CLOUDSTACK-4941:

During HA and maintenance call different planners (if the original planners are not able to find capacity) which skip some heurestics

api/src/com/cloud/deploy/HAPlanner.java

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+package com.cloud.deploy;
+
+
+public interface HAPlanner extends DeploymentPlanner {
+}

client/pom.xml

@@ -176,6 +176,11 @@
       <artifactId>cloud-plugin-planner-user-dispersing</artifactId>
       <version>${project.version}</version>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+       <groupId>org.apache.cloudstack</groupId>
+       <artifactId>cloud-plugin-planner-skip-heurestics</artifactId>
+       <version>${project.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.cloudstack</groupId>
       <artifactId>cloud-plugin-planner-user-concentrated-pod</artifactId>

core/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/core/spring-core-registry-core-context.xml

@@ -77,6 +77,11 @@
         <property name="excludeKey" value="deployment.planners.exclude" />
     </bean>
 
+    <bean id="haPlannersRegistry"
+          class="org.apache.cloudstack.spring.lifecycle.registry.ExtensionRegistry">
+        <property name="excludeKey" value="ha.planners.exclude" />
+    </bean>
+
     <bean id="podAllocatorsRegistry"
         class="org.apache.cloudstack.spring.lifecycle.registry.ExtensionRegistry">
         <property name="excludeKey" value="pod.allocators.exclude" />

core/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/planner/spring-core-lifecycle-planner-context-inheritable.xml

@@ -38,4 +38,9 @@
             value="org.apache.cloudstack.affinity.AffinityGroupProcessor" />
     </bean>
 
+    <bean class="org.apache.cloudstack.spring.lifecycle.registry.RegistryLifecycle">
+        <property name="registry" ref="haPlannersRegistry" />
+        <property name="typeClass" value="com.cloud.deploy.HAPlanner" />
+    </bean>
+
 </beans>

engine/api/src/com/cloud/vm/VirtualMachineManager.java

@@ -93,10 +93,13 @@ public interface VirtualMachineManager extends Manager {
 
     boolean stateTransitTo(VirtualMachine vm, VirtualMachine.Event e, Long hostId) throws NoTransitionException;
 
-    void advanceStart(String vmUuid, Map<VirtualMachineProfile.Param, Object> params) throws InsufficientCapacityException, ResourceUnavailableException,
+    void advanceStart(String vmUuid, Map<VirtualMachineProfile.Param, Object> params, DeploymentPlanner planner) throws InsufficientCapacityException, ResourceUnavailableException,
-        ConcurrentOperationException, OperationTimedoutException;
+            ConcurrentOperationException, OperationTimedoutException;
 
-    void advanceStart(String vmUuid, Map<VirtualMachineProfile.Param, Object> params, DeploymentPlan planToDeploy) throws InsufficientCapacityException,
+    void advanceStart(String vmUuid, Map<VirtualMachineProfile.Param, Object> params, DeploymentPlan planToDeploy, DeploymentPlanner planner) throws InsufficientCapacityException,
+            ResourceUnavailableException, ConcurrentOperationException, OperationTimedoutException;
+
+    void orchestrateStart(String vmUuid, Map<VirtualMachineProfile.Param, Object> params, DeploymentPlan planToDeploy, DeploymentPlanner planner) throws InsufficientCapacityException,
         ResourceUnavailableException, ConcurrentOperationException, OperationTimedoutException;
 
     void advanceStop(String vmUuid, boolean cleanupEvenIfUnableToStop) throws ResourceUnavailableException, OperationTimedoutException, ConcurrentOperationException;
@@ -105,7 +108,7 @@ public interface VirtualMachineManager extends Manager {
 
     void destroy(String vmUuid) throws AgentUnavailableException, OperationTimedoutException, ConcurrentOperationException;
 
