Hello,

I’m used to having a nested-ESXi on another ESXi, but we are testing Ovirt these days, and we are facing a strange behavior with the engine VM. I have a hyper-converged Ovirt cluster with a hosted-engine, and whenever I reboot/shutdown one of the nodes for testing (a node that is not hosting the engine VM of course) the engine goes crazy and too slow, and starts losing network connecting to the remaining (healthy) nodes in the cluster, and I can hardly SSH into it. Ping also has too many drops while another node is down. Once that faulty node is up again the engine works very fine, but this is really limiting my ability to make further Ovirt HA tests before moving to production. I though maybe the promiscuous mode on the physical host causes this, but never faced this with nester-virtualization with VMware, and turning-off promiscuous mode isn’t an option either… what do you think please?

Mohamed Roushdy

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