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I use ha-lizard no san installer i should run the same steps or the nosan installer have option to upgrade?

Thanks

the installer should not be used to upgrade.

The installer installed 2 applications: HA-Lizard and iSCSI-HA
these can be individually upgraded following the steps in this thread

Hi There,

Xenserver 7 installation.

maybe I can help about some topics. I manage to create the DRBD and iscsi on the host systems, I also connect the iscsi to the xenserver host. I was able to create vm and use the storage repository but I have some issues to be solved.

* the iscsi-ha.conf needs to be changed for meeting the systemctl configuration.
ISCSI_TARGET_SERVICE=tgtd.service
* script iscsi-ha.sh should be changed with the following systemctl line like

$ISCSI_TARGET_SERVICE status

should change to

/bin/systemctl status $ISCSI_TARGET_SERVICE


The challenging part that I am stucked in is the lvm.conf file configuration. somehow xenserver (xenapi) doesn't care what I have on lvm.conf file. it is ignoring the filtering line. Thats why I can not move disks between local storage and iscsi storage.

Maybe someone should have some ideas.

Kind Regards,

Senol

Thanks for your comments.
We may have a testing release available as early as late this week.
In our dev environment we have already:
- replaced init scripts to be systemd compatible
- created customized yum repo to make it easy for users to get drbd/tgt

A few small changes are left before we get onto testing and creating a new installer for XS7.

An update will be posted here regarding your LVM issue.

Did you disable LVM caching and then clear the cache after applying your filter?

sure I did like that. I did the following;

I created LVM volumes on the server like /dev/VGXenservreSSD/DRBD1

vi /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
I add filter = [ "r|/|ev/sd.*|", "r|/dev/VG_Xen.*/*|", "r|/dev/drbd.*|", "r|/dev/VGX.*|"]

there is no need to say write_cache_state = 0 which is already 0

Than

rm -f /etc/lvm/cache/.cache && vgscan

But still from xenserver api it sees the lvm volumes when I check SMlog file for iscsi creation.