And the secret to this was using the script correctly (--rename instead of --update)

interface-rename --rename eth0=3c:a8:2a:15:4a:9c

Name  MAC                PCI              ethN  Phys  SMBios                         Driver  Version  Firmware                 
eth0  3c:a8:2a:15:4a:9c  0000:02:00.0[0]  eth0  em1   Embedded LOM 1 Port 1          tg3     3.137    5719-v1.46 NCSI v1.5.12.0
eth1  3c:a8:2a:15:4a:9d  0000:02:00.1[0]  eth1  em2   Embedded LOM 1 Port 2          tg3     3.137    5719-v1.46 NCSI v1.5.12.0
eth2  3c:a8:2a:15:4a:9e  0000:02:00.2[0]  eth2  em3   Embedded LOM 1 Port 3          tg3     3.137    5719-v1.46 NCSI v1.5.12.0
eth3  3c:a8:2a:15:4a:9f  0000:02:00.3[0]  eth3  em4   Embedded LOM 1 Port 4          tg3     3.137    5719-v1.46 NCSI v1.5.12.0
eth4  38:ea:a7:12:de:14  0000:04:00.0[0]  eth4  em49  Embedded FlexibleLOM 1 Port 1  ixgbe   5.9.4    0x800009e0, 1.3089.0     
eth5  38:ea:a7:12:de:15  0000:04:00.1[0]  eth5  em50  Embedded FlexibleLOM 1 Port 2  ixgbe   5.9.4    0x800009e0, 1.3089.0 

All done.

@olivierlambert I've made the needed adjustment in the build script to override the default. Now I wait for another set of patches to test it.
Thanks all.

@olivierlambert Wow too easy. Thank you!

@olivierlambert I finally had a chance to apply patches to the two ProLiant servers with the 20 minute boot time and everything worked as expected.

And the secret to this was using the script correctly (--rename instead of --update)

interface-rename --rename eth0=3c:a8:2a:15:4a:9c

Name  MAC                PCI              ethN  Phys  SMBios                         Driver  Version  Firmware                 
eth0  3c:a8:2a:15:4a:9c  0000:02:00.0[0]  eth0  em1   Embedded LOM 1 Port 1          tg3     3.137    5719-v1.46 NCSI v1.5.12.0
eth1  3c:a8:2a:15:4a:9d  0000:02:00.1[0]  eth1  em2   Embedded LOM 1 Port 2          tg3     3.137    5719-v1.46 NCSI v1.5.12.0
eth2  3c:a8:2a:15:4a:9e  0000:02:00.2[0]  eth2  em3   Embedded LOM 1 Port 3          tg3     3.137    5719-v1.46 NCSI v1.5.12.0
eth3  3c:a8:2a:15:4a:9f  0000:02:00.3[0]  eth3  em4   Embedded LOM 1 Port 4          tg3     3.137    5719-v1.46 NCSI v1.5.12.0
eth4  38:ea:a7:12:de:14  0000:04:00.0[0]  eth4  em49  Embedded FlexibleLOM 1 Port 1  ixgbe   5.9.4    0x800009e0, 1.3089.0     
eth5  38:ea:a7:12:de:15  0000:04:00.1[0]  eth5  em50  Embedded FlexibleLOM 1 Port 2  ixgbe   5.9.4    0x800009e0, 1.3089.0 

All done.

For example, rename eth6 to eth0...

~# ifconfig eth6 down

~]# xe pif-list host-uuid=7cbc09aa-6d32-44a9-b6a2-eb5b30c11e1e device=eth6
uuid ( RO)                  : ab7303f0-accd-7458-2a1f-e03906a85418
                device ( RO): eth6
    currently-attached ( RO): false
                  VLAN ( RO): -1
          network-uuid ( RO): 69435d48-6bf5-c76b-9df9-8e276e2b51fc

~]# xe pif-forget uuid=ab7303f0-accd-7458-2a1f-e03906a85418

~]# interface-rename --update eth0=3c:a8:2a:15:4a:9c
INFO     [2025-11-07 09:56:27] Performing manual update of rules.  Not actually renaming interfaces
INFO     [2025-11-07 09:56:27] All done

~]# ifconfig eth0 up
eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

I can remove the NICs but if I rescan then they appear as eth6,7,8,9 again.

I have 2 hosts.
I have enabled the 4 port LOM NIC in the BIOS on my pool master. The interfaces ethN appear correctly but are misnamed in the Name column.

