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Re: [perfsonar-user] Initial configuration of toolkit in OpenStack fails due to not recognising device name


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  • From: Jason Zurawski <>
  • To: Szymon Trocha <>
  • Cc:
  • Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] Initial configuration of toolkit in OpenStack fails due to not recognising device name
  • Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 08:59:44 -0400

Hi Szymon;

Thanks for the report, I have put this in the tracker as an enhancement:

https://code.google.com/p/perfsonar-ps/issues/detail?id=877

Thanks;

-jason

On Apr 2, 2014, at 5:43 AM, Szymon Trocha
<>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I don't know if somebody already experienced it but we recently tried to
> setup an instance of toolkit on a virtual machine in OpenStack.
> Unfortunately, by default, the configuration script was unable to find any
> local storage devices and therefore we were unable to configure local
> store. After investigation of our sys admins it turned out that for
> OpenStack the device name by default is always /dev/vda, etc and not
> /dev/hda or sda and the script is not able to locate/recognise it. After
> performing some tricks in the OpenStack and changing the name to sda it was
> ok.
> So it may be a suggestion to reconsider the initial configuration script to
> recognize other device names in environments like this.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Szymon Trocha
>
> Poznań Supercomputing & Netw. Center ::: NETWORK OPERATION CENTER
> Tel. +48 618582022 ::: http://noc.man.poznan.pl



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