4:47 a.m.
Hi,
I'm currently planning to setup
a libvirt-vm to use as ovirt-engine.
OS in the vm would be EL 6.5
Does anybody have any experience with
such a setup?
I'd also like to know if such a setup
could be easily ported to the upcoming
self-hosted engine feature or if a physical
setup could get ported better?
Thanks for any input!
--
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards
Sven Kieske
Systemadministrator
Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG
Königsberger Straße 6
32339 Espelkamp
T: +49-5772-293-100
F: +49-5772-293-333
https://www.mittwald.de
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4:58 a.m.
Basically there should be no problem to install RHEVM on virtual machine so it should work
ok.
Also there is no difference between migrating existing RHEVM that runs on physical machine
or on virtual machine.
You need to backup your existing DB and restore it on engine vm. See the following wiki
page for detailed explanation:
http://www.ovirt.org/Migrate_to_Hosted_Engine
Thanks,
Leonid.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sven Kieske" <S.Kieske(a)mittwald.de>
To: users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 12:47:23 PM
Subject: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
Hi,
I'm currently planning to setup
a libvirt-vm to use as ovirt-engine.
OS in the vm would be EL 6.5
Does anybody have any experience with
such a setup?
I'd also like to know if such a setup
could be easily ported to the upcoming
self-hosted engine feature or if a physical
setup could get ported better?
Thanks for any input!
--
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards
Sven Kieske
Systemadministrator
Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG
Königsberger Straße 6
32339 Espelkamp
T: +49-5772-293-100
F: +49-5772-293-333
https://www.mittwald.de
Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer
St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhausen
Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen
_______________________________________________
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6:53 a.m.
Hi Leonid,
thanks for pointing that out.
Actually, I was already aware of the wiki page
but it just mentions Fedora so I was curious
if someone did this on EL 6 ?
Maybe someone else can add his own experience.
If not, I will update the wiki with my own findings
when I start experimenting with it.
Am 06.01.2014 11:58, schrieb Leonid Natapov:
Basically there should be no problem to install RHEVM on virtual
machine so it should work ok.
Also there is no difference between migrating existing RHEVM that runs on physical
machine or on virtual machine.
You need to backup your existing DB and restore it on engine vm. See the following wiki
page for detailed explanation:
http://www.ovirt.org/Migrate_to_Hosted_Engine
--
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards
Sven Kieske
Systemadministrator
Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG
Königsberger Straße 6
32339 Espelkamp
T: +49-5772-293-100
F: +49-5772-293-333
https://www.mittwald.de
Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer
St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhausen
Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen
7:08 a.m.
Sven Kieske wrote:
Hi Leonid,
thanks for pointing that out.
Actually, I was already aware of the wiki page
but it just mentions Fedora so I was curious
if someone did this on EL 6 ?
Maybe someone else can add his own experience.
If not, I will update the wiki with my own findings
when I start experimenting with it.
I recently used that procedure for a centos install and it worked for
me. We used a slightly different backup but in essence it is correct.
Backup pki stuff, backup database en restore pki and restore database
with the script in /usr/share/ovirt-engine/dbscripts.
Am 06.01.2014 11:58, schrieb Leonid Natapov:
> Basically there should be no problem to install RHEVM on virtual machine so it should
work ok.
>
> Also there is no difference between migrating existing RHEVM that runs on physical
machine or on virtual machine.
> You need to backup your existing DB and restore it on engine vm. See the following
wiki page for detailed explanation:
> http://www.ovirt.org/Migrate_to_Hosted_Engine
>
7:12 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joop" <jvdwege(a)xs4all.nl>
To: "Sven Kieske" <S.Kieske(a)mittwald.de>
Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 3:08:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
Sven Kieske wrote:
> Hi Leonid,
>
> thanks for pointing that out.
> Actually, I was already aware of the wiki page
> but it just mentions Fedora so I was curious
> if someone did this on EL 6 ?
>
> Maybe someone else can add his own experience.
>
> If not, I will update the wiki with my own findings
> when I start experimenting with it.
