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[sles][functional][s390x][fast] Adapt openQA to use temporary z/VM guests after breakdown of our Mainframe storage system

Added by mgriessmeier about 6 years ago. Updated about 6 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Immediate
Assignee:
mgriessmeier
Category:
Infrastructure
Target version:
openQA Project - Milestone 14
Start date:
2018-02-20
Due date:
2018-02-27
% Done:

0%

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Description

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With the breakdown of our storage backend (DS8100) for s390x, we've lost all z/VM guests which were running on z/VM 5.4
right now it's not clear yet if the DS8100 will become functional again, since the machine is already out of support
For now we've installed a z/VM 6.3 on the new storage backend (DS8870) as temporary solution.

Thanks to the help of the Mainframe-Admin team, we were able to get (for now) 5 guests installed and running in this new environment
Since those guests are now running on z/VM 6.3, which has significant changes compared to 5.4, we need to adapt openQA for this

For now, I'm aware of changes in following areas:

  • DONE MANDATORY: Adapted workerconf to match the settings for the new guests -> merge request
  • DONE MANDATORY: Adapted bootloader_s390.pm to handle the differences in the x3270 terminal -> pull request
  • DONE MANDATORY: Adapted openQA Machine definitions -> added machine s390x-zVM-temp
  • DONE RECOMMENDED: New needles for faster delivery on this task -> merge request and see poo#32008 for improvements later on

  • DONE MANDATORY: Updated Documentation in the wiki -> updated

  • REJECTED MAYBE NECESSARY: Backend changes in terms of connecting to the SUT -> not necessary

  • REJECTED MAYBE NECESSARY: Set up local DNS resolving for the guests on the worker -> not necessary

Related issues 2 (0 open — 2 closed)

Precedes openQA Tests - action #32008: [sles][functional][s390x] Adapt bootloader_s390 to be able to work properly with z/VM 6.3Rejected2018-02-28

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Copied to openQA Tests - action #32245: [sles][functional][s390x][fast] Revert changes to temporary zVM guests and go back to the old onesResolvedmgriessmeier2018-02-272018-02-27

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 #1

Updated by mgriessmeier about 6 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)

updated description

Merge Requests done:
needle mr
salt mr
test pr

verification run

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Updated by mgriessmeier about 6 years ago

  • Precedes action #32008: [sles][functional][s390x] Adapt bootloader_s390 to be able to work properly with z/VM 6.3 added
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Updated by mgriessmeier about 6 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Feedback

everything is merged and deployed
Tests are running

-> keeping in feedback to track potential fallouts

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Updated by mgriessmeier about 6 years ago

the temporary z/VM guests are working very unreliable.
apparently they need more time to disconnect from the terminal than they did before... which results into incompletes
e.g. https://openqa.suse.de/tests/1491952/file/autoinst-log.txt

I'll try to come up with a solution to this...

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Updated by mgriessmeier about 6 years ago

  • Copied to action #32245: [sles][functional][s390x][fast] Revert changes to temporary zVM guests and go back to the old ones added
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Updated by mgriessmeier about 6 years ago

mgriessmeier wrote:

the temporary z/VM guests are working very unreliable.
apparently they need more time to disconnect from the terminal than they did before... which results into incompletes
e.g. https://openqa.suse.de/tests/1491952/file/autoinst-log.txt

I'll try to come up with a solution to this...

not necessary anymore, since we switch back to the old configuration, see https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/32245

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 #8

Updated by mgriessmeier about 6 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Resolved
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