Name  MAC                PCI              ethN  Phys  SMBios                         Driver  Version  Firmware                 
eth4  38:ea:a7:12:de:14  0000:04:00.0[0]  eth4  em49  Embedded FlexibleLOM 1 Port 1  ixgbe   5.9.4    0x800009e0, 1.3089.0     
eth5  38:ea:a7:12:de:15  0000:04:00.1[0]  eth5  em50  Embedded FlexibleLOM 1 Port 2  ixgbe   5.9.4    0x800009e0, 1.3089.0     
eth6  3c:a8:2a:15:4a:9c  0000:02:00.0[0]  eth0  em1   Embedded LOM 1 Port 1          tg3     3.137    5719-v1.46 NCSI v1.5.12.0
eth7  3c:a8:2a:15:4a:9d  0000:02:00.1[0]  eth1  em2   Embedded LOM 1 Port 2          tg3     3.137    5719-v1.46 NCSI v1.5.12.0
eth8  3c:a8:2a:15:4a:9e  0000:02:00.2[0]  eth2  em3   Embedded LOM 1 Port 3          tg3     3.137    5719-v1.46 NCSI v1.5.12.0
eth9  3c:a8:2a:15:4a:9f  0000:02:00.3[0]  eth3  em4   Embedded LOM 1 Port 4          tg3     3.137    5719-v1.46 NCSI v1.5.12.0

I would like to change the Name in the first column to match the name in the ethN column as they are in my second host (which had the NIC enabled previously).

Name  MAC                PCI              ethN  Phys  SMBios                         Driver  Version  Firmware                 
eth0  3c:a8:2a:1e:4e:e8  0000:02:00.0[0]  eth0  em1   Embedded LOM 1 Port 1          tg3     3.137    5719-v1.46 NCSI v1.5.33.0
eth1  3c:a8:2a:1e:4e:e9  0000:02:00.1[0]  eth1  em2   Embedded LOM 1 Port 2          tg3     3.137    5719-v1.46 NCSI v1.5.33.0
eth2  3c:a8:2a:1e:4e:ea  0000:02:00.2[0]  eth2  em3   Embedded LOM 1 Port 3          tg3     3.137    5719-v1.46 NCSI v1.5.33.0
eth3  3c:a8:2a:1e:4e:eb  0000:02:00.3[0]  eth3  em4   Embedded LOM 1 Port 4          tg3     3.137    5719-v1.46 NCSI v1.5.33.0
eth4  5c:b9:01:8a:c0:e0  0000:04:00.0[0]  eth4  em49  Embedded FlexibleLOM 1 Port 1  ixgbe   5.9.4    0x800009e0, 1.3089.0     
eth5  5c:b9:01:8a:c0:e1  0000:04:00.1[0]  eth5  em50  Embedded FlexibleLOM 1 Port 2  ixgbe   5.9.4    0x800009e0, 1.3089.0 

eth4 and eth5 match in both hosts and I don't want to break those because I have existing data and NFS on them.

I just want to rename eth6-9 on the pool master to match eth0-3 on the second host.

I have tried the interface-rename method but I am not getting what I expect. All the examples I have seen are useful for swapping the existing names for another existing name, not for changing the name to one that does not exist in the list already.

Any guidance would be most helpful.

@tuxpowered said in Rolling Pool Update - host took too long to restart:

When the first note reboots (the master), I can see that the system is back up in 5-8 min. If I go in to XO > Settings > Servers and click the Enable/Disable status button to reconnect it pops right up. Again, does not resume migrating the other nodes.

That is what I am seeing also, logged here https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/9683/rolling-pool-update-incomplete

@tuxpowered I'm wondering if this is a network connectivity issue.

When the rolling pool update stops, what does your route table look like on the master (can it reach the other node)?

Is your VPN layer 3 (routed), layer 2 (non-routed), IPSEC tunnel?

Perhaps this was because there were 3 pages of failed tasks?
I have deleted them all with xo-cli and I'll see how the next patch cycle goes.

Over that last two patch bundles my Rolling Pool Update fails to complete,
VMs are evacuated from the pool master to the pool slave (a 2 node pool).
Patches are applied to the pool master.
The pool master reboots.
After I can see that the pool master console is up, I reconnect XOA to the master.
I wait, wait, and wait some more and nothing else happens after that. The VMs remain on the slave server.
The "Rolling pool update" task is still in "Started" state.
There is an "API call: vm.stats" task that started after that in a failed state.

