Ok I'll give it a shot, thanks I really appreciate the help

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Jonathan Ludlam <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> Sent from my iPad
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> On 26 Apr 2013, at 20:57, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> So the proper way to do this would be,
>
> xe pool-emergency-transition-to-master
> xe pool-recover-slaves
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> xe host-list params=uuid,name-label,host-metrics-live
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> xe vm-reset-powerstate resident-on=UUID-OF-FAILED-MASTER --force --multiple
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> /opt/xensource/sm/resetvdis.py NEW-POOl-MASTER-UUID SR-UUID master
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> I believe that should be the uuid of the old failed master, not the new
> ones, and you should do this for each SR the master had attached.
>
> Jon
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> ?
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> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Jonathan Ludlam <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> No, the fix is to run the scrip 'resetvdis.py' - see this bit of the
>> xenserver docs:
>> http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.1.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#pool_failures
>>
>> This is not obvious, but has been made better in the version of xapi
>> under development at the moment, so in the next release it ought to be a
>> bit smoother.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
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>> On 26 Apr 2013, at 19:16, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> I had a master of the pool fail.  I did the following on the slave in the
>> pool,
>>
>> xe pool-emergency-transition-to-master
>> xe pool-recover-slaves
>>
>> xe host-list params=uuid,name-label,host-metrics-live
>>
>> xe vm-reset-powerstate resident-on=UUID-OF-FAILED-MASTER --force
>> --multiple
>>
>> now when I try to start a VM on the old slave that is now the master, I
>> get the following,
>>
>> Error code: SR_BACKEND_FAILURE_46
>> Error parameters: , The VDI is not available [opterr=VDI
>> b4354ed7-3042-4874-93b4-59a392c43027 already attached RW],
>>
>> I'd tried everything I can find online to fix this, the only way I'd been
>> able to fix the important VMs was to vdi-forget them, then relabel/readd
>> them to the VMs and start.  That works, but is that REALLY the only way to
>> fix this problem?
>>
>> Also the VDIs were created shared, however, they are showing false under
>> xe commands.
>>
>> Any insight?
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