[ovirt-users] power outage: HA vms not restarted

Mon May 19 12:56:41 UTC 2014

saw another strange moment in logs:

for example, vm 'prod.gui', according to logs engine tried to restart it 
on host srv19 at 00:23:11 and it failed with error 'Failed to run VM 
prod.gui: VdcBLLException: java.lang.NullPointerException (Failed with 
error ENGINE and code 5001)'

in vdsm.log on srv19 i can see this error:
StoragePoolUnknown: Unknown pool id, pool not connected: 
('5849b030-626e-47cb-ad90-3ce782d831b3',)
Thread-18::DEBUG::2014-05-17 
00:23:13,022::task::869::TaskManager.Task::(_run) 
Task=`27a323de-ac42-4d68-992f-eb5c84d8baea`::Task._run: 
27a323de-ac42-4d68-992f-eb5c84d8baea 
('5849b030-626e-47cb-ad90-3ce782d831b3',) {} failed - stopping task
Thread-18::DEBUG::2014-05-17 
00:23:13,022::task::1194::TaskManager.Task::(stop) 
Task=`27a323de-ac42-4d68-992f-eb5c84d8baea`::stopping in state preparing 
(force False)
Thread-18::DEBUG::2014-05-17 
00:23:13,023::task::974::TaskManager.Task::(_decref) 
Task=`27a323de-ac42-4d68-992f-eb5c84d8baea`::ref 1 aborting True
Thread-18::INFO::2014-05-17 
00:23:13,023::task::1151::TaskManager.Task::(prepare) 
Task=`27a323de-ac42-4d68-992f-eb5c84d8baea`::aborting: Task is aborted: 
'Unknown pool id, pool not connected' - code 309
Thread-18::DEBUG::2014-05-17 
00:23:13,024::task::1156::TaskManager.Task::(prepare) 
Task=`27a323de-ac42-4d68-992f-eb5c84d8baea`::Prepare: aborted: Unknown 
pool id, pool not connected
Thread-18::DEBUG::2014-05-17 
00:23:13,024::task::974::TaskManager.Task::(_decref) 
Task=`27a323de-ac42-4d68-992f-eb5c84d8baea`::ref 0 aborting True

according to engine database - storage pool 
'5849b030-626e-47cb-ad90-3ce782d831b3' is datacenter 'CODD'.

but - according to engine logs SPM start for datacenter CODD was run 
only at 00:23:27, i.e. _after_ vm restart attemts
2014-05-17 00:23:27,585 INFO 
[org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.irsbroker.IrsBrokerCommand] 
(DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-43) [1bb8f3c0] starting spm on vds srv12, 
storage pool CODD, prevId 9, LVER 11
2014-05-17 00:23:27,610 INFO 
[org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.SpmStartVDSCommand] 
(DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-43) [1bb8f3c0] START, 
SpmStartVDSCommand(HostName = srv12, HostId = 
eac8d084-1be0-4e8d-a589-385f71fe3afa, storagePoolId = 
5849b030-626e-47cb-ad90-3ce782d831b3, prevId=9, prevLVER=11, 
storagePoolFormatType=V3, recoveryMode=Manual, SCSIFencing=false), log 
id: 1844d391

i thought no VM can be started until SPM host selected, why in my case 
vm restart occurred before that?
and what 'pool not connected' means? no spm running, storage unavailable 
from some host or something else?

