I have 2 cells in a cluster.
They are configured with local volumes for the transfer storage.
I want to move them to use shared nfs volume.
How do i do that? i understand that just mounting the volume will cause the service to fail.
so what actions do i need to do in order to fix that?
Thanks
The transfer space
/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/data/transfer
should only contain items that are for current transfers. If you know all transfers are stopped then the files in the location should have been removed by vcd (but sometimes they are not) - if you shutdown each cell gracefully then the files are just leftovers as I understand.
If you want to be a little safe...
After shutdown of a cell, you could rename the current transfer director to /data/transferOld or something and setup a new one for the NFS.
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Here is that we did:
On each cell:
add line to mount /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/data/transfer in /etc/fstab
use cell-managment-tool to shutdown each cell gracefully
then reboot
If all is right the nfs column should now be mounted at the transfer location. Just keep in mind that the NFS should have no_root_squash on or it can be a pain to troubleshoot issues later.
thanks
but do you think i can ignore all the files and directories that are on each cell now?
and start a clean new shared volume?
The transfer space
/opt/vmware/vcloud-director/data/transfer
should only contain items that are for current transfers. If you know all transfers are stopped then the files in the location should have been removed by vcd (but sometimes they are not) - if you shutdown each cell gracefully then the files are just leftovers as I understand.
If you want to be a little safe...
After shutdown of a cell, you could rename the current transfer director to /data/transferOld or something and setup a new one for the NFS.