Viewing resource policy actions

Once a resource policy recommendation is applied, either automatically or manually, it appears on the Actions screen, which displays all live migration attempts made for VM distribution or consolidation. If a VM migration fails, the system retries it up to five times, and each attempt is recorded in the action list.

To view the recommendation history

Admin panel

Go to the Compute > Resource policies > Actions tab.
Click the desired action in the list to view its details.

Command-line interface

List all recommendations for the desired resource policy. For example:

# vinfra service compute resource-policies recommendation list "Dynamic distribution"
+--------------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------------+
| id                                   | state     | created_at                       |
+--------------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------------+
| 7f8dd1fe-5634-4e1e-ad9c-e6d9db47a33b | SUCCEEDED | 2025-03-21T16:28:54.626936+00:00 |
+--------------------------------------+-----------+----------------------------------+

List actions for the selected recommendation. For example:

# vinfra service compute resource-policies action list 7f8dd1fe-5634-4e1e-ad9c-e6d9db47a33b
+-------------+-----------+----------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| id          | state     | description                            | input_parameters                         |
+-------------+-----------+----------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| 23f2fb03<…> | SUCCEEDED | Moving a VM instance from source_node  | destination_node: node001.vstoragedomain |
|             |           | to destination_node                    | migration_type: auto                     |
|             |           |                                        | order: 0                                 |
|             |           |                                        | resource_id: 156022cf<…>                 |
|             |           |                                        | resource_name: vm8                       |
|             |           |                                        | source_node: node002.vstoragedomain      |
+-------------+-----------+----------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+

Check details of the selected action. For example:

# vinfra service compute resource-policies action show 23f2fb03-5bc4-4778-8757-1d453c792a10
+-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| Field             | Value                                                     |
+-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| action_type       | migrate                                                   |
| created_at        | 2025-03-21T12:40:17.081977Z                               |
| description       | Moving a VM instance from source_node to destination_node |
| details           |                                                           |
| id                | 23f2fb03-5bc4-4778-8757-1d453c792a10                      |
| input_parameters  | migration_type: auto                                      |
|                   | order: 0                                                  |
|                   | resource_id: 156022cf-ca85-4a48-880b-9edb895aedac         |
|                   | resource_name: vm8                                        |
|                   | source_node: node002.vstoragedomain                       |
| parents           | []                                                        |
| policy_id         | 6e53463e-1d08-42e9-a02e-424018926e9e                      |
| recommendation_id | 7f8dd1fe-5634-4e1e-ad9c-e6d9db47a33b                      |
| state             | SUCCEEDED                                                 |
| updated_at        | 2025-03-21T12:41:10.889919Z                               |
+-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+

To troubleshoot a failed action

On the Compute > Resource policies > Actions tab, click an action with the Failed status.
In the action details, click Details to check the failure root cause.
Click the VM name and navigate to the History tab on the VM pane.
Examine the VM event log and find a failed operation initiated by the watcher service user.
In the expanded log entry, obtain the request ID.
Use the request ID to find error details in the /var/log/hci/nova/nova-compute.log on the source and destination compute nodes.