Advance Service Configuration

This page describes the steps to configure advance options for Private Cloud Director block storage service and steps to debug issues with the block storage service.

Block Storage Service Components

The Private Cloud Director block storage service has it's components deployed in the Private Cloud Director management plane as well as on each host that has persistent storage role assigned.

On each host with persistent storage role assigned, Private Cloud Director runs an instance of a service called pf9-cindervolume-base

Enable Advance Configuration

Pre-requisites

• Root privileges on the host with persistent storage role assigned.

• Make sure that no other users are currently using the block storage service as this operation will require a block storage service restart.

Step 1 - Identify Block Storage Configuration File

• Identify the block storage configuration file located on the host with persistent storage role assigned, where you are looking to enable advance configuration options.

• The file is typically located at the following path on the host:

/opt/pf9/etc/pf9-cindervolume-base/conf.d/cinder_override.conf

• open the file in a text editor to edit it

sudo vi /opt/pf9/etc/pf9-cindervolume-base/conf.d/cinder_override.conf

Step 2 - Make Required Changes

• Make the desired changes to this file based on what configuration option you wish to edit. Follow Options You Can Configure to identify the specific configuration you wish to tweak.

Step 3 - Restart Block Storage Service

• Once you've made the required changes to the config file, save the file and exit the text editor

• Now you will need to restart the block storage service in order for the changes to take effect. Follow these steps to restart the service:

sudo service pf9-cindervolume-base restart

Options You Can Configure

Enable Debug Logging

Refer to Advance Service Configuration for the location of block storage service log files. To enable debug logging for the block storage service, edit the following property in the configuration file.

[DEFAULT]
debug = true  # Enable debug logging