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    VM failed and won't start. Displaying "An emulator required to run this VM failed to start"

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      rustylh @olivierlambert
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      @olivierlambert I had the same issue this morning on one of the hosts I rebooted and was working fine. An emulator required to run this VM Failed to start. sd 7:0:0:1: rejecting I/O to offline device. I am not sure what to check next.

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        rustylh
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        xcp-ng iscsiadm -m session -P 3 Attached scsi disk sdb State: offline

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          olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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          There's something fishy about the connectivity to your storage.

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            rustylh @olivierlambert
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            @olivierlambert I am looking into that. I just do not have much experience with the networking.

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              rustylh
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              I found that the SR has two NICs bonded to two different hardware switches on the iSCSI LUN. Then each host has a management network(Bonded NICS on hosts) and VM network (Bonded NICS). Should I break the SR bond and just go with one NIC? If so, I assume I would be best to shutdown the VMs until I have one NIC on SR reconfigured?

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                rustylh
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                Additional finding. The two switches (LAG) are Cisco with STP enabled.

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                  rustylh
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                  I am still getting " sd 7:0:0:1: rejecting I/O to offline device" taking all VMs on host down. I then shutdown the VM and power them on, on another Host. I have 4 host in a pool connected iSCSI to a Synology LUN. What is the best way to troubleshoot network issues on xcp-ng.
                  Thank you

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                    rustylh
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                    Just adding another note. When I reboot the host everything is fine then the issues pops back up. There doesn't seem to be any consistency as far as timeframe in between. It just happens randomly

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                      rustylh
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                      Any help is greatly appreciated.

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                      • olivierlambertO Online
                        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                        That's not a trivial problem that you have, it seems to be intermittent and could be anything between host and the storage. I assume you can see the issue as soon you have the rejecting I/O to offline device right?

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                          rustylh
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                          Yes

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                          • olivierlambertO Online
                            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                            At least we know there's a root cause: the device becomes offline. Could it be a power setting or something on the device itself?

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                              rustylh
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                              Well, it doesn't happen to every host at the same time, it's just random.

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                                rustylh
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                                What log is best to look at for network disconnects?

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                                • olivierlambertO Online
                                  olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                                  Well dmesg is fine, I would also check the switch logs if you have anything happening on the ports where you host are connected. Since you can find when it's happening with dmesg, I would use that to correlate with anything else happening few minutes before.

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                                    rustylh
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                                    dmesg -T is only showing these from 00:37 on.

                                    [Mon Jun 30 05:55:10 2025] print_req_error: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
                                    [Mon Jun 30 05:55:10 2025] sd 7:0:0:1: rejecting I/O to offline device

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                                    • olivierlambertO Online
                                      olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                                      Then try to find anything happening around that time on other hosts, equipment, storage and so on.

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