Server will not migrate VMs to enter maintenance mode

pmcgrail

@Danp OK, so here is the situation....

Manual Migrations work manually regardless of the VM HA state...

Auto-Migration fails if anything but Restart is selected for the HA Mode.

Cluster in HA, VMs in best effort HA mode - Memory Error is thrown
Cluster in HA, VMs in disabled HA mode - Memory Error is thrown
Cluster in HA, VMs in restart HA mode - No Memory Error is thrown

olivierlambert

Last test: cluster without HA.

pmcgrail

@olivierlambert
OK, so with both VMs set to Best Effort and HA disabled on the Pool the error does not occur.

If the pool is set to HA the VMs need to be set to Restart the error occurs

Only one setting works when the Pool in HA Mode, the VM Set to restart.

If I disable the HA Pool setting the VMs migrate as needed and no errors occurs regardless of the VMs HA Settings.

pmcgrail

@pmcgrail said in Server will not migrate VMs to enter maintenance mode:

If the pool is set to HA the VMs need to be set to Restart the error occurs
If the pool is set to HA the VMs need to be set to Restart or the error occurs

olivierlambert

So it's clearly https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api/issues/4323 as @Danp suggested.

olivierlambert

I just sent a precision upstream with your report @pmcgrail

idar21

Apologies for jumping in, but what are the plans to resolve this issue. Any update will be appreciated.

olivierlambert

Hi,

What's your issue functionally speaking?

idar21

@olivierlambert - With the host not able to evacuate, i will have to manually move VMs around to other hosts in the pool and then perform maintenance on the host. Imagine you have to do this for few hundred VMs and multiple physical hosts.

Also, the issue is not just the evacuate, if the pool ha is enabled and you disable all the ha property for all VMs, it allows to put the host in maint fine. But when i tried to disable the maint mode, i got this:
"code": "HA_OPERATION_WOULD_BREAK_FAILOVER_PLAN"

So, i disabled ha on the pool, then the disable maint on the host worked fine.

I think whole HA needs to be fully validated and every aspect needs to cross checked, otherwise i dont think its production ready.

For smaller environments, it might not be too much of a pain but even a medium environment this needs to be fixed.

olivierlambert

Please open a support ticket, obviously for a large infrastructure that would be logical to be sure it's not behaving like that or to make sure XO disable things in the correct order before trying to evacuate a host