[Openstack] Help, How to restore existing vms after host reboot?

livemoon mwjpiero at gmail.com
Mon Mar 12 15:41:31 UTC 2012


yes, I do the same steps with Razique.

2012/3/12 Razique Mahroua <razique.mahroua at gmail.com>

> I explained in the doc how I deal with disasters - basically, a magic
> solution doesn't exist- nova not being environment-aware.
>
> http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/nova-disaster-recovery-process.html
> Regarding the flag, you can safely use it when your instances usage
> doesn't imply the nova-volume usage, that one making every hypervisor
> dependant to the iscsi sessions. Which are quite a pain, but necessary in
> that current implementation.
>
>
> *Nuage & Co - Razique Mahroua** *
> razique.mahroua at gmail.com
>
>
> Le 12 mars 2012 à 15:38, David Kranz a écrit :
>
> A while back I saw a comment about this in
>
> http://mirantis.blogspot.com/2011/06/openstack-nova-basic-disaster-recovery.html
> which suggests that setting these flags may not always be a good idea.
> If this is what should be done, why are these flags false by default?
> Perhaps a nova expert can comment.
>
> More generally, I haven't seen much documentation in nova about how to
> deal with various failure scenarios. There is a lot more information
> about this for Swift and there were some sessions at the last design
> summit that provided a lot of useful information about the mechanics of
> operating a real Swift cluster. I think such a session for nova at the
> upcoming summit would be very useful as well.
>
> -David
>
>
>
> On 3/12/2012 10:14 AM, Christian Wittwer wrote:
>
> You can let nova-compute start the instances after a host reboot.
>
>
> --start_guests_on_host_boot
>
> --resume_guests_state_on_host_boot
>
>
> 2012/3/10 Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda at gmail.com>:
>
> I think that this branch should make reboot work:
>
>
> https://review.openstack.org/#change,5177
>
>
> It looks like we should also make sync_power_states run more frequently.
>  It
>
> currently runs every 6 minutes by default.
>
>
> On Mar 8, 2012, at 6:27 PM, DeadSun wrote:
>
>
> As we all know, if host reboot since of some failure or hardware problem,
>
> the vms will actually shutoff. But after host up, info in nova db show vm
>
> state are "active", and using "nova list" return the same.
>
>
> Now how to start the vms. In Daiblo, I always just using "nova reboot", it
>
> works.But in essex version, it seems cannot use "nova reboot" in an
> inactive
>
> domain. I see there is "nova host-action" command, but it not always make
> vm
>
> start.
>
>
> Another way, I can use "virsh start" a domain, but if the vm attach a
>
> volume, it doesn't work. "nova volume-detach" cannot detach a volume in an
>
> inactive domain.
>
>
> Is there a normal way to resolve this case?
>
>
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