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

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

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