April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
8h 37m
English
Consider a case where you have started an OpenStack instance but the state is shown pending or you simple cannot SSH to it.
This is a very common problem and occurs mostly due to the image not being able to fetch the IP address from the DHCP server or the image does not support interface injection. The solution is to use an image that supports this method, so that it can obtain an IP address automatically from the FlatManager network settings.
If this is not the problem, you may check the directory of that particular instance in the nova-compute host and ensure that the following files are present:
The console.log is created only after the instance starts.
If any ...