This is definitely not the behavior we want with vcenter. I will test this out on my lab setup shortly.
Thanks ilya -----Original Message----- From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:40 AM To: cloudstack-users@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Issues when vCenter becomes unavailable On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:59:14AM -0500, Mathias Mullins wrote: > Andreas, > > The open source community doesn't support the Citrix version 3.0.6. > You need to report this via your Citrix Support contract. Sounds like > this could be a bug. > > Community - this could be a possible issue in 4.0.0 / 4.0.1. I don't > know if this test case has been explored. Thx - I forwarded to cs-dev@i.a.o to get the test engineers in the community to take a look. > > Thanks, > Matt Mullins > CloudPlatform Implementation Engineer > Worldwide Cloud Services Citrix System, Inc. > +1 (407) 920-1107 Office/Cell Phone > matt.mull...@citrix.com > > > > On 2/21/13 5:35 AM, "Fuchs, Andreas (SwissTXT)" > <andreas.fu...@swisstxt.ch> wrote: > > >Hi CS Users > > > >We are running CS 3.0.6 on a vSphere platform and found a strange > >behavior. > > > >When the vCenter becomes unavailable due to a reboot or some other > >issue, it seems that CS is shutting down instances when vCenter > >becomes available again. > > > >What we think what happens. > >1. vCenter becomes unrechabale > >2. CS marks the ESX servers as "down" > >3. We think this leads to: CS marks the instances as down as well 4. > >When vCenter becomes available again, CS stops the "marked as down" > >instances > > > >This is very bad as the Instances where running all the time and the > >the shutdown issued by CS is forcing a service interruption. > > > >My problem is that I cannot realy reporoduce as allot of testing is > >ongoing on the platform at the moment, so my question: > > > >Does someone else see this issue as well and can maybe reproduce? > >Is there a workaround to it, can I change some flag or something > >which tells CS to never shut down an instance by himself? > >Why are the ESX hosts getting marked as down and not unreachable or > >something? > > > >Best regards > >Andi > >
