We have been keeping a log of the times when the pool master reboots itself. We predicted that the pool master would fence itself on 13 April at about 4:00pm (16:00) and it did!!! If you see the log above, you will note that the last two reboots took place on the same day at about the same... Continue Reading →
No Xenserver NTP peers listed
The default NTP servers have been configured for our three XenServer hosts: I next used the ntpq utility to display a list of NTP peers known to the server: ntpq -p Using the command line ntpq -p on each of the XenServer hosts returned the following peers: [root@xen01 ~]# ntpq -p remote refid st t... Continue Reading →
Xenserver Poolmaster keeps “rebooting”
Briefly: we have three Dell R710 servers running XenServer Enterpise Edition 5.6 FP1. They are connected to a Dell PS4000E iSCSI SAN. Xenserver High Availability (HA) is also enabled , but more on our set-up another day. For a few weeks now we have been experiencing "random" reboots of our poolmaster. The technical name I... Continue Reading →