-    void migrateAway(String vmUuid, long hostId) throws InsufficientServerCapacityException;
+    void migrateAway(String vmUuid, long hostId, DeploymentPlanner planner) throws InsufficientServerCapacityException;
 
     void migrate(String vmUuid, long srcHostId, DeployDestination dest) throws ResourceUnavailableException, ConcurrentOperationException;
 

engine/components-api/src/com/cloud/deploy/DeploymentPlanningManager.java

@@ -39,11 +39,12 @@ public interface DeploymentPlanningManager extends Manager {
      *
      *
      */
-    DeployDestination planDeployment(VirtualMachineProfile vmProfile, DeploymentPlan plan, ExcludeList avoids) throws InsufficientServerCapacityException,
+    DeployDestination planDeployment(VirtualMachineProfile vmProfile, DeploymentPlan plan,
-        AffinityConflictException;
+            ExcludeList avoids, DeploymentPlanner planner) throws InsufficientServerCapacityException, AffinityConflictException;
 
-    String finalizeReservation(DeployDestination plannedDestination, VirtualMachineProfile vmProfile, DeploymentPlan plan, ExcludeList avoids)
+    String finalizeReservation(DeployDestination plannedDestination,
-        throws InsufficientServerCapacityException, AffinityConflictException;
+            VirtualMachineProfile vmProfile, DeploymentPlan plan, ExcludeList avoids)
+            throws InsufficientServerCapacityException, AffinityConflictException;
 
     void cleanupVMReservations();
 }

engine/orchestration/src/com/cloud/vm/VirtualMachineManagerImpl.java

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ import javax.naming.ConfigurationException;
 
 import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
 
+import com.cloud.deploy.DeploymentPlanner;
 import org.apache.cloudstack.affinity.dao.AffinityGroupVMMapDao;
 import org.apache.cloudstack.context.CallContext;
 import org.apache.cloudstack.engine.orchestration.service.NetworkOrchestrationService;
@@ -559,7 +560,7 @@ public class VirtualMachineManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements VirtualMac
     @Override
     public void start(String vmUuid, Map<VirtualMachineProfile.Param, Object> params, DeploymentPlan planToDeploy) {
         try {
-            advanceStart(vmUuid, params, planToDeploy);
+            advanceStart(vmUuid, params, planToDeploy, null);
         } catch (ConcurrentOperationException e) {
             throw new CloudRuntimeException("Unable to start a VM due to concurrent operation", e).add(VirtualMachine.class, vmUuid);
         } catch (InsufficientCapacityException e) {
@@ -700,20 +701,19 @@ public class VirtualMachineManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements VirtualMac
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void advanceStart(String vmUuid, Map<VirtualMachineProfile.Param, Object> params)
+    public void advanceStart(String vmUuid, Map<VirtualMachineProfile.Param, Object> params, DeploymentPlanner planner)
         throws InsufficientCapacityException, ConcurrentOperationException, ResourceUnavailableException {
-
+        advanceStart(vmUuid, params, null, planner);
-        advanceStart(vmUuid, params, null);
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void advanceStart(String vmUuid, Map<VirtualMachineProfile.Param, Object> params, DeploymentPlan planToDeploy) throws InsufficientCapacityException,
+    public void advanceStart(String vmUuid, Map<VirtualMachineProfile.Param, Object> params, DeploymentPlan planToDeploy, DeploymentPlanner planner) throws InsufficientCapacityException,
         ConcurrentOperationException, ResourceUnavailableException {
 
         AsyncJobExecutionContext jobContext = AsyncJobExecutionContext.getCurrentExecutionContext();
         if (!VmJobEnabled.value() || jobContext.isJobDispatchedBy(VmWorkJobDispatcher.VM_WORK_JOB_DISPATCHER)) {
             // avoid re-entrance
-            orchestrateStart(vmUuid, params, planToDeploy);
+            orchestrateStart(vmUuid, params, planToDeploy, planner);
         } else {
             Outcome<VirtualMachine> outcome = startVmThroughJobQueue(vmUuid, params, planToDeploy);
 
@@ -735,8 +735,10 @@ public class VirtualMachineManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements VirtualMac
         }
     }
 
-    private void orchestrateStart(String vmUuid, Map<VirtualMachineProfile.Param, Object> params, DeploymentPlan planToDeploy) throws InsufficientCapacityException,
+
-            ConcurrentOperationException, ResourceUnavailableException {
+    @Override
+    public void orchestrateStart(String vmUuid, Map<VirtualMachineProfile.Param, Object> params, DeploymentPlan planToDeploy, DeploymentPlanner planner)
+        throws InsufficientCapacityException, ConcurrentOperationException, ResourceUnavailableException {
 
