How to take incremental backup of a vm
by smidhunraj＠gmail.com
Can you tell me the method on how to take incremental backup of a VM in ovirt .Is there any opensource python script available to get this done.
4 years, 6 months
NFS based - incremental backups
by Leo David
Hello Everyone,
Ive been struggling since a while to find out a propper solution to have a
full backup scenario for a production environment.
In the past, we have used Proxmox, and the scheduled incremenral nfs based
full vm backups is a thing that we really miss.
As far as i know, at this point the only way to have a backup in oVirt /
rhev is by using gluster geo-replication feature.
This is nice, but as far as i know it lacks some important features:
- ability to have incremental backups to restore vms from
- ability to backup vms placed on different storage domains ( only one
storage domain can be geo-replicated !!! some vms have disks on ssd volume,
some on hdd, some on both)
- need to setup an external 3 nodes gluster cluster ( although a workaround
would be to have single bricks based volumes for a single instance )
I know we can create snaps, but they will die with the platform in a fail
scenario, and neither they can be scheduled.
We have found bacchus project that looked promising, although it had a
pretty hassled way to achieve backups ( create snap, create vm from the
snap, export vm to export domain, delete vm, delete snap - all in a
scheduled fashion )
As a mention, Proxmox is incrementaly creating a tar archive of the vm disk
content, and places it to an external network storage like nfs. This
allowed us to backup/reatore both linux and windows vms very easily.
Now, I know this have been discussed before, but i would like to know if
there are at least any future plans to implement this feature in the next
releases.
Personally, i consider this a major, and quite decent feature to have with
the platform, without the need to pay for 3rd party solutions that may or
may not achieve the goal while adding extra pieces to the stack.
Geo-replication is a good and nice feature, but in my oppinion it is not
what a "backup domain" would be.
Have a nice day,
Leo
4 years, 6 months
not able to import ova file
by Crazy Ayansh
Hi Team,
I am getting below error message when i am trying to import a vm from ova
method.
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could anyone please help me out here.
Hosted engine version:-4.2
Please let me know if any other info required from me.
Thanks
4 years, 6 months
4.2.7 to 4.3.5
by Demeter Tibor
Dear list members,
I would like to upgrade my Centos 7.6 based ovirt 4.2 to 4.3.5.
How is safe the upgrade ? How is stable the actual branch ?
It seems to me, in 4.3.x there are a lot of cases caused by live migration, snapshot deletion, etc. Are these really existing problems?
So, I'm a little bit afraid of the upgrade.
It is a productive system, I don't want to make an outage.
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Tibor
4 years, 6 months
oVirt and CentOS Stream
by Sandro Bonazzola
Progress cannot be made without change. As technologists, we recognize this
every day. Most of the time, these changes are iterative: progressive
additions of features to projects like oVirt. Sometimes those changes are
small, and sometimes not. And that’s, of course, just talking about our
project. But one of the biggest strengths of our community’s software is
that we are not alone, and because of that, changes to other projects have
ripple effects that can affect our own, even in positive ways.
This week, our collaborators in the CentOS Project have announced a change
<https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023449....>
in the way their software is released moving forward.
Beyond this week release of CentOS Linux 8, the CentOS team has announced
CentOS Stream, a rolling release distribution that will be the "midstream"
between Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
To be clear, Fedora will remain as the first upstream of RHEL. But when
RHEL branches off, CentOS will be upstream for ongoing work on those RHEL
versions. This change gives public visibility into ongoing work on released
RHEL, and a place for developers and community projects like ours to
collaborate at that level.
CentOS has been heading in the direction of Stream for quite some time.
CentOS SIGs — the special interest groups for virtualization, storage,
config management, and so on — have given our project a way to provide
input into the CentOS platform. Now, though, we can actually provide direct
improvements or fixes to CentOS Stream platform that will be beneficial to
our project. Long-term, those project-specific changes can find their way
into the next release of RHEL, providing smoother transitions for those
users of our downstream projects.
We expect the positive effects to extend beyond our own project’s
ecosystem. Through CentOS Stream, developers will have early access to new
features and content that are being built into the upcoming RHEL version.
This will help to allow next-generation applications to have compatibility
with future versions of RHEL.
The benefits of these changes are clear for ecosystem developers working on
projects such as ours, writing hardware drivers, or extending protocols for
RHEL. As we push the innovations that start in Fedora through the new
CentOS Stream, the community will have a clear vision of the future of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux.
For users of oVirt, we expect CentOS Stream to be the preferred upstream
platform on which oVirt should be run, especially with the capability for
our users to now contribute changes to our software and the community-built
platform on which oVirt runs.
