Deploying the recovery grid node in OpenStack using the deployment utility

You can use the provided deployment utility to deploy the recovered grid node in OpenStack. Using the utility is simpler, less error prone, and allows you to create a repeatable deployment process and may be more time efficient in some situations.

Before you begin

You must already have access credentials for accessing your OpenStack project to use for your StorageGRID Webscale deployment.
You must already have a configuration file defined with the settings for your StorageGRID Webscale system. This would have been completed at install. If you do not have a copy of this file, recreate it. See the StorageGRID Webscale 10.4 Installation Guide for instructions.
You should specify the same type of storage device that was in use prior to node recovery.
You must have used the StorageGRID Webscale 11 vmdk file to create a node image, as described in "Uploading a node image" in the StorageGRID Webscale 10.4 Installation Guide.
You must have installed the deployment utility (which will also cause the necessary Python OpenStack clients to be installed). This was done when the grid was installed

Steps

Log in to the Linux machine you are using to run the deployment utility.
List the node names for all grid nodes defined in the configuration file, and identify the node name of the failed grid node:deploy-sgws-openstack --verbose list --config config-file
Remove the failed grid node from OpenStack. Enter: deploy-sgws-openstack destroy --config config-file -F node-name
Tip: You can enter deploy-sgws-openstack -h for general help on the deployment utility, or deploy-sgws-openstack destroy -h for help on the destroy option of the utility.
Run the deployment utility to deploy the recovered node(s). deploy-sgws-openstack --verbose deploy --config config-file --image image-name-or-id node-name node-name
Example
This command deploys two nodes named dc1-gw1 and dc1-adm1. deploy-sgws-openstack deploy --config config.ini --image image_name dc1-gw1 dc1-adm1

If you do not specify a node name or names for the command, all grid nodes are redeployed.

Result

The deployment is complete when the status is "Deployment Complete".

dc1-adm1: Node dc1-gw1 dc1-adm1 complete
Deployment complete