vcloud some more lessons learned: transfer volume

For my first vcloud cell I decided to make a seperate logical volume group that I could then export and share with other cloud cell. When I was done doing so I had the following result

A seperate logical volume in a seperate volume group

[root@abincloudhttp logs]# lvdisplay clouddata

--- Logical volume ---

LV Name /dev/clouddata/lvcloud

VG Name clouddata

LV UUID LCUjhy-vQxM-Taxn-0A2e-4ac7-F1UL-chl7dH

LV Write Access read/write

LV Status available

# open 1

LV Size 100.00 GB

Current LE 25599

Segments 1

Allocation inherit

Read ahead sectors auto

- currently set to 256

Block device 253:2

A new entry in fstab

[root@abincloudhttp logs]# cat /etc/fstab | grep clouddata

/dev/clouddata/lvcloud /opt/vmware/cloud-director/data/transfer/ ext3 defaults 1 2

And after everything was mounted via mount -a, a nice clean mount

[root@abincloudhttp logs]# df -h | grep transfer

99G 188M 94G 1% /opt/vmware/cloud-director/data/transfer

Also changed the export file

[root@abincloudhttp logs]# cat /etc/exports

/opt/vmware/cloud-director/data/transfer/ 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0(rw,no_root_squash)

(This is poor security ofcourse as I should have used my local subnet/subnetmask and no_root_squash is not really good anyway :))

When I tried to start up my cloud cell, I got a 404 warnings that the application was not available. Not knowing where to look I started to google and found that the logs are kept on a straightforward location

/opt/vmware/cloud-director/logs/

In my cell.log I saw some errors about the transfer directory. I then realised that vcloud, made a seperate user vcloud. However by manually creating another volume group, I overwritten the default ownerships a shown below

[root@abincloudhttp data]# ls -alh

total 44K

drwxr-xr-x 6 vcloud vcloud 4.0K Feb 25 10:45 .

drwxr-xr-x 19 vcloud vcloud 4.0K Feb 25 10:31 ..

drwx------ 3 vcloud vcloud 4.0K Feb 25 10:45 activemq

drwx------ 2 vcloud vcloud 4.0K Feb 25 10:31 generated-bundles

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Feb 24 10:51 transfer

drwx------ 2 vcloud vcloud 4.0K Feb 25 10:45 txlog

a simple chown vcloud:vcloud transfer and service vmware-vcd restart solved the problem :)