I read through that and it makes sense.  It also said that moving the hosted engine's storage was a 4.1 feature, but I didn't see it on the release notes for RC 2.  Is it still planned for 4.1?  Do you have the BZ handy so that I can track it?

Logan

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Logan Kuhn <support@jac-properties.com> wrote:
Exactly what I needed.  Thank you

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Yedidyah Bar David <didi@redhat.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 4:01 AM, Logan Kuhn <support@jac-properties.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> We are planning on moving to a different storage solution and I'm curious,
> is there a way to migrate the hosted engine's storage domain to the new
> solution?  It's NFS currently and can be NFS on the new storage as well.
>
> From what I've read it looks like it should be possible to
>
> Take a full backup of the engine VM
> Deploy another hosted engine VM with hosted-engine --deploy
> Install/configure CentOS 7.3
> Deploy new engine with engine-setup
> Then restore the backup into the new VM.
>
> What I'm not sure of is if that backup will contain enough of it's data to
> restore to a completely different storage domain?
>
> Also, the engine database is on a remote server, the data warehouse service
> and all other aspects of the hosted engine reside on the VM.

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http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2017-January/078739.html

Best,

>
> Thanks,
> Logan
>
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