We have a NFS storage cluster (Isilon) for the domain.
The main question: is there a way to bring in an existing storage domain
to a new engine without exporting it then importing it? This would be
good for not just upgrades but also disaster recovery as well.
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 09/30/2013 04:55 PM, Christian Kolquist wrote:
> So, after many frustrating weekends of trying to upgrade ovirt from 3.1,
> I have come to the conclustion that it would just be best to export all
> of our VM's and Import them once I have redone the entire installation
> with FC19 and ovirt 3.3. Is there a way to export the entire domain
> easily? Or to bring the entire domain into a new install of the engine?
>
> Exporting a single VM takes a very long while. It would take a couple
> of days to export all of our VM's (33 total vm's using 1.017 TB of data)
> and then reimport them using the normal means of exporting the machines
> off then on to the export domain, load the new engine server then import
> them all back in.
>
>
> Any tips or tricks would be welcome.
>
do you have a single data domain in the DC?
is it nfs or something else?
>
> Christian
>
>
> FYI, I ran into just about every single bug that people had when
> upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2 and a few more. I can't spend any more time
> troubleshooting the upgrade process. If we can't do the export->import
> easily or migrate the current storage domain we will probably have to
> get rid of ovirt and move to another solution.
>
>
>
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