How to Remove ovs-vswitchd Manager Permanently from XenServer Config

How to Remove ovs-vswitchd Manager Permanently from XenServer Config

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Article ID: CTX200743

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Description

This article describes how to remove ovs-vswitchd manager permanently from XenServer config. Citrix Distributed Virtual Switch/Controller (DVSC) that connects to the open-vswitchd running on the XenServer DOM0 machines. DVSC is proved to cause some trouble with the Virtual Machines (VMs).

In /var/log/messages, you can see messages from ovsdb-server trying to connect via ssl to the old DVSC IP which fails.

Instructions

To remove ovs-vswitchd manager permanently from XenServer config, complete the following procedure:

  1. Run the following command:
    ovs-vsctl get-manager

  2. Run the following command on each host in a pool:
    ovs-vsctl --timeout=5 emer-reset

  3. Click the Save option to switch to bridging mode, reboot the server, switch back to openvswitch, and to reboot the server.
     

Issue/Introduction

How to remove ovs-vswitchd manager permanently from XenServer config.
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