XenServer Not Booting
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Was having a few issues with my XenServer this morning. The host itself eventually froze up with this:
So I rebooted it. It took a long time for it to come up, and then it booted into Emergency Mode.
It boots off a 64GB USB stick. The VMs are stored on a 1.8TB SSD array (DELL H710).
Here is the first thing it says in emergency mode:
And here is a listing of the drives and partitions.
Anyone have any thoughts? sbd is a unused partition I am considering reinstalling XS on to see if I can re-see the array. But thought I'd maybe see if it is fixable first.
Though wondering if the USB drive just finally gave up the ghost.
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I've had this happen in my lab, and it's always been resolved by reinstalling and the USB drive is usually dead and unable to be used elsewhere.
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This is where, if you can you would install to a new USB (though not recommended) and then mount your storage to XS. Once everything is back up and running you would then clone the USB so you'd have a spare USB and test it.
When you run updates to XS, you would then need to again clone the USB and test the new clone.
It's a bit of a pain in the ass, but this way you'd always have a working USB copy of your hypervisor for when your USB shits the bed.
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@dustinb3403 said in XenServer Not Booting:
I've had this happen in my lab, and it's always been resolved by reinstalling and the USB drive is usually dead and unable to be used elsewhere.
Yeah, that is what I am wondering.
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My recommendation would be, if you could to install to a HDD that is inside of the server, the USB route, while possible, just isn't worth the added time to clone and test the USB device every time you update.
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The culprit is likely that you'd didn't point your logs to a different directory, and those logs being written destroyed the USB.
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XenServer was never meant to be installed on a USB.
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RE: XS on USB comments ... trust me, I'll never do it again.
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@dustinb3403 said in XenServer Not Booting:
The culprit is likely that you'd didn't point your logs to a different directory, and those logs being written destroyed the USB.
No logs written to USB.
We spent forever going over all that, remember?
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@brrabill said in XenServer Not Booting:
@dustinb3403 said in XenServer Not Booting:
The culprit is likely that you'd didn't point your logs to a different directory, and those logs being written destroyed the USB.
No logs written to USB.
We spent forever going over all that, remember?
I don't remember, but in any case XS reading/writing to the USB killed your boot device