{
  "id": "0m1ku3cog",
  "properties": {
    "method": "vm.stats",
    "params": {
      "id": "ad5850fb-8264-18e2-c974-9df9ccaa6ccc"
    },
    "name": "API call: vm.stats",
    "userId": "2844af20-1bee-43f8-9b91-e1ac3b49239f",
    "type": "api.call"
  },
  "start": 1727448260848,
  "status": "failure",
  "updatedAt": 1727448260937,
  "end": 1727448260937,
  "result": {
    "message": "unusable",
    "name": "TypeError",
    "stack": "TypeError: unusable\n    at /opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/node_modules/undici/lib/api/readable.js:224:34\n    at Promise._execute (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/debuggability.js:384:9)\n    at Promise._resolveFromExecutor (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:518:18)\n    at new Promise (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:103:10)\n    at consume (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/node_modules/undici/lib/api/readable.js:212:10)\n    at BodyReadable.text (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/node_modules/undici/lib/api/readable.js:111:12)\n    at file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/packages/xo-server/src/xapi-stats.mjs:258:39\n    at XapiStats._getAndUpdateStats (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/packages/xo-server/src/xapi-stats.mjs:319:18)\n    at Task.runInside (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:169:22)\n    at Task.run (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:153:20)\n    at Api.#callApiMethod (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/packages/xo-server/src/xo-mixins/api.mjs:402:20)"
  }
}

The "Rolling pool update" task finally timed out.