>
>
I recently used that procedure for a centos install and it worked for
me. We used a slightly different backup but in essence it is correct.
Backup pki stuff, backup database en restore pki and restore database
with the script in /usr/share/ovirt-engine/dbscripts.
Did you have problems with engine-backup? Or had other reasons to not use it?
Thanks!
--
Didi
9:20 a.m.
On 1/6/2014 7:12 AM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
Did you have problems with engine-backup? Or had other reasons to not
use it? Thanks!
Can engine-backup be used to move an AIO configuration from one host to
another?
I currently need to move an AIO configuration from AMD hardware to Intel
I7 hardware. The engine-backup WIKI discusses backups, but not
restores. I am a bit concerned about using engine-backup to restore an
AIO configuration to a different system as another WIKI page with
step-by-step instructions to do what engine-backup does for you,
mentions you have to do some extra steps if you are changing hostnames
as the hostname of the ovirt-engine is embedded in the database.
There really needs to be some work done in Ovirt on making it easier to
import existing disk images and just generally moving things around
without having to bounce off an NFS server.
Should I do a BZ on that?
9:43 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Blaster" <Blaster(a)556nato.com>
To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi(a)redhat.com>
Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 5:20:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
On 1/6/2014 7:12 AM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
> Did you have problems with engine-backup? Or had other reasons to not
> use it? Thanks!
Can engine-backup be used to move an AIO configuration from one host to
another?
I didn't try that. In principle it can. Note that it will only backup/restore
the engine - not local storage domains (ISO or data), VM images, etc.
If you try that, please report back. Thanks!
I currently need to move an AIO configuration from AMD hardware to Intel
I7 hardware. The engine-backup WIKI discusses backups, but not
restores. I am a bit concerned about using engine-backup to restore an
AIO configuration to a different system as another WIKI page with
step-by-step instructions to do what engine-backup does for you,
mentions you have to do some extra steps if you are changing hostnames
as the hostname of the ovirt-engine is embedded in the database.
Changing the hostname is specifically not in the scope of engine-backup.
Note that you do not need to have the hostname equal to the "fqdn" input
during engine-setup - this last one just needs to be dns-resolvable and
point to the machine intended.
Also, there is another utility to do that, called ovirt-engine-rename -
see this for details and implications:
http://www.ovirt.org/Changing_Engine_Hostname
There really needs to be some work done in Ovirt on making it easier to
import existing disk images and just generally moving things around
without having to bounce off an NFS server.
Should I do a BZ on that?
Not sure what you mean exactly, but you are always welcome to open BZs on
bugs/RFEs...
Best regards,
--
Didi
3:15 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Yedidyah Bar David <didi(a)redhat.com> wrote:
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Blaster" <Blaster(a)556nato.com>
> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi(a)redhat.com>
> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 5:20:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
>
> On 1/6/2014 7:12 AM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
> > Did you have problems with engine-backup? Or had other reasons to not
> > use it? Thanks!
>
> Can engine-backup be used to move an AIO configuration from one host to
> another?
I didn't try that. In principle it can. Note that it will only
backup/restore
the engine - not local storage domains (ISO or data), VM images, etc.
If you try that, please report back. Thanks!
>
> I currently need to move an AIO configuration from AMD hardware to Intel
> I7 hardware. The engine-backup WIKI discusses backups, but not
> restores. I am a bit concerned about using engine-backup to restore an
> AIO configuration to a different system as another WIKI page with
> step-by-step instructions to do what engine-backup does for you,
> mentions you have to do some extra steps if you are changing hostnames
> as the hostname of the ovirt-engine is embedded in the database.
Changing the hostname is specifically not in the scope of engine-backup.
Note that you do not need to have the hostname equal to the "fqdn" input
during engine-setup - this last one just needs to be dns-resolvable and
point to the machine intended.
Also, there is another utility to do that, called ovirt-engine-rename -
see this for details and implications:
http://www.ovirt.org/Changing_Engine_Hostname
>
> There really needs to be some work done in Ovirt on making it easier to
> import existing disk images and just generally moving things around
> without having to bounce off an NFS server.