         CallContext cctxt = CallContext.current();
         Account account = cctxt.getCallingAccount();
@@ -854,7 +856,7 @@ public class VirtualMachineManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements VirtualMac
                 VirtualMachineProfileImpl vmProfile = new VirtualMachineProfileImpl(vm, template, offering, owner, params);
                 DeployDestination dest = null;
                 try {
-                    dest = _dpMgr.planDeployment(vmProfile, plan, avoids);
+                    dest = _dpMgr.planDeployment(vmProfile, plan, avoids, planner);
                 } catch (AffinityConflictException e2) {
                     s_logger.warn("Unable to create deployment, affinity rules associted to the VM conflict", e2);
                     throw new CloudRuntimeException("Unable to create deployment, affinity rules associted to the VM conflict");
@@ -2037,7 +2039,7 @@ public class VirtualMachineManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements VirtualMac
     }
 
     @Override
-    public void migrateAway(String vmUuid, long srcHostId) throws InsufficientServerCapacityException {
+    public void migrateAway(String vmUuid, long srcHostId, DeploymentPlanner planner) throws InsufficientServerCapacityException {
         VMInstanceVO vm = _vmDao.findByUuid(vmUuid);
         if (vm == null) {
             s_logger.debug("Unable to find a VM for " + vmUuid);
@@ -2070,7 +2072,7 @@ public class VirtualMachineManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements VirtualMac
         while (true) {
 
             try {
-                dest = _dpMgr.planDeployment(profile, plan, excludes);
+                dest = _dpMgr.planDeployment(profile, plan, excludes, planner);
             } catch (AffinityConflictException e2) {
                 s_logger.warn("Unable to create deployment, affinity rules associted to the VM conflict", e2);
                 throw new CloudRuntimeException("Unable to create deployment, affinity rules associted to the VM conflict");
@@ -3392,7 +3394,7 @@ public class VirtualMachineManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements VirtualMac
         DeployDestination dest = null;
 
         try {
-            dest = _dpMgr.planDeployment(profile, plan, excludes);
+            dest = _dpMgr.planDeployment(profile, plan, excludes, null);
         } catch (AffinityConflictException e2) {
             s_logger.warn("Unable to create deployment, affinity rules associted to the VM conflict", e2);
             throw new CloudRuntimeException("Unable to create deployment, affinity rules associted to the VM conflict");
@@ -4712,7 +4714,7 @@ public class VirtualMachineManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements VirtualMac
         assert (vm != null);
         if (work instanceof VmWorkStart) {
             VmWorkStart workStart = (VmWorkStart)work;
-            orchestrateStart(vm.getUuid(), workStart.getParams(), workStart.getPlan());
+            orchestrateStart(vm.getUuid(), workStart.getParams(), workStart.getPlan(), null);
             return new Pair<JobInfo.Status, String>(JobInfo.Status.SUCCEEDED, null);
         } else if (work instanceof VmWorkStop) {
             VmWorkStop workStop = (VmWorkStop)work;

engine/orchestration/src/org/apache/cloudstack/engine/cloud/entity/api/VMEntityManagerImpl.java

@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ public class VMEntityManagerImpl implements VMEntityManager {
         while (true) {
             DeployDestination dest = null;
             try {
-                dest = _dpMgr.planDeployment(vmProfile, plan, exclude);
+                dest = _dpMgr.planDeployment(vmProfile, plan, exclude, null);
             } catch (AffinityConflictException e) {
                 throw new CloudRuntimeException("Unable to create deployment, affinity rules associted to the VM conflict");
             }

plugins/ha-planners/skip-heurestics/pom.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  under the License.
+-->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <artifactId>cloud-plugin-planner-skip-heurestics</artifactId>
+  <name>Apache CloudStack Plugin - Skip Heurestics Planner</name>
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.apache.cloudstack</groupId>
+    <artifactId>cloudstack-plugins</artifactId>
+    <version>4.4.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
+  </parent>
+</project>

plugins/ha-planners/skip-heurestics/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/skip-heurestics/module.properties

