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Upgrading from Hosted Engine 3.6 to 4.X
by Cam Wright 28 Nov '17

28 Nov '17

Hi there, We're looking to upgrade our hosted engine setup from 3.6 to 4.0 (or 4.1)... We built the 3.6 setup a couple of years ago with Fedora 22 (we wanted the newer-at-the-time kernel 4.4) on the hosts and engine, but when we move to 4.X we'd like to move to EL7 on the engine (as that seems to be the supported version) and to the oVirt Node ISO installer on the hypervisors. We've got only four hosts in our oVirt datacentre, configured in two clusters. Our current idea is to take a backup of the oVirt database using the backup-restore tool, and to take a 'dd' of the virtual disk too, for good measure. Then upgrade the engine to 4.X and confirm that the 3.6 hosts will run, and then finally piecemeal upgrade the hosts to 4.X using the oVirt Node ISO installer. Looking at this page - https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/self-hosted/chap-Maintenance_and_Upgrad… - it seems the 'hosted-engine --upgrade-appliance' path is the best way to do this... but because our hosts are running Fedora instead of EL, I think that makes this option moot to us. Is what I've suggested a valid upgrade path, or is there a more sane way of going about this? -C Cam Wright - Systems and Technical Resource Administrator CUTTINGEDGE / 90 Victoria St, West End, Brisbane, QLD, 4101 T + 61 7 3013 6200 M 0420 827 007 E cwright(a)cuttingedge.com.au | W www.cuttingedge.com.au /SYD /BNE /TYO -- This email is confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you have received this email in error please notify the author and delete it immediately. This email is not to be distributed without the author's written consent. Unauthorised forwarding, printing, copying or use is strictly prohibited and may be a breach of copyright. Any views expressed in this email are those of the individual sender unless specifically stated to be the views of Cutting Edge Post Pty Ltd (Cutting Edge). Although this email has been sent in the belief that it is virus-free, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free. No responsibility is accepted by Cutting Edge for any loss or damage arising in any way from receipt or use of this email. This email may contain legally privileged information and privilege is not waived if you have received this email in error.

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Re: [ovirt-users] VDSM multipath.conf - prevent automatic management of local devices
by Yaniv Kaul 28 Nov '17

28 Nov '17

On Nov 28, 2017 12:24 AM, "Ben Bradley" <listsbb(a)virtx.net> wrote: On 23/11/17 06:46, Maton, Brett wrote: > Might not be quite what you're after but adding > > # RHEV PRIVATE > > To /etc/multipath.conf will stop vdsm from changing the file. > ||| > Hi there. Thanks for the reply. Yes I am aware of that and it seems that's what I will have to do. I have no problem with VDSM managing the file, I just wish it didn't automatically load local storage devices into multipathd. It doesn't. Recent multipath releases do. Does it bother you in any way? Y. I'm still not clear on the purpose of this automatic management though. >From what I can tell there is no difference to hosts/clusters made through this automatic management - i.e. you still have to add storage domains manually in oVirt. Could anyone give any info on the purpose of this auto-management of local storage devices into multipathd in VDSM? Then I will be able to make an informed decision as to the benefit of letting it continue. Thanks, Ben > On 22 November 2017 at 22:42, Ben Bradley <listsbb(a)virtx.net <mailto: > listsbb(a)virtx.net>> wrote: > > Hi All > > I have been running ovirt in a lab environment on CentOS 7 for > several months but have only just got around to really testing things. > I understand that VDSM manages multipath.conf and I understand that > I can make changes to that file and set it to private to prevent > VDSM making further changes. > > I don't mind VDSM managing the file but is it possible to set to > prevent local devices being automatically added to multipathd? > > Many times I have had to flush local devices from multipath when > they are added/removed or re-partitioned or the system is rebooted. > It doesn't even look like oVirt does anything with these devices > once they are setup in multipathd. > > I'm assuming it's the VDSM additions to multipath that are causing > this. Can anyone else confirm this? > > Is there a way to prevent new or local devices being added > automatically? > > Regards > Ben > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:Users@ovirt.org> > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > <http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users> > > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

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oVirt self-hosted Engine [Failed to acquire lock: error -243]
by Terry hey 28 Nov '17

28 Nov '17

Hello all, I installed ovirt self-hosted engine. Unfortunately, the engine VM was suddenly shutdown. And later, it automatically powered on. The engine admin console showed the following error. VM HostedEngine is down with error. Exit message: resource busy: Failed to acquire lock: error -243. I would like to know what is this error message is talking about and how to solve this error. I would like to first thank all of you help me to solve this issue. Regards, Terry

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Auto-starting VMS in a all-in-one / confusion.
by CRiMSON 27 Nov '17

27 Nov '17

I've been digging thru mailing lists and blogs and I'm a bit confused about how you have VMs auto-start after a reboot in a ovirt system that is setup as all-in-one. >From what I can gather this can be achieved via some startup scripts (or a rc.local foo). But there is no setting inside the WebUI that can be set to achieve this? Or have I missed something.

