<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 6:49 AM, Brendan Hartzell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mrrex4@gmail.com" target="_blank">mrrex4@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">oVirt users list,<div><br></div><div>Long story short, I've been spending weeks on this project for my home lab with no success.</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to successfully install two nodes that host a highly available engine with an iSCSI storage back-end.</div><div><br></div><div>I have read through most, if not all, of the guides on <a href="http://ovirt.org" target="_blank">ovirt.org</a> with no substantial help.</div><div><br></div><div>Successfully, I have done the following:</div><div>Install oVirt Engine on a bare metal system, added a node, and started exploring - not desired.</div><div>Install oVirt Node 4.0.6 on a bare metal system - fails if partitions are not done automatically.</div><div>Install oVirt Node 4.1.2 on a bare metal system - fails if partitions are not done automatically.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Can you please elaborate about the failure you see here and how are you trying to manually partition the host?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>My process after installing a Node:</div><div>Run a yum update - just to be sure, but I am using latest iso images from downloads section.</div><div>Edit /etc/hosts for local name resolution - the goal is to host DNS as a virtual machine, eventually.</div><div>On 4.1 if I install ovirt-engine-appliance from yum, it does simplify one step in the hosted engine setup. If I do this on 4.0 it discards the image and uses the default.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Being this a new install, please use 4.1. oVirt 4.0 is not supported anymore.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>On 4.1 the hosted engine setup fails immediately unless I run the hosted engine cleanup from the shell.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Can you please provide hosted engine setup logs or better a full sos report? (sosreport -a)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div> If I do this, I can typically get to the point of installing.</div><div><br></div><div>When I do get to the installation phase, I get to a point just after extracting the OVA that I get a message on the shell saying something about the watchdog running the whole time and then the node reboots.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I found one email thread that sounded like my issue and suggested the following commands:</div><div><div>vdsm-tool configure --force</div><div>systemctl restart libvirtd</div><div>systemctl restart vdsmd</div></div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, these commands did not help my situation like the other individual.</div><div><br></div><div>What log file would everyone like to see first? Given that I still consider myself relatively new to Linux, please identify the path for the log file requested.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>See above</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Also, because I plan on performing a clean install for this thread using my process from above (I'm not expecting my outcome to be any different), are there any tips and tricks that might result in a success?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'd like to understand the issues you faced before suggesting to restart from scratch.</div><div>Adding some people who may help as well.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Thank you for any and all help,</div><div>Brendan</div></div>
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