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+name=skip-heurestics
+parent=planner

plugins/ha-planners/skip-heurestics/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/skip-heurestics/spring-skip-heurestics-context.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<!-- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor 
+    license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional 
+    information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to 
+    you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use 
+    this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of 
+    the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required 
+    by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the 
+    License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS 
+    OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific 
+    language governing permissions and limitations under the License. -->
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
+    xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
+                      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
+
+    <bean id="SkipHeuresticsPlanner" class="com.cloud.deploy.SkipHeuresticsPlanner">
+        <property name="name" value="SkipHeuresticsPlanner" />
+    </bean>
+
+
+</beans>
+

plugins/ha-planners/skip-heurestics/src/com/cloud/deploy/SkipHeuresticsPlanner.java

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+package com.cloud.deploy;
+
+import com.cloud.vm.VirtualMachineProfile;
+import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
+
+
+import javax.ejb.Local;
+import javax.naming.ConfigurationException;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+@Local(value=HAPlanner.class)
+public class SkipHeuresticsPlanner extends FirstFitPlanner implements HAPlanner {
+    private static final Logger s_logger = Logger.getLogger(SkipHeuresticsPlanner.class);
+
+
+    /**
+     * This method should remove the clusters crossing capacity threshold
+     * to avoid further vm allocation on it.
+     *
+     * In case of HA, we shouldn't consider this threshold as we have reserved the capacity for such emergencies.
+     */
+    @Override
+    protected void removeClustersCrossingThreshold(List<Long> clusterListForVmAllocation, ExcludeList avoid,
+                                                   VirtualMachineProfile vmProfile, DeploymentPlan plan){
+        if (s_logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
+            s_logger.debug("Deploying vm during HA process, so skipping disable threshold check");
+        }
+        return;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean canHandle(VirtualMachineProfile vm, DeploymentPlan plan, ExcludeList avoid) {
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean configure(String name, Map<String, Object> params) throws ConfigurationException {
+        super.configure(name, params);
+
+        return true;
+
+    }
+
+}

plugins/pom.xml

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
     <module>deployment-planners/user-concentrated-pod</module>
     <module>deployment-planners/user-dispersing</module>
     <module>deployment-planners/implicit-dedication</module>
+    <module>ha-planners/skip-heurestics</module>
     <module>host-allocators/random</module>
     <module>dedicated-resources</module>
     <module>hypervisors/ovm</module>

server/resources/META-INF/cloudstack/core/spring-server-core-managers-context.xml

@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
     <bean id="highAvailabilityManagerExtImpl" class="com.cloud.ha.HighAvailabilityManagerExtImpl">
         <property name="investigators" value="#{haInvestigatorsRegistry.registered}" />
         <property name="fenceBuilders" value="#{haFenceBuildersRegistry.registered}" />
+        <property name="haPlanners" value="#{haPlannersRegistry.registered}" />
     </bean>
 
     <bean id="ipAddressManagerImpl" class="com.cloud.network.IpAddressManagerImpl">

server/src/com/cloud/consoleproxy/ConsoleProxyManagerImpl.java

@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ public class ConsoleProxyManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements ConsoleProxy
             }
 
             if (proxy.getState() == VirtualMachine.State.Stopped) {
-                _itMgr.advanceStart(proxy.getUuid(), null);
+                _itMgr.advanceStart(proxy.getUuid(), null, null);
                 proxy = _consoleProxyDao.findById(proxy.getId());
             }
 

server/src/com/cloud/deploy/DeploymentPlanningManagerImpl.java

@@ -233,8 +233,8 @@ public class DeploymentPlanningManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements Deploy
     }
 
     @Override
-    public DeployDestination planDeployment(VirtualMachineProfile vmProfile, DeploymentPlan plan, ExcludeList avoids) throws InsufficientServerCapacityException,
+    public DeployDestination planDeployment(VirtualMachineProfile vmProfile, DeploymentPlan plan, ExcludeList avoids, DeploymentPlanner planner)
-        AffinityConflictException {
+            throws InsufficientServerCapacityException, AffinityConflictException {
 
         // call affinitygroup chain
         VirtualMachine vm = vmProfile.getVirtualMachine();
@@ -265,19 +265,20 @@ public class DeploymentPlanningManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements Deploy
         }
 