>
> Should I do a BZ on that?
Not sure what you mean exactly, but you are always welcome to open BZs on
bugs/RFEs...
Best regards,
--
Didi
Sorry for going slightly off topic, but how is everyone's hosted engine
deployment going? Are you restricted to NFS?
I tried the migration procedure last month and it worked.. but had quite a
lot of issues so I ended up reverting back. I didn't open any bugs in the
assumption it was in super alpha stage.
6:48 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Lau" <andrew(a)andrewklau.com>
To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:15:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Yedidyah Bar David < didi(a)redhat.com > wrote:
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Blaster" < Blaster(a)556nato.com >
> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" < didi(a)redhat.com >
> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 5:20:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
>
> On 1/6/2014 7:12 AM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
> > Did you have problems with engine-backup? Or had other reasons to not
> > use it? Thanks!
>
> Can engine-backup be used to move an AIO configuration from one host to
> another?
I didn't try that. In principle it can. Note that it will only backup/restore
the engine - not local storage domains (ISO or data), VM images, etc.
If you try that, please report back. Thanks!
>
> I currently need to move an AIO configuration from AMD hardware to Intel
> I7 hardware. The engine-backup WIKI discusses backups, but not
> restores. I am a bit concerned about using engine-backup to restore an
> AIO configuration to a different system as another WIKI page with
> step-by-step instructions to do what engine-backup does for you,
> mentions you have to do some extra steps if you are changing hostnames
> as the hostname of the ovirt-engine is embedded in the database.
Changing the hostname is specifically not in the scope of engine-backup.
Note that you do not need to have the hostname equal to the "fqdn" input
during engine-setup - this last one just needs to be dns-resolvable and
point to the machine intended.
Also, there is another utility to do that, called ovirt-engine-rename -
see this for details and implications:
http://www.ovirt.org/Changing_Engine_Hostname
>
> There really needs to be some work done in Ovirt on making it easier to
> import existing disk images and just generally moving things around
> without having to bounce off an NFS server.
>
> Should I do a BZ on that?
Not sure what you mean exactly, but you are always welcome to open BZs on
bugs/RFEs...
Best regards,
--
Didi
Sorry for going slightly off topic, but how is everyone's hosted engine
deployment going? Are you restricted to NFS?
Andrew, in general I get positive feedbacks from RHEL users. For Fedora
and other distros, this should be in a better situation in the following
1-2 weeks when we'll have 3.4 beta available.
I'd love to get your feedback on it.
I tried the migration procedure last month and it worked.. but had
quite a
lot of issues so I ended up reverting back. I didn't open any bugs in the
assumption it was in super alpha stage.
Next time please open bugs... That's the best way to improve the project,
regardless of the version state. If unsure, you can always try irc / this list
first to see if this is a known issue and if there are workarounds.
_______________________________________________
Users mailing list
Users(a)ovirt.org
http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
6:49 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>
To: "Andrew Lau" <andrew(a)andrewklau.com>
Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 2:48:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Lau" <andrew(a)andrewklau.com>
> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi(a)redhat.com>
> Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:15:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Yedidyah Bar David < didi(a)redhat.com >
> wrote:
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Blaster" < Blaster(a)556nato.com >
> > To: "Yedidyah Bar David" < didi(a)redhat.com >
> > Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
> > Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 5:20:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
> >
> > On 1/6/2014 7:12 AM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
> > > Did you have problems with engine-backup? Or had other reasons to not
> > > use it? Thanks!
> >
> > Can engine-backup be used to move an AIO configuration from one host to
> > another?
>
> I didn't try that. In principle it can. Note that it will only
> backup/restore
> the engine - not local storage domains (ISO or data), VM images, etc.
>
> If you try that, please report back. Thanks!
>
> >
> > I currently need to move an AIO configuration from AMD hardware to Intel
> > I7 hardware. The engine-backup WIKI discusses backups, but not
> > restores. I am a bit concerned about using engine-backup to restore an
> > AIO configuration to a different system as another WIKI page with
> > step-by-step instructions to do what engine-backup does for you,
> > mentions you have to do some extra steps if you are changing hostnames
> > as the hostname of the ovirt-engine is embedded in the database.
>
> Changing the hostname is specifically not in the scope of engine-backup.
>
> Note that you do not need to have the hostname equal to the "fqdn" input
> during engine-setup - this last one just needs to be dns-resolvable and
> point to the machine intended.
>
> Also, there is another utility to do that, called ovirt-engine-rename -
> see this for details and implications:
>
> http://www.ovirt.org/Changing_Engine_Hostname
>
> >
> > There really needs to be some work done in Ovirt on making it easier to
> > import existing disk images and just generally moving things around
> > without having to bounce off an NFS server.
> >
> > Should I do a BZ on that?
>
> Not sure what you mean exactly, but you are always welcome to open BZs on
> bugs/RFEs...
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Didi
>
> Sorry for going slightly off topic, but how is everyone's hosted engine
> deployment going? Are you restricted to NFS?
>
Andrew, in general I get positive feedbacks from RHEL users. For Fedora
and other distros, this should be in a better situation in the following
1-2 weeks when we'll have 3.4 beta available.
I'd love to get your feedback on it.
I missed your NFS question, sorry;
Yes. Currently we have NFS limitation and we will do our best to see
if SAN can be added. Note that time is not on our side for 3.4.
> I tried the migration procedure last month and it worked.. but
had quite a
> lot of issues so I ended up reverting back. I didn't open any bugs in the
> assumption it was in super alpha stage.
>
Next time please open bugs... That's the best way to improve the project,
regardless of the version state. If unsure, you can always try irc / this
list
first to see if this is a known issue and if there are workarounds.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Users mailing list
> Users(a)ovirt.org
> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>
_______________________________________________
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7:02 a.m.
Hi,
so just for clarification:
self hosted engine is just supported via NFS-backed Datacenter, once it
is released?
I didn't saw that mentioned on the wiki page of the feature or anywhere
else, can someone update the documentation accordingly?
(I would do it myself if I'd knew exactly what the limitations are).
Am 08.01.2014 13:49, schrieb Doron Fediuck:
I missed your NFS question, sorry;
Yes. Currently we have NFS limitation and we will do our best to see
if SAN can be added. Note that time is not on our side for 3.4.
--
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards
Sven Kieske
Systemadministrator
Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG
Königsberger Straße 6
32339 Espelkamp
T: +49-5772-293-100
F: +49-5772-293-333
https://www.mittwald.de
Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer
St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhausen
Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen
8:24 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sven Kieske" <S.Kieske(a)mittwald.de>
To: users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 3:02:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
Hi,
so just for clarification:
self hosted engine is just supported via NFS-backed Datacenter, once it
is released?
I didn't saw that mentioned on the wiki page of the feature or anywhere
else, can someone update the documentation accordingly?
(I would do it myself if I'd knew exactly what the limitations are).
Am 08.01.2014 13:49, schrieb Doron Fediuck:
> I missed your NFS question, sorry;
> Yes. Currently we have NFS limitation and we will do our best to see
> if SAN can be added. Note that time is not on our side for 3.4.
--
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards
Sven Kieske
Systemadministrator
Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG
Königsberger Straße 6
32339 Espelkamp
T: +49-5772-293-100
F: +49-5772-293-333
https://www.mittwald.de
Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer
St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhausen
Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen
Hi Sven,
please take a look at: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Self_Hosted_Engine#Limitations
This is there for quite some time.
May I ask which page are you using?
Doron
8:38 a.m.
Hi Doron,
I'm very sorry, I just didn't see it.
The page is very long, so maybe we can
divide this page into several sub pages for
better readability?
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
And a question:
"Only one VM is deployed and managed by HA daemons (support for
additional VMs to be added at a later stage)."
What does that mean? The ability to self-host multiple engines
at a time, or a different HA-Setup with two active/active or
active/passive vms?
Something else?
Am 09.01.2014 15:24, schrieb Doron Fediuck:
Hi Sven,
please take a look at: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Self_Hosted_Engine#Limitations
This is there for quite some time.
May I ask which page are you using?
Doron
--
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards
Sven Kieske
Systemadministrator
Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG
Königsberger Straße 6
32339 Espelkamp
T: +49-5772-293-100
F: +49-5772-293-333
https://www.mittwald.de
Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer
St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhausen
Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen
9:13 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sven Kieske" <S.Kieske(a)mittwald.de>
To: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>
Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2014 4:38:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
Hi Doron,
I'm very sorry, I just didn't see it.
Not a problem. I agree this page can
be improved.
For this is the reason I created the simplified
http://www.ovirt.org/Hosted_Engine_Howto
As you can see it provides the basic installation
flows and explanations.
The page is very long, so maybe we can
divide this page into several sub pages for
better readability?
Sure.
Would you like to try and we'll help?
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
And a question:
"Only one VM is deployed and managed by HA daemons (support for
additional VMs to be added at a later stage)."
What does that mean? The ability to self-host multiple engines
at a time, or a different HA-Setup with two active/active or
active/passive vms?
Something else?
The idea is to allow other types of HA VMs, running something
else. for example, let's define a profile of a VM running a DB.
This means we may need to monitor other resources than we would
do for hosted engine VM. So this requires some more work...
Am 09.01.2014 15:24, schrieb Doron Fediuck:
> Hi Sven,
> please take a look at:
> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Self_Hosted_Engine#Limitations
>
> This is there for quite some time.
> May I ask which page are you using?
>
> Doron
--
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards
Sven Kieske
Systemadministrator
Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG
Königsberger Straße 6
32339 Espelkamp
T: +49-5772-293-100
F: +49-5772-293-333
https://www.mittwald.de
Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer
St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhausen
Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen
7:36 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Doron Fediuck [mailto:dfediuck@redhat.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:50 PM
To: Andrew Lau
Cc: users
Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>
To: "Andrew Lau" <andrew(a)andrewklau.com>
Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 2:48:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Lau" <andrew(a)andrewklau.com>
> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi(a)redhat.com>
> Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:15:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Yedidyah Bar David < didi(a)redhat.com
> >
> wrote:
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Blaster" < Blaster(a)556nato.com >
> > To: "Yedidyah Bar David" < didi(a)redhat.com >
> > Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
> > Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 5:20:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted
> > engine
> >
> > On 1/6/2014 7:12 AM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
> > > Did you have problems with engine-backup? Or had other reasons
> > > to not use it? Thanks!
> >
> > Can engine-backup be used to move an AIO configuration from one
> > host to another?
>
> I didn't try that. In principle it can. Note that it will only
> backup/restore the engine - not local storage domains (ISO or data),
> VM images, etc.
>
> If you try that, please report back. Thanks!
>
> >
> > I currently need to move an AIO configuration from AMD hardware to
> > Intel
> > I7 hardware. The engine-backup WIKI discusses backups, but not
> > restores. I am a bit concerned about using engine-backup to
> > restore an AIO configuration to a different system as another WIKI
> > page with step-by-step instructions to do what engine-backup does
> > for you, mentions you have to do some extra steps if you are
> > changing hostnames as the hostname of the ovirt-engine is embedded in the
database.
>
> Changing the hostname is specifically not in the scope of engine-backup.
>
> Note that you do not need to have the hostname equal to the "fqdn"
> input during engine-setup - this last one just needs to be
> dns-resolvable and point to the machine intended.
>
> Also, there is another utility to do that, called
> ovirt-engine-rename - see this for details and implications:
>
> http://www.ovirt.org/Changing_Engine_Hostname
>
> >
> > There really needs to be some work done in Ovirt on making it
> > easier to import existing disk images and just generally moving
> > things around without having to bounce off an NFS server.
> >
> > Should I do a BZ on that?
>
> Not sure what you mean exactly, but you are always welcome to open
> BZs on bugs/RFEs...
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Didi
>
> Sorry for going slightly off topic, but how is everyone's hosted
> engine deployment going? Are you restricted to NFS?
>
Andrew, in general I get positive feedbacks from RHEL users. For
Fedora and other distros, this should be in a better situation in the
following
1-2 weeks when we'll have 3.4 beta available.
I'd love to get your feedback on it.
I missed your NFS question, sorry;
Yes. Currently we have NFS limitation and we will do our best to see if SAN can be added.
Note that time is not on our side for 3.4.
Is there support for glusterfs with
libgfapi?
> I tried the migration procedure last month and it worked.. but
had
> quite a lot of issues so I ended up reverting back. I didn't open
> any bugs in the assumption it was in super alpha stage.
>
Next time please open bugs... That's the best way to improve the
project, regardless of the version state. If unsure, you can always
try irc / this list first to see if this is a known issue and if there
are workarounds.
Sorry about that, I thought it was still very dev style I didn't want to flood bzs
with things that are already being worked on.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Users mailing list
> Users(a)ovirt.org
> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>
_______________________________________________
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http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
7:55 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Lau" <andrew(a)andrewklau.com>
To: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>
Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 3:36:19 PM
Subject: RE: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
-----Original Message-----
From: Doron Fediuck [mailto:dfediuck@redhat.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:50 PM
To: Andrew Lau
Cc: users
Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>
> To: "Andrew Lau" <andrew(a)andrewklau.com>
> Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 2:48:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andrew Lau" <andrew(a)andrewklau.com>
> > To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi(a)redhat.com>
> > Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:15:21 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Yedidyah Bar David < didi(a)redhat.com
> > >
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Blaster" < Blaster(a)556nato.com >
> > > To: "Yedidyah Bar David" < didi(a)redhat.com >
> > > Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
> > > Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 5:20:00 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted
> > > engine
> > >
> > > On 1/6/2014 7:12 AM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
> > > > Did you have problems with engine-backup? Or had other reasons
> > > > to not use it? Thanks!
> > >
> > > Can engine-backup be used to move an AIO configuration from one
> > > host to another?
> >
> > I didn't try that. In principle it can. Note that it will only
> > backup/restore the engine - not local storage domains (ISO or data),
> > VM images, etc.
> >
> > If you try that, please report back. Thanks!
> >
> > >
> > > I currently need to move an AIO configuration from AMD hardware to
> > > Intel
> > > I7 hardware. The engine-backup WIKI discusses backups, but not
> > > restores. I am a bit concerned about using engine-backup to
> > > restore an AIO configuration to a different system as another WIKI
> > > page with step-by-step instructions to do what engine-backup does
> > > for you, mentions you have to do some extra steps if you are
> > > changing hostnames as the hostname of the ovirt-engine is embedded in
> > > the database.
> >
> > Changing the hostname is specifically not in the scope of engine-backup.
> >
> > Note that you do not need to have the hostname equal to the "fqdn"
> > input during engine-setup - this last one just needs to be
> > dns-resolvable and point to the machine intended.
> >
> > Also, there is another utility to do that, called
> > ovirt-engine-rename - see this for details and implications:
> >
> > http://www.ovirt.org/Changing_Engine_Hostname
> >
> > >
> > > There really needs to be some work done in Ovirt on making it
> > > easier to import existing disk images and just generally moving
> > > things around without having to bounce off an NFS server.
> > >
> > > Should I do a BZ on that?
> >
> > Not sure what you mean exactly, but you are always welcome to open
> > BZs on bugs/RFEs...
> >
> > Best regards,
> > --
> > Didi
> >
> > Sorry for going slightly off topic, but how is everyone's hosted
> > engine deployment going? Are you restricted to NFS?
> >
> Andrew, in general I get positive feedbacks from RHEL users. For
> Fedora and other distros, this should be in a better situation in the
> following
> 1-2 weeks when we'll have 3.4 beta available.
> I'd love to get your feedback on it.
>
> I missed your NFS question, sorry;
> Yes. Currently we have NFS limitation and we will do our best to see if SAN
> can be added. Note that time is not on our side for 3.4.
Is there support for glusterfs with libgfapi?
Currently not sue to some gluster issues we had.
Adding Sahina to shed some more light (if needed).
> > I tried the migration procedure last month and it worked..
but had
> > quite a lot of issues so I ended up reverting back. I didn't open
> > any bugs in the assumption it was in super alpha stage.
> >
> Next time please open bugs... That's the best way to improve the
> project, regardless of the version state. If unsure, you can always
> try irc / this list first to see if this is a known issue and if there
> are workarounds.
Sorry about that, I thought it was still very dev style I didn't want to
flood bzs with things that are already being worked on.
>
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Users mailing list
> > Users(a)ovirt.org
> > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Users mailing list
> Users(a)ovirt.org
> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>
3:47 p.m.
On 01/08/2014 02:49 PM, Doron Fediuck wrote:
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>
> To: "Andrew Lau" <andrew(a)andrewklau.com>
> Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 2:48:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Andrew Lau" <andrew(a)andrewklau.com>
>> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi(a)redhat.com>
>> Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:15:21 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Yedidyah Bar David < didi(a)redhat.com >
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Blaster" < Blaster(a)556nato.com >
>>> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" < didi(a)redhat.com >
>>> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
>>> Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 5:20:00 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
>>>
>>> On 1/6/2014 7:12 AM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
>>>> Did you have problems with engine-backup? Or had other reasons to not
>>>> use it? Thanks!
>>>
>>> Can engine-backup be used to move an AIO configuration from one host to
>>> another?
>>
>> I didn't try that. In principle it can. Note that it will only
>> backup/restore
>> the engine - not local storage domains (ISO or data), VM images, etc.
>>
>> If you try that, please report back. Thanks!
>>
>>>
>>> I currently need to move an AIO configuration from AMD hardware to Intel
>>> I7 hardware. The engine-backup WIKI discusses backups, but not
>>> restores. I am a bit concerned about using engine-backup to restore an
>>> AIO configuration to a different system as another WIKI page with
>>> step-by-step instructions to do what engine-backup does for you,
>>> mentions you have to do some extra steps if you are changing hostnames
>>> as the hostname of the ovirt-engine is embedded in the database.
>>
>> Changing the hostname is specifically not in the scope of engine-backup.
>>
>> Note that you do not need to have the hostname equal to the "fqdn"
input
>> during engine-setup - this last one just needs to be dns-resolvable and
>> point to the machine intended.
>>
>> Also, there is another utility to do that, called ovirt-engine-rename -
>> see this for details and implications:
>>
>> http://www.ovirt.org/Changing_Engine_Hostname
>>
>>>
>>> There really needs to be some work done in Ovirt on making it easier to
>>> import existing disk images and just generally moving things around
>>> without having to bounce off an NFS server.
>>>
>>> Should I do a BZ on that?
>>
>> Not sure what you mean exactly, but you are always welcome to open BZs on
>> bugs/RFEs...
>>
>> Best regards,
>> --
>> Didi
>>
>> Sorry for going slightly off topic, but how is everyone's hosted engine
>> deployment going? Are you restricted to NFS?
>>
> Andrew, in general I get positive feedbacks from RHEL users. For Fedora
> and other distros, this should be in a better situation in the following
> 1-2 weeks when we'll have 3.4 beta available.
> I'd love to get your feedback on it.
>
I missed your NFS question, sorry;
Yes. Currently we have NFS limitation and we will do our best to see
if SAN can be added. Note that time is not on our side for 3.4.
worth mentioning you can use hosted engine on an iscsi/FC cluster - just
the hosted engine VM needs to be on NFS
>> I tried the migration procedure last month and it worked.. but had quite a
>> lot of issues so I ended up reverting back. I didn't open any bugs in the
>> assumption it was in super alpha stage.
