This was Newton booting from ephemeral disk. There were no delete events in
the nova api database, just an unexpected stop when the kernel oom killer got
qemu.
> On Mar 17, 2017, at 8:28 AM, Saverio Proto wrote:
>
> Hello Mike,
>
> what version of openstack ?
> is the
Hello Mike,
what version of openstack ?
is the instance booting from ephemeral disk or booting from cinder volume ?
When you boot from volume, that will be the root disk of your
instance. The user could have clicked on "Delete Volume on Instance
Delete". It can be selected when creating a new
removing the root disk
and removing the instance record from the DB. If the instance action log
doesn't indicate that anyone asked for the instance to be terminated, that's a
bit weird.
From: joml...@iu.edu
Subject: Re:[Openstack-operators] ceph rbd root disk unexpected deletion
Over the weekend
Over the weekend a user reported that his instance was in a stopped state and
could not be started, on further examination it appears that the vm had crashed
and the strange thing is that the root disk is now gone. Has anybody come
across anything like this before?
And why on earth is it