Yuriy Demchenko

On 05/19/2014 03:13 PM, Yuriy Demchenko wrote:
> On 05/19/2014 02:36 PM, Eli Mesika wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> i'm running ovirt-3.2.2-el6 on 18 el6 hosts with FC san storage, 46 HA
>> vms in 2 datacenters (3 hosts uses different storage with no
>> connectivity to first storage, that's why second DC)
>> Recently (2014-05-17) i had a double power outage: first blackout at
>> 00:16, went back at ~00:19, second blackout at 00:26, went back at 10:06
>> When finally all went up (after approx. 10:16) - only 2 vms were
>> restarted from 46.
>>    From browsing engine log i saw failed restart attemts of almost 
>> all vms
>> after first blackout with error 'Failed with error ENGINE and code
>> 5001', but after second blackout i saw no attempts to restart vms, and
>> only error was 'connect timeout' (probably to srv5 - that host
>> physically died after blackouts).
>> And i cant figure why HA vms were not restarted? Please advice
>>
>> engine and (supposedly) spm host logs in attach.
>>>> Hi Yuriy
>>>>
>>>> What I see is that the log for 2014-05-17 is started at 2014-05-17 
>>>> 00:23:03
>>>> so I can not track the first interval you had mentioned (00:19 to 
>>>> 00:26)
>>> 00:23 is the time when engine booted up after first outage, that's why
>>> logs started at 00:23:03
>>>> However, I can clearly see that at 2014-05-17 00:23:03 the engine was
>>>> restarted and at 2014-05-17 00:23:09,423 we had started to get 
>>>> connection
>>>> errors.
>>>> We had tried to solve the problem by doing Soft-Fencing (actually 
>>>> vdsmd
>>>> service restart) on the problematic hosts, but ssh to the host 
>>>> failed so
>>>> we had tried
>>>> to hard-fence the host (restart/reboot), but this was due the 
>>>> configurable
>>>> "quite time" in which we are preventing fencing operation after an 
>>>> engine
>>>> restart which
>>>> is set by default to 5 min (DisableFenceAtStartupInSec key in
>>>> engine-config) and therefor we had skipped the fencing operation...
>>> my hosts usually boots slower than engine, long bios checks + random
>>> power on delay (120s), thats why at first engine reports connect errors
>>> however, in logs i see, that some of them were allready up and engine
>>> successfully contacted them:
>> So maybe you should put DisableFenceAtStartupInSec to a higher value 
>> instead of the default 5 min...
>>
>>> 2014-05-17 00:23:10,450 INFO
>>> [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector]
>>> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-18) Correlation ID: null, Call Stack:
>>> null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: State was set to Up for host srv11.
>>> 2014-05-17 00:23:10,456 INFO
>>> [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector]
>>> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-4) Correlation ID: null, Call Stack:
>>> null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: State was set to Up for host srv4.
>>> 2014-05-17 00:23:10,458 INFO
>>> [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector]
>>> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-11) Correlation ID: null, Call Stack:
>>> null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: State was set to Up for host srv7.
>>> 2014-05-17 00:23:10,460 INFO
>>> [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector]
>>> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-20) Correlation ID: null, Call Stack:
>>> null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: State was set to Up for host srv9.
>>>
>>> and after 00:23:11 i saw no fencing-related messages, only vm restart
>>> attemts that failed with strange errors like:
>>> 'Failed with error ENGINE and code 5001'
>>> 'Candidate host srv1 (2a89e565-aa4e-4a19-82e3-e72e4edee111) was 
>>> filtered
>>> out by VAR__FILTERTYPE__INTERNAL filter Memory'
>>> 'CanDoAction of action RunVm failed.
>>> Reasons:VAR__ACTION__RUN,VAR__TYPE__VM,ACTION_TYPE_FAILED_VDS_VM_MEMORY,VAR__ACTION__RUN,VAR__TYPE__VM,ACTION_TYPE_FAILED_VDS_VM_MEMORY,SCHEDULING_ALL_HOSTS_FILTERED_OUT,VAR__FILTERTYPE__INTERNAL,$hostName 
>>>
>>> srv1,$filterName Memory,SCHEDULING_HOST_FILTERED_REASON'
>> Strange that you didn't got the message itself (this is only the 
>> message key)
>> The original message is :
>> Cannot Run VM. There are no available running Hosts with sufficient 
>> memory in VM's Cluster .
>> So, it failed on the RunVM command validation where no host with 
>> enough memory to run the VM was found
> yea, but how that can be? all my hosts have 256gb ram and only 2 vms 
> are ram-hungry (128gb and 240gb), other uses much less (2-64gb)
>>
>>>> For the first period as I said I only can guess that one of your hosts