         ServiceOffering offering = vmProfile.getServiceOffering();
-        String plannerName = offering.getDeploymentPlanner();
+        if(planner == null){
-        if (plannerName == null) {
+            String plannerName = offering.getDeploymentPlanner();
-            if (vm.getHypervisorType() == HypervisorType.BareMetal) {
+            if (plannerName == null) {
-                plannerName = "BareMetalPlanner";
+                if (vm.getHypervisorType() == HypervisorType.BareMetal) {
-            } else {
+                    plannerName = "BareMetalPlanner";
-                plannerName = _configDao.getValue(Config.VmDeploymentPlanner.key());
+                } else {
+                    plannerName = _configDao.getValue(Config.VmDeploymentPlanner.key());
+                }
             }
-        }
+            for (DeploymentPlanner plannerInList : _planners) {
-        DeploymentPlanner planner = null;
+                if (plannerName.equals(plannerInList.getName())) {
-        for (DeploymentPlanner plannerInList : _planners) {
+                    planner = plannerInList;
-            if (plannerName.equals(plannerInList.getName())) {
+                    break;
-                planner = plannerInList;
+                }
-                break;
             }
         }
 

server/src/com/cloud/deploy/FirstFitPlanner.java

@@ -259,7 +259,15 @@ public class FirstFitPlanner extends PlannerBase implements DeploymentClusterPla
         return capacityList;
     }
 
-    private void removeClustersCrossingThreshold(List<Long> clusterListForVmAllocation, ExcludeList avoid, VirtualMachineProfile vmProfile, DeploymentPlan plan) {
+    /**
+     * This method should remove the clusters crossing capacity threshold to avoid further vm allocation on it.
+     * @param clusterListForVmAllocation
+     * @param avoid
+     * @param vmProfile
+     * @param plan
+     */
+    protected void removeClustersCrossingThreshold(List<Long> clusterListForVmAllocation, ExcludeList avoid,
+            VirtualMachineProfile vmProfile, DeploymentPlan plan) {
 
         List<Short> capacityList = getCapacitiesForCheckingThreshold();
         List<Long> clustersCrossingThreshold = new ArrayList<Long>();

server/src/com/cloud/ha/HighAvailabilityManagerImpl.java

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import javax.naming.ConfigurationException;
 import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
 import org.apache.log4j.NDC;
 
+import com.cloud.deploy.HAPlanner;
 import org.apache.cloudstack.engine.orchestration.service.VolumeOrchestrationService;
 import org.apache.cloudstack.framework.config.dao.ConfigurationDao;
 import org.apache.cloudstack.managed.context.ManagedContext;
@@ -141,6 +142,16 @@ public class HighAvailabilityManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements HighAvai
         this.fenceBuilders = fenceBuilders;
     }
 
+    List<HAPlanner> _haPlanners;
+    public List<HAPlanner> getHaPlanners() {
+        return _haPlanners;
+    }
+
+    public void setHaPlanners(List<HAPlanner> haPlanners) {
+        this._haPlanners = haPlanners;
+    }
+
+
     @Inject
     AgentManager _agentMgr;
     @Inject
@@ -548,9 +559,20 @@ public class HighAvailabilityManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements HighAvai
             if (_haTag != null) {
                 params.put(VirtualMachineProfile.Param.HaTag, _haTag);
             }
-            _itMgr.advanceStart(vm.getUuid(), params);
+
+            // First try starting the vm with its original planner, if it doesn't succeed send HAPlanner as its an emergency.
+            _itMgr.advanceStart(vm.getUuid(), params, null);
 
             VMInstanceVO started = _instanceDao.findById(vm.getId());
+            if (started != null && started.getState() == VirtualMachine.State.Running) {
+                s_logger.info("VM is now restarted: " + vmId + " on " + started.getHostId());
+                return null;
+            }else {
+                s_logger.warn("Failed to deploy vm " + vmId + " with original planner, sending HAPlanner");
+                _itMgr.advanceStart(vm.getUuid(), params, _haPlanners.get(0));
+            }
+
+            started = _instanceDao.findById(vm.getId());
             if (started != null && started.getState() == VirtualMachine.State.Running) {
                 s_logger.info("VM is now restarted: " + vmId + " on " + started.getHostId());
                 return null;
@@ -591,8 +613,14 @@ public class HighAvailabilityManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements HighAvai
             _haDao.update(work.getId(), work);
 
