[linux-lvm] Using pvmove with a clustered VG

Fri Feb 13 16:25:15 UTC 2009

I want to use pvmove to move some LVs in a clustered VG off some 
specific PVs so those PVs can be removed.

The LVs are used for Xen VMs, running in a cluster of 4 Xen hosts.  The 
PVs are LUNs on a fibre channel attached SAN.

I have constructed a test environment to try out the basic theory before 
moving onto more specific testing on SAN-attached hosts, however, it 
seems that LVs cannot be moved unless they are deactived:

[root at clustertest01 ~]# pvmove -v -i10 /dev/xvdb
     Logging initialised at Sat Feb 14 03:08:11 2009
     Set umask to 0077
pvmove    Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
pvmove    Finding volume group "vg00"
pvmove    Archiving volume group "vg00" metadata (seqno 73).
pvmove    Creating logical volume pvmove0
pvmove    Moving 125 extents of logical volume vg00/lv_1
pvmove  Error locking on node clustertest01.syd.nighthawkrad.net: Volume 
is busy on another node
pvmove  Failed to activate lv_1
pvmove    Wiping internal VG cache
[root at clustertest01 ~]# lvchange -an /dev/vg00/lv_1
     Logging initialised at Sat Feb 14 03:08:20 2009
     Set umask to 0077
lvchange    Using logical volume(s) on command line
lvchange    Deactivating logical volume "lv_1"
lvchange    Wiping internal VG cache
[root at clustertest01 ~]# pvmove -v -i10 /dev/xvdb
     Logging initialised at Sat Feb 14 03:08:23 2009
     Set umask to 0077
pvmove    Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
pvmove    Finding volume group "vg00"
pvmove    Archiving volume group "vg00" metadata (seqno 73).
pvmove    Creating logical volume pvmove0
pvmove    Moving 125 extents of logical volume vg00/lv_1
pvmove    Updating volume group metadata
pvmove    Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg00" (seqno 74).
pvmove    Checking progress every 10 seconds
pvmove  /dev/xvdb: Moved: 45.6%
pvmove  /dev/xvdb: Moved: 95.2%
pvmove  /dev/xvdb: Moved: 100.0%
pvmove    Removing temporary pvmove LV
pvmove    Writing out final volume group after pvmove
pvmove    Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg00" (seqno 76).
pvmove    Wiping internal VG cache
[root at clustertest01 ~]#

Obviously this is a less than ideal situation, as I would need to shut 
down each VM on an LV I wanted to move, for the duration of the move 
(doable, but I would prefer not to).  I found this situation briefly 
discussed earlier on the list:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2008-September/msg00062.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2008-September/msg00063.html

Where the suggestion was made that "basic" pvmove functionality should 
work on a clustered VG.  Does a simple LV move count as "basic", because 
I would assume it does. :)

*Should* this be working ?  Is there some magic switch I need to use to 
convince pvmove to work on active LVs ?  I would even be happy with an 
alternative that required running the pvmove on the node where the LV 
was in use (ie: the Xen host running that particularly VM).  None of the 
LVs are actively shared between the Xen hosts (other than the occasional 
live migration).

I am using CentOS 5.2, fully updated, for both my testing and production 
environments.  My testing environment has 3 nodes and the production has 4.

[root at clustertest01 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.2 (Final)
[root at clustertest01 ~]# rpm -q lvm2 lvm2-cluster cman
lvm2-2.02.32-4.el5_2.1
lvm2-cluster-2.02.32-4.el5
cman-2.0.84-2.el5_2.3
[root at clustertest01 ~]#

I also found another reply to the earlier thread, that only went to 
linux-cluster:

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-cluster@redhat.com/msg04365.html

This one seems to indicate a problem with multi-segment LVs, so I tested 
that scenario as well (since some of my LVs have been extended).

