H Lisa, this sounds like a bug. The systemvm should be marked as stopped. You can do this yourself in the db as a workaround. I don't know the best practice for volumes.
regards, On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Lisa B. <nordlicht1...@hotmail.de> wrote: > Hey! > I use CS 4.2 and XenServer 6.2 > I have had this issue several times: If the host fails, Cloudstack does not > take notice. It thinks the host and the system VMs are still running. > Cloudstack ignoring a complete host failure does concern me in the long run > but no that much for now. > The problem is cloudstack neither lets me delete the System VMs, the primary > storage nor the host. Isn't there a better way than fiddling directly with > the database and probably messing up the installation? > I managed to delete the host but I have still the System VMs and the storage > volumes. I think deletion fails because cloudstack can for obvious reasons > not reach the host. What is best practice for this use case? > > Thanks! > Lisa >