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Error during delete snapshot
by Arthur Melo 27 Nov '17

27 Nov '17

Can someone help me with this error? Failed to delete snapshot '<UNKNOWN>' for VM 'proxy03'. Atenciosamente, Arthur Melo Linux User #302250

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"Enable Discard" for Ceph/Cinder Disks?
by Matthias Leopold 27 Nov '17

27 Nov '17

Hi, according to http://docs.ceph.com/docs/luminous/rbd/qemu-rbd/ the use of Discard/TRIM for Ceph RBD disks is possible. Openstack seems to have implemented it (https://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2015/02/02/openstack-and-ceph-rbd-discard/) In oVirt there is no option "Enable Discard" for Cinder Disks (when choosing IDE or VirtIO-SCSI driver), even when i set "report_discard_supported = true" in Cinder. Are there plans for supporting this in the future? Can i use it right now with custom properties (never tried this before)? thx matthias

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Some roles management issues
by Paolo Margara 27 Nov '17

27 Nov '17

Hi list, access policy to my system has changed recently and now I've to manage non admin users allowed to create VMs only on selected resources. Unfortunately this condition was not expected years ago when the system was installed and so all VNic profiles was created with the option "Allow all users to use this Profile", there is a way to edit this settings after a VNic profile was created or I need to create a new one and set all VMs to use that? The same procedure is applicable also for the network used by the hosted engine? I've tried to remove the "VNicProfileUser" role assigned to "Everyone" for a particular VNic profile but by doing only this users continue to see the logical network in the select box of the VM creation form but they cannot use it getting an error when they effectively create a VM clicking OK (that is quite annoying because it seems a configuration problem). I've also noted that the role "DiskProfileUser" was assigned on storage domain object and to some unknown null object for "Everyone", there is some reason why some roles are assigned to null? I could safely remove them? Greetings, Paolo

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Ovirt 4.2pre Moving disks when VM is running
by Arman Khalatyan 27 Nov '17

27 Nov '17

hi, I have some test enviroment with ovirt "4.2.0-0.0.master.20171114071105.gitdfdc401.el7.centos" 2hosts+2NFS-domains During the multiple disk movement between the domains I am getting this warning: Moving disks while the VMs are running.(this is not so scary red as in 4.1.x :) ) What kind of problems can happen during the movement? Thanks, Arman.

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extending cloud Images in oVirt
by Artem Tambovskiy 27 Nov '17

27 Nov '17

I have a question indirectly releted to Ovirt. I need to move one old setup into VM running in oVirt cluster. The VM was based on on Debian 8.9, so I took a Debian cloude image from https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/8.9.8-20171105/ uploaded it into my cluster and attached it to VM. All looks good but ... the disk shows only 2G and indeed ned more disk space. I tried to edit and add more space - and it didnt work. Any ideas how to extend those cloud images? Regards, Artem

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[ANN] oVirt 4.1.8 Third Release Candidate is now available
by Lev Veyde 27 Nov '17

27 Nov '17

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Third Release Candidate of oVirt 4.1.8, as of November 26th, 2017 This update is the eighth in a series of stabilization updates to the 4.1 series. Starting from 4.1.5 oVirt supports libgfapi [5]. Using libgfapi provides a real performance boost for ovirt when using GlusterFS . Due to a known issue [6], using this will break live storage migration. This is expected to be fixed soon. If you do not use live storage migration you can give it a try. Use [7] for more details on how to enable it. This release is available now for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later This release supports Hypervisor Hosts running: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later * oVirt Node 4.1 See the release notes draft [3] for installation / upgrade instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. Notes: - oVirt Appliance is already available - oVirt Live is already available[4] - oVirt Node is already available[4] Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 4.1.8 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1. <http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.8/>8 <http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.8/>/ <http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.8/> * Get more oVirt Project updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ovirt * Check out the latest project news on the oVirt blog: http://www.ovirt.org/blog/ [1] https://www.ovirt.org/community/ [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?classification=oVirt [3] http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1. <http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.8/>8 <http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.8/>/ <http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.8/> [4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.1-pre/iso/ [5] http://staged-gluster-docs.readthedocs.io/en/release3.7.0beta1/Features/lib… [6] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1306562 [7] http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/glusterfs-… -- Lev Veyde Software Engineer, RHCE | RHCVA | MCITP Red Hat Israel <https://www.redhat.com> lev(a)redhat.com | lveyde(a)redhat.com <https://red.ht/sig> TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. <https://redhat.com/trusted>

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