As expected... this is a learning curve. My three node cluster.. in an attempt to learn how to do admin work on it, debug it... I have now redeployed the engine and even added second one on a node in cluster. But..... I now realize that my "production vms" are gone. In the past, on a manual build with KVM + Gluster .. when I repaired a damaged cluster I would just then browse to the xml file and import. I think with oVirt, those days are gone. As the PostGres engine knows the links to the disk / thin provision volumes / network / VM definition files. ###### Question: 1) Can someone point me to the manual on how to re-constitute a VM and bring it back into oVirt where all "oVirt-engines" were redeployed. It is only three or four VMs I typically care about (HA cluster and OCP ignition/ Ansible tower VM). 2) How do I make sure these core VMs are able to be reconstituted. Can I create a dedicated volume where the VMs are full provisioned, and the path structure is "human understandable". 3) I know that you can backup the engine. If I had been a smart person, how does one backup and recover from this kind of situation. Does anyone have any guides or good articles on this? Thanks, -- p <jeremey.wise@gmail.com>enguinpages