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Restarting a KVM VMs after its host fails when the management server is also unreachable

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Difficulté
5/5
Temps estimé
Plus d'une semaine
Accessibilité débutants
25/100
Type d'issue
Fonctionnalité
Clarté
Plutôt claire
Activité
Active
Stack technique
java, kubernetes, python
Domaine
backend, cloud, distributed-systems, infrastructure

Piste de recherche

The issue describes a distributed systems problem requiring a new cluster mechanism for VM HA. Start by reviewing the existing KVM agent code and the linked PR #13589 and issue #14206. Understand how CloudStack currently handles host failures and VM restarts via the management server. Research Corosync/Pacemaker and LINSTOR/drbd-reactor integration possibilities. The goal is to design a system where agents can autonomously restart VMs during a management server outage.

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Description

component:kvm type:new-feature
The required feature described as a wish

Today if a KVM host fails and the management server and/or database is unreachable at the same moment (a remote site outage, a network partition, or the management server itself running as a guest on the failing host) CloudStack cannot restart the affected VMs. Every HA and DRS decision path runs inside the management server process and depends on the database.

I propose to add a small, storage-aware cluster mechanism that can restart a VM on a surviving host using its own quorum and fencing, and hands control back cleanly once the management server returns. This might require the Agents to actually keep shadow copy of each of the VMs configuration (of just enough per-VM data to rebuild the libvirt domain: disk identifiers, NIC MACs, CPU/memory, bridge/VLAN mapping). Possibly the agents can exchange information with each other and in case one Agent looses connectivity to management server act as a proxy towards the management server?

This might be an addition/similar or even fix to the https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/13589 , https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues/14206 , or rely on some other mechanisms as surviving hosts must agree "host A (and possibly the management server) is gone" without a central arbiter and must not false-positive on an ordinary network hiccup,

Options I see as viable:

  • Generic - Corosync for membership, Pacemaker for orchestration, IPMI/BMC STONITH for fencing.
  • Storage specific - LINSTOR + drbd-reactor, CloudStack already ships a maintained LINSTOR primary storage plugin whose KVM-side driver talks straight to the LINSTOR controller, bypassing the management server for volume attach, and drbd quorum enforces split-brain protection, so it might be a nice addition.
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