So check your switch logs. It's possible all your switch ports went into blocking mode when you lost the interswitch fiber patch.
Simon Weller/615-312-6068 -----Original Message----- From: Asai [[email protected]] Received: Friday, 17 Mar 2017, 6:56PM To: [email protected] [[email protected]] Subject: RE: 1 Pod Host Offline, All VMs Shut Down Haven't configured that... [facepalm] On March 17, 2017 4:46:24 PM MST, Simon Weller <[email protected]> wrote: >Which switch is root bridge for spanning tree? > >Simon Weller/615-312-6068 > >-----Original Message----- >From: Asai [[email protected]] >Received: Friday, 17 Mar 2017, 6:29PM >To: [email protected] [[email protected]] >Subject: Re: 1 Pod Host Offline, All VMs Shut Down > >Yes, the cable was a fiber cable connecting two switches, one which >connects host 1 and PS 1 (NFS share running on host 1), and the other >switch connects host 2 and PS 2 (NFS share running on host 2). > > >On 2017-03-17 4:04 PM, Simon Weller wrote: >> So was this cable connecting a couple of switches together? I'm >confused when you say a single cable was connecting 4 devices, unless >there is a switch or multiple switches involved. Is the primary storage >NFS? >> >> Simon Weller/615-312-6068 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Asai [[email protected]] >> Received: Friday, 17 Mar 2017, 6:00PM >> To: [email protected] [[email protected]] >> Subject: Re: 1 Pod Host Offline, All VMs Shut Down >> >> KVM, and the damaged cable connected host 2 and PS 2 back to the host >1 >> and PS 1. Does that give you enough info to work with? >> >> >> On 2017-03-17 3:55 PM, Simon Weller wrote: >>> What hypervisor are you using and what did the damaged cable >connect? >>> >>> Simon Weller/615-312-6068 >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Asai [[email protected]] >>> Received: Friday, 17 Mar 2017, 5:45PM >>> To: [email protected] [[email protected]] >>> Subject: 1 Pod Host Offline, All VMs Shut Down >>> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> I have 2 hosts in a pod, and 3 primary storage shares. I just ran >into >>> an issue where a cable accidentally got damaged which took host 2 >>> offline and primary storage 2 offline, but ALL of my VMs shut down >>> spontaneously. Weird, because only half of my VMs are running on >host 2 >>> and primary storage 2. Even the VMs on host 1 and primary storage 1 >>> shut down. Can anyone shed light on why this would have happened >and >>> how I can avoid this in the future? >>> >>> Much thanks, >>> Asai >>> >>> >> -- Asai