{
  "id": "0m1ku1muz",
  "properties": {
    "poolId": "ac9585b6-39ac-016c-f864-8c75b00c082b",
    "poolName": "Gen9",
    "progress": 40,
    "name": "Rolling pool update",
    "userId": "2844af20-1bee-43f8-9b91-e1ac3b49239f"
  },
  "start": 1727448180731,
  "status": "failure",
  "updatedAt": 1727449839025,
  "tasks": [
    {
      "id": "y5cpp9ox6vg",
      "properties": {
        "name": "Listing missing patches",
        "total": 2,
        "progress": 100
      },
      "start": 1727448180736,
      "status": "success",
      "tasks": [
        {
          "id": "x7rtdxs48rl",
          "properties": {
            "name": "Listing missing patches for host 0366c500-c154-4967-8f12-fc45cf9390a5",
            "hostId": "0366c500-c154-4967-8f12-fc45cf9390a5",
            "hostName": "xcpng02"
          },
          "start": 1727448180737,
          "status": "success",
          "end": 1727448180738
        },
        {
          "id": "11re7s9vjpkb",
          "properties": {
            "name": "Listing missing patches for host 7cbc09aa-6d32-44a9-b6a2-eb5b30c11e1e",
            "hostId": "7cbc09aa-6d32-44a9-b6a2-eb5b30c11e1e",
            "hostName": "xcpng01"
          },
          "start": 1727448180737,
          "status": "success",
          "end": 1727448180738
        }
      ],
      "end": 1727448180738
    },
    {
      "id": "pq07ubwpo",
      "properties": {
        "name": "Updating and rebooting"
      },
      "start": 1727448180738,
      "status": "failure",
      "tasks": [
        {
          "id": "kut3i9gog4m",
          "properties": {
            "name": "Restarting hosts",
            "progress": 33
          },
          "start": 1727448180824,
          "status": "failure",
          "tasks": [
            {
              "id": "54axt2hik3c",
              "properties": {
                "name": "Restarting host 7cbc09aa-6d32-44a9-b6a2-eb5b30c11e1e",
                "hostId": "7cbc09aa-6d32-44a9-b6a2-eb5b30c11e1e",
                "hostName": "xcpng01"
              },
              "start": 1727448180824,
              "status": "failure",
              "tasks": [
                {
                  "id": "ocube7c6kmf",
                  "properties": {
                    "name": "Evacuate",
                    "hostId": "7cbc09aa-6d32-44a9-b6a2-eb5b30c11e1e",
                    "hostName": "xcpng01"
                  },
                  "start": 1727448181014,
                  "status": "success",
                  "end": 1727448592236
                },
                {
                  "id": "millse8k12o",
                  "properties": {
                    "name": "Installing patches",
                    "hostId": "7cbc09aa-6d32-44a9-b6a2-eb5b30c11e1e",
                    "hostName": "xcpng01"
                  },
                  "start": 1727448592237,
                  "status": "success",
                  "end": 1727448638798
                },
                {
                  "id": "5aazbc573dg",
                  "properties": {
                    "name": "Restart",
                    "hostId": "7cbc09aa-6d32-44a9-b6a2-eb5b30c11e1e",
                    "hostName": "xcpng01"
                  },
                  "start": 1727448638799,
                  "status": "success",
                  "end": 1727448638986
                },
                {
                  "id": "1roala4dv69",
                  "properties": {
                    "name": "Waiting for host to be up",
                    "hostId": "7cbc09aa-6d32-44a9-b6a2-eb5b30c11e1e",
                    "hostName": "xcpng01"
                  },
                  "start": 1727448638986,
                  "status": "failure",
                  "end": 1727449839025,
                  "result": {
                    "message": "Host 7cbc09aa-6d32-44a9-b6a2-eb5b30c11e1e took too long to restart",
                    "name": "Error",
                    "stack": "Error: Host 7cbc09aa-6d32-44a9-b6a2-eb5b30c11e1e took too long to restart\n    at file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/packages/xo-server/src/xapi/mixins/pool.mjs:152:17\n    at /opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:54:40\n    at AsyncLocalStorage.run (node:async_hooks:346:14)\n    at Task.runInside (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:169:41)\n    at Task.run (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:153:31)\n    at Function.run (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:54:27)\n    at file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/packages/xo-server/src/xapi/mixins/pool.mjs:142:24\n    at Task.runInside (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:169:22)\n    at Task.run (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:153:20)\n    at file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/packages/xo-server/src/xapi/mixins/pool.mjs:112:11\n    at Task.runInside (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:169:22)\n    at Task.run (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:153:20)\n    at Xapi.rollingPoolReboot (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/packages/xo-server/src/xapi/mixins/pool.mjs:102:5)\n    at file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/packages/xo-server/src/xapi/mixins/patching.mjs:524:7\n    at Task.runInside (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:169:22)\n    at Task.run (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:153:20)\n    at Task.runInside (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:169:22)\n    at Task.run (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:153:20)\n    at XenServers.rollingPoolUpdate (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/packages/xo-server/src/xo-mixins/xen-servers.mjs:703:5)\n    at Xo.rollingUpdate (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/packages/xo-server/src/api/pool.mjs:243:3)\n    at Task.runInside (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:169:22)\n    at Task.run (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:153:20)"
                  }
                }
              ],
              "end": 1727449839025,
              "result": {
                "message": "Host 7cbc09aa-6d32-44a9-b6a2-eb5b30c11e1e took too long to restart",
                "name": "Error",
                "stack": "Error: Host 7cbc09aa-6d32-44a9-b6a2-eb5b30c11e1e took too long to restart\n    at file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/packages/xo-server/src/xapi/mixins/pool.mjs:152:17\n    at /opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:54:40\n    at AsyncLocalStorage.run (node:async_hooks:346:14)\n    at Task.runInside (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:169:41)\n    at Task.run (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:153:31)\n    at Function.run (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:54:27)\n    at file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/packages/xo-server/src/xapi/mixins/pool.mjs:142:24\n    at Task.runInside (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:169:22)\n    at Task.run (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:153:20)\n    at file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/packages/xo-server/src/xapi/mixins/pool.mjs:112:11\n    at Task.runInside (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:169:22)\n    at Task.run (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:153:20)\n    at Xapi.rollingPoolReboot (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/packages/xo-server/src/xapi/mixins/pool.mjs:102:5)\n    at file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/packages/xo-server/src/xapi/mixins/patching.mjs:524:7\n    at Task.runInside (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:169:22)\n    at Task.run (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:153:20)\n    at Task.runInside (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:169:22)\n    at Task.run (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:153:20)\n    at XenServers.rollingPoolUpdate (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/packages/xo-server/src/xo-mixins/xen-servers.mjs:703:5)\n    at Xo.rollingUpdate (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/packages/xo-server/src/api/pool.mjs:243:3)\n    at Task.runInside (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:169:22)\n    at Task.run (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202409271433/@vates/task/index.js:153:20)"
              }
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          "end": 1727449839025,
          "result": {
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The way I have mitigated it in the past was to vacate the slave node and update the patches on it.
Then I have to go into the pool master and cleanse the failed/stale tasks.

It's a bloody mess.

Any advice is welcome.
Danny

@olivierlambert I finally had a chance to apply patches to the two ProLiant servers with the 20 minute boot time and everything worked as expected.

@Danp I tried some of the xe commands listed in that post like xe vm-param-clear and xe vm-param-remove and wasn't successful.

Additional observations...

When a VM is set to prevent accidental deletion (only)...

blocked-operations (MRW): destroy: true

When set to prevent accidental shutdown (only)...

blocked-operations (MRW): clean_shutdown: true; (unknown operation): true; pause: true; hard_reboot: true; suspend: true; hard_shutdown: true; clean_reboot: true

And of course with both options enabled, it is the aggregation of both sets.

blocked-operations (MRW): destroy: true; clean_shutdown: true; (unknown operation): true; pause: true; hard_reboot: true; suspend: true; hard_shutdown: true; clean_reboot: true

Danny