4.11 Release notes

Regional disaster recovery (Regional-DR)

Regional-DR solution provides automated protection for block volumes, asynchronous replication, and protects business functionalities when a disaster strikes at a geographical location. In the public cloud this is similar to protecting from a region failure.

For more information, see the planning guide and Regional-DR solution for OpenShift Data Foundation guide.

Metropolitan disaster recovery (Metro-DR)

Metro-DR solution ensures protection and business continuity during the unavailability of a data center with no data loss while using multiple clusters synchronous replication. In the public cloud these are similar to protecting from an Availability Zone failure. It offers instant protection of business functionalities, with a near zero RPO.

For more information, see the planning guide and Metro-DR solution for OpenShift Data Foundation guide.

Multicluster monitoring in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management console

Multicluster monitoring is a single simplified view of storage health and capacity spread across multiple clusters. This multicluster monitoring enables you to manage the storage capacity and monitor the OpenShift Data Foundation clusters from the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (RHACM) user interface. This monitoring capability applies to both DR and non-DR clusters.

For more information, see Monitoring multicluster storage health.

Multicloud Object Gateway is making API requests to the incorrect URL when OpenShift Data Foundation is deployed on Microsoft Azure Government (MAG)

Previously, the default backing store was faulty, and the overall system health was degraded. This is because the Multicloud Object Gateway (MCG) creates a default backing store on the platform where OpenShift Data Foundation was deployed. The default backing store was created with the wrong values due to an issue in identifying the Microsoft Azure Government (MAG).

With this update, a Persistent Volume (PV) pool is created when identifying the MAG instead of creating the usual Azure backing store, and later on, you can create a backing store on top of the MAG environment and use that new backing store.

(BZ#1944572)

The default backing store 'noobaa-default-backing-store' is stuck in the 'Creating' state

Previously, the Cloud Credentials Operator (CCO) changed credentials after the creation of the default backing store. Due to this, the backing store used to get stuck. The update credentials on the default backing store are fixed with this release. The default Multicloud Object Gateway (MCG) backing store does not get stuck on creating while changing credentials.

(BZ#1992090)

S3 listing goes into an infinite loop, when the prefixes are of names 99 and 990

Previously, the query results for the listing operation were not in the order that the Multicloud Object Gateway (MCG) expected them to be as the collate algorithm was set incorrectly while starting the MCG DB.

With this update, the collate algorithm is set correctly on new deployments while starting the MCG DB. Now, the query results are in the expected order.

(BZ#2068110)

Usage of MD5 in a FIPS-enabled environment is explicitly allowed and S3 multipart operations can be completed

Previously, in a FIPS-enabled environment, the usage of MD5 digest was not allowed by default, unless explicitly excluded for non-cryptographic purposes. Due to this, a segfault occurred during the S3 complete multipart upload operation.

With this fix, the usage of MD5 for non-cryptographic purposes in a FIPS-enabled environment for S3 complete multipart PUT operations is explicitly allowed and the S3 multipart operations can be completed.

(BZ#2086724)

OpenShift Data Foundation pods are restarting due to liveness probe failure

Previously, the liveness probe on pods caused a restart of Ceph pods. This release update increases the default timeout for the liveness probe. The pods now get more time before restarting due to liveness where the nodes have more loads and fewer CPU/memory resources.

(BZ#2091951)

OSD pods are in CrashLoopBackOff state after the upgrade to OpenShift Data Foundation 4.10.3 failed to deactivate the volume group for the local volume

Previously, LVM-based OSDs from older OpenShift Data Foundation releases (4.3, 4.4) were incompatible with version 4.10 and would crash when upgraded to 4.10. With this update, the OSDs from older OpenShift Data Foundation releases are running instead of crashing. Rook now adds the correct flag to handle these legacy OSDs so that they will be functional with 4.10.

(BZ#2097268)

Creating an application namespace for the managed clusters

Application namespace needs to exist on RHACM managed clusters for disaster recovery (DR) related pre-deployment actions and hence is pre-created when an application is deployed at the RHACM hub cluster. However, if an application is deleted at the hub cluster and its corresponding namespace is deleted on the managed clusters, they reappear on the managed cluster.

Workaround: openshift-dr maintains a namespace manifestwork resource in the managed cluster namespace at the RHACM hub. These resources need to be deleted after the application deletion. For example, as a cluster administrator, execute the following command on the hub cluster: oc delete manifestwork -n <managedCluster namespace> <drPlacementControl name>-<namespace>-ns-mw.

(BZ#2059669)

Failover action reports RADOS block device image mount failed on the pod with RPC error still in use

Failing over a disaster recovery (DR) protected workload might result in pods using the volume on the failover cluster to be stuck in reporting RADOS block device (RBD) image is still in use. This prevents the pods from starting up for a long duration (upto several hours).

