GitHub user arpanbht created a discussion: # URGENT HELP NEEDED : Not able to
start or create a vm inside any host
Hey guys we are facing a problem in our production cloudstack setup, one of our
vm was somehow became read only so we went to restart the vm but it failed to
restart and now i cannot restart or start any vm into any specific host. Also
cannot create new vm in any host it says this error
```
2026-07-13 05:41:56,141 ERROR [c.c.a.ApiAsyncJobDispatcher]
(API-Job-Executor-15:[ctx-fe4148f6, job-30103]) (logid:bc46d542) Unexpected
exception while executing
org.apache.cloudstack.api.command.admin.vm.DeployVMCmdByAdmin
com.cloud.utils.exception.CloudRuntimeException: Unable to start a VM
[ff06ec9d-644d-4033-a66c-7c6cb80b7ddc] due to [Unable to create a deployment
for VM instance
{"id":867,"instanceName":"i-2-867-VM","state":"Starting","type":"User","uuid":"ff06ec9d-644d-4033-a66c-7c6cb80b7ddc"}].
at
com.cloud.vm.VirtualMachineManagerImpl.start(VirtualMachineManagerImpl.java:935)
at
org.apache.cloudstack.engine.cloud.entity.api.VMEntityManagerImpl.deployVirtualMachine(VMEntityManagerImpl.java:245)
at
org.apache.cloudstack.engine.cloud.entity.api.VirtualMachineEntityImpl.deploy(VirtualMachineEntityImpl.java:214)
at
com.cloud.vm.UserVmManagerImpl.startVirtualMachine(UserVmManagerImpl.java:5822)
at
com.cloud.vm.UserVmManagerImpl.startVirtualMachine(UserVmManagerImpl.java:5674)
at
com.cloud.vm.UserVmManagerImpl.startVirtualMachine(UserVmManagerImpl.java:5275)
at
com.cloud.vm.UserVmManagerImpl.startVirtualMachine(UserVmManagerImpl.java:5264)
at
java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at
java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77)
at
java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:569)
at
org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:344)
at
org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:198)
at
org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:163)
at
org.apache.cloudstack.network.contrail.management.EventUtils$EventInterceptor.invoke(EventUtils.java:109)
at
org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:175)
at
com.cloud.event.ActionEventInterceptor.invoke(ActionEventInterceptor.java:52)
at
org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:175)
at
org.springframework.aop.interceptor.ExposeInvocationInterceptor.invoke(ExposeInvocationInterceptor.java:97)
at
org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:186)
at
org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:215)
at jdk.proxy3/jdk.proxy3.$Proxy219.startVirtualMachine(Unknown Source)
at
org.apache.cloudstack.api.command.user.vm.DeployVMCmd.execute(DeployVMCmd.java:97)
at com.cloud.api.ApiDispatcher.dispatch(ApiDispatcher.java:173)
at
com.cloud.api.ApiAsyncJobDispatcher.runJob(ApiAsyncJobDispatcher.java:110)
at
org.apache.cloudstack.framework.jobs.impl.AsyncJobManagerImpl$5.runInContext(AsyncJobManagerImpl.java:698)
at
org.apache.cloudstack.managed.context.ManagedContextRunnable$1.run(ManagedContextRunnable.java:49)
at
org.apache.cloudstack.managed.context.impl.DefaultManagedContext$1.call(DefaultManagedContext.java:56)
at
org.apache.cloudstack.managed.context.impl.DefaultManagedContext.callWithContext(DefaultManagedContext.java:103)
at
org.apache.cloudstack.managed.context.impl.DefaultManagedContext.runWithContext(DefaultManagedContext.java:53)
at
org.apache.cloudstack.managed.context.ManagedContextRunnable.run(ManagedContextRunnable.java:46)
at
org.apache.cloudstack.framework.jobs.impl.AsyncJobManagerImpl$5.run(AsyncJobManagerImpl.java:646)
at
java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:539)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
at
java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136)
at
java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:840)
Caused by: com.cloud.exception.InsufficientServerCapacityException: Unable to
create a deployment for VM instance
{"id":867,"instanceName":"i-2-867-VM","state":"Starting","type":"User","uuid":"ff06ec9d-644d-4033-a66c-7c6cb80b7ddc"}Scope=interface
com.cloud.dc.DataCenter; id=3
at
com.cloud.vm.VirtualMachineManagerImpl.orchestrateStart(VirtualMachineManagerImpl.java:1454)
at
com.cloud.vm.VirtualMachineManagerImpl.orchestrateStart(VirtualMachineManagerImpl.java:5951)
at
java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at
java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77)
at
java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:569)
at
com.cloud.vm.VmWorkJobHandlerProxy.handleVmWorkJob(VmWorkJobHandlerProxy.java:102)
at
com.cloud.vm.VirtualMachineManagerImpl.handleVmWorkJob(VirtualMachineManagerImpl.java:6075)
at com.cloud.vm.VmWorkJobDispatcher.runJob(VmWorkJobDispatcher.java:99)
```
Also error is coming when I start any vm in any host machine
```
0111,"initMsid":163763490546348,"instanceId":null,"instanceType":null,"lastPolled":null,"lastUpdated":null,"processStatus":0,"removed":null,"result":null,"resultCode":0,"status":"IN_PROGRESS","userId":2,"uuid":"874ce4e6-f75f-4051-9760-3e1d1d53e7fc"},
job origin: 30110 com.cloud.exception.InsufficientServerCapacityException:
Unable to create a deployment for VM instance
{"id":856,"instanceName":"i-2-856-VM","state":"Starting","type":"User","uuid":"5849b9aa-648d-4684-9a61-8f45de46741c"}Scope=interface
com.cloud.dc.DataCenter; id=3
at
com.cloud.vm.VirtualMachineManagerImpl.orchestrateStart(VirtualMachineManagerImpl.java:1454)
at
com.cloud.vm.VirtualMachineManagerImpl.orchestrateStart(VirtualMachineManagerImpl.java:5951)
at
java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at
java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77)
at
java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:569)
at
com.cloud.vm.VmWorkJobHandlerProxy.handleVmWorkJob(VmWorkJobHandlerProxy.java:102)
at
com.cloud.vm.VirtualMachineManagerImpl.handleVmWorkJob(VirtualMachineManagerImpl.java:6075)
at com.cloud.vm.VmWorkJobDispatcher.runJob(VmWorkJobDispatcher.java:99)
at
org.apache.cloudstack.framework.jobs.impl.AsyncJobManagerImpl$5.runInContext(AsyncJobManagerImpl.java:698)
at
org.apache.cloudstack.managed.context.ManagedContextRunnable$1.run(ManagedContextRunnable.java:49)
at
org.apache.cloudstack.managed.context.impl.DefaultManagedContext$1.call(DefaultManagedContext.java:56)
at
org.apache.cloudstack.managed.context.impl.DefaultManagedContext.callWithContext(DefaultManagedContext.java:103)
at
org.apache.cloudstack.managed.context.impl.DefaultManagedContext.runWithContext(DefaultManagedContext.java:53)
at
org.apache.cloudstack.managed.context.ManagedContextRunnable.run(ManagedContextRunnable.java:46)
at
org.apache.cloudstack.framework.jobs.impl.AsyncJobManagerImpl$5.run(AsyncJobManagerImpl.java:646)
at
java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:539)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
at
java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136)
at
java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:840)
```
It says insufficient server capacity but cpu and ram is available in that host.
Please help guys!!!
GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/discussions/13596
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