Hi Paul,
have I got your idea correct - you're trying to attach new empty DB
volumes to existing OSDs in an attempt to recover these OSDs, right? And
original SSD drives which kept DB volumes are physically dead?
If so than IMO it's a way to nowhere, "recovered" OSDs wouldn't run
without original metadata. This is rather a waste of time..
Thanks,
Igor
On 23.04.2025 0:11, Paul Browne wrote:
Hi ceph-users,
We recently suffered a total power failure at our main DC; fortunately, our production Ceph cluster emerged unscathed but a smaller Ceph cluster came back with the majority of its dedicated SSD BlueStore block.DB devices dead (but its HDD OSD devices unharmed). This cluster underpinned a small OpenStack cloud, so it would be preferable to recover it rather than writing it off.
In terms of deployment tooling, this ailing Ceph cluster is a fairly standard Red Hat Ceph Storage 7 (so Quincy) cephadm deployed cluster, with the main wrinkle about it being that both the DB and HDD OSD devices make use of the cephadm supported LVM->LUKS layering above the BlueStore devices.
The dead BlueStore block.DB devices are of course blocking the surviving HDD OSD daemons (in cephadm deployed containers) from coming up cleanly and so the Ceph cluster status is currently very degraded (attached status for the ugly picture)
I've kicked around some ideas of recovering the dead DB devices and restarting down+out OSDs by;
* Manually partitioning replacement SSDs into new DB device partitions+LVs
* Installing the same LUKS keys on them retrieved from the Ceph config DB, matching up against which OSD is on which OSD host.
*
Manually changing over device links for OSDs to their DB device with "ceph-bluestore-tool bluefs-bdev-new-db" or similar
*
Try restarting OSDs with updated links to new LVM->LUKS->block.DB devices
This approach seems highly messy and subject to needing to extract a lot of information error-free from dumps of ceph volume lvm, list in order to exactly match extant OSD UUIDs to newly created DB devicemapper devices.
Is there going to be some smarter/better/faster way to non-destructively recover these intact HDD OSDs which have links to dead block.DB devices, using native cephadm tooling rather than getting so low-level as all the above?
Many thanks for any advice,
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