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Overview

Use this guide to diagnose common problems in cluster onboarding, health monitoring, and settings management.

Troubleshooting Decision Tree

Possible causes
  • Incomplete onboarding form data.
  • Invalid kube configuration or provider credentials.
  • Backend workflow failed during registration.
Recommended checks
  1. Re-run onboarding with validated configuration inputs.
  2. Confirm ingress and API connectivity.
  3. Check platform logs for onboarding workflow errors.
Possible causes
  • Active deployments still attached to the cluster.
  • Insufficient permissions to perform delete.
Recommended checks
  1. Review Deployments tab and drain or migrate active endpoints.
  2. Confirm cluster:manage permission.
  3. Retry deletion after dependencies are cleared.
Possible causes
  • Metrics pipeline latency or outage.
  • Node exporter/connectivity issues.
Recommended checks
  1. Compare with Nodes tab readiness and event data.
  2. Validate monitoring integration health.
  3. Check if issue is cluster-local or platform-wide.
Possible causes
  • Insufficient allocatable CPU/GPU/memory.
  • Taints/affinity mismatch.
  • Storage constraints.
Recommended checks
  1. Inspect request-vs-allocatable values on affected nodes.
  2. Validate scheduling constraints in deployment configs.
  3. Scale capacity or rebalance workloads.
A deployment that needs more than one GPU restarts repeatedly during model load, while the same model on a single GPU serves normally. The deployment reason mentions NCCL error: unhandled cuda error.Possible causes
  • The GPU nodes are virtual machines using NVIDIA vGPU, which ships with Unified Memory disabled. Multi-GPU communication cannot initialise at all in that state.
  • The GPUs are fractional vGPU profiles, which can never support multi-GPU workloads.
Recommended checks
  1. Confirm the GPU type: a vGPU reports a profile name such as H100XM-80C rather than a card model, and a brand of NVIDIA vGPU for Compute.
  2. Ask the virtualization administrator to enable Unified Memory on the node VM — one pciPassthru<n>.cfg.enable_uvm = 1 entry per attached vGPU, applied with the VM powered off. This keeps GPU sharing and the existing GPU profile intact, but prevents live migration of that VM while enabled.
  3. Until that change is made, deploy the model on a single GPU. Retrying, resizing, or changing engine settings will not resolve it.
Possible causes
  • Storage classes unavailable from cluster API.
  • Access mode incompatible with selected storage class.
  • API or permission errors.
Recommended checks
  1. Reload settings and confirm storage class discovery works.
  2. Select recommended access mode.
  3. Verify user has manage permission and retry.

Escalation Data to Capture

  • Cluster ID and environment.
  • Timestamp and user action attempted.
  • Screenshot or export of relevant tab state.
  • Node event snippets and affected workloads.

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