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    • DustinB3403D
      DustinB3403 @Obsolesce
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      @obsolesce but it could be an issue if your DHCP server starts after other VM's. Or a database server that is dependant on other VM's being up and accessible first.

      There is truly a case for needing a startup priority here.

      I wonder what Amazon does. . .

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      • ObsolesceO
        Obsolesce @DustinB3403
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        @dustinb3403 said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

        @obsolesce but it could be an issue if your DHCP server starts after other VM's. Or a database server that is dependant on other VM's being up and accessible first.

        There is truly a case for needing a startup priority here.

        I wonder what Amazon does. . .

        My point was that, Amazon doesn't have DB, DHCP servers, and other app VMs that depend on them on the same hosts.

        And those companies who do are small enough to just do it manually with minimal effort.

        I have a host with 70 VMs on it, it takes seconds to start the AD and DHCP server first, then a few database servers.

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        • DustinB3403D
          DustinB3403 @Obsolesce
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          @obsolesce said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

          @dustinb3403 said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

          @obsolesce but it could be an issue if your DHCP server starts after other VM's. Or a database server that is dependant on other VM's being up and accessible first.

          There is truly a case for needing a startup priority here.

          I wonder what Amazon does. . .

          My point was that, Amazon doesn't have hosts with DB servers and DHCP servers and other apps that depend on them on the same hosts.

          And those companies who do are small enough to just do it manually with minimal effort.

          I have a host with 70 VMs on it, it takes seconds to start the AD and DHCP server first, then a few database servers.

          How are you starting the remaining 60 VM's?

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          • ObsolesceO
            Obsolesce @DustinB3403
            last edited by Obsolesce

            @dustinb3403 said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

            @obsolesce said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

            @dustinb3403 said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

            @obsolesce but it could be an issue if your DHCP server starts after other VM's. Or a database server that is dependant on other VM's being up and accessible first.

            There is truly a case for needing a startup priority here.

            I wonder what Amazon does. . .

            My point was that, Amazon doesn't have hosts with DB servers and DHCP servers and other apps that depend on them on the same hosts.

            And those companies who do are small enough to just do it manually with minimal effort.

            I have a host with 70 VMs on it, it takes seconds to start the AD and DHCP server first, then a few database servers.

            How are you starting the remaining 60 VM's?

            Select-all or shift+click, right-click on them, click start.

            Edit, this is on Hyper-V.

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            • DustinB3403D
              DustinB3403 @Obsolesce
              last edited by DustinB3403

              @obsolesce that's annoying. . .

              Edit: still annoying but doesn't Hyper-V have startup priority?

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              • ObsolesceO
                Obsolesce @DustinB3403
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                @dustinb3403 said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

                @obsolesce that's annoying. . .

                Not really, it's once a month at worst.

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                • matteo nunziatiM
                  matteo nunziati @DustinB3403
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                  @dustinb3403 said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

                  @obsolesce that's annoying. . .

                  Edit: still annoying but doesn't Hyper-V have startup priority?

                  No it hasnt until I checked 6 months ago. Only way is build a delay schema by hand and assign delays to VM batch start them in layers

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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403 @matteo nunziati
                    last edited by

                    @matteo-nunziati said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

                    @dustinb3403 said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

                    @obsolesce that's annoying. . .

                    Edit: still annoying but doesn't Hyper-V have startup priority?

                    No it hasnt until I checked 6 months ago. Only way is build a delay schema by hand and assign delays to VM batch start them in layers

                    Well. . . that's just bad. . .

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                    • matteo nunziatiM
                      matteo nunziati
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                      The only actual need I got was a vm expecting a postgres to be up. I delayed such a vm. But yes: complex dependency schemas are a PITA but also out of the smb standard scenario imho.

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                      • matteo nunziatiM
                        matteo nunziati @black3dynamite
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                        @black3dynamite said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

                        Uncomment START_DELAY=0 in /etc/sysconfig/libvirt-guests file.

                        https://access.redhat.com/discussions/685243
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                        This will kill parallel startup adding a delay between each vm boot

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                          dafyre @matteo nunziati
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                          @matteo-nunziati said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

                          @black3dynamite said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

                          Uncomment START_DELAY=0 in /etc/sysconfig/libvirt-guests file.

                          https://access.redhat.com/discussions/685243
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                          This will kill parallel startup adding a delay between each vm boot

                          I think that's the point, though. Some of the VMs are starting before the other VMs that they need to work properly.

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                          • matteo nunziatiM
                            matteo nunziati @dafyre
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                            @dafyre nope starting order is still 'random'

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                            • DustinB3403D
                              DustinB3403
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                              I still find it odd that there isn't a start priority or weight setting to apply to each VM so the hypervisor could do this automatically. . .

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                              • DustinB3403D
                                DustinB3403
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                                XenServer and XCP-ng both have this option to set for individual VM's under "Start options" under properties of each VM.

                                By default everything is "0" aka start immediately if configured for Autostart/HA. But it can be changed easily to 1, 2 3 etc and the VM's will boot in that order.

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                                • ObsolesceO
                                  Obsolesce @matteo nunziati
                                  last edited by Obsolesce

                                  @matteo-nunziati said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

                                  @dustinb3403 said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

                                  @obsolesce that's annoying. . .

                                  Edit: still annoying but doesn't Hyper-V have startup priority?

                                  No it hasnt until I checked 6 months ago. Only way is build a delay schema by hand and assign delays to VM batch start them in layers

                                  Hyper-V had startup priority since 2012... fully configurable... startup action and startup delay.

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                                  • matteo nunziatiM
                                    matteo nunziati @Obsolesce
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                                    @obsolesce said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

                                    @matteo-nunziati said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

                                    @dustinb3403 said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

                                    @obsolesce that's annoying. . .

                                    Edit: still annoying but doesn't Hyper-V have startup priority?

                                    No it hasnt until I checked 6 months ago. Only way is build a delay schema by hand and assign delays to VM batch start them in layers

                                    Hyper-V had startup priority since 2012... fully configurable... startup action and startup delay.

                                    You mean you can use action to wait for another vm to be up and running? If so I ignored it. Delay is mostly a workaround as no one really knows when a dependency will be ready!

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                                    • matteo nunziatiM
                                      matteo nunziati @DustinB3403
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                                      @dustinb3403 but this will include "wait until vm A is operational/service B is available"?

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                                      • DustinB3403D
                                        DustinB3403 @matteo nunziati
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                                        @matteo-nunziati said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

                                        @dustinb3403 but this will include "wait until vm A is operational/service B is available"?

                                        The hypervisor has no way of knowing what the VM does, so no. It just says start this VM first, then that one, and then that one etc.

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                                        • matteo nunziatiM
                                          matteo nunziati @DustinB3403
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                                          @dustinb3403 said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

                                          @matteo-nunziati said in KVM Virtual Machine Boot Order:

                                          @dustinb3403 but this will include "wait until vm A is operational/service B is available"?

                                          The hypervisor has no way of knowing what the VM does, so no. It just says start this VM first, then that one, and then that one etc.

                                          At this level hyperv acts like xen. Anyway pre post hooks could be available...

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                                          • matteo nunziatiM
                                            matteo nunziati @matteo nunziati
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                                            Now to be fair both mine and @dafyre cases could be solved with longer polling intervals, so they are a sysadmin issue not related to virtualization. Anyway hv agents are used for a lot of things, I don't see why they couldn't act as kubernates with containers. I suppose it is just a lack of demand.

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