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

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