[Users] oVirt-engine and UserPortal "cluster"
by Brian Vetter
I've been scouring through the install notes and the architecture documents but didn't find my answer. Is there a way to "cluster" or replicate the userportal app or is it strictly a single instance? Any thoughts to the scale of a large VDI system with 10,000 desktops and their VMs and how that impacts the ovirt-engine and the user-portal app?
I figure it has been discussed, but using the word cluster in a google search of the wiki results in a lot of hits, none of them that I saw that are to do with clustering the server, just the virtual machine nodes.
Brian
12 years, 2 months
[Users] new ovirt-engine-sdk features (form 3.1 till now)
by Michael Pasternak
- allow persistent_auth via localhost
- make /filter header global rather than method driven #857018
- throw error when connecting to ssl site using http protocol
- raise NoCertificatesError only when no ca_file specified
- several rebases to include latest engine features
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RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D
12 years, 2 months
[Users] new ovirt-engine-cli features (form 3.1 till now)
by Michael Pasternak
- support utf-8 encoding
- do not log /connect command in history
- disable /history while not connected
- add username/password prompt/command-line functionality
- history command does not support pipe redirection #854486
- valid UUIDs are treated as syntax error #854391
- Rename /delete command with /remove #855769
- Raise an error if identifier is not specified in /show command #855750
- remove --show-all option from /show command #855749
- rename "create" command with "add" #855773
- change NoCertificatesError message to ask only for ca_file
- implement /filter flag
- do not write to file i/o during script execution
- shell does not exit when using /exit/ command in script
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Michael Pasternak
RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D
12 years, 2 months
[Users] Logical networks in 3.1 on CentOS 6.3
by Frank Soyer
Hi list,
I'm testing oVirt on 3 hosts as a possible replacement for Proxmox.
I've some trouble to understand the network part of the config (for
beginning, I'll have some other questions about glusterfs later :)) and
need some lights.
The environment :
- Engine host, no-virtualisation capability, one NIC eth0
- 2 nodes, virtualisation OK, 2 NICs eth0,eth1
- oVirt 3.1 on CentOS 6.3.
The installation of engine/nodes was OK, no problem at all on the 3 nodes.
The NIC eth0 on all hosts was manually bound on a bridge "ovirtmgmt",
respectively on 10.0.0.1, .2, .3
ovirmgmt appears on the console as the management network, no problem,
just a first question :
it is marked as "VM network", and no way to change that. What if I want
that this network to be dedicated on physical hosts only ?
Second, I tried to create a logical network, call it "vmnetwork", linked
it to datacenter and cluster. In the network interface configuration
window on the hosts, I can link vmnetwork on eth0, but when validating
an error occurs saying that eth0 is already linked to ovirmgmt. So I
can't have management network and vm network on the same NIC , even on a
virtual nic (tried with vlan=0 and vlan=10 on vmnetwork, same thing) ?
Third, is this a bug when I come back to the configuration window, that
the networks (for ovirmgmt and vmnetwork) return to "DHCP" ? If I forgot
to re-check the static network, the host lose all it's network config
and is declared non-responsive then rebooted..... Bad !
Thank you for helping me to understand.
Frank
12 years, 2 months
[Users] Question about network card order
by Kevin Maziere Aubry
Hello
My first email on the mailing, I hope the first one of a longue serie.
The email concerns a Network Card order issue for which I like to report a
have your advises.
I've made a template which contains 2 network cards, Each one bridge on
different vlan network.
When I create a VM from this template, the network card mac address
assignation is random... so that by default my fedora assign eth0 to the
smallest mac address, and so on for eth1/eth2 ...
But no way to define network card order in template, so that sometime the
smallest mac address is on eth0, sometime on eth1 (and in fact more often
on eth1), sometime my VM works, sometime I have to destroy and recreate
network interfaces.
Is there a workaround or anything else ?
Thanks
Kévin
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12 years, 2 months
[Users] fw: Migrating ovirt-engine to new server
by Neil
Sorry to repost(kind of) but I'm really battling here and I need to
get the VM's up and running again.
I've given up on the idea of migrating the database across due to all
sorts of problems encountered and I've instead done a completely NEW
fresh ovirt-engine install and I've got one host added and running.
