Re: [ovirt-devel] [ovirt-users] oVirt HA.

On 04/29/2015 10:39 AM, Sven Kieske wrote: > > On 28/04/15 16:20, Dan Yasny wrote: >> HA does not mean multiple running instances of the same service. It >> means >> if the service is gone, it will automatically be restored on a working >> server. > That is a pretty narrow definition of HA, which is not shared by > most parts of the community (and the world), leading to much confusion > of users on this very ML. > > HA in general means your service downtime gets minimized, today mostly > realized through load balancing and clustering software services. > > just restarting a service (in this case ovirt-engine vm) on a different > host is not what todays user expect under the term "HA" imho. > > in theory it should be possible as a design goal to make multiple > ovirt-engine share one remote data base (remote database support is > already there). > > I think this would be a huge feature for ovirt, but also requires quite > some design and coding to be done. > > thus adding the devel list. > Please open RFE with this and we can consider that for future versions.