             VMInstanceVO vm = _instanceDao.findById(vmId);
-
+            // First try starting the vm with its original planner, if it doesn't succeed send HAPlanner as its an emergency.
-            _itMgr.migrateAway(vm.getUuid(), srcHostId);
+            boolean result = false;
+            try {
+                _itMgr.migrateAway(vm.getUuid(), srcHostId, null);
+            }catch (InsufficientServerCapacityException e) {
+                s_logger.warn("Failed to deploy vm " + vmId + " with original planner, sending HAPlanner");
+                _itMgr.migrateAway(vm.getUuid(), srcHostId, _haPlanners.get(0));
+            }
             return null;
         } catch (InsufficientServerCapacityException e) {
             s_logger.warn("Insufficient capacity for migrating a VM.");

server/src/com/cloud/storage/StoragePoolAutomationImpl.java

@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ public class StoragePoolAutomationImpl implements StoragePoolAutomation {
 
                     if (restart) {
 
-                        vmMgr.advanceStart(consoleProxy.getUuid(), null);
+                        vmMgr.advanceStart(consoleProxy.getUuid(), null, null);
                         // update work status
                         work.setStartedAfterMaintenance(true);
                         _storagePoolWorkDao.update(work.getId(), work);
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ public class StoragePoolAutomationImpl implements StoragePoolAutomation {
                     _storagePoolWorkDao.update(work.getId(), work);
 
                     if (restart) {
-                        vmMgr.advanceStart(secStrgVm.getUuid(), null);
+                        vmMgr.advanceStart(secStrgVm.getUuid(), null, null);
                         // update work status
                         work.setStartedAfterMaintenance(true);
                         _storagePoolWorkDao.update(work.getId(), work);
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ public class StoragePoolAutomationImpl implements StoragePoolAutomation {
                     _storagePoolWorkDao.update(work.getId(), work);
 
                     if (restart) {
-                        vmMgr.advanceStart(domR.getUuid(), null);
+                        vmMgr.advanceStart(domR.getUuid(), null, null);
                         // update work status
                         work.setStartedAfterMaintenance(true);
                         _storagePoolWorkDao.update(work.getId(), work);
@@ -330,17 +330,21 @@ public class StoragePoolAutomationImpl implements StoragePoolAutomation {
                 // proxy
                 if (vmInstance.getType().equals(VirtualMachine.Type.ConsoleProxy)) {
 
-                    ConsoleProxyVO consoleProxy = _consoleProxyDao.findById(vmInstance.getId());
+                    ConsoleProxyVO consoleProxy = _consoleProxyDao
-                    vmMgr.advanceStart(consoleProxy.getUuid(), null);
+                            .findById(vmInstance.getId());
+                    vmMgr.advanceStart(consoleProxy.getUuid(), null, null);
                     // update work queue
                     work.setStartedAfterMaintenance(true);
                     _storagePoolWorkDao.update(work.getId(), work);
                 }
 
                 // if the instance is of type ssvm, call the ssvm manager
-                if (vmInstance.getType().equals(VirtualMachine.Type.SecondaryStorageVm)) {
+                if (vmInstance.getType().equals(
-                    SecondaryStorageVmVO ssVm = _secStrgDao.findById(vmInstance.getId());
+                        VirtualMachine.Type.SecondaryStorageVm)) {
-                    vmMgr.advanceStart(ssVm.getUuid(), null);
+                    SecondaryStorageVmVO ssVm = _secStrgDao.findById(vmInstance
+                            .getId());
+                    vmMgr.advanceStart(ssVm.getUuid(), null, null);
+
                     // update work queue
                     work.setStartedAfterMaintenance(true);
                     _storagePoolWorkDao.update(work.getId(), work);
@@ -349,7 +353,7 @@ public class StoragePoolAutomationImpl implements StoragePoolAutomation {
                 // if the instance is of type ssvm, call the ssvm manager
                 if (vmInstance.getType().equals(VirtualMachine.Type.DomainRouter)) {
                     DomainRouterVO domR = _domrDao.findById(vmInstance.getId());
-                    vmMgr.advanceStart(domR.getUuid(), null);
+                    vmMgr.advanceStart(domR.getUuid(), null, null);
                     // update work queue
                     work.setStartedAfterMaintenance(true);
                     _storagePoolWorkDao.update(work.getId(), work);
@@ -359,7 +363,7 @@ public class StoragePoolAutomationImpl implements StoragePoolAutomation {
                 if (vmInstance.getType().equals(VirtualMachine.Type.User)) {
                     UserVmVO userVm = userVmDao.findById(vmInstance.getId());
 