[root at clustertest01 ~]# lvchange -van /dev/vg00/lv_1 /dev/vg00/lv_2 
/dev/vg00/lv_3 /dev/vg00/lv_4 /dev/vg00/lv_5
     Logging initialised at Sat Feb 14 03:04:35 2009
     Set umask to 0077
lvchange    Using logical volume(s) on command line
lvchange    Deactivating logical volume "lv_1"
lvchange    Deactivating logical volume "lv_2"
lvchange    Deactivating logical volume "lv_3"
lvchange    Deactivating logical volume "lv_4"
lvchange    Deactivating logical volume "lv_5"
lvchange    Wiping internal VG cache
[root at clustertest01 ~]# pvmove -v -i10 /dev/xvdb
     Logging initialised at Sat Feb 14 03:04:40 2009
     Set umask to 0077
pvmove    Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
pvmove    Finding volume group "vg00"
pvmove    Archiving volume group "vg00" metadata (seqno 48).
pvmove    Creating logical volume pvmove0
pvmove    Moving 50 extents of logical volume vg00/lv_1
pvmove    Moving 13 extents of logical volume vg00/lv_2
pvmove    Moving 13 extents of logical volume vg00/lv_3
pvmove    Moving 3 extents of logical volume vg00/lv_4
pvmove    Updating volume group metadata
pvmove    Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg00" (seqno 49).
pvmove    Checking progress every 10 seconds
pvmove  /dev/xvdb: Moved: 31.6%
pvmove    Updating volume group metadata
pvmove    Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg00" (seqno 50).
pvmove  Error locking on node clustertest01.syd.nighthawkrad.net: 
device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
pvmove  Unable to reactivate logical volume "pvmove0"
pvmove  ABORTING: Segment progression failed.
pvmove    Removing temporary pvmove LV
pvmove    Writing out final volume group after pvmove
pvmove    Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg00" (seqno 52).
pvmove    Wiping internal VG cache
[root at clustertest01 ~]# pvmove -v -i10 /dev/xvdb
     Logging initialised at Sat Feb 14 03:05:20 2009
     Set umask to 0077
pvmove    Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
pvmove    Finding volume group "vg00"
pvmove    Archiving volume group "vg00" metadata (seqno 52).
pvmove    Creating logical volume pvmove0
pvmove    Moving 25 extents of logical volume vg00/lv_1
pvmove    Moving 13 extents of logical volume vg00/lv_2
pvmove    Moving 13 extents of logical volume vg00/lv_3
pvmove    Moving 3 extents of logical volume vg00/lv_4
pvmove    Updating volume group metadata
pvmove    Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg00" (seqno 53).
pvmove    Checking progress every 10 seconds
pvmove  /dev/xvdb: Moved: 46.3%
pvmove    Updating volume group metadata
pvmove    Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg00" (seqno 54).
pvmove  Error locking on node clustertest01.syd.nighthawkrad.net: 
device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
pvmove  Unable to reactivate logical volume "pvmove0"
pvmove  ABORTING: Segment progression failed.
pvmove    Removing temporary pvmove LV
pvmove    Writing out final volume group after pvmove
pvmove    Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg00" (seqno 56).
pvmove    Wiping internal VG cache
[root at clustertest01 ~]# pvmove -v -i10 /dev/xvdb
     Logging initialised at Sat Feb 14 03:05:47 2009
     Set umask to 0077
pvmove    Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
pvmove    Finding volume group "vg00"
pvmove    Archiving volume group "vg00" metadata (seqno 56).
pvmove    Creating logical volume pvmove0
pvmove    Moving 13 extents of logical volume vg00/lv_2
pvmove    Moving 13 extents of logical volume vg00/lv_3
pvmove    Moving 3 extents of logical volume vg00/lv_4
pvmove    Updating volume group metadata
pvmove    Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg00" (seqno 57).
pvmove    Checking progress every 10 seconds
pvmove  /dev/xvdb: Moved: 44.8%
pvmove    Updating volume group metadata
pvmove    Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg00" (seqno 58).
pvmove  Error locking on node clustertest01.syd.nighthawkrad.net: 
device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
pvmove  Unable to reactivate logical volume "pvmove0"
pvmove  ABORTING: Segment progression failed.
pvmove    Removing temporary pvmove LV
pvmove    Writing out final volume group after pvmove
pvmove    Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg00" (seqno 60).
pvmove    Wiping internal VG cache
[root at clustertest01 ~]# pvmove -v -i10 /dev/xvdb
     Logging initialised at Sat Feb 14 03:06:05 2009
     Set umask to 0077
pvmove    Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
pvmove    Finding volume group "vg00"
pvmove    Archiving volume group "vg00" metadata (seqno 60).
pvmove    Creating logical volume pvmove0
pvmove    Moving 13 extents of logical volume vg00/lv_3
pvmove    Moving 3 extents of logical volume vg00/lv_4
pvmove    Updating volume group metadata
pvmove    Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg00" (seqno 61).
pvmove    Checking progress every 10 seconds
pvmove  /dev/xvdb: Moved: 81.2%
pvmove    Updating volume group metadata
pvmove    Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg00" (seqno 62).
pvmove  Error locking on node clustertest01.syd.nighthawkrad.net: 
device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
pvmove  Unable to reactivate logical volume "pvmove0"
pvmove  ABORTING: Segment progression failed.
pvmove    Removing temporary pvmove LV
pvmove    Writing out final volume group after pvmove
pvmove    Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg00" (seqno 64).
pvmove    Wiping internal VG cache
[root at clustertest01 ~]# pvmove -v -i10 /dev/xvdb
     Logging initialised at Sat Feb 14 03:06:21 2009
     Set umask to 0077
pvmove    Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
pvmove    Finding volume group "vg00"
pvmove    Archiving volume group "vg00" metadata (seqno 64).
pvmove    Creating logical volume pvmove0
pvmove    Moving 3 extents of logical volume vg00/lv_4
pvmove    Updating volume group metadata
pvmove    Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg00" (seqno 65).
pvmove    Checking progress every 10 seconds
pvmove  /dev/xvdb: Moved: 100.0%
pvmove    Removing temporary pvmove LV
pvmove    Writing out final volume group after pvmove
pvmove    Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg00" (seqno 67).
pvmove    Wiping internal VG cache
[root at clustertest01 ~]# pvmove -v -i10 /dev/xvdb
     Logging initialised at Sat Feb 14 03:06:37 2009
     Set umask to 0077
pvmove    Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
pvmove    Finding volume group "vg00"
pvmove    Archiving volume group "vg00" metadata (seqno 67).
pvmove    Creating logical volume pvmove0
pvmove  No data to move for vg00
pvmove    Wiping internal VG cache
[root at clustertest01 ~]#

It seems the 'hanging' problem is gone, but the pvmove still dies after 
every segment.  I can live with that, but first I need to resolve the 
basic problem of even starting. :)

Cheers,
CS

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