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Hello again! Today on pebkac we are creating a two node GlusterFS cluster on CentOS-7 to host a highly available NFSv4 share. The volume (Glusterfs terminology for the virtualised disk group spread across CentOS nodes) will handle the file replication and locking. The volume will be shared out with NFS-Ganesha enabling the automatic failover of the NFS share, in the event that the node you have mounted the share on… disappears.

If you’re looking for a great guide to get you started I suggest you go to this post by kkeithley and complete the first two steps. I found that kkeithleys blog worked for the first two steps, “crawl and “walk”, but I couldn’t manage to complete the “run” section. This blog post is more intended to be a continuation from kkeithlets post above addressing the areas where the Glusterfs 3.9 release changed things.

Versions:

  • Centos-release: 7-3.1611.el7.centos.x86_64
  • Kernel: 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64
  • NFS-Ganesha: 2.4.5-1.el7.x86_64
  • NFS-Ganesha-Gluster: 2.4.5-1.el7.x86_64
  • Glusterfs-Ganesha: 3.10.3-1.el7.x86_64

Starting with two centos7 nodes in the same subnet with a second drive at /dev/sdb (if you don’t you may have to adjust my files appropriately)

On each node configure your network interface (NiC), and a virtual IP for that interface. To configure a virtual IP, create another NiC config file with “:1” appended, as below.

My config files for the NiC’s’ on Node1 and NiC’s on Node2 My files are designed for a 192.168.4.0/24 subnet with a gateway of 192.168.4.1. Run this on both nodes.

sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ens160  
sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ens160:1 
sudo ifup ifcfg-ens160:1
sudo service network restart 

You should be able to ping the virtual IP’s now. Run this on either node.

ping 192.168.4.12 
ping 192.168.4.14 

Configure your /etc/hosts file with the IP’s and Virtual IP’s of all the nodes intended for the cluster, you can see my /etc/hosts file. Run this on both nodes.

sudo vi /etc/hosts 

Here I turn off the firewalld service. Warning: This is not, best practice, you should make exceptions on the FW for all the nodes in the cluster. How to do so will be explained next time when we scale out to 4 nodes. For now, we will just disable the FW. Run this on both nodes.

sudo systemctl stop firewalld.service   
sudo chkconfig firewalld off  

Here we stop NetworkManager and keep it off. Run this on both nodes.

sudo service NetworkManager stop  
sudo chkconfig NetworkManager off  

Then we enable the network service. Run this on both nodes.

sudo sudo service network start   
sudo chkconfig network on  

Now we need to install all the following packages. You don’t need nano, but it’s my preferred editor. Run this on both nodes.

sudo yum -y install centos-release-gluster  
sudo yum -y install glusterfs-server   
sudo yum -y install glusterfs-ganesha    
sudo yum -y install nano  
sudo yum -y update

Start the gluster service, ensure it is always started, then check the status. Run this on both nodes.

sudo systemctl enable glusterd 
sudo systemctl start glusterd
sudo chkconfig glusterd on
sudo service glusterd status  

Here we setup passwordless ssh between the nodes, you will have to enter the root account password 4 times. Run the following from Node1.

sudo ssh-keygen -f /var/lib/glusterd/nfs/secret.pem
sudo ssh-copy-id -i /var/lib/glusterd/nfs/secret.pem.pub root@Node1
sudo ssh-copy-id -i /var/lib/glusterd/nfs/secret.pem.pub root@Node2
sudo scp /var/lib/glusterd/nfs/secret.* Node1:/var/lib/glusterd/nfs/ 
sudo scp /var/lib/glusterd/nfs/secret.* Node2:/var/lib/glusterd/nfs/

You can then confirm passwordless ssh. Run the following from Node1.

ssh -oPasswordAuthentication=no -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -i/var/lib/glusterd/nfs/secret.pem root@Node2  

We then build the gluster cluster. Do this from Node1.

gluster peer probe Node2 
gluster peer status 

Enable the Gluster shared state volume. Do this on Node1.

gluster volume set all cluster.enable-shared-storage enable  

Wait for gluster_shared_volume to mount on all the nodes, the below code should show a volume mounted to /var/run/gluster/shared_storage/ on every node before proceeding.

mount | grep gluster_sha*

Create the ganesha.conf and ganesha-ha.conf files on Node1.
My files:,
Ganesha.conf
Ganesha-ha.conf

sudo mkdir /var/run/gluster/shared_storage/nfs-ganesha 
sudo nano /var/run/gluster/shared_storage/nfs-ganesha/ganesha.conf  
sudo nano /var/run/gluster/shared_storage/nfs-ganesha/ganesha-ha.conf 

Enable and start the Pacemaker pcsd. Run this on both nodes.

sudo systemctl enable pcsd 
sudo systemctl start pcsd 
sudo chkconfig pcsd on 
sudo systemctl status pcsd 

Set a password (in this case demopass) for the user ‘hacluster’. Use the same password, run this on both nodes.

sudo echo demopass | passwd --stdin hacluster  

Perform cluster auth between the nodes, run the below code from Node1. You will need to enter the username “hacluster” and the password you set above in this case “demopass”.

sudo pcs cluster auth Node1 
sudo pcs cluster auth Node2  

Here we make our bricks directory, format the sdb drive, add the mount configuration to the /etc/fstab file, mount the drive and create our export dir. Do this on both nodes.

sudo mkdir -p /bricks/demo  
sudo mkfs.xfs /dev/sdb -f 
sudo echo '/dev/sdb        /bricks/demo    xfs    defaults        0 0' >> /etc/fstab 
sudo mount /dev/sdb /bricks/demo  
sudo mkdir -p /bricks/demo/export 

Now we’ll create a simple gluster volume and disable gluster nfs.Do this on Node1.

sudo gluster volume create simple replica 2 Node1:/bricks/demo/export Node2:/bricks/demo/export 
sudo gluster volume set simple nfs.disable on  
sudo gluster volume start simple  

Then we enable ganesha. Still on Node1.

sudo gluster nfs-ganesha enable  

Finally we export the volume.

sudo gluster vol set simple ganesha.enable on 

You can test mount the NFS volume using one of the virtual IP’s.

sudo mount node1v:/simple /mnt/NFS-ganesha 

Next time come back for some testing and thoughts on scaling out from a simple 2 node cluster.

Thanks for following along.

Untill Next Time…

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