<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,<br><br></div><div>Just to make clear what you want to achieve:<br></div><div>- DC1 - local storage - host1 - VMs<br>- DC2 - local storage - host2 <br><br></div><div>You want to move the VMs from DC1 to DC2.<br><br></div><div>What you can do:<br></div><div>- Add a shared storage domain to the DC#1 <br></div><div>- Move VM disk from local SD to shared storage domain<br></div><div>- Put shared storage domain to maintenance<br></div><div>- Detach shared storage from DC1<br>- Attach shared storage to DC2<br></div><div>- Activate shared storage <br></div><div>- You should be able to register the VM from the shared storage into the DC2<br></div><div>- If you want/need move disks from shared storage to local storage in DC2<br><br></div><div>Please test this flow with a dummy VM before doing on important VMs.<br><br></div><div>Regards,<br><br></div><div>Freddy<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Andrei Verovski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andreil1@starlett.lv" target="_blank">andreil1@starlett.lv</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for clarification. I’m using 4.2.</div><div>Anyway, I have to define another data center with shared storage domain (since data center with local storage domain can have only 1 host), and the do what you have described.</div><div><br></div><div>Is it possible to copy VM disks from 1 data center #1 local storage domain to another data center #2 NFS storage domain, or need to use export storage domain ?<div><div class="h5"><br><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 26 Feb 2018, at 13:30, Fred Rolland <<a href="mailto:frolland@redhat.com" target="_blank">frolland@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-8606475354650732125Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi,<br></div>Which version are you using?<br><br></div>in 4.1 , the support of adding shared storage to local DC was added [1].<br></div>You can copy/move disks to the shared storage domain, then detach the SD and attach to another DC.<br><br></div>In any case, you wont be able to live migrate VMs from the local DC, it is not supported.<br><br></div>Regards,<br></div>Fred<br><div><div><div><div><br>[1] <a href="https://ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/sharedStorageDomainsAttachedToLocalDC/" target="_blank">https://ovirt.org/develop/<wbr>release-management/features/<wbr>storage/<wbr>sharedStorageDomainsAttachedTo<wbr>LocalDC/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 1:35 PM, Andrei V <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andreil1@starlett.lv" target="_blank">andreil1@starlett.lv</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I have oVirt setup, separate PC host engine + 2 nodes (#10 + #11) with local storage domains (internal RAIDs).</div><div>1st node #10 is currently active and can’t be turned off.</div><div><br></div><div>Since oVirt doesn’t support more then 1 host in data center with local storage domain as described here:</div><div><a href="http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2018-January/086118.html" target="_blank">http://lists.ovirt.org/piperma<wbr>il/users/2018-January/086118.<wbr>html</a><br>defined another data center with 1 node #11.</div><div><br></div><div>Problem: </div><div>1) can’t copy or move VM disks from node #10 (even of inactive VMs) to node #11, this node is NOT being shown as possible destination.</div><div>2) can’t migrate active VMs to node #11.</div><div>3) Added NFS shares to data center #1 -> node #10, but can’t change data center #1 -> storage type to Shared, because this operation requires detachment of local storage domains, which is not possible, several VMs are active and can’t be stopped.</div><div><br></div><div>VM disks placed on local storage domains because of performance limitations of our 1Gbit network. </div><div>2 VMs running our accounting/inventory control system, and are critical to NFS storage performance limits.</div><div><br></div><div>How to solve this problem ?</div><div>Thanks in advance.</div><span class="m_-8606475354650732125HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Andrei</div><div><br></div></font></span></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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