anyone know how i can manually start a VM? my ui is not wanting to load.

You can have a look at https://github.com/belgaied2/harvester-cli

great, thanks!

Yes, the CLI is definitely handy for those situations.

side-note, i thing i have either a) an issue with a host having problems, b) a disk issue, or c) a too much / bottlenecking. any pointers on hunting it down? (6-node cluster, dell r620s, with a bunch of ssds (sata2) via mini-sas jbod

The platform itself is quite lean regarding resource consumption, so things like bottlenecks are usually related to the workloads. I recommend you start with the Troubleshooting tips in the documentation: https://docs.harvesterhci.io/v1.1/troubleshooting/installation You may see that a tool called supportconfig is mentioned there several times. If you are a paid customer, that's what you should use to send info to our support colleagues,. If you aren't, it's also useful as it's a package with all the relevant logs altogether. Use it and try to look for errors/warnings in the collected logs. If there's any type of hardware failure or misconfiguration, it's quite likely that you'll something there. If it's a bottleneck or something related to performance, it may not be that obvious, but think about what your VMs are doing and try to follow from there. I hope it helps.

@quick-sandwich-76600 thanks! i'll check it out.