-                    vmMgr.advanceStart(userVm.getUuid(), null);                        // update work queue
+                    vmMgr.advanceStart(userVm.getUuid(), null, null);                        // update work queue
                     work.setStartedAfterMaintenance(true);
                     _storagePoolWorkDao.update(work.getId(), work);
                 }

server/src/com/cloud/storage/secondary/SecondaryStorageManagerImpl.java

@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ public class SecondaryStorageManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements Secondar
     public SecondaryStorageVmVO startSecStorageVm(long secStorageVmId) {
         try {
             SecondaryStorageVmVO secStorageVm = _secStorageVmDao.findById(secStorageVmId);
-            _itMgr.advanceStart(secStorageVm.getUuid(), null);
+            _itMgr.advanceStart(secStorageVm.getUuid(), null, null);
             return _secStorageVmDao.findById(secStorageVm.getId());
         } catch (StorageUnavailableException e) {
             s_logger.warn("Exception while trying to start secondary storage vm", e);

server/src/com/cloud/vm/snapshot/VMSnapshotManagerImpl.java

@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ public class VMSnapshotManagerImpl extends ManagerBase implements VMSnapshotMana
         // start or stop VM first, if revert from stopped state to running state, or from running to stopped
         if (userVm.getState() == VirtualMachine.State.Stopped && vmSnapshotVo.getType() == VMSnapshot.Type.DiskAndMemory) {
             try {
-                _itMgr.advanceStart(userVm.getUuid(), new HashMap<VirtualMachineProfile.Param, Object>());
+                _itMgr.advanceStart(userVm.getUuid(), new HashMap<VirtualMachineProfile.Param, Object>(), null);
                 vm = _userVMDao.findById(userVm.getId());
                 hostId = vm.getHostId();
             } catch (Exception e) {

server/test/com/cloud/vm/DeploymentPlanningManagerImplTest.java

@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ public class DeploymentPlanningManagerImplTest {
         DataCenterDeployment plan = new DataCenterDeployment(dataCenterId);
 
         Mockito.when(avoids.shouldAvoid((DataCenterVO)Matchers.anyObject())).thenReturn(true);
-        DeployDestination dest = _dpm.planDeployment(vmProfile, plan, avoids);
+        DeployDestination dest = _dpm.planDeployment(vmProfile, plan, avoids, null);
         assertNull("DataCenter is in avoid set, destination should be null! ", dest);
     }
 
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ public class DeploymentPlanningManagerImplTest {
         Mockito.when(avoids.shouldAvoid((DataCenterVO)Matchers.anyObject())).thenReturn(false);
 
         Mockito.when(_planner.canHandle(vmProfile, plan, avoids)).thenReturn(false);
-        DeployDestination dest = _dpm.planDeployment(vmProfile, plan, avoids);
+        DeployDestination dest = _dpm.planDeployment(vmProfile, plan, avoids, null);
         assertNull("Planner cannot handle, destination should be null! ", dest);
     }
 
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ public class DeploymentPlanningManagerImplTest {
         Mockito.when(_planner.canHandle(vmProfile, plan, avoids)).thenReturn(true);
 
         Mockito.when(((DeploymentClusterPlanner)_planner).orderClusters(vmProfile, plan, avoids)).thenReturn(null);
-        DeployDestination dest = _dpm.planDeployment(vmProfile, plan, avoids);
+        DeployDestination dest = _dpm.planDeployment(vmProfile, plan, avoids, null);
         assertNull("Planner cannot handle, destination should be null! ", dest);
     }