The first PR(#1176) intended to solve #CLOUDSTACK-9025 was only tackling the problem for CloudStack deployments that use single hypervisor types (restricted to XenServer). Additionally, the lack of information regarding that solution (poor documentation, test cases and description in PRs and Jira ticket) led the code to be removed in #1124 after a long discussion and analysis in #1056. That piece of code seemed logicless (and it was!). It would receive a hostId and then change that hostId for other hostId of the zone without doing any check; it was not even checking the hypervisor and storage in which the host was plugged into.
The problem reported in #CLOUDSTACK-9025 is caused by partial snapshots that are taken in XenServer. This means, we do not take a complete snapshot, but a partial one that contains only the modified data. This requires rebuilding the VHD hierarchy when creating a template out of the snapshot. The point is that the first hostId received is not a hostId, but a system VM ID(SSVM). That is why the code in #1176 fixed the problem for some deployment scenarios, but would cause problems for scenarios where we have multiple hypervisors in the same zone. We need to execute the creation of the VHD that represents the template in the hypervisor, so the VHD chain can be built using the parent links.
This commit changes the method com.cloud.hypervisor.XenServerGuru.getCommandHostDelegation(long, Command). From now on we replace the hostId that is intended to execute the “copy command” that will create the VHD of the template according to some conditions that were already in place. The idea is that starting with XenServer 6.2.0 hotFix ESP1004 we need to execute the command in the hypervisor host and not from the SSVM. Moreover, the method was improved making it readable and understandable; it was also created test cases assuring that from XenServer 6.2.0 hotFix ESP1004 and upward versions we change the hostId that will be used to execute the “copy command”.
Furthermore, we are not selecting a random host from a zone anymore. A new method was introduced in the HostDao called “findHostConnectedToSnapshotStoragePoolToExecuteCommand”, using this method we look for a host that is in the cluster that is using the storage pool where the volume from which the Snaphost is taken of. By doing this, we guarantee that the host that is connected to the primary storage where all of the snapshots parent VHDs are stored is used to create the template.
Consider using Disabled hosts when no Enabled hosts are found
This also closes#2317
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