On May 20, 2020 2:48:24 AM GMT+03:00, thomas(a)hoberg.net wrote:
Just like Strahil, I would expect this to work just fine. RAM
differences are actually the smallest concern, unless you run out of it
in the mean-time. And there you may want to be careful and perhaps move
VMs around manually with such a small HCI setup.
oVirt will properly optimize the VMs and the hosts to fit, but I don't
know what it will do when there simply isn't enough RAM to run the live
VMs. Under the best of circumstances it should refuse to shut down the
node you want to upgrade. Under less advantagious circumstances some
VMs might get paused, or shut down (or killed?). I'd be interested to
hear your experiences, somewhat less inclinded to try myself ;-)
I'd play it safe and reduce the number of running VMs to relieve the
RAM pressure. I assume there is a reason you want more RAM but the only
way to get there is to reduce it first and that doesn't imply
"unnoticeable".
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Actually,
If gou set a host into maintenance and there is no space to move - oVirt fails to migrate
the VM and the node cannot be put into maintenance.
In such case I usually power off the non-important VMs and then the node goes into the
maintenance mode (I guess I was fast enough, as there is some timeout setting for going
into that mode).
From there, you will be able to power off, upgrade and return the node in the cluster.
If a node reaches the 90% of memory usage, the ksm service kicks in and starts merging the
same memory pages in order to save memory. Of course this is a trade of cpu cycles for
extra memory - but I haven't seen a hypervisor that is running out of cpu (if you host
HPC VMs could change that).Don't expect magic from KSM, but in my case (32GB) it
gained 5-6 GB from my linux VMs, but this depends on the software in the VMs.
Best Rregards,
Strahil Nikolov