Live migration of VMs take multiple hours to complete
Issue
- VMs running memory intensive workloads, such as RHOCP worker nodes, take multiple hours to complete live migration
- During live migration,
openstack server show -c progress <server id>
remains with the same value for hours. even though memory is still being copied from source to target node - During a live migration window, nova-compute reports errors connecting to RabbitMQ
- Certain operations, such as adding or removing volumes, on VMs that are in process of being live migrated, fail to complete, or complete only partially
Environment
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) 16.2
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