Bug 1576752

Summary:	Number of "Prestarted VMs" is ignored and all VMs of Pool starts after editing existing Pool.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager	Reporter:	RHV bug bot <rhv-bugzilla-bot>
Component:	ovirt-engine	Assignee:	Shmuel Melamud <smelamud>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	meital avital <mavital>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.1.8	CC:	achareka, atripath, bgraveno, jesus.bajo, lsurette, michal.skrivanek, mkalinin, rbalakri, Rhev-m-bugs, rhodain, smelamud, srevivo, vpagar, ykaul
Target Milestone:	ovirt-4.2.4	Keywords:	Rebase, ZStream
Target Release:	---	Flags:	bgraveno: needinfo? (smelamud) lsvaty: testing_plan_complete-
Hardware:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:	ovirt-engine-4.2.4	Doc Type:	No Doc Update
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Clone Of:	1553425	Environment:
Last Closed:	2018-06-27 10:02:26 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1553425
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Description RHV bug bot 2018-05-10 10:39:42 UTC

+++ This bug is a downstream clone. The original bug is: +++
+++   bug 1553425 +++
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Description of problem:
Changing value of "Prestarted VMs" of existing Pool is ignored and instead all VMs of pool are powering on.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhevm-4.1.8.2-0.1.el7.noarch

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create VM Pool with 0 "Prestarted VMs"
2. Edit pool and change "Prestarted VMs" so that it is less than Assigned VMs
3. All VMs of pool are being started ignoring number of "Prestarted VMs" 

Actual results:
All VMs are powering up.

Expected results:
Only number of "Prestarted VMs" should start.

Additional info:

(Originally by Ameya Charekar)

Comment 10 RHV bug bot 2018-05-10 10:40:29 UTC

the default for VmPoolMonitorIntervalInMinutes is 5 mins. It is assumed that all VMs are attempted to start in that period. Apparently it was changed to 1 minute which may not be enough. 
There is a bug, perhaps, that the assumption is not correct and it may take longer time to start all the VMs if the number of VMs to prestart is high and system is busy, but it may "go away" if you just change the interval back to 5 mins (or increase more)

(Originally by michal.skrivanek)

Comment 12 RHV bug bot 2018-05-10 10:40:39 UTC

Apparently the customer has set the following values, back on their 3.4 or 3.5 environment:
          option_name           | option_value 
--------------------------------+--------------
 VmPoolMonitorMaxAttempts       | 3
 VmPoolMonitorBatchSize         | 50
 VmPoolMonitorIntervalInMinutes | 1"


Probably those values interfere with the required behavior.
The idea back then was to prestart as many VMs as possible. Which sounds different from their request today.
I will check more and update the bug later.

(Originally by Marina Kalinin)

Comment 13 RHV bug bot 2018-05-10 10:40:44 UTC

I have reviewed the data the problem is related to the number of threads which are trying to start the VMs here is a grep from the engine logs related to pool 
67e3ea67-811d-4703-919a-269af29c21a5 (MyPool) [1]. The number of VMs in the pool is 33 and the pool is set to prestart 20 VMs. The operation ended up with 28 prestarted VMs. Some of the VMs failed with lack of memory on the hypervisors so the entire VMPool was not started.

One of the possible reasons possible ways to reproduce is to edit the pool twice and click ok.

[1]:
engine.log:
2018-04-19 09:28:55,441+02 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VmPoolMonitor] (DefaultQuartzScheduler5) [15f44bcd] VmPool '67e3ea67-811d-4703-919a-269af29c21a5' is missing 20 prestarted VMs, attempting to prestart 20 VMs
2018-04-19 09:28:58,497+02 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VmPoolMonitor] (DefaultQuartzScheduler5) [15f44bcd] Running VM 'MyPool-21' as stateless
2018-04-19 09:29:07,785+02 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VmPoolMonitor] (DefaultQuartzScheduler5) [b956bed] Running VM 'MyPool-21' as stateless succeeded
2018-04-19 09:29:09,362+02 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VmPoolMonitor] (DefaultQuartzScheduler5) [b956bed] Running VM 'MyPool-27' as stateless
2018-04-19 09:29:24,966+02 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VmPoolMonitor] (DefaultQuartzScheduler5) [1f5b258a] Running VM 'MyPool-27' as stateless succeeded
2018-04-19 09:29:26,062+02 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VmPoolMonitor] (DefaultQuartzScheduler5) [1f5b258a] Running VM 'MyPool-28' as stateless
2018-04-19 09:29:44,524+02 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VmPoolMonitor] (DefaultQuartzScheduler5) [713d03c] Running VM 'MyPool-28' as stateless succeeded
2018-04-19 09:29:47,034+02 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VmPoolMonitor] (DefaultQuartzScheduler5) [713d03c] Running VM 'MyPool-29' as stateless
2018-04-19 09:30:06,566+02 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VmPoolMonitor] (DefaultQuartzScheduler5) [1a1c3ceb] Running VM 'MyPool-29' as stateless succeeded
2018-04-19 09:30:10,235+02 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VmPoolMonitor] (DefaultQuartzScheduler5) [1a1c3ceb] Running VM 'MyPool-32' as stateless
2018-04-19 09:30:24,748+02 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VmPoolMonitor] (DefaultQuartzScheduler5) [530d5796] Running VM 'MyPool-32' as stateless succeeded
2018-04-19 09:30:27,143+02 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VmPoolMonitor] (DefaultQuartzScheduler5) [530d5796] Running VM 'MyPool-33' as stateless
2018-04-19 09:30:27,450+02 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VmPoolMonitor] (DefaultQuartzScheduler8) [51fb1f71] VmPool '67e3ea67-811d-4703-919a-269af29c21a5' is missing 20 prestarted VMs, attempting to prestart 20 VMs
2018-04-19 09:30:34,102+02 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VmPoolMonitor] (DefaultQuartzScheduler8) [51fb1f71] Running VM 'MyPool-1' as stateless
2018-04-19 09:30:40,739+02 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VmPoolMonitor] (DefaultQuartzScheduler5) [1df3a518] Running VM 'MyPool-33' as stateless succeeded
2018-04-19 09:30:41,264+02 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VmPoolMonitor] (DefaultQuartzScheduler8) [d0ecbe1] Running VM 'MyPool-1' as stateless succeeded
2018-04-19 09:30:44,241+02 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VmPoolMonitor] (DefaultQuartzScheduler8) [d0ecbe1] Running VM 'MyPool-2' as stateless
2018-04-19 09:30:48,853+02 INFO  [org.ovirt.engine.core.bll.VmPoolMonitor] (DefaultQuartzScheduler5) [1df3a518] Running VM 'MyPool-3' as stateless

(Originally by Roman Hodain)

Comment 25 Vladimir 2018-06-07 13:44:28 UTC

Verified on 4.2.4.1-0.1.el7

Scenario: 
1. Set VmPoolMonitorIntervalInMinutes to 1 minute and VmPoolMonitorBatchSize to 10
2. Create VM pool with 16 VMs
3. Update created pool, set prestarted to 12
4. Update pool once more, don't change anything, click ok
Repeated it 10 times, 10 times out of 10 there was 12 VMs prestarted

Comment 29 errata-xmlrpc 2018-06-27 10:02:26 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2071

Comment 30 Franta Kust 2019-05-16 13:09:10 UTC

BZ<2>Jira Resync

Comment 31 Daniel Gur 2019-08-28 13:14:59 UTC

sync2jira

Comment 32 Daniel Gur 2019-08-28 13:20:02 UTC

sync2jira