SolidFire: VM restart with data disk from the Solidfire Storage failure #7172

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

storage, VMware

CLOUDSTACK VERSION

4.17+, maybe earlier versions as well

CONFIGURATION

Advanced zone with VMware as hypervisor

OS / ENVIRONMENT

N/A

SUMMARY

When one or more data disk which are provisioned with solidfire are attached to a VM, stop-start for the VM fails with a disk path issue from the hypervisor.
From the logs and code investigation it appears CloudStack revokes access for the volume with Solidfire plugin while stopping the VM but it is not granting the access again on the start of the VM

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

- Deploy a VM
- Attach a solidfire data disk
- Stop the VM
- Start the VM, observe failure

EXPECTED RESULTS

VM is started successfully

ACTUAL RESULTS

VM start fails with error,

Invalid configuration for device '2'. Device: VirtualDisk. Provided backing file is not accessible from host.