<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 4:26 PM, Eyal Shenitzky <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:eshenitz@redhat.com" target="_blank" class="">eshenitz@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Andrei,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think you miss understand the concept of export domain.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Export domain allows you to pass entities from one data center to another.</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>OK, now I’ve got it. Thanks for so clear and short explanation. It should go straight into the oVirt manual and QA.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>One Data Center can have only one Export storage domain, right ?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>So 1 (single) export domain used as some kind of shared exchange buffer (VM “clipboard” in desktop metaphor) in whole oVirt setup, per 1 host engine.</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The flow is:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1) Create an export domain in DC-A</div><div class="">2) Export required entities to the export domain</div><div class="">3) Deactivate (enter the storage domain to maintenance mode) and detach the export domain</div><div class="">4) Attach the export domain to DC-B and import the entities to it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can see more information here:</div><div class="">- <a href="https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/admin-guide/chap-Storage/" target="_blank" class="">https://www.ovirt.org/<wbr class="">documentation/admin-guide/<wbr class="">chap-Storage/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 4:04 PM, Andrei Verovski <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:andreil1@starlett.lv" target="_blank" class="">andreil1@starlett.lv</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><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" class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have 2 data centers (with 1 node each because 1 have local data domain)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Copied exported from DC #1, exports -> 1d7208ce-d3a1-4406-9638-fe7051<wbr class="">562994 -> images -> 12f48f07-7e93-4c66-b0e9-00e<wbr class="">fc1fec418, with 2 files inside</div><div class="">fc469474-94fd-416b-b921-58604f<wbr class="">46411c - 171 GB (seems like disk image)</div><div class="">fc469474-94fd-416b-b921-58604f<wbr class="">46411c.meta</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">to DC #2, export -> 36bc8d5d-30e9-4df5-94cd-c83<wbr class="">7483c5e41 -> images -> 12f48f07-7e93-4c66-b0e9-00e<wbr class="">fc1fec418, with these above listed files inside.</div><div class="">(screenshot attached)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, in “Import Virtual machine(s)” dialog this VM is not visible even after running “Load” command inside import dialog.</div><div class="">Looks like for whatever reason oVirt don’t refresh content of this directory.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">How to instruct oVirt to refresh and index these files?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Or this method won’t work at all, and one have to import/export OVA images, or use lengthy procedure described by Fred Roland here ?</div><div class=""><a href="http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2018-February/087304.html" target="_blank" class="">http://lists.ovirt.org/piperma<wbr class="">il/users/2018-February/087304.<wbr class="">html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks.</div><div class="">Andrei</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <span id="cid:156AE382-B2F0-4B86-ADCA-50CE34CEAB4D"><Screen Shot 2018-03-20 at 15.53.34.jpg></span></div></div><br class="">______________________________<wbr class="">_________________<br class="">
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