(BZ#2007376)

Failover action reports RADOS block device image mount failed on the pod with RPC error fsck

Failing over a disaster recovery (DR) protected workload may result in pods not starting with volume mount errors that state the volume has file system consistency check (fsck) errors. This prevents the workload from failing over to the failover cluster.

(BZ#2021460)

Relocation fails when failover and relocate is performed within a few minutes of each action

When the user starts relocating an application from one cluster to another before the PeerReady condition status is TRUE, the condition status is seen through the DRPC YAML file or by running the following oc command:

oc get drpc -o yaml -n <application-namespace>

$ oc get drpc -o yaml -n <application-namespace>

where <application-namespace> is the namespace where the workloads are present for deploying the application.

If the Relocation is initiated before the peer (target cluster) is in a clean state, then the relocation will stall forever.

Workaround: Change the DRPC .Spec.Action back to Failover, and wait until the PeerReady condition status is TRUE. After applying the workaround, change the Action to Relocate, and the relocation will take effect.

(BZ#2056871)

User is able to set the value to zero minutes as the Sync schedule while creating DR Policy and it reports 'Sync' as Replication policy and gets validated on a Regional-DR setup

The DRPolicyList page uses the sync interval value to display the replication type. If it is set to zero then the replication type is considered as Sync(synchronous) for the metro as well as regional clusters. This issue confuses the users because the backend is considering Async even when the user interface shows it as Sync scheduling type.

Workaround: Need to fetch Ceph Fsid from DRCluster CR status to decide sync or async.

(BZ#2114501)

Deletion of the Application deletes the pods but not PVCs

When deleting an application from the RHACM console, DRPC does not get deleted. Not deleting DRPC leads to not deleting the VRG as well as the VR. If the VRG/VR is not deleted, the PVC finalizer list will not be cleaned up, causing the PVC to stay in a Terminating state.

Workaround: Manually delete DRPC on the hub cluster using the following command

oc delete drpc <name> -n <namespace>

$ oc delete drpc <name> -n <namespace>

Result:

(BZ#2108716)

Both the DRPCs protect all the persistent volume claims created on the same namespace

The namespaces that host multiple disaster recovery (DR) protected workloads, protect all the persistent volume claims (PVCs) within the namespace for each DRPlacementControl resource in the same namespace on the hub cluster that does not specify and isolate PVCs based on the workload using its spec.pvcSelector field.

This results in PVCs, that match the DRPlacementControl spec.pvcSelector across multiple workloads or if the selector is missing across all workloads, replication management to potentially manage each PVC multiple times and cause data corruption or invalid operations based on individual DRPlacementControl actions.

Workaround: Label PVCs that belong to a workload uniquely, and use the selected label as the DRPlacementControl spec.pvcSelector to disambiguate which DRPlacementControl protects and manages which subset of PVCs within a namespace. It is not possible to specify the spec.pvcSelector field for the DRPlacementControl using the user interface, hence the DRPlacementControl for such applications must be deleted and created using the command line.

Result: PVCs are no longer managed by multiple DRPlacementControl resources and do not cause any operation and data inconsistencies.

(BZ#2111163)

RBD mirror scheduling is getting stopped for some images

The Ceph manager daemon gets blocklisted due to different reasons, which causes the scheduled RBD mirror snapshot from being triggered on the cluster where the image(s) are primary. All RBD images that are mirror enabled (hence DR protected) do not list a schedule when examined using rbd mirror snapshot schedule status -p ocs-storagecluster-cephblockpool, and hence are not actively mirrored to the peer site.

Workaround: Restart the Ceph manager deployment, on the managed cluster where the images are primary, to overcome the blocklist against the currently running instance, this can be done by scaling down and then later scaling up the ceph manager deployment as follows:

oc -n openshift-storage scale deployments/rook-ceph-mgr-a  --replicas=0
oc -n openshift-storage scale deployments/rook-ceph-mgr-a  --replicas=1

$ oc -n openshift-storage scale deployments/rook-ceph-mgr-a  --replicas=0
$ oc -n openshift-storage scale deployments/rook-ceph-mgr-a  --replicas=1

Result: Images that are DR enabled and denoted as primary on a managed cluster start reporting mirroring schedules when examined using rbd mirror snapshot schedule status -p ocs-storagecluster-cephblockpool

(BZ#2067095)

Ceph does not recognize the global IP assigned by Globalnet

Ceph does not recognize global IP assigned by Globalnet, so disaster recovery solution cannot be configured between clusters with overlapping service CIDR using Globalnet. Due to this disaster recovery solution does not work when service CIDR overlaps.

(BZ#2102397)

Volume replication group deletion is stuck on a fresh volume replication created during deletion, which is stuck as the persistent volume claim cannot be updated with a finalizer

Due to a bug in the disaster recovery (DR) reconciler, during deletion of the internal VolumeReplicaitonGroup resource on a managed cluster, from where a workload failed over or relocated from, a persistent volume claim (PVC) is attempted to be protected. The resulting cleanup operation does not complete and reports the PeerReady condition on the DRPlacementControl for the application.

