cinder-manage¶

Cinder Quota¶

Cinder quotas sometimes run out of sync, and while there are some mechanisms in place in Cinder that, with the proper configuration, try to do a resync of the quotas, they are not perfect and are susceptible to race conditions, so they may result in less than perfect accuracy in refreshed quotas.

The cinder-manage quota commands are meant to help manage these issues while allowing a finer control of when and what quotas are fixed.

Checking if quotas and reservations are correct.

cinder-manage quota check [-h] [--project-id PROJECT_ID] [--use-locks]

Accepted arguments are:

--project-id PROJECT_ID
                      The ID of the project where we want to sync the quotas
                      (defaults to all projects).
--use-locks           For precise results tables in the DB need to be
                      locked.

This command checks quotas and reservations, for a specific project (passing --project-id) or for all projects, to see if they are out of sync.

The check will also look for duplicated entries.

By default it runs in the least accurate mode (where races have a higher chance of happening) to minimize the impact on running cinder services. This means that false errors are more likely to be reported due to race conditions when Cinder services are running.

Accurate mode is also supported, but it will lock many tables (affecting all tenants) and is not recommended with services that are being used.

One way to use this action in combination with the sync action is to run the check for all projects, take note of those that are out of sync, and the sync them one by one at intervals to allow cinder to operate semi-normally.

Fixing quotas and reservations

cinder-manage quota sync [-h] [--project-id PROJECT_ID] [--no-locks]

Accepted arguments are:

--project-id PROJECT_ID
                      The ID of the project where we want to sync the quotas
                      (defaults to all projects).
--no-locks            For less precise results, but also less intrusive.

This command refreshes existing quota usage and reservation count for a specific project or for all projects.

The refresh will also remove duplicated entries.

This operation is best executed when Cinder is not running, as it requires locking many tables (affecting all tenants) to make sure that then sync is accurate.

If accuracy is not our top priority, or we know that a specific project is not in use, we can disable the locking.

A different transaction is used for each project’s quota sync, so an action failure will only rollback the current project’s changes.

Cinder Db¶

cinder-manage db version

Print the current database version.

cinder-manage db sync [--bump-versions] [version]

Sync the database up to the most recent version. This is the standard way to create the db as well.

This command interprets the following options when it is invoked:

version Database version

--bump-versions

Update RPC and Objects versions when doing offline upgrades, with this we no longer need to restart the services twice after the upgrade to prevent ServiceTooOld exceptions.

cinder-manage db purge [<number of days>]

Purge database entries that are marked as deleted, that are older than the number of days specified.

cinder-manage db online_data_migrations [--max_count <n>]

Perform online data migrations for database upgrade between releases in batches.

This command interprets the following options when it is invoked:

--max_count     Maximum number of objects to migrate. If not specified, all
                possible migrations will be completed, in batches of 50 at a
                time.

Returns exit status 0 if no (further) updates are possible, 1 if the --max_count option was used and some updates were completed successfully (even if others generated errors), 2 if some updates generated errors and no other migrations were able to take effect in the last batch attempted, or 127 if invalid input is provided (e.g. non-numeric max-count).

This command should be run after upgrading the database schema. If it exits with partial updates (exit status 1) it should be called again, even if some updates initially generated errors, because some updates may depend on others having completed. If it exits with status 2, intervention is required to resolve the issue causing remaining updates to fail. It should be considered successfully completed only when the exit status is 0.

Cinder Logs¶

cinder-manage logs errors

Displays cinder errors from log files.

cinder-manage logs syslog [<number>]

Displays cinder the most recent entries from syslog. The optional number argument specifies the number of entries to display (default 10).

Cinder Volume¶

cinder-manage volume delete <volume_id>

Delete a volume without first checking that the volume is available.

cinder-manage volume update_host --currenthost <current host> --newhost <new host>

Updates the host name of all volumes currently associated with a specified host.

Cinder Host¶

cinder-manage host list [<zone>]

Displays a list of all physical hosts and their zone. The optional zone argument allows the list to be filtered on the requested zone.

Cinder Service¶

cinder-manage service list

Displays a list of all cinder services and their host, zone, status, state and when the information was last updated.

cinder-manage service remove <service> <host>

Removes a specified cinder service from a specified host.

Cinder Backup¶

cinder-manage backup list

Displays a list of all backups (including ones in progress) and the host on which the backup operation is running.

cinder-manage backup update_backup_host --currenthost <current host> --newhost <new host>

Updates the host name of all backups currently associated with a specified host.

Cinder Version¶

cinder-manage version list

Displays the codebase version cinder is running upon.

Cinder Config¶

cinder-manage config list [<param>]

Displays the current configuration parameters (options) for Cinder. The optional flag parameter may be used to display the configuration of one parameter.

Cinder Util¶

cinder-manage util clean_locks [-h] [--services-offline]

Clean file locks on the current host that were created and are used by drivers and cinder services for volumes, snapshots, and the backup service on the current host.

Should be run on any host where we are running a Cinder service (API, Scheduler, Volume, Backup) and can be run with the Cinder services running or stopped.

If the services are running it will check existing resources in the Cinder database in order to only remove resources that are no longer present (it’s safe to delete the files).

For backups, the way to know if we can remove the startup lock is by checking if the PGRP in the file name is currently running cinder-backup.

Deleting locks while the services are offline is faster as there’s no need to check the database or the running processes.

Default assumes that services are online, must pass --services-offline to specify that they are offline.

The common use case for running the command with --services-offline is to be called on startup as a service unit before any cinder service is started. Command will be usually called without the --services-offline parameter manually or from a cron job.