Re: [ovirt-users] hosted-engine VM and services not working

Hi Yaniv I found a solution. Our Ovirt 3.6 AIO box was still running and had those VMs still configured in their pre exported and switch off state. I removed any snap shots I found from those pre exported VMs, then copied the disk image files and other bits from host01 (Ovirt v 4.1) back into the Ovirt 3.6 AIO box, and were needed fixing the relevent IDs to be what the Engine in the Ovirt 3.6 box expected. The VMs then started up properly again without hassle and with the latest files on the Ovirt 3.6 AIO box.

So now in the progress of rebuilding host01 with hosted-engine v4.1 Kind regards Andrew ------ Original Message ------ From: "Yaniv Kaul" <ykaul(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Andrew Dent" <adent(a)ctcroydon.com.au&gt; Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; Sent: 18/06/2017 6:00:09 PM Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] hosted-engine VM and services not working On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 12:50 AM, <adent(a)ctcroydon.com.au&gt; wrote: > If I reinstall and the rerun the hosted-engine setup how do I get the VMs > in their current running state back into and being recognised by the new > hosted engine? > Current running state is again quite challenging. You'll need to fix the hosted-engine. Can import the storage domain? (not for running VMs) Y. > Kind regards > > Andrew > > On 17 Jun 2017, at 6:54 AM, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 9:11 AM, Andrew Dent <adent(a)ctcroydon.com.au&gt; > wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Well I've got myself into a fine mess. >> >> host01 was setup with hosted-engine v4.1. This was successful. >> Imported 3 VMs from a v3.6 OVirt AIO instance. (This OVirt 3.6 is still >> running with more VMs on it) >> Tried to add host02 to the new Ovirt 4.1 setup. This partially succeeded >> but I couldn't add any storage domains to it. Cannot remember why. >> In Ovirt engine UI I removed host02. >> I reinstalled host02 with Centos7, tried to add it and Ovirt UI told me >> it was already there (but it wasn't listed in the UI). >> Renamed the reinstalled host02 to host03, changed the ipaddress, >> reconfig the DNS server and added host03 into the Ovirt Engine UI. >> All good, and I was able to import more VMs to it. >> I was also able to shutdown a VM on host01 assign it to host03 and start >> the VM. Cool, everything working. >> The above was all last couple of weeks. >> >> This week I performed some yum updates on the Engine VM. No reboot. >> Today noticed that the Ovirt services in the Engine VM were in a endless >> restart loop. They would be up for a 5 minutes and then die. >> Looking into /var/log/ovirt-engine/engine.log and I could only see >> errors relating to host02. Ovirt was trying to find it and failing. Then >> falling over. >> I ran "hosted-engine --clean-metadata" thinking it would cleanup and >> remove bad references to hosts, but now realise that was a really bad idea >> as it didn't do what I'd hoped. >> At this point the sequence below worked, I could login to Ovirt UI but >> after 5 minutes the services would be off >> service ovirt-engine restart >> service ovirt-websocket-proxy restart >> service httpd restart >> >> I saw some reference to having to remove hosts from the database by hand >> in situations where under the hood of Ovirt a decommission host was still >> listed, but wasn't showing in the GUI. >> So I removed reference to host02 (vds_id and host_id) in the following >> tables in this order. >> vds_dynamic >> vds_statistics >> vds_static >> host_device >> >> Now when I try to start ovirt-websocket it will not start >> service ovirt-websocket start >> Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start ovirt-websocket.service >> Failed to start ovirt-websocket.service: Unit not found. >> >> I'm now thinking that I need to do the following in the engine VM >> >> # engine-cleanup >> # yum remove ovirt-engine >> # yum install ovirt-engine >> # engine-setup >> >> But to run engine-cleanup I need to put the engine-vm into maintenance >> mode and because of the --clean-metadata that I ran earlier on host01 I >> cannot do that. >> >> What is the best course of action from here? >> > > To be honest, with all the steps taken above, I'd install everything > (including OS) from scratch... > There's a bit too much mess to try to clean up properly here. > Y. > > >> >> Cheers >> >> >> Andrew >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> >