Hi, we had a network issue two weeks ago in a HA Victoria cloud resulting in a couple of stale resources (in pending state). Most of them I could cleanup relatively easy, but two instances are left in "building" state, but not yet in the nova database so I can't just remove them via 'openstack server delete <UUID>'. I've been looking through the various nova databases where traces have been left to get an impression where I could intervene (although I don't like manipulating the database). The VMs are two amphora instances: control01:~ # openstack server list --project service | grep -v ACTIVE +--------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+--------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+---------+ | ID | Name | Status | Networks | Image | Flavor | +--------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+--------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+---------+ | 0453a7e5-e4f9-419b-ad71-d837a20ef6bb | amphora-0ee32901-0c59-4752-8253-35b66da176ea | BUILD | | amphora-x64-haproxy_1.0.0 | amphora | | dc8cdc3a-f6b2-469b-af6f-ba2aa130ea9b | amphora-4990a47b-fe8a-431a-90ec-5ac2368a5251 | BUILD | | amphora-x64-haproxy_1.0.0 | amphora |+--------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------+--------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------+---------+ The database tables referring to the UUID 0453a7e5-e4f9-419b-ad71-d837a20ef6bb are these: nova_cell0/instance_id_mappings.ibd nova_cell0/instance_info_caches.ibd nova_cell0/instance_extra.ibd nova_cell0/instances.ibd nova_cell0/instance_system_metadata.ibd octavia/amphora.ibd nova_api/instance_mappings.ibd nova_api/request_specs.ibd My first approach would be to update the nova_cell0.instances table and edit the fields 'vm_state' and 'task_state', or even remove the intire row. But I don't know about the implications this would have on the other tables, so I'd like to know how you would recommend to deal with these orphans. Any comment is appreciated! Thanks, Eugen