>>>> fencing attempts was after those 5 minutes and therefor it was 
>>>> rebooted
>>>> and the HA VMs were freed to run on other host.
>>>> For the second period on which I have logs, the host fencing failed 
>>>> due to
>>>> the required "quite time" and in this situation the only hing you 
>>>> can do
>>>> in order to have the HA VMs running again is to
>>>> right-click on each host and press "Confirm that host has been 
>>>> rebooted"
>>> but i see in logs - after second period, at 10:14+ all hosts but one
>>> (srv5) were up and power management verified successfully, isn't that
>>> should be enough for engine to verify all ha vms down and restart them?
>> How should engine know that the host was rebooted??
>> The fact that power management verified successfully is not enough in 
>> order to run the VMs on another host.
>> As I see the fence commands that intend to reboot the host holding 
>> the VMs were failed ...
> but in like 30secs after engine set holding hosts to non-responsive 
> they all went up - 'state was set to up for host'
> so, engine can contact that hosts and query vm status and restart if 
> needed, shouldn't it?
>
> 2014-05-17 10:09:23,978 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.VdsManager] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-48) Server failed to respond, vds_id = 
> 7bf30c8b-7eb2-4b1e-ba0e-13093bca57bf, vds_name = srv9, vm_count = 0, 
> spm_status = None, non-responsive_timeout (seconds) = 60, error = 
> java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
> 2014-05-17 10:09:40,143 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-42) Correlation ID: null, Call Stack: 
> null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: State was set to Up for host srv9.
>
> 2014-05-17 10:09:23,980 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.VdsManager] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-51) Server failed to respond, vds_id = 
> 57f58a56-a7ad-4917-b32d-f5dfaf326419, vds_name = srv10, vm_count = 0, 
> spm_status = None, non-responsive_timeout (seconds) = 60, error = 
> java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
> 2014-05-17 10:09:43,214 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-64) Correlation ID: null, Call Stack: 
> null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: State was set to Up for host srv10.
>
> 2014-05-17 10:09:24,029 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.VdsManager] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-55) Server failed to respond, vds_id = 
> bd07bc6d-37e8-4b55-810c-f41c78f7a8ad, vds_name = srv11, vm_count = 0, 
> spm_status = None, non-responsive_timeout (seconds) = 60, error = 
> java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
> 2014-05-17 10:09:43,239 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-63) Correlation ID: null, Call Stack: 
> null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: State was set to Up for host srv11.
>
> 2014-05-17 10:09:23,991 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.VdsManager] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-50) Server failed to respond, vds_id = 
> eac8d084-1be0-4e8d-a589-385f71fe3afa, vds_name = srv12, vm_count = 5, 
> spm_status = Contending, non-responsive_timeout (seconds) = 82, error 
> = java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
> 2014-05-17 10:09:43,320 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-60) Correlation ID: null, Call Stack: 
> null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: State was set to Up for host srv12.
>
> 2014-05-17 10:09:23,987 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.VdsManager] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-49) Server failed to respond, vds_id = 
> 712e822b-d3c6-4cb7-a6f1-58da5039bda1, vds_name = srv13, vm_count = 4, 
> spm_status = None, non-responsive_timeout (seconds) = 62, error = 
> java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
> 2014-05-17 10:09:44,934 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-58) [77463af9] Correlation ID: null, 
> Call Stack: null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: State was set to Up 
> for host srv13.
>
> 2014-05-17 10:09:24,016 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.VdsManager] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-53) Server failed to respond, vds_id = 
> 9d99c8eb-754e-4446-8a0f-af7327d19989, vds_name = srv14, vm_count = 0, 
> spm_status = None, non-responsive_timeout (seconds) = 60, error = 
> java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
> 2014-05-17 10:09:43,930 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-61) Correlation ID: null, Call Stack: 
