Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: "Andrew Lau" <andrew(a)andrewklau.com&gt; > Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; > Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 2:48:20 PM > Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Andrew Lau" <andrew(a)andrewklau.com&gt; >> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi(a)redhat.com&gt; >> Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; >> Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:15:21 AM >> Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine >> >> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Yedidyah Bar David < didi(a)redhat.com > >> wrote: >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Blaster" < Blaster(a)556nato.com > >>> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" < didi(a)redhat.com > >>> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org >>> Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 5:20:00 PM >>> Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine >>> >>> On 1/6/2014 7:12 AM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote: >>>> Did you have problems with engine-backup? Or had other reasons to not >>>> use it? Thanks! >>> >>> Can engine-backup be used to move an AIO configuration from one host to >>> another? >> >> I didn't try that. In principle it can. Note that it will only >> backup/restore >> the engine - not local storage domains (ISO or data), VM images, etc. >> >> If you try that, please report back. Thanks! >> >>> >>> I currently need to move an AIO configuration from AMD hardware to Intel >>> I7 hardware. The engine-backup WIKI discusses backups, but not >>> restores. I am a bit concerned about using engine-backup to restore an >>> AIO configuration to a different system as another WIKI page with >>> step-by-step instructions to do what engine-backup does for you, >>> mentions you have to do some extra steps if you are changing hostnames >>> as the hostname of the ovirt-engine is embedded in the database. >> >> Changing the hostname is specifically not in the scope of engine-backup. >> >> Note that you do not need to have the hostname equal to the "fqdn" input >> during engine-setup - this last one just needs to be dns-resolvable and >> point to the machine intended. >> >> Also, there is another utility to do that, called ovirt-engine-rename - >> see this for details and implications: >> >> http://www.ovirt.org/Changing_Engine_Hostname >> >>> >>> There really needs to be some work done in Ovirt on making it easier to >>> import existing disk images and just generally moving things around >>> without having to bounce off an NFS server. >>> >>> Should I do a BZ on that? >> >> Not sure what you mean exactly, but you are always welcome to open BZs on >> bugs/RFEs... >> >> Best regards, >> -- >> Didi >> >> Sorry for going slightly off topic, but how is everyone's hosted engine >> deployment going? Are you restricted to NFS? >> > Andrew, in general I get positive feedbacks from RHEL users. For Fedora > and other distros, this should be in a better situation in the following > 1-2 weeks when we'll have 3.4 beta available. > I'd love to get your feedback on it. > I missed your NFS question, sorry; Yes. Currently we have NFS limitation and we will do our best to see if SAN can be added. Note that time is not on our side for 3.4.

>> I tried the migration procedure last month and it worked.. but had quite a >> lot of issues so I ended up reverting back. I didn't open any bugs in the >> assumption it was in super alpha stage. >> > Next time please open bugs... That's the best way to improve the project, > regardless of the version state. If unsure, you can always try irc / this > list > first to see if this is a known issue and if there are workarounds. > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users