Hi Yuri,

Whilst testing this, I killed off the Host Masters approx. 10 times, and on 
about 2 occasions the old Pool Master did automatically re-join as a slave, but 
on the other 8 occasions they did not.

I think it depended on how long they were down for, so a simple reset of the 
host was OK, but if it was down for say 10 mins then the recovery steps were 
required etc.

I have applied patches up to and including XS62ESP1014 but you say you have 
only applied up to XS62E014 which is pre SP1 and more importantly pre 
XS62ESP1004 which is the patch which triggers the requirement for this 
configuration.

Regards

Geoff Higginbottom

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-----Original Message-----
From: Yuri Kogun [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 07 January 2015 17:06
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Xenserver pool HA in Cloudstack

Hi Geoff,

Great article. Just wanted let you know that  I tested the configuration on my 
test environment  and everything worked as you described, apart from the 
'Recovering from Host Failures' bit.

In my case the former master  came up after reboot and joined the pool as a 
slave. No manual steps were needed. Below is the extract from the messages on 
the host.


Jan  7 16:53:36 dcv-xenserver-h31 xsconsole: Configure Management Interface 
found no PIFs to present Jan  7 16:53:42 dcv-xenserver-h31 xsconsole: Configure 
Management Interface found no PIFs to present Jan  7 16:53:47 dcv-xenserver-h31 
xha[6193]: The local host has transitioned to online state.
Jan  7 16:53:48 dcv-xenserver-h31 xha[6193]: propose_master returns FALSE.
Jan  7 16:53:48 dcv-xenserver-h31 xha[6193]: propose_master returns FALSE.
Jan  7 16:53:48 dcv-xenserver-h31 xapi: [ info|dcv-xenserver-h31|0 
thread_zero|Checking HA configuration D:e685fe6c5de9|xapi_ha] ha_propose_master 
failed: looking for another master Jan  7 16:53:48 dcv-xenserver-h31 xapi: [ 
info|dcv-xenserver-h31|0 thread_zero|Checking HA configuration 
D:e685fe6c5de9|xapi_ha] This node will become the slave of host 
17aa5709-ec88-4e9a-93ad-0adc1b43c32f (192.168.56.30) Jan  7 16:53:49 
dcv-xenserver-h31 xsconsole: Local shell Jan  7 16:53:58 dcv-xenserver-h31 
xapi: [ warn|dcv-xenserver-h31|17||xapi_fuse] Caught an exception flushing 
database (perhaps it hasn't been initialised yet): INTERNAL_ERROR: [ 
Failure("hd") ]; restarting immediately


It could be because I have applied patches up to  XS62E014 and  something was 
fixed.

Best regards
Yuri



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> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Xenserver pool HA in Cloudstack
> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 16:48:19 +0000
>
> @Suresh,
>
> The link you referenced is a design doc for a possible future feature, this 
> is NOT in CloudStack as of today.
>
> @Sonali,
>
> As promised, here is a link to the article I have been working on today 
> covering the use of XenServer HA with CloudStack,
>
> http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack/xenserver-native-ha-with-cloudstack/
>
> In summary if you have installed XS62ESP1004 then you MUST start using 
> XenServer HA on your XenServer Clusters, if you don’t, and the Pool Master 
> goes down, no new Pool Master will be elected.
>
> Regards
>
> Geoff Higginbottom
>
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>
> [email protected]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suresh Sadhu [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 06 January 2015 16:06
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Xenserver pool HA in Cloudstack
>
> From xen6.2 onwards cloudstack deponds(leverages) on xen native HA 
> capabilities Please check below link:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/User+VM+HA+using+native+XS+HA+capabilities
>
>
> regards
> sadhu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Somesh Naidu [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 06 January 2015 21:25
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Xenserver pool HA in Cloudstack
>
> Sonali, what version of XS are you using?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Higginbottom [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 9:03 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Xenserver pool HA in Cloudstack
>
> Sonali,
>
> There have been some changes recently and as luck would have it today I am 
> working on a blog article for www.shapeblue.com covering the correct way to 
> configure HA in XenServer. It's due to go live later today, I'll respond to 
> this thread once it's live.
>
> Regards
>
> Geoff Higginbottom
>
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>
> [email protected]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sonali Jadhav [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 06 January 2015 13:27
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Xenserver pool HA in Cloudstack
>
> Hi,
>
> I have Xenserver cluster setup with 4 Hosts in it. I was wondering about HA 
> configuration of xenserver pool. But at some places I saw that cloudstack HA 
> and Xenserver HA both are different . And One shouldn't use Xenserver HA, 
> since Cloudstack HA is by default active. Is it true?
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
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