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XenServer message: “Xenhost still booting”

We experienced a network failure, which knocked off a few of the XenServer hosts. After performing the triage work, I began reviewing the XenServer hosts to make sure they were up. Of the 4 servers in one pool, 1 was experiencing an error, which I hadn't seen before: "Xenhost still booting". This meant the 3rd host was stuck in the emergency maintenance mode, and for some reason, I couldn't get it out of the mode. I had to take the following steps to correct the issue:

  1. I started by making sure that the all hosts had xapi running on all hosts.
  2. From there, I issued the following command "xe pool-emergency-transition-to-master".

Once I did this, the host synced with the master and the problem was resolved!

One Response to “XenServer message: “Xenhost still booting””

  1. naz
    April 12, 2010 at 4:16 pm #

    thank you very much…solved my problem..much appreciaed..

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