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Forcefully Delete Cinder Volume of Non-existing Cinder Hosts.

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Image getting deleted when copied into the glance repository directory

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Instance Creation Failed due to erroneous volume

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Unable to Create Volume with Storage Availability Zones Configured for Cinder Backends

Host Aggregates Not Showing Availability Status in UI, Instead Displaying "Hosts are Loading"

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Instance Task State Stuck in Deleting

Problem

An instance is unable be deleted (potentially with one or more volumes attached).
The server details show that the OS-EXT-STS:task_state field is stuck in a deleting state.

Environment

Platform9 Managed OpenStack - All Versions
Nova
Cinder

Cause

The pf9-ostackhost (nova-compute) service may be unresponsive and/or a previous operation failed for the instance (e.g. volume detach).

Resolution

Restart the pf9-ostackhost service (which will reset the task state for any pending instances).

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