May 30, 2014

How to Fix – When Xenserver Host Stuck in Maintenance Mode

Cloud Infrastructure,

In this post you will see how to fix Xenserver Host Stuck in Maintenance Mode. Whenever we restart the xapi service (using either service xapi restart, or xe-toolstack-restart) the API will work for about 30 seconds and then it will stop working and any command we run from that server will show something like this:…

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May 19, 2014

Steps to be taken when a VM goes in Read-only mode

VMware,

Whenever there is a file system inconsistency involved, the system mounts in Read-only mode to prevent damage to the system. In Xen, if you come across such a situation you can try using the following methods to mount that back in write mode. Boot the VM in single user mode. One can get into single…

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