[ovirt-users] Re: hosted-engine to standalone

On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 4:52 PM Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 2:15 PM carl langlois <crl.langlois(a)gmail.com&gt; > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I plan to transform my hosted_engine setup to a standalone engine. >> Currently I have 3 hosts that can run the engine. The engine domain is >> located on a glusterfs. I want to simplify this setup by taking 1 of the 3 >> hosts and setting it as a standalone engine and re-installing the other >> host as a standard hypervisor. Also i want to remove the glusterfs. I am >> on 4.3 for now but the plan is to upgrade after this simplification. The >> step i plan to do is: >> >> 1. global maintenance >> 2. stop engine >> 3. backup engine >> 4. shutdown engine >> 5. install fresh standalone engine and restore from the backup >> 6. boot the standalone engine. >> 7. after not sure what the step to clean the old engine domain.. >> >> Any suggestion? >> >> Regards, >> Carl >> > > There was a post from David 2 years ago regarding this same scenario: > > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/YQWLGVB7NUA... > Inline in the message you can find high level steps and also a link to a > github repo (I don't know if and how current) > To be verified how much it does apply to your current version of oVirt. > I think there is not yet official documentation for it (at least for > oVirt as the upstream project) > > HIH, > Gianluca > > Actually the post is from 6 months ago, not 2 years.... I forgot to disable the time machine before replying... ;-)