ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c '"$(command -v mkdir)" -p /etc/ceph /var/lib/ceph/mon'
      ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker run --rm --name ceph-mon-%i \
        --memory=924m \
      --cpu-quota=100000 \
      -v /var/lib/ceph:/var/lib/ceph:z \
        -v /etc/ceph:/etc/ceph:z \
        -v /var/run/ceph:/var/run/ceph:z \
      -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
      --net=host \
      --privileged=true \
      --ipc=host \ 1
      --pid=host \ 2
      --cap-add=SYS_PTRACE \ 3
      -e IP_VERSION=4 \
              -e MON_IP=10.74.131.17 \
            -e CLUSTER=ceph \
        -e FSID=9448efca-b1a1-45a3-bf7b-b55cba696a6e \
        -e CEPH_PUBLIC_NETWORK=10.74.131.0/24 \
        -e CEPH_DAEMON=MON \
         \
        registry.access.redhat.com/rhceph/rhceph-3-rhel7:latest
      ExecStop=-/usr/bin/docker stop ceph-mon-%i
      ExecStopPost=-/bin/rm -f /var/run/ceph/ceph-mon.pd-cephcontainer-mon01.asok
      Restart=always
      RestartSec=10s
      TimeoutStartSec=120
      TimeoutStopSec=15
      
      [Install]
      WantedBy=multi-user.target

    4. Restart the Ceph Monitor daemon:

      Syntax

      systemctl restart ceph-mon@MONITOR_ID

      Replace MONITOR_ID with the ID number of the Ceph Monitor.

      Example

      [root@mon]# systemctl restart ceph-mon@1

    5. Install the gdb package inside the Ceph Monitor container:

      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:

      [root@mon]# docker exec -it ceph-mon-MONITOR_ID /bin/bash
      sh $ yum install gdb

      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8:

      [root@mon]# podman exec -it ceph-mon-MONITOR_ID /bin/bash
      sh $ yum install gdb

      Replace MONITOR_ID with the ID number of the Ceph Monitor.

    6. Find the process ID:

      Syntax

      ps -aef | grep PROCESS | grep -v run

      Replace PROCESS with the name of failed process, for example ceph-mon.

      Example

      [root@mon]# ps -aef | grep ceph-mon | grep -v run
      ceph       15390   15266  0 18:54 ?        00:00:29 /usr/bin/ceph-mon --cluster ceph --setroot ceph --setgroup ceph -d -i 5
      ceph       18110   17985  1 19:40 ?        00:00:08 /usr/bin/ceph-mon --cluster ceph --setroot ceph --setgroup ceph -d -i 2

    7. Generate the core dump file:

      Syntax

      gcore ID

      Replace ID with the ID of the failed process that you got from the previous step, for example 18110:

      Example

      [root@mon]# gcore 18110
      warning: target file /proc/18110/cmdline contained unexpected null characters
      Saved corefile core.18110

    8. Verify that the core dump file has been generated correctly.

      Example

      [root@mon]# ls -ltr
      total 709772
      -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 726799544 Mar 18 19:46 core.18110

    9. Copy the core dump file outside of the Ceph Monitor container:

      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:

      [root@mon]# docker cp ceph-mon-MONITOR_ID:/tmp/mon.core.MONITOR_PID /tmp

      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8:

      [root@mon]# podman cp ceph-mon-MONITOR_ID:/tmp/mon.core.MONITOR_PID /tmp

      Replace MONITOR_ID with the ID number of the Ceph Monitor and replace MONITOR_PID with the process ID number.

    10. Restore the backup copy of the ceph-mon@.service file:

      [root@mon]# cp /etc/systemd/system/ceph-mon@.service.orig /etc/systemd/system/ceph-mon@.service
    11. Restart the Ceph Monitor daemon:

      Syntax

      systemctl restart ceph-mon@MONITOR_ID

      Replace MONITOR_ID with the ID number of the Ceph Monitor.

      Example

      [root@mon]# systemctl restart ceph-mon@1

    12. Upload the core dump file for analysis by Red Hat support, see step 4.
  3. To manually capture a core dump file for Ceph OSDs:

    1. Get the ceph-osd package details of the Ceph daemon from the container:

      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:

      [root@osd]# docker exec -it NAME /bin/bash
      [root@osd]# rpm -qa | grep ceph

      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8:

      [root@osd]# podman exec -it NAME /bin/bash
      [root@osd]# rpm -qa | grep ceph

      Replace NAME with the name of the Ceph container.

    2. Install the Ceph package for the same version of the ceph-osd package on the node where the Ceph containers are running:

      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:

      [root@osd]# yum install ceph-osd

      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8:

      [root@osd]# dnf install ceph-osd

      If needed, enable the appropriate repository first. See the Enabling the Red Hat Ceph Storage repositories section in the Installation Guide for details.

    3. Find the ID of the process that has failed:

      ps -aef | grep PROCESS | grep -v run

      Replace PROCESS with the name of failed process, for example ceph-osd.

      [root@osd]# ps -aef | grep ceph-osd | grep -v run
      ceph       15390   15266  0 18:54 ?        00:00:29 /usr/bin/ceph-osd --cluster ceph --setroot ceph --setgroup ceph -d -i 5
      ceph       18110   17985  1 19:40 ?        00:00:08 /usr/bin/ceph-osd --cluster ceph --setroot ceph --setgroup ceph -d -i 2
    4. Generate the core dump file:

      gcore ID

      Replace ID with the ID of the failed process that you got from the previous step, for example 18110:

      [root@osd]# gcore 18110
      warning: target file /proc/18110/cmdline contained unexpected null characters
      Saved corefile core.18110
    5. Verify that the core dump file has been generated correctly.

      [root@osd]# ls -ltr
      total 709772
      -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 726799544 Mar 18 19:46 core.18110
    6. Upload the core dump file for analysis by Red Hat support, see the next step.
  4. Upload the core dump file for analysis to a Red Hat support case. See Providing information to Red Hat Support engineers for details.

11.3.4. Additional Resources

Appendix A. Ceph subsystems default logging level values

A table of the default logging level values for the various Ceph subsystems.

SubsystemLog LevelMemory Level

asok

1

5

auth

1

5

buffer

0

0

client

0

5

context

0

5

crush

1

5

default

0

5

filer

0

5

bluestore

1

5

finisher

1

5

heartbeatmap

1

5

javaclient

1

5

journaler

0

5

journal

1

5

lockdep

0

5

mds balancer

1

5

mds locker

1

5

mds log expire

1

5

mds log

1

5

mds migrator

1

5

mds

1

5

monc

0

5

mon

1

5

ms

0

5

objclass

0

5

objectcacher

0

5

objecter

0

0

optracker

0

5

osd

0

5

paxos

0

5

perfcounter

1

5

rados

0

5

rbd

0

5

rgw

1

5

throttle

1

5

timer

0

5

tp

0

5

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