Openstack nova live migration pain

Thomas Goirand zigo at debian.org
Fri Sep 10 19:34:19 UTC 2021


On 9/10/21 5:53 PM, hai wu wrote:
> This is Openstack train release. Nova live migration is extremely
> painful to deal with. Everytime we complete a live migration,
> nova-compute service on the source host would still be up and
> runnning, but it would always fail to further increment the
> report_count database field in nova database, host heartbeat purpose,
> thus controller would think the hypervisor host failed via its is_up()
> function checking on report_count and updated_at fields iirc. So we
> end up having to manually migrate one vm at a time, then restart
> service, then manually migrate the next vm ..
> 
> Any ideas? I already tried setting debug=True for nova.conf even for
> database tracing, but thus far I could not find any obvious error
> message. Each time the live migration (no shared storage) would
> succeed, but each time we will have to restart nova-compute service.
> This is so bad ..
> 
> Any suggestions on this would be highly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Hai

Hi,

I experienced the same kind of trouble with Nova as well, but this seems
to be fixed in the more recent versions. What is the exact point release
that you're running?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)



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