Information Technology Services

Virtual Computing Lab Reservations Do Not Complete

Outage category: Applications

Location: VCL Systems for all campuses

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Virtual machines were not available to users as system was not completing the reservations made.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

The OpenNebula controller failed which controls the actual virtual machines. This was complicated by another system that would normally automate the restart of the OpenNebula controller also failing

Resolution

Both the OpenNebula controller and the automation server were restarted and all servers returned to operation.

Prevention

The root cause of the initial problem is unknown. This scenario is highly unlikely to reoccur.