When a RHEV host has a problem with storage, it should tell me **which** storage

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I spent a few frustrating hours last night trying to set up a new RHEV-H host in a RHEV data center. Adding the host continued to fail with this maddeningly vague error:

Host thing3.example.local cannot access one of the Storage Domains attached to the Data Center ExampleDataCenter. Setting Host state to Non-Operational.

With help from Red Hat Support, we eventually found and fixed the problem. Everything is up and running - see support case number 01057416. Case number 01055019 has a different variation on this same theme.

This customer has 6 iSCSI storage domains in the RHEV environment and that error message is too vague. Of the 6 iSCSI LUNs RHEV-M told this host to connect, which one(s) had a problem? The message should be more specific. Had RHEV-M told me specifically which storage this host could not find, that would have saved a support call. So count me in as voting for an RFE to add this to a future version of RHEV - when it has a storage problem, tell me which storage.

thanks

  • Greg

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Oof: didn't even tell you which storage it was trying to configure against or show an alert on the wonky storage-pool in the larger admin UI's storage section? And, yes, still spoiled by VMware, I guess.

Hey Greg, that is a great RFE idea! Please open a case to request this and reference this discussion to have the case owner contact me. Once we get the RFE bugzilla opened, I can reply to this thread to let you know the BZ number and associated kbase article.

I can just do a bugzilla directly if you want - or do you need a support case to make the process work?

  • Greg

Greg,

A support case will increase the priority of the bugs that are attached to it.

I just wrote it up. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1079583

  • Greg

I just saw Marc's reply above - I referenced support cases 01057416 and 01055019 in the BZ writeup.

- Greg

Thanks for opening this BZ, Greg :)

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