This results in the application that was failed over or relocated, cannot be relocated or failed over again due to DRPlacementControl resource reporting its PeerReady condition as false.

Workaround: Before applying the workaround, determine if the cause is due to protecting a PVC during VolumeReplicationGroup deletion as follows:

Result: DRPlacementControl at the hub cluster reports PeerReady condition as true and enables further workload relocation or failover actions. (BZ#2116605)

MongoDB pod is in CrashLoopBackoff because of permission errors reading data in cephrbd volume

The Openshift projects across different managed clusters have different security Context constraints (SCC), which specifically differ in the specified UID range and/or FSGroups. This leads to certain workload pods and containers failing to start post failover or relocate operations within these projects, due to filesystem access errors in their logs.

Workaround: Ensure workload projects are created on all managed clusters with the same project-level SCC labels, allowing them to use the same filesystem context when failed over or relocated. Pods will no longer fail post-DR actions on filesystem-related access errors.

(BZ#2114573)

While failover to secondary cluster, some of PVC remains in Primary cluster

The behavior before Kubernetes v1.23 was that the Kubernetes control plane never cleaned up the PVCs created for StatefulSets. That’s left to the cluster administrator or a software operator managing the StatefulSets. Due to this, the PVCs of the StatefulSets were left untouched when their Pods are deleted. This prevents Ramen from failing back an application to its original cluster.

Workaround: If the workload uses StatefulSets, then do the following before failing back or relocating to another cluster

Result: The peer cluster gets cleaned up and ready for new 'Action'. (BZ#2118270)

Application is stuck in Relocating state during failback

Multicloud Object Gateway allowed multiple persistent volume (PV) objects of the same name or namespace to be added to the S3 store on the same path. Due to this, Ramen does not restore the PV because it detected multiple versions pointing to the same claimRef.

Workaround: Use S3 CLI or equivalent to clean up the duplicate PV objects from the S3 store. Keep only the one that has a timestamp closer to the failover or relocate time.

Result: The restore operation will proceed to completion and the failover or relocate operation proceeds to the next step.

(BZ#2120201)

Application is stuck in a FailingOver state when a zone is down

At the time of a failover or relocate, if none of the s3 stores are reachable then the failover or relocate process hangs. If the Openshift DR logs indicate that the S3 store is not reachable, then troubleshooting and getting the s3 store operational will allow the OpenShift DR to proceed with the failover or relocate operation.

(BZ#2121680)

ceph df reports an invalid MAX AVAIL value when the cluster is in stretch mode

When a crush rule for a Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster has multiple "take" steps, the ceph df report shows the wrong maximum available size for the map. The issue will be fixed in an upcoming release.

(BZ#2100920)

rook-ceph-operator-config ConfigMap is not updated when OpenShift Container Storage is upgraded from version 4.5 to other version

ocs-operator uses the rook-ceph-operator-config ConfigMap to configure rook-ceph-operator behaviors, however it only creates it once and then does not reconcile it. This raises the problem that it will not update the default values for the product as they evolve.

Workaround: Administrators can manually change the rook-ceph-operator-config values.

(BZ#1986016)

Storage cluster and storage system ocs-storagecluster is in an error state for a few minutes when installing the storage system

During storage cluster creation, there is a small window of time where it will appear in an error state before moving on to a successful or ready state. This is an intermittent state, so it will usually resolve by itself and become successful or ready.

Workaround: Wait and watch status messages or logs for more information.

(BZ#2004027)

Ceph OSD snap trimming is no longer blocked by a running scrub

Previously, OSD snap trimming, once blocked by a running scrub, was not restarted. As a result, no trimming was performed until an OSD reset. This release fixes the handling of restarting the trimming if blocked after the scrub and snap trimming works as expected.

(BZ#2067056)

Poor performance of the stretch clusters on CephFS

Workloads with many small metadata operations might exhibit poor performance because of the arbitrary placement of metadata server (MDS) on multi-site OpenShift Data Foundation clusters.

(BZ#1982116)

Restoring snapshot fails with size constraint when the parent PVC is expanded

If we create a new restored persistent volume claim (PVC) from a volume snapshot whose size is the same as the volume snapshot, then it will fail if the parent PVC is resized after taking the volume snapshot and before creating the new restored PVC.

Workaround: You can use any one of the following workarounds

(BZ#2120730)

PodSecurityViolation alert starts to fire when the OpenShift Data Foundation operator is installed

OpenShift introduced Pod Security Admission to enforce security restrictions on Pods when scheduled such that OpenShift 4.11 has an audit and warn events with enforcing privileged (same as 4.10).

As a result, you will see warnings in events since the openshift-storage namespace doesn’t have the required enforcement labels for Pod Security Admission.

(BZ#2110628)