> null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: State was set to Up for host srv14.
>
> 2014-05-17 10:09:24,019 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.VdsManager] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-54) Server failed to respond, vds_id = 
> 3ca82f5b-1343-451f-81d0-d2ed111b5f51, vds_name = srv15, vm_count = 0, 
> spm_status = None, non-responsive_timeout (seconds) = 60, error = 
> java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
> 2014-05-17 10:09:40,285 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-50) Correlation ID: null, Call Stack: 
> null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: State was set to Up for host srv15.
>
> 2014-05-17 10:09:23,996 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.VdsManager] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-45) Server failed to respond, vds_id = 
> c9d9735b-d75f-4026-afcd-94491ee66a4f, vds_name = srv16, vm_count = 0, 
> spm_status = None, non-responsive_timeout (seconds) = 60, error = 
> java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
> 2014-05-17 10:09:40,188 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-47) Correlation ID: null, Call Stack: 
> null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: State was set to Up for host srv16
>
> 2014-05-17 10:09:23,963 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.VdsManager] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-47) Server failed to respond, vds_id = 
> 8daa3751-f347-41eb-b6a6-a27f4fda2def, vds_name = srv17, vm_count = 0, 
> spm_status = None, non-responsive_timeout (seconds) = 60, error = 
> java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
> 2014-05-17 10:09:46,358 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-75) Correlation ID: null, Call Stack: 
> null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: State was set to Up for host srv17.
>
> 2014-05-17 10:09:23,949 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.VdsManager] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-46) Server failed to respond, vds_id = 
> 2e833c27-fd9f-4750-ab84-2fb629b66671, vds_name = srv18, vm_count = 0, 
> spm_status = None, non-responsive_timeout (seconds) = 60, error = 
> java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
> 2014-05-17 10:10:25,643 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-7) Correlation ID: null, Call Stack: 
> null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: State was set to Up for host srv18.
>
> 2014-05-17 10:09:23,991 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.VdsManager] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-52) Server failed to respond, vds_id = 
> e7cedec5-9335-45bf-ae58-0744a9b93f41, vds_name = srv19, vm_count = 3, 
> spm_status = None, non-responsive_timeout (seconds) = 61, error = 
> java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
> 2014-05-17 10:09:40,260 INFO 
> [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector] 
> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-54) Correlation ID: null, Call Stack: 
> null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: State was set to Up for host srv19.
>
>>> 2014-05-17 10:11:56,946 INFO
>>> [org.ovirt.engine.core.dal.dbbroker.auditloghandling.AuditLogDirector]
>>> (DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-75) [dbc315d] Correla
>>> tion ID: 73469dd6, Call Stack: null, Custom Event ID: -1, Message: Host
>>> srv17 power management was verified successfully.
>>>
>>> in fact, at ~17:55 my colleague restarted engine, forced spm selection
>>> and started all vms - all started without errors, and he didn't had to
>>> click 'confirm host has been rebooted'
>> But here you had restarted the VMs on the original Host in which they 
>> were running after the host is UP, this will work
>> The problem is to run a HA VM on another host, to do so, we must 
>> insure that the Host that run the VMs until now is not running then 
>> anymore
>> If the fence operation is failed, we can say nothing on the Host 
>> status and then as I said you should manually approve that the host 
>> was rebooted in order
>> to prevent VMs to run on multiple hosts which will lead to data 
>> corruption
> but shouldn't engine restart corresponded vms after holding host came 
> up? (without manual fence)
> because they up - so engine can query them about running/not running 
> vms and get actual state of vms - running or not
> the only host were down at that point is srv5, which holded only 1 vm 
> - and it were correctly put in 'unknown' state, other vms were just 
> 'down' until we manually started them