--
Sandro Bonazzola
MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV
Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/>
sbonazzo(a)redhat.com
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4 years, 6 months
Re: Change hostname of physical hosts under an oVirt and Gluster combination
by Strahil
Unassigned in 99% of the cases means engine cannot communicate with vdsm.service on the host.
Check that vdsm.service & glusterd.service are running.
Check gluster volume status for each volume.
If they are OK - from UI just select activate.
Best Regards,
Strahil NikolovOn Sep 25, 2019 22:24, TomK <tomkcpr(a)mdevsys.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/25/2019 8:49 AM, TomK wrote:
> > On 9/24/2019 10:55 AM, Sahina Bose wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 6:38 PM TomK <tomkcpr(a)mdevsys.com
> >> <mailto:tomkcpr@mdevsys.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey Sahina,
> >>
> >> Thanks very much.
> >>
> >> I've taken a quick glance and it does mention I need a third host
> >> which
> >> I don't have.
> >>
> >> However, since I wrote, I removed everything. Had to force remove
> >> hosts
> >> however the gluster setup and data in it stayed (Or so I'm thinking).
> >>
> >> I'll read the article more thoroughly however is there a specific
> >> procedure for adding existing oVirt gluster volumes back into a
> >> cluster?
> >>
> >> One additional question. Is the sequence below correct?
> >>
> >> 1) Create Data Center
> >> 2) Create Cluster within the DC
> >>
> >>
> >> When you create the cluster - there's an Import cluster option, if I
> >> remember correctly. This should discover the peers and volumes and add
> >> it to the engine
> >
> > Trying that now. On a side note, the autodiscovery box is hard to edit.
> >
> > So in the meantime, trying to up the version to take advantage of some
> > new features and ensure Gluster 6 is fully supported. Not having luck
> > with the oVirt UI upgrade at the moment ( Not a self hosted engine. It's
> > on a separate VM. ):
> >
> > --> Processing Conflict:
> > ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-ovirt-engine-4.3.5.5-1.el7.noarch conflicts
> > ovirt-engine < 4.2.6
> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > Error: Package: ovirt-engine-ui-extensions-1.0.6-1.el7.noarch (ovirt-4.3)
> > Requires: ovirt-engine-webadmin-portal >= 4.3
> > Installed:
> > ovirt-engine-webadmin-portal-4.2.1.7-1.el7.centos.noarch (@ovirt-4.2)
> > ovirt-engine-webadmin-portal = 4.2.1.7-1.el7.centos
> > Error: ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-ovirt-engine conflicts with
> > ovirt-engine-4.2.1.7-1.el7.centos.noarch
> > You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
> > You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > TK
> >
>
> Just upgraded to 4.3.5.
>
> What do I do if I can't remove a host from a cluster? Maintenance
> window options Active and Maintenance are grayed out. Host is currently
> showing as Unassigned with an exclamation mark next to it. Items listed
> include:
>
> "Power Management is not configured for this Host. Enable Power Management"
> "Gluster status is disconnected for this host. Restart Glusterd service"
> "Host has no default route."
>
>
> I try to modify some of this thinking maybe it will nudge the server out
> of it's slumber but get this when trying to fix Power Management:
>
>
> "Error while executing action:
> mdskvm-p01.nix.mds.xyz:
> Cannot edit Host. Host parameters cannot be modified while Host is
> operational.
> Please switch Host to Maintenance mode first."
>
>
> Of course I can't put it into maintenance since it's grayed out.
>
> Anyway to remove this host and start fresh?
>
> Cheers,
> TK
>
>
> >>
> >> 3) Create a Domain within the Cluster
> >> 4) Add hosts to DC
> >> 5) Import Gluster Volume
> >>
> >>
> >> 4 & 5 not required if you change step 2 to import.
> >> You are running into errors below because the engine sees the addition
> >> of new hosts as gluster peer probing to a new cluster
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Some issues. I create a DC, add a Cluster then add the Host to it.
> >> Then
> >> I try to add another the second node but it says It's already in a
> >> cluster. There is no other cluster and the second host is not listed
> >> anywhere.
> >>
> >> So I try to remove the first host to res
4 years, 6 months
Re: ovirtmgmt STP disabled - any reason behind that
by Strahil
Did I miss someone's reply on this one ?
Best Regards,
Strahil NikolovOn Sep 24, 2019 00:46, Strahil Nikolov <hunter86_bg(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I recently got an issue and due to lack of debug time , I'm still not sure if it was a loop on the network.
