[pve-devel] Could we please get a solution for HA and backup locked VMs?

[Harald Leithner]

Hi,

proxmox-ve: 4.4-86 (running kernel: 4.4.49-1-pve)
pve-manager: 4.4-13 (running version: 4.4-13/7ea56165)
pve-kernel-4.4.6-1-pve: 4.4.6-48
pve-kernel-4.4.15-1-pve: 4.4.15-60
pve-kernel-4.4.19-1-pve: 4.4.19-66
pve-kernel-4.4.49-1-pve: 4.4.49-86
lvm2: 2.02.116-pve3
corosync-pve: 2.4.2-2~pve4+1
libqb0: 1.0.1-1
pve-cluster: 4.0-49
qemu-server: 4.0-110
pve-firmware: 1.1-11
libpve-common-perl: 4.0-94
libpve-access-control: 4.0-23
libpve-storage-perl: 4.0-76
pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.8-2
vncterm: 1.3-2
pve-docs: 4.4-4
pve-qemu-kvm: 2.7.1-4
pve-container: 1.0-97
pve-firewall: 2.0-33
pve-ha-manager: 1.0-40
ksm-control-daemon: 1.2-1
glusterfs-client: 3.5.2-2+deb8u3
lxc-pve: 2.0.7-4
lxcfs: 2.0.6-pve1
criu: 1.6.0-1
novnc-pve: 0.5-9
smartmontools: 6.5+svn4324-1~pve80
zfsutils: 0.6.5.9-pve15~bpo80

One server crashed and got successfully fenced.

thx

Harald

Am 24.07.2017 um 17:51 schrieb Thomas Lamprecht:
> Hi,
> 
> On 07/24/2017 05:32 PM, Harald Leithner wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I know that there was already one or more conversations about locked 
>> VMs that can't be started in case of a node reboot/crash/failure.
>>
>> But it's a pain in the ass if you have a HA cluster and your HA is 
>> broken because you make backups.
>>
>> My backups run several hours, maybe 6 hours or more. So 25% of the day 
>> I don't have a automatically failover for at least one VM. And this to 
>> a time frame where HA is most important ;-)
>>
>> Is there anything I can do to change this for me, or how I can 
>> motivate to change the mind of the proxmox team?
>>
> 
> What PVE version are you running `pveversion -v`?
> 
> This should be already implemented and working in PVE 4.3 and newer, 
> see: 
> <https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-ha-manager.git;a=commit;h=5dd3ed863a162bf78e59c5dc550f2f708b3cbfe2> 
> 
> 
> The crash/failure aspect should be covered. Gracefully rebooting during 
> running backups sounds strange.
> 
> cheers,
> Thomas
> 

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