Hello Sven and all.

Yes storage does have the snapshot function and could be possibility be used, but I was wondering a even easier way through the oVirt Node CLI or something similar that can use the qcow2 image snapshot to do that with the Self-Hosted Engine in Global Maintenance.

I used to run the oVirt Engine in a Libvirt KVM Virtual Machine in a separate Host and it has always been extremely handy to have this feature. There has been times where the upgrade was not successfully and just turning off the VM, starting it from snapshot saved my day.

Regards

Fernando

2018-03-27 14:14 GMT-03:00 Sven Achtelik <Sven.Achtelik@eps.aero>:

Hi Fernando,

depending on where you’re having your storage you could set everything to global maintenance, stop the vm and copy the disk image. Or if your storage systeme is able to do snapshots you could use that function once the engine is stopped. It’s the easiest way I can think of right now. What kind of storage are you using ?

Sven

Von: users-bounces@ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org] Im Auftrag von FERNANDO FREDIANI
Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. März 2018 15:24
An: users
Betreff: [ovirt-users] Snapshot of the Self-Hosted Engine

Hello

Is it possible to snapshot the Self-Hosted Engine before an Upgrade ? If so how ?

Thanks

Fernando