> Can someone clarify why the ovirtmgmt bridge has STP disabled ? Any reason behind that ?
>
> Also, what is the proper way to enable STP on those bridges ?
>
> For now , I have set highest priority of the STP on my router and I don't expect the issue to reoccur (if it really was a loop), but I want to avoid future issues like that.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Strahil Nikolov
4 years, 6 months
Re: Urgent help needed / Snapshot deletion failure
by Strahil
Is it really down ?
Have you tried to migrate it to another host.
I found out yesterday that one of my VMs was constantly reporting errors (relayed to snapshot delete) and the errors stopped when the system got migrated to another host.
Best Regards,
Strahil NikolovOn Sep 25, 2019 15:27, smirta(a)gmx.net wrote:
>
> Dear all we are desperate
>
> We have tried to delete a Snapshot and it hangs at merging the snapshots. We've found out that this is a known bug because the merge process is being called with wrong parameters according to the bug report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1601212. The Snapshot's Disks are in illegal state and the VM is locked. Since it is a very important VM for our non-profit organization, we need to have this machine back online as soon as possible. Is there a way to fix this without updating to qemu-kvm-ev-2.12.0? At least back to the state before the deletion would be fantastic.
>
> Our vdsm.log:
> 2019-09-25 14:01:41,283+0200 WARN (vdsm.Scheduler) [Executor] Worker blocked: <Worker name=jsonrpc/0 running <Task <JsonRpcTask {'params': {u'topVolUUID': u'8a9f190f-2725-4535-a69d-c74e4e57d372', u'vmID': u'1422899a-2151-4d5d-9d66-e74f19084542', u'drive': {u'imageID': u'eb2bce92-e758-4bea-93fa-02a56574b932', u'volumeID': u'8a9f190f-2725-4535-a69d-c74e4e57d372', u'domainID': u'022f39ee-eeb8-4b51-9549-9d7e3c88d4a8', u'poolID': u'00000001-0001-0001-0001-000000000307'}, u'bandwidth': u'0', u'jobUUID': u'c3fdc4a9-9d6d-424a-b9df-b96be5622e0a', u'baseVolUUID': u'3e15121b-0795-4056-bafe-448068c9ec71'}, 'jsonrpc': '2.0', 'method': u'VM.merge', 'id': u'9cd540b7-a32f-4f95-9fe2-9ce70d5b6478'} at 0x7f674fec5710> timeout=60, duration=6420 at 0x7f674fec58d0> task#=1896299 at 0x7f674c06ae90>, traceback:
> File: "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 785, in __bootstrap
> self.__bootstrap_inner()
> File: "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 812, in __bootstrap_inner
> self.run()
> File: "/usr/lib64/python2.7/threading.py", line 765, in run
> self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
> File: "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/common/concurrent.py", line 194, in run
> ret = func(*args, **kwargs)
> File: "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/executor.py", line 301, in _run
> self._execute_task()
> File: "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/executor.py", line 315, in _execute_task
> task()
> File: "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/executor.py", line 391, in __call__
> self._callable()
> File: "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yajsonrpc/__init__.py", line 523, in __call__
> self._handler(self._ctx, self._req)
> File: "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yajsonrpc/__init__.py", line 566, in _serveRequest
> response = self._handle_request(req, ctx)
> File: "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yajsonrpc/__init__.py", line 606, in _handle_request
> res = method(**params)
> File: "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/rpc/Bridge.py", line 197, in _dynamicMethod
> result = fn(*methodArgs)
> File: "<string>", line 2, in merge
> File: "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/common/api.py", line 48, in method
> ret = func(*args, **kwargs)
> File: "<string>", line 2, in merge
> File: "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/common/api.py", line 122, in method
> ret = func(*args, **kwargs)
> File: "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/API.py", line 739, in merge
> drive, baseVolUUID, topVolUUID, bandwidth, jobUUID)
> File: "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/virt/vm.py", line 6041, in merge
> self.updateVmJobs()
> File: "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/virt/vm.py", line 5818, in updateVmJobs
> self._vmJobs = self.queryBlockJobs()
> File: "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vdsm/virt/vm.py", line 5832, in queryBlockJobs
> with self._jobsLock:
> File: "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pthreading.py", line 60, in __enter__
> self.acquire()
> File: "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pthreading.py", line 68, in acquire
> rc = self.lock() if blocking else self.trylock()
> File: "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pthread.py", line 96, in lock
> return _libpthread.pthread_mutex_lock(self._mutex) (executor:363)
>
>
> Kind regards
> Simon
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4 years, 6 months