How do I go about detaching my storage datacentre from my old
ovirt-engine, and re-attaching it to my new ovirt-engine running on my
new server? I'm running FC with multiple LUNS all assigned in one
datacentre called "linux" and I can't detach it because it says
"Cannot detach Storage Domain while VMs/Templates reside on it." My
entire datacentre is in maintenance at the moment which consists of
only 3 VM's(4TB's in total), my host only has a 16GB SDD in it, so
exporting to a local NFS mount is not an option.
Can I safely remove the VM's(as instructed above) by going to "VM's"
and clicking remove and then will I be able to detach the datacentre
and then re-attach it to the new ovirt-engine? Bearing in mind that
I'm running a fresh install of ovirt-engine and I haven't copied the
database across? Is it a matter of re-attaching the LUNS that are
currently assigned because I can see the LUNS when I try and add a new
FC storage domain, however the LUNS currently attached to the old
ovirt-engine are greyed out and can't be selected.
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Regards.
Neil Wilson.
12 years, 2 months
[Users] nested KVM
by Nathanaël Blanchet
Hello,
I've tried many times to run a node as a guest in ovirt following
http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Vdsm_Developers#Running_Node_as_guest_-_Nested...
. The result is that I'm able to register such a host in engine, but it
is impossible to start any vm on it. If I boot on an ISO, I can see the
first prompt and move between the items. But since I begin the
installation I have a blank screen and the vm goes into pause mode in
vit-manager. Then I have no way else than rebooting the hypervisor guest
because it is impossible to resume. When I get logs on the real host, I
can find this :
arning : x86Decode:1306 : Preferred CPU model Westmere not allowed by
hypervisor; closest supported model will be used
Sep 25 17:11:59 khamsin libvirtd[23053]: 2012-09-25 15:11:59.384+0000:
23054: warning : x86Decode:1306 : Preferred CPU model Westmere not
allowed by hypervisor; closest supported model will be used
Sep 25 17:12:19 khamsin libvirtd[23053]: 2012-09-25 15:12:19.150+0000:
23055: warning : x86Decode:1306 : Preferred CPU model Westmere not
allowed by hypervisor; closest supported model will be used
Sep 25 17:45:48 khamsin libvirtd[23053]: 2012-09-25 15:45:48.342+0000:
23058: warning : x86Decode:1306 : Preferred CPU model Westmere not
allowed by hypervisor; closest supported model will be used
Sep 25 18:07:05 khamsin libvirtd[23053]: 2012-09-25 16:07:05.834+0000:
23058: warning : x86Decode:1306 : Preferred CPU model Nehalem not
allowed by hypervisor; closest supported model will be used
Sep 25 18:44:47 khamsin libvirtd[23053]: 2012-09-25 16:44:47.340+0000:
23057: warning : x86Decode:1306 : Preferred CPU model Penryn not allowed
by hypervisor; closest supported model will be used
As you can see, I have tried many cpu type for launching this guest
hypervisor, but none of them is accepted by the hypervisor. Plus, I've
modified each time the family type in the cluster tab, but it is the same.
On the hist:
#virsh capabilities gives
<cpu>
<arch>x86_64</arch>
<model>Westmere</model>
<vendor>Intel</vendor>
Thanks for your help
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12 years, 2 months
[Users] Migrating ovirt-engine to new server
by Neil
Hi guys,
Please could someone assist me.
I'm trying to migrate my ovirt-engine(3.1 but very early release) to
latest 3.1 on new machine(both Centos 6.3 dreyou repo). After the
intial engine-setup I can log into webadmin without a problem.
I then imported my DB from the old server (psql -U postgres -d engine
-w < /root/dump.sql) and start the ovirt-engine again, but now when
try and browse to the webadmin I don't get anything at all, no web
page displays at all, I'm guessing that there are lots of additional
steps that I'm missing, so perhaps this is normal. I haven't attached
any logs etc because I'm fairly certain that I'm missing some vital
steps before I can actually log into my system using the new DB.
I've changed the hostname of the machine -- previous name was
node02.blabla.com and now it's backup.blabla.com does this matter? My
guess is the certificates won't work with the DB now, is there any way
to get around this, or should I rather just use the same hostname on
the new server?
I also haven't copied any physical files or configs across yet, which
files/folders do I need?
