Re: [Users] oVirt with UPS Shutdown Software

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Neil" <nwilson123(a)gmail.com&gt; > To: users(a)ovirt.org > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 6:05:17 PM > Subject: [Users] oVirt with UPS Shutdown Software > > Hi guys, > > I've looked around briefly and can't seem to find much info on this, > so please excuse me if this has already been asked/documented. > > I have a UPS with SNMP support and I started installing the > management > software(IPP) that it comes with and then it occurred to me that the > shutdown sequence of servers with oVirt 3.1 would be quite critical. > Is there any documentation on shut down sequences or does anyone know > what the recommended way of handling power failures are? > > My thinking is that when a power failure is detected by the UPS > software running on the ovirt-engine machine, the VM's need to be > shutdown gracefully, and then the data center needs to be put into > maintenance, before the hosts are eventually shutdown, and then > finally the ovirt-engine needs to be halted. > sounds right to me: shutdown the vms, put data-center to maintenance (actually means put all domains to maintenance - i guess this part is nice to have but not must) then put hosts to maintenance (not sure you mentioned that) then you can shutdown any server in any order.

> Any thoughts or ideas/suggestions on the above, can the ovirt-engine > somehow be told to shutdown the VM's and hosts etc? > well writing a script to do that shouldn't be hard using the API, but the question how to trigger it? (i'm not familiar with the UPS software capabilities) > Thank you very much. > > Regards. > > Neil Wilson. > _______________________________________________ > 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