On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 6:49 AM, Brendan Hartzell <mrrex4@gmail.com> wrote:
oVirt users list,

Long story short, I've been spending weeks on this project for my home lab with no success.

I would like to successfully install two nodes that host a highly available engine with an iSCSI storage back-end.

I have read through most, if not all, of the guides on ovirt.org with no substantial help.

Successfully, I have done the following:
Install oVirt Engine on a bare metal system, added a node, and started exploring - not desired.
Install oVirt Node 4.0.6 on a bare metal system - fails if partitions are not done automatically.
Install oVirt Node 4.1.2 on a bare metal system - fails if partitions are not done automatically.

Can you please elaborate about the failure you see here and how are you trying to manually partition the host?



 

My process after installing a Node:
Run a yum update - just to be sure, but I am using latest iso images from downloads section.
Edit /etc/hosts for local name resolution - the goal is to host DNS as a virtual machine, eventually.
On 4.1 if I install ovirt-engine-appliance from yum, it does simplify one step in the hosted engine setup.  If I do this on 4.0 it discards the image and uses the default.

Being this a new install, please use 4.1. oVirt 4.0 is not supported anymore.

 
On 4.1 the hosted engine setup fails immediately unless I run the hosted engine cleanup from the shell.

Can you please provide hosted engine setup logs or better a full sos report? (sosreport -a)


 
  If I do this, I can typically get to the point of installing.

When I do get to the installation phase, I get to a point just after extracting the OVA that I get a message on the shell saying something about the watchdog running the whole time and then the node reboots.

I found one email thread that sounded like my issue and suggested the following commands:
vdsm-tool configure --force
systemctl restart libvirtd
systemctl restart vdsmd

Unfortunately, these commands did not help my situation like the other individual.

What log file would everyone like to see first?  Given that I still consider myself relatively new to Linux, please identify the path for the log file requested.

See above
 

Also, because I plan on performing a clean install for this thread using my process from above (I'm not expecting my outcome to be any different), are there any tips and tricks that might result in a success?

I'd like to understand the issues you faced before suggesting to restart from scratch.
Adding some people who may help as well.

 

Thank you for any and all help,
Brendan

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