Full disclosure here.....I am not an Ovirt Expert. I am a network Engineer that has been
forced to take over sysadmin duties for a departed co-worker. I have little experience
with Ovirt so apologies up front for anything I say that comes across as stupid or
"RTM" questions. Normally I would do just that but I am in a bind and am trying
to figure this out quickly. We have an OVirt installation setup that consists of 4 nodes
and a server that hosts the ovirt-engine all running CentOS 7. The server that hosts the
engine has a pair of failing hard drives and I need to replace the hardware ASAP. Need to
outline the steps needed to build a new server to serve as and replace the ovirt engine
server. I have backed up the entire /etc directory and the backups being done nightly by
the engine itself. I also backed up the iscsi info and took a printout of all the disk
arrangement . The disk has gotten so bad at this point that the DB won't back up any
longer. Get fatal:backup failed error when
trying to run the ovirt backup tool. Also the Ovirt management site is not rendering and
I am not sure why.
Is there anything else I need to make sure I backup in order to migrate the engine from
one server to another? Also, until I can get the engine running again, is there any tool
available to manage the VMs on the hosts themselves. The VMs on the hosts are running but
need a way to manage them if needed in case something happens while the engine is being
repaired. Any info on this as well as what to backup and the steps to move the engine from
one server to another would be much much appreciated. Sorry I know this a real RTM type
post but I am in a bind and need a solution rather quickly. Thanks in advance.