[PVE-User] Open vSwitch and Clustering

[Brian Hart]

All,

I feel foolish but I figured out my problem and wanted to share it here in
case anybody came across this in the future.  It turns out my issue had
absolutely nothing to do with OVS.  Long story short, it was an issue with
the MTU.  I had enabled jumbo frames on the switch and had one node setup
with an them but not the other.  I didn't discover this until I got the
node rebuilt and worked through the customizations I needed for my
environment and found that was the issue.  I now have OVS included in the
setup and all is working as it should.

Thanks for the ideas and support!

Brian


On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Brian Hart <brianhart at ou.edu> wrote:

> Alexandre,
>
> Thank you for the suggestions - I'll give this a try with the switch
> configuration.  We've got other proxmox clusters with several servers in
> them we just hadn't tried the OVS setup yet.  Once these two nodes are
> setup I plan to rebuild an existing cluster and add it with these two new
> ones so I won't be leaving it as a two node setup for long.  Thanks for the
> advice!
>
> Brian
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Alexandre DERUMIER <aderumier at odiso.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> maybe it's multicast filtering related.
>>
>> OVS don't support igmp snooping (multicast filtering), and also don't
>> support igmp querier.
>>
>> Linux bridge have igmp snooping enable by default and also igmp querier.
>>
>> to get igmp snooping, you need at least 1 igmp querier on your network.
>> They are some elections when multicast igmp queriers are enabled.
>>
>>
>> My best recommendation could be to have igmp querier enabled on your
>> physical switch, to avoid problem.
>>
>>
>> also, you really need to have 3 nodes minimum to have quorum for cluster
>> services.
>>
>>
>> ----- Mail original -----
>> De: "Brian Hart" <brianhart at ou.edu>
>> À: "proxmoxve" <pve-user at pve.proxmox.com>
>> Envoyé: Vendredi 16 Janvier 2015 23:54:18
>> Objet: [PVE-User] Open vSwitch and Clustering
>>
>> 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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