Hi Timothy,

   Thanks for your help. I had already conducted all the possible troubleshooting techniques before dropping an email to the group.
I was able to resolve the issue few minutes back by dropping the cloud mysql db and restoring it with the last working copy.

-- 
best wishes,
Thomas Joseph


On 13/10/15 13:08, Timothy Lothering wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I had a similar scenario (albeit not a crashed SS Server). My SS is using NFS, server went down due to FC failure.
>
> 1. Confirm that the SS is online and reachable - Test with external mount etc.
> 2. Check out https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/SSVM,+templates,+Secondary+storage+troubleshooting for additional troubleshooting steps
>
> Hope this helps.
> Timothy Lothering
> Solutions Architect
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Joseph [mailto:t.joseph@imperial.ac.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, 13 October 2015 1:52 PM
> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
> Subject: SSVM + Secondary storage failure
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>        I'm facing a peculiar issue with my cloudstack setup.
>    1. My Storage server crashed last night and my SSVM was destroyed automatically.
>    2. After resolving the hardware issues, I find that my systemvm template is in status "Timeout waiting for response from storage host".
>
> My cloudstack setup:
> Mgmnt server: CS 4.5.2/Centos 6.7
> Hypervisors: Xenserver 6.2
> Primary storage: iSCSI
>
> Has anyone recovered from this sort of failure before? How do I resolve this issue?
>