[PVE-User] Open vSwitch and Clustering

[Adam Thompson]

No, I meant I had to completely rebuild my cluster from scratch :-(.
-Adan

On January 17, 2015 11:24:29 AM CST, Brian Hart <brianhart at ou.edu> wrote:
>Adam --
>
>Thank you for the response.  I even tried backing out open vswitch
>completely - purging it from the system - and then manually
>reconfiguring a
>single NIC without even a bridge and could not restore the multicast
>communication.  However, I reinstalled the single node I tried setting
>up
>OVS on, deleted it from the existing cluster configuration on the other
>system (which wasn't reloaded), and re-added it and its working again.
>Nothing has changed on the switch or the other node.  It seems for some
>reason as soon as I installed OVS it broke multicast for that node
>completely and the only way I could restore it was to reinstall.
>
>It sounds like my experience is worse than yours though?  In your case
>you
>still have OVS installed and it is still working?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Brian
>
>
>
>On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Adam Thompson <athompso at athompso.net>
>wrote:
>
>> When running cluster communications through an ovs virtual interface,
>I
>> encountered repeated communications problems.
>> Not 100% sure OVS was to blame, but since rebuilding and putting
>cluster
>> communications on a dedicated NIC I haven't had any problems.
>> -Adam
>>
>> On January 16, 2015 4:54:18 PM CST, Brian Hart <brianhart at ou.edu>
>wrote:
>>
>>> We got two new systems that we installed the latest version of
>proxmox
>>> on.  Did an apt-get update and dist-upgrade to make sure they were
>on the
>>> most recent versions.  We then created a cluster and got them
>talking and
>>> all that went fine.
>>>
>>> The problem came when we added OVS to one of the nodes and set it
>all up
>>> in the GUI.  Once we did a reboot we have not been able to get the
>cluster
>>> communications to work since then.  We have tried to revert it back
>>> completely - removing open vswitch packages and all and doing a
>stock
>>> config in the /etc/network/interfaces file but we cannot get
>multicast to
>>> work now between the two nodes.  Nothing else changed.
>>>
>>> Has anybody else run across this or are there known issues with
>doing OVS
>>> and clustering?  I've done a lot of google searching but have not
>found a
>>> clear answer or solution to a problem like this.
>>>
>>> Any help or advice is greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Brian
>>>
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