Chapter 12. Nodes
Chapter 12. Nodes 12.1. Node maintenance Nodes can be placed into maintenance mode by using the oc adm utility or NodeMaintenance custom resources (CRs). Note The node-maintenance-operator (NMO) is no longer shipped with OpenShift Virtualization. It is deployed as a standalone Operator from the OperatorHub in the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS web console or by using the OpenShift CLI ( oc ). For more information on remediation, fencing, and maintaining nodes, see the Workload Availability for Red Hat OpenShift documentation. Important Virtual machines (VMs) must have a persistent volume claim (PVC) with a shared ReadWriteMany (RWX) access mode to be live migrated. The Node Maintenance Operator watches for new or deleted NodeMaintenance CRs. When a new NodeMaintenance CR is detected, no new workloads are scheduled and the node is cordoned off from the rest of the cluster. All pods that can be evicted are evicted from the node. When a NodeMaintenance CR is deleted, the node that is referenced in the CR is made available for new workloads. Note Using a NodeMaintenance CR for node maintenance tasks achieves the same results as the oc adm cordon and oc adm drain commands using standard Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS custom resource processing. 12.1.1. Eviction strategies Placing a node into maintenance marks the node as unschedulable and drains all the VMs and pods from it. You can configure eviction strategies for virtual machines (VMs) or for the cluster. VM eviction strategy The VM LiveMigrate eviction strategy ensures that a virtual machine instance (VMI) is not interrupted if the node is placed into maintenance or drained. VMIs with this eviction strategy will be live migrated to another node. You can configure eviction strategies for virtual machines (VMs) by using the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS web console or the command line . Important The default eviction strategy is LiveMigrate . A non-migratable VM with a LiveMigrate eviction strategy might prevent nodes from draining or block an infrastructure upgrade because the VM is not evicted from the node. This situation causes a migration to remain in a Pending or Scheduling state unless you shut down the VM manually. You must set the eviction strategy of non-migratable VMs to LiveMigrateIfPossible , which does not block an upgrade, or to None , for VMs that should not be migrated. 12.1.1.1. Configuring a VM eviction strategy using the command line You can configure an eviction strategy for a virtual machine (VM) by using the command line. Important The default eviction strategy is LiveMigrate . A non-migratable VM with a LiveMigrate eviction strategy might prevent nodes from draining or block an infrastructure upgrade because the VM is not evicted from the node. This situation causes a migration to remain in a Pending or Scheduling state unless you shut down the VM manually. You must set the eviction strategy of non-migratable VMs to LiveMigrateIfPossible , which does not block an upgrade, or to None , for VMs that should not be migrated. Procedure Edit the VirtualMachine resource by running the following command: USD oc edit vm <vm_name> -n <namespace> Example eviction strategy apiVersion: kubevirt.io/v1 kind: VirtualMachine metadata: name: <vm_name> spec: template: spec: evictionStrategy: LiveMigrateIfPossible 1 # ... 1 Specify the eviction strategy. The default value is LiveMigrate . Restart the VM to apply the changes: USD virtctl restart <vm_name> -n <namespace> 12.1.2. Run strategies The spec.runStrategy key determines how a VM behaves under certain conditions. 12.1.2.1. Run strategies The spec.runStrategy key has four possible values: Always The virtual machine instance (VMI) is always present when a virtual machine (VM) is created on another node. A new VMI is created if the original stops for any reason. RerunOnFailure The VMI is re-created on another node if the instance fails. The instance is not re-created if the VM stops successfully, such as when it is shut down. Manual You control the VMI state manually with the start , stop , and restart virtctl client commands. The VM is not automatically restarted. Halted No VMI is present when a VM is created. Different combinations of the virtctl start , stop and restart commands affect the run strategy. The following table describes a VM's transition between states. The first column shows the VM's initial run strategy. The remaining columns show a virtctl command and the new run strategy after that command is run. Table 12.1. Run strategy before and after virtctl commands Initial run strategy Start Stop Restart Always - Halted Always RerunOnFailure - Halted RerunOnFailure Manual Manual Manual Manual Halted Always - - Note If a node in a cluster installed by using installer-provisioned infrastructure fails the machine health check and is unavailable, VMs with runStrategy: Always or runStrategy: RerunOnFailure are rescheduled on a new node. 12.1.2.2. Configuring a VM run strategy by using the command line You can configure a run strategy for a virtual machine (VM) by using the command line. Procedure Edit the VirtualMachine resource by running the following command: USD oc edit vm <vm_name> -n <namespace> Example run strategy apiVersion: kubevirt.io/v1 kind: VirtualMachine spec: runStrategy: Always # ... 