oVirt Biz Continuity Plan recovery Q/A
by siebots@protonmail.com
Hello all, I am looking into implemented a BCP plan with oVirt, which intends to recover VMs from a secondary SAN LUN (containing VM snapshots from a production oVirt cluster site which is considered to have crashed/burned) and presented to the recovery site oVirt cluster. Since the production cluster is expected to have crashed/burned unexpectedly, leaving the VMs snapshots on the recovery SAN LUN (which is at a different site) intact. However since there can be no Export Domain / Import Domain scenario, I need to know what exact steps I need to perform to re-incorporate/re-hydrate the VMs from the recovery LUN presented to the recover oVirt cluster / KVM hosts. I think that normally an Import Domain offers a "VM Import" tab/option, while regular or non-import Storage Domains don't have the "VM Import" option. I've been trying to track down what exactly is needed in the way of specific steps within the oVirt manager and KVM hosts, besides presenting the recovery SAN LUN to
it.
Many thanks.