@benjireis Looks like version 5.56.0 runs as expected! No issues so far!

@olivierlambert HA is disabled on the pool level

@olivierlambert Hmm im not sure how i can check that. It was configured via XOA, however the VMs were live migrated from a different host which has been decomissioned. Maybe there is some pool HA going on?

Im having issues with the auto start feature.

If i experience a power loss on my server, the VMs dont start. Is this expected behaviour?
My server stays on 24/7, so i dont have not been able to check that autostart functions on reboot, however i can check that too if needed.
Running xe vm-param-list uuid=<uuid> | grep other-config gives me the expected auto_poweron: true;. Is there anything else to check?

@benjireis Looks like version 5.56.0 runs as expected! No issues so far!

@benjireis
So you are correct on all those points. Here are the relevant params from the snapshot that was being used:

is-a-template ( RW): true
is-a-snapshot ( RO): true
other-config (MRW): auto_poweron: false; xo:resource:xva:id: a677aa91-f5d5-46ec-bd53-956b73fc7871; xo:resource:namespace: Debian10; xo:resource:xva:version: 1.0.0; import_task: OpaqueRef:71bd99c2-11c3-4306-a5b9-7fe6e86f551b; mac_seed: 02166646-6e3b-de07-1b11-872d538d3f01; base_template_name: Debian Stretch 9.0; install-methods: cdrom,nfs,http,ftp; linux_template: true

@olivierlambert
The snapshot functionality is still quite tempting to use, as I have not had any issues with it before now. I'll admit I'm not too up to date on what features are recommended or not when it comes to XCP-NG.

@DustinB I think its great that we have such useful software that is free and open source. If my comment came off as negative I apologize, that was not my intention.

Moving forward I would assume that removing all my snapshots would remedy the issue. However I'm not too sure on how keen I am on doing that right at this moment with my current setup, maybe on a different test lab.

@olivierlambert For a homelab setup this is currently the only "free" solution to snapshotting that i know of (other than file system based like ZFS).

Going from "free" to 77USD a month is quite a jump imo.

@olivierlambert Yes i removed it from the Hub > Templates view. It should be noted that i take regular backups of the VMs created with this debian 10 template, so i think it is using them

Backups are done with the XCP-NG center: 'Pool' > 'VM Snapshot Schedule' setting

@olivierlambert Ill remove them using the windows client

So this new VM for k8s seems to be based on an existing VM, which itself is based on the Debian 10 template (when it was created a long time ago)