I'm using a FC SAN so I'm assuming I won't need to export my VM's, it
should just be a matter of detaching my main storage domain and then
re-attaching it on the new server? I see when I try and detach from
the old server it says "can't export while there are Templates/VM's on
the system" must I hit the remove button on each VM on the old system
in order to detach and then attach to on the new system? (presume it
will only remove the VM's from the old system and not actually delete
the VM image?)
I'm using no templates, so I'm assuming these don't need to be
exported/imported?
Sorry for all the questions, any help is greatly appreciated!
Regards.
Neil Wilson.
12 years, 2 months
[Users] General challenges w/ Ovirt 3.1
by Hans Lellelid
Hi -
I apologize in advance that this email is less about a specific
problem and more a general inquiry as to the most recommended /
likely-to-be-successful way path.
I am on my third attempt to get an ovirt system up and running (using
a collection of spare servers, that meet the requirements set out in
the user guide). I'm looking to implement a viable evolution to the
unscalable stove-piped ESXi servers (i.e. which are free). And while
I'm happy to learn more about the underpinnings, I recognize that to
really be a replacement for these VMWare solutions, this has to mostly
"Just Work" -- and that's eventually why I've given up on previous
occasions (after a couple days of work) and decided to revisit in 6
months.
My basic server setup is:
- oVirt Mgmt (engine)
- oVirt HV1 (hypervisor node)
- oVirt HV2 (hypervisor node)
- oVirt Disk (NFS share)
1st attempt: I installed the latest stable Node image (2.5.1) on the
HV1 and HV2 machines and re-installed the Mgmt server w/ Fedora 17
(64-bit) and all the latest stable engine packages. For the first
time, Node installation and Engine setup all went flawlessly. But I
could not mount the NFS shares. Upon deeper research, this appeared
to be the bug mentioned about NFS; I was *sure* that the official
stable Node image would have had a downgraded kernel, but apparently
not :) I have no idea if there is an officially supported way to
downgrade the kernel on the Node images; the warnings say that any
changes will not persist, so I assume there is not. (I am frankly a
little surprised that the official stable packages & ISO won't
actually work to mount NFS shares, which is the recommended storage
strategy and kinda critical to this thing!?) . FWIW, the oVirt Disk
system is a CentOS 6.2 system.
2nd attempt: I re-installed the nodes as Fedora 17 boxes and
downgraded the kernels to 3.4.6-2. Then I connected these from the
Engine (specifying the root pw) and watched the logs while things
installed. After reboot neither of the servers were reachable.
Sitting in front of the console, I realized that networking was
refusing to start; several errors printed to the console looked like:
device-mapper: table: 253:??: multipath: error getting device (I don't
remember exactly what was after the "253:")
calling "multipath -ll" yielded no output, calling "multipath -r"
re-issued the above errors
Obviously the Engine did a lot of work there, setting up the bridge,
etc. I did not spend a long time trying to untangle this. (In
retrospect, I will go back and probably spend more time trying to
track this down, but it's difficult since I lose network & have to
stand at the console in the server room :))
3rd attempt: I re-installed the nodes with Fedora 17 and attempted to
install VDSM manually by RPM. Despite following the instructions to
turn off ssl (ssl=false in /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf), I am seeing SSL
"unknown cert" errors from the python socket server with every attempt
of the engine to talk to the node. I added the CA from the master
into the /etc/pki/vdsm (since that was the commented-out path in the
config file as the trust store) and added the server's cert here too,
but have no idea what form these files should take to be respected by
the python server -- or if they are respected at all. I couldn't find
this documented anywhere, so I left the servers spewing logs for the
weekend figuring that I'll either give up or try another strategy on
Monday.
So is there a general strategy that should get me to a working system
here? I suspect that the Node image is not a good path, since it
appears to be incompatible with NFS mounting. The
Fedora-17-installed-by-engine sounds good, but there's a lot of magic
there & it obviously completely broke my systems. Is that where I
should focus my efforts? Should I ditch NFS storage and just try to
get something working with local-only storage on the nodes? (Shared
storage would be a primary motivation for moving to ovirt, though.)
I am very excited for this to work for me someday. I think it has
been frustrating to have such sparse (or outdated?) documentation and
such fundamental problems/bugs/configuration challenges. I'm using
pretty standard (Dell) commodity servers (SATA drives, simple RAID
setups, etc.).
Sorry for no log output, I can provide more of that when back at work
on Monday, but this was more of a general inquiry on where I should
plan to take this.
Thanks in advance!
Hans
12 years, 2 months
