Hi Ian, When I say
" If the Pool Master goes down a Slave will take over and all VMs which were running on the failed Pool Master will be automatically restarted on alternate Hosts, but only as long as their Compute Offering had the ‘Offer HA’ feature enabled." I am saying that if the Pool Master fails, then a new Pool Master will automatically take over and all HA VMs auto restart on alternate Hosts with no admin interaction. The reason for this blog is that since the release of Hotfix XS62ESP1004 if you do not configure Pool HA then in the event of a Pool Master failure you will need to manually promote a new Pool Master. So as long as you enable Pool HA, you do get a self-healing cluster from the point of view that a new Pool Master is allocated, but yes you do then manually need to fix the failed host then enable it to re-connect to the pool by disabling HA, then re-enabling HA which is a manual process. Regards Geoff Higginbottom D: +44 20 3603 0542 | S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447968161581 geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com -----Original Message----- From: Ian Forde [mailto:ifo...@marketo.com] Sent: 06 January 2015 18:38 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: Xenserver pool HA in Cloudstack Agreed. Very good article. I have a question though - is it really appropriate to describe this as “self-healing”, when there are manual steps to be performed in case of failure of the Pool Master? Typically, I use this term to refer to situations where the master fails, a different host gets elected master, and all is well. Then when the old master is brought back online, it just becomes a normal pool member, like the rest of the hosts. No “emergency mode”, etc… -I On 1/6/15, 10:09 AM, "Somesh Naidu" <somesh.na...@citrix.com> wrote: >Nice article Geoff! I am surprised this information is not present in >standard ACS documentation. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Geoff Higginbottom [mailto:geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com] >Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 11:48 AM >To: users@cloudstack.apache.org >Subject: RE: Xenserver pool HA in Cloudstack > >@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 > >D: +44 20 3603 0542 | S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447968161581 > >geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com > >-----Original Message----- >From: Suresh Sadhu [mailto:suresh.sa...@citrix.com] >Sent: 06 January 2015 16:06 >To: users@cloudstack.apache.org >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 >+na >tive+XS+HA+capabilities > > >regards >sadhu > >-----Original Message----- >From: Somesh Naidu [mailto:somesh.na...@citrix.com] >Sent: 06 January 2015 21:25 >To: users@cloudstack.apache.org >Subject: RE: Xenserver pool HA in Cloudstack > >Sonali, what version of XS are you using? > >-----Original Message----- >From: Geoff Higginbottom [mailto:geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com] >Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 9:03 AM >To: users@cloudstack.apache.org >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 > >D: +44 20 3603 0542 | S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447968161581 > >geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com > >-----Original Message----- >From: Sonali Jadhav [mailto:son...@servercentralen.se] >Sent: 06 January 2015 13:27 >To: users@cloudstack.apache.org >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. 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