[ovirt-users] Re: Error exporting into ova

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 3:29 PM Tommaso - Shellrent <tommaso(a)shellrent.com <mailto:tommaso@shellrent.com>> wrote: Hi Gianluca. We have a problem wit "export as ova" too. In our env we back up all the vm with a python script that run an export. If we run multiple export at the same time, also on different datacenter[but same engine], the wait for each other and do not run in async mode. If only one of those export takes 10h, all of them taskes 10+h too. seems that all the export have to end a step of the playbook to go on, but we see only one "nasible-playbook" process at a time. Have you got any hint? Regards, Tommaso. My post was one year old. In the meantime you can check these two posts in archives by Jayme (I cc him): https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/thread/U65CV5A6WC6S... and https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/JNSY6GYNS6L... In the first post it appears that by default the exports were of type fire and forget (that is what you need) and so he included a wait_for task to instead have them sequential. I think you can borrow from his github playbooks and adapt to your needs. Or Jayme, you could apply a general change where you set a variable (eg sequential_flow) that by default is true and then you modify the  export_vm.yml playbook in the task - name: "Wait for export" with the wait condition becoming of kind when: (export_result is not failed) or (sequential_flow|bool == False) This way by default the play workflow remains unchanged, but a user can set sequential_flow to False What do you think about it? Gianluca