Re: [ovirt-users] How to re-initialize storage?

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Idan Shaby <ishaby(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Hi Peter, > > You can take your hosts down to maintenance and then right click on your > data center -> force remove. > That will remove your storage and vms along with your datacenter. > > > Regards, > Idan > Hi, I'd start off with backing up your db so you'll have a way to access your old configuration. I didn't understand how did you move the vms to another cluster - can you elaborate? Generally speaking, you can take a look at the import storage domain feature (http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/ storage/importstoragedomain/ ). Regards, Liron > > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 9:53 PM, Peter Wood <peterwood.sd(a)gmail.com&gt; > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I inherited a small oVirt cluster with 3 nodes using iSCSI storage. >> >> The LUNs used by the oVirt nodes were also accessible by some VMware >> nodes. >> >> By mistake an action was started on VMware to initialize and start using >> the same LUNs, which it happily did. This rendered the storage no longer >> usable by oVirt nodes. All VMs went down, their image files no longer >> accessible, the whole cluster became unusable without access to the shared >> storage. >> >> We have recovered from backups and moved the VMs to another cluster and >> now I want to get this oVirt cluster back up and running. >> >> I'm not an oVirt expert so everything I tried was through the web >> interface and everything failed because storage is not accessible. I can't >> remove VMs, I can't remove nodes, I can't remove the storage domain. >> >> What is the right approach to destroy the cluster and rebuild it and >> re-initialize the storage? >> >> Even better if I can just remove all VMs from the inventory and somehow >> tell it to make the storage LUNs usable again? >> >> Any help is highly appreciated? >> >> Thank you, >> >> -- Peter >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > >