[ovirt-users] Re: 4.2 / 4.3 : Moving the hosted-engine to another storage

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 10:20 AM <andreas.elvers+ovirtforum(a)solutions.work&gt; wrote: > > Thanks for your answer. > > > Yes, now you can do it via backup and restore: > > take a backup of the engine with engine-backup and restore it on a new > > hosted-engine VM on a new storage domain with: > > hosted-engine --deploy --restore-from-file=mybackup.tar.gz > > That is great news. Just to clear things up completely: > > - This backup command is sufficient ? No further switches ? > "engine-backup --mode=backup --file=[EngineBackupFile] --log=[LogFILE]" Yes, right.

> > > - Do I need to place the node to which I want to deploy engine into maintenance > before doing the backup? This is referred in the stated documentation as: > > "If a hosted-engine host is carrying a virtual load at the time of backup [...] > then a host [...] cannot be used to deploy a restored self-hosted engine." > > This is still true? If yes: all other precautions apply from that documentation? It's a good idea but it's not strictly required. > > - before creating the new engine on the new storage, the old engine need to be > un-deployed on all engine-HA hosts. I am unable to find information about this > issue. Just un-deploy via web ui? No need for that; but you will required to redeploy them from the new engine to update their configuration. > > > - I want to deploy on a gluster volume that has been automatically created by the > Node setup. The file /etc/gluster/glusterd.vol does not carry > "option rpc-auth-allow-insecure on" which is mentioned in the documentation. > Do I need to follow the instructions for gluster, or are settings already sufficiently > set by the automatic gluster deployment done by oVirt Node setup? I already > have some VM images running on that gluster storage anyway. > > Thanks for your help. > - Andreas > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ > oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/TQNWNUHROMQ... _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/A3H7FUPRUU4...