12.1.3. Maintaining bare metal nodes When you deploy Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS on bare metal infrastructure, there are additional considerations that must be taken into account compared to deploying on cloud infrastructure. Unlike in cloud environments where the cluster nodes are considered ephemeral, re-provisioning a bare metal node requires significantly more time and effort for maintenance tasks. When a bare metal node fails, for example, if a fatal kernel error happens or a NIC card hardware failure occurs, workloads on the failed node need to be restarted elsewhere else on the cluster while the problem node is repaired or replaced. Node maintenance mode allows cluster administrators to gracefully power down nodes, moving workloads to other parts of the cluster and ensuring workloads do not get interrupted. Detailed progress and node status details are provided during maintenance. 12.1.4. Additional resources About live migration 12.2. Managing node labeling for obsolete CPU models You can schedule a virtual machine (VM) on a node as long as the VM CPU model and policy are supported by the node. 12.2.1. About node labeling for obsolete CPU models The OpenShift Virtualization Operator uses a predefined list of obsolete CPU models to ensure that a node supports only valid CPU models for scheduled VMs. By default, the following CPU models are eliminated from the list of labels generated for the node: Example 12.1. Obsolete CPU models This predefined list is not visible in the HyperConverged CR. You cannot remove CPU models from this list, but you can add to the list by editing the spec.obsoleteCPUs.cpuModels field of the HyperConverged CR. 12.2.2. About node labeling for CPU features Through the process of iteration, the base CPU features in the minimum CPU model are eliminated from the list of labels generated for the node. For example: An environment might have two supported CPU models: Penryn and Haswell . If Penryn is specified as the CPU model for minCPU , each base CPU feature for Penryn is compared to the list of CPU features supported by Haswell . Example 12.2. CPU features supported by Penryn Example 12.3. CPU features supported by Haswell If both Penryn and Haswell support a specific CPU feature, a label is not created for that feature. Labels are generated for CPU features that are supported only by Haswell and not by Penryn . Example 12.4. Node labels created for CPU features after iteration 12.2.3. Configuring obsolete CPU models You can configure a list of obsolete CPU models by editing the HyperConverged custom resource (CR). Procedure Edit the HyperConverged custom resource, specifying the obsolete CPU models in the obsoleteCPUs array. For example: apiVersion: hco.kubevirt.io/v1beta1 kind: HyperConverged metadata: name: kubevirt-hyperconverged namespace: openshift-cnv spec: obsoleteCPUs: cpuModels: 1 - "<obsolete_cpu_1>" - "<obsolete_cpu_2>" minCPUModel: "<minimum_cpu_model>" 2 1 Replace the example values in the cpuModels array with obsolete CPU models. Any value that you specify is added to a predefined list of obsolete CPU models. The predefined list is not visible in the CR. 2 Replace this value with the minimum CPU model that you want to use for basic CPU features. If you do not specify a value, Penryn is used by default. 12.3. Preventing node reconciliation Use skip-node annotation to prevent the node-labeller from reconciling a node. 12.3.1. Using skip-node annotation If you want the node-labeller to skip a node, annotate that node by using the oc CLI. Prerequisites You have installed the OpenShift CLI ( oc ). Procedure Annotate the node that you want to skip by running the following command: USD oc annotate node <node_name> node-labeller.kubevirt.io/skip-node=true 1 1 Replace <node_name> with the name of the relevant node to skip. Reconciliation resumes on the cycle after the node annotation is removed or set to false. 12.3.2. Additional resources Managing node labeling for obsolete CPU models
oc edit vm <vm_name> -n <namespace> apiVersion: kubevirt.io/v1 kind: VirtualMachine metadata: name: <vm_name> spec: template: spec: evictionStrategy: LiveMigrateIfPossible 1 virtctl restart <vm_name> -n <namespace> oc edit vm <vm_name> -n <namespace> apiVersion: kubevirt.io/v1 kind: VirtualMachine spec: runStrategy: Always "486" Conroe athlon core2duo coreduo kvm32 kvm64 n270 pentium pentium2 pentium3 pentiumpro phenom qemu32 qemu64 apic clflush cmov cx16 cx8 de fpu fxsr lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx msr mtrr nx pae pat pge pni pse pse36 sep sse sse2 sse4.1 ssse3 syscall tsc aes apic avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 clflush cmov cx16 cx8 de erms fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr hle invpcid lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx movbe msr mtrr nx pae pat pcid pclmuldq pge pni popcnt pse pse36 rdtscp rtm sep smep sse sse2 sse4.1 sse4.2 ssse3 syscall tsc tsc-deadline x2apic xsave aes avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 erms fma fsgsbase hle invpcid movbe pcid pclmuldq popcnt rdtscp rtm sse4.2 tsc-deadline x2apic xsave apiVersion: hco.kubevirt.io/v1beta1 kind: HyperConverged metadata: name: kubevirt-hyperconverged namespace: openshift-cnv spec: obsoleteCPUs: cpuModels: 1 - "<obsolete_cpu_1>" - "<obsolete_cpu_2>" minCPUModel: "<minimum_cpu_model>" 2 oc annotate node <node_name> node-labeller.kubevirt.io/skip-node=true 1