Here are some notes I made on recovering from vdi not available after a
power failure on our iscsi san. Just for reference for others as you seems
to be sorted anyway.

###Fix VDI Problems after Power Failure###

#Steps that fixed 'vdi not available', sr backend failure

console
xe pbd-list sr-uuid=<uuid>
xe pbd-unplug uuid=<uuid>

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On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Rushikesh <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am using and studying XCP from past 2 month and have got my self a
> little acquainted with its architectural working.
>
> My setup: 3 XCP 1beta hosts and shared iSCSI storage.  ( not the rc3 )
>
> I have just started getting my hands dirty on code. (Python is very new
> for me)
>
> I had a case when my host was hard rebooted while VM on it were running.
> And now all are refusing to start with Exception "VDI is unavailable".
>
> So, when I started reading the traceback more closely I found that the
> exception is generating at
>
> File "/opt/xensource/sm/blktap2.py", line 1230, in _add_tag
> if sm_config.get("writable") == "true":
>    raise util.SMException("VDI %s already attached RW" % vdi_uuid)
>
> I compared a crashed VDI and non crashed and saw that the crashed VDI
> still has  a writable : true in sm-config.
>
> # xe vdi-param-list uuid=03dfd013-bdd0-4c76-b099-4ad30d4018b6   (
> Crashed VDI )
>
> sm-config (MRO): writable: true; vhd-parent:
> 4841232c-09d9-47c6-8ba5-e68117745392;
> host_OpaqueRef:205c3920-6b6d-c96b-a963-d16cdc21496f: active
>
>
> # xe vdi-param-list uuid=f701575e-b399-4c02-a930-e3d0dee87b6e    (
> Normal VDI )
>
> sm-config (MRO): vhd-parent: 545b2f45-552a-474c-8b4f-f6079907fd21;
> vdi_type: vhd
>
>
> Then I started reading the code but Im getting little lost and I dont
> want to make xe database corrupt. Recreating SR is a solution with a
> risk of getting all VM rebooted.
>
> So, I tried same scene with XCP1 and all VM were able to get
> successfully boot. Nice work guys :)
>
> I really want to understand how you did it and was I on correct path...
> I really want to get into some development of XCP but my first problem
> is already solved ;)
>
>
> Thanks for patience and expecting a positive reply.
>
> Regards,
> Rushikesh
>
>
>
>
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