Once in a while, on a new setup, when you try to spawn a VM on Openstack and it may fail with the error : No Suitable Host Found, it points to the fact the the Nova Scheduler failed to filter out a host to spawn the VM on. [The following trouble shooting is related to my setup. There are a lot of other factors that may lead to this error. So google a bit and check them in addition. This article can help you in figuring out the way to do troubleshooting.] A quick look at /var/log/nova/scheduler.log and compute.log shows an error: NovaException: Unexpected vif_type=binding_failed Filter RetryFilter returned 0 hosts This points to the fact that something is wrong with the Neutron setup. So a quick look into the neutron logs show the following:
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