Adding a Ceph Node to the Ceph Cluster

NOTE This operation can be done to add more than one node at the same time.

Add Join Script

  1. Start monitoring the Ceph health alongside the main procedure.

    In a separate window, run the following command on ncn-s001, ncn-s002, or ncn-s003 (but not the same node that was rebuilt or added):

    watch ceph -s
    
  2. Execute the script to have the rebuilt node join the Ceph cluster.

    Run this command on the storage node that was rebuilt or added.

    /srv/cray/scripts/common/join_ceph_cluster.sh
    

    IMPORTANT: In the output from watch ceph -s the health should go to a HEALTH_WARN state. This is expected. Most commonly you will see an alert about failed to probe daemons or devices, but this should clear on its own. In addition, it may take up to 5 minutes for the added OSDs to report as up. This is dependent on the Ceph Orchestrator performing an inventory and completing batch processing to add the OSDs.

Zapping OSDs

IMPORTANT: Only do this if you are 100% certain you need to erase data from a previous install.

NOTE The commands in this section will need to be run from a node running ceph-mon. Typically ncn-s001, ncn-s002, or ncn-s003.

  1. Find the devices on the node being rebuilt.

    ceph orch device ls $NODE
    

    Example Output:

    Hostname  Path      Type  Serial          Size   Health   Ident  Fault  Available
    ncn-s003  /dev/sdc  ssd   S455NY0MB42493  1920G  Unknown  N/A    N/A    No
    ncn-s003  /dev/sdd  ssd   S455NY0MB42482  1920G  Unknown  N/A    N/A    No
    ncn-s003  /dev/sde  ssd   S455NY0MB42486  1920G  Unknown  N/A    N/A    No
    ncn-s003  /dev/sdf  ssd   S455NY0MB51808  1920G  Unknown  N/A    N/A    No
    ncn-s003  /dev/sdg  ssd   S455NY0MB42473  1920G  Unknown  N/A    N/A    No
    ncn-s003  /dev/sdh  ssd   S455NY0MB42468  1920G  Unknown  N/A    N/A    No
    

    IMPORTANT: In the above example the drives on our rebuilt node are showing Available = no. This is expected because the check is based on the presence of an LVM on the volume.

    NOTE The ceph orch device ls $NODE command excludes the drives being used for the OS. Please double check that you are not seeing OS drives. These will have a size of 480G.

  2. Zap the drives.

    for drive in $(ceph orch device ls $NODE --format json-pretty |jq -r '.[].devices[].path') ; do
              ceph orch device zap $NODE $drive --force
           done
    
  3. Validate that the drives are being added to the cluster.

    watch ceph -s
    

    The OSD up and in counts should increase. If the in count increases but does not reflect the amount of drives being added back in, then fail over the ceph-mgr daemon. This is a known bug and is addressed in newer releases.

    If you need to fail over the ceph-mgr daemon, run:

    ceph mgr fail
    

Regenerate Rados-GW Load Balancer Configuration for the Rebuilt Nodes

IMPORTANT: radosgw by default is deployed to the first three storage nodes. This includes haproxy and keepalived. This is automated as part of the install, but the configuration may need to be regenerated if not running on the first three storage nodes or all nodes.

  1. ncn-s00[1/2/3]# Deploy Rados Gateway containers to the new nodes. The placement should be all nodes that Rados Gateway should be running on, not only the new node.

    ceph orch apply rgw site1 zone1 --placement="<num-daemons> <node1 node2 node3 node4 ... >" --port=8080
    
  2. ncn-s00[1/2/3]# Verify that Rados Gateway is running on the desired nodes.

    ceph orch ps --daemon_type rgw
    

    Example output:

    NAME                             HOST      STATUS         REFRESHED  AGE  VERSION  IMAGE NAME                         IMAGE ID      CONTAINER ID
    rgw.site1.ncn-s001.kvskqt  ncn-s001  running (41m)  6m ago     41m  15.2.8   registry.local/ceph/ceph:v15.2.8   553b0cb212c   6e323878db46
    rgw.site1.ncn-s002.tisuez  ncn-s002  running (41m)  6m ago     41m  15.2.8   registry.local/ceph/ceph:v15.2.8   553b0cb212c   278830a273d3
    rgw.site1.ncn-s003.nnwuqy  ncn-s003  running (41m)  6m ago     41m  15.2.8   registry.local/ceph/ceph:v15.2.8   553b0cb212c   a9706e6d7a69
    
  3. Add nodes into HAproxy and KeepAlived. Adjust the command based on the number of storage nodes.

    • If the node was rebuilt:

      source /srv/cray/scripts/metal/update_apparmor.sh; reconfigure-apparmor
      pdsh -w ncn-s00[1-(end node number)] -f 2 \
                 '/srv/cray/scripts/metal/generate_haproxy_cfg.sh > /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
                 systemctl restart haproxy.service
                 /srv/cray/scripts/metal/generate_keepalived_conf.sh > /etc/keepalived/keepalived.conf
                 systemctl restart keepalived.service'
      
    • If the node was added:

      Determine the IP address of the added node.

      cloud-init query ds | jq -r ".meta_data[].host_records[] | select(.aliases[]? == \"$(hostname)\") | .ip" 2>/dev/null
      

      Example Output:

      10.252.1.13
      

      Update the HAproxy configuration to include the added node. Select a storage node ncn-s00x from one of the first three storage nodes. This cannot be done from the added node.

      vi /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
      

      This example adds or updates ncn-s004 with the IP address 10.252.1.13 to backend rgw-backend.

      ...
      backend rgw-backend
          option forwardfor
          balance static-rr
          option httpchk GET /
              server server-ncn-s001-rgw0 10.252.1.6:8080 check weight 100
              server server-ncn-s002-rgw0 10.252.1.5:8080 check weight 100
              server server-ncn-s003-rgw0 10.252.1.4:8080 check weight 100
              server server-ncn-s004-rgw0 10.252.1.13:8080 check weight 100   <--- Added or updated line
      ...
      

      Copy the updated HAproxy configuration to all the storage nodes. Adjust the command based on the number of storage nodes.

      pdcp -w ncn-s00[1-(end node number)] /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
      

      Configure apparmor and KeepAlived on the added node and restart the services across all the storage nodes.

      source /srv/cray/scripts/metal/update_apparmor.sh; reconfigure-apparmor
      /srv/cray/scripts/metal/generate_keepalived_conf.sh > /etc/keepalived/keepalived.conf
      export  PDSH_SSH_ARGS_APPEND="-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no"
      pdsh -w ncn-s00[1-(end node number)] -f 2 'systemctl restart haproxy.service; systemctl restart keepalived.service'
      

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