>>
> Next time please open bugs... That's the best way to improve the project,
> regardless of the version state. If unsure, you can always try irc / this
> list
> first to see if this is a known issue and if there are workarounds.
>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Users mailing list
>> Users(a)ovirt.org
>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Users mailing list
> Users(a)ovirt.org
> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>
_______________________________________________
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http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
1:45 a.m.
Awesome!
Is it worth while trying it now, or should I wait for 3.4 beta?
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 01/08/2014 02:49 PM, Doron Fediuck wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>> From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>
>> To: "Andrew Lau" <andrew(a)andrewklau.com>
>> Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 2:48:20 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>>> From: "Andrew Lau" <andrew(a)andrewklau.com>
>>> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi(a)redhat.com>
>>> Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:15:21 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Yedidyah Bar David < didi(a)redhat.com >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>
>>>> From: "Blaster" < Blaster(a)556nato.com >
>>>> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" < didi(a)redhat.com >
>>>> Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
>>>> Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 5:20:00 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
>>>>
>>>> On 1/6/2014 7:12 AM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Did you have problems with engine-backup? Or had other reasons to
not
>>>>> use it? Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can engine-backup be used to move an AIO configuration from one host to
>>>> another?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I didn't try that. In principle it can. Note that it will only
>>> backup/restore
>>> the engine - not local storage domains (ISO or data), VM images, etc.
>>>
>>> If you try that, please report back. Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>> I currently need to move an AIO configuration from AMD hardware to
>>>> Intel
>>>> I7 hardware. The engine-backup WIKI discusses backups, but not
>>>> restores. I am a bit concerned about using engine-backup to restore an
>>>> AIO configuration to a different system as another WIKI page with
>>>> step-by-step instructions to do what engine-backup does for you,
>>>> mentions you have to do some extra steps if you are changing hostnames
>>>> as the hostname of the ovirt-engine is embedded in the database.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Changing the hostname is specifically not in the scope of engine-backup.
>>>
>>> Note that you do not need to have the hostname equal to the "fqdn"
input
>>> during engine-setup - this last one just needs to be dns-resolvable and
>>> point to the machine intended.
>>>
>>> Also, there is another utility to do that, called ovirt-engine-rename -
>>> see this for details and implications:
>>>
>>> http://www.ovirt.org/Changing_Engine_Hostname
>>>
>>>
>>>> There really needs to be some work done in Ovirt on making it easier to
>>>> import existing disk images and just generally moving things around
>>>> without having to bounce off an NFS server.
>>>>
>>>> Should I do a BZ on that?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not sure what you mean exactly, but you are always welcome to open BZs
>>> on
>>> bugs/RFEs...
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> --
>>> Didi
>>>
>>> Sorry for going slightly off topic, but how is everyone's hosted engine
>>> deployment going? Are you restricted to NFS?
>>>
>>> Andrew, in general I get positive feedbacks from RHEL users. For Fedora
>> and other distros, this should be in a better situation in the following
>> 1-2 weeks when we'll have 3.4 beta available.
>> I'd love to get your feedback on it.
>>
>> I missed your NFS question, sorry;
> Yes. Currently we have NFS limitation and we will do our best to see
> if SAN can be added. Note that time is not on our side for 3.4.
>
worth mentioning you can use hosted engine on an iscsi/FC cluster - just
the hosted engine VM needs to be on NFS
> I tried the migration procedure last month and it worked.. but had quite
>>> a
>>> lot of issues so I ended up reverting back. I didn't open any bugs in
>>> the
>>> assumption it was in super alpha stage.
>>>
>>> Next time please open bugs... That's the best way to improve the
>> project,
>> regardless of the version state. If unsure, you can always try irc / this
>> list
>> first to see if this is a known issue and if there are workarounds.
>>
>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Users mailing list
>>> Users(a)ovirt.org
>>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>> Users mailing list
>> Users(a)ovirt.org
>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>>
>> _______________________________________________
> Users mailing list
> Users(a)ovirt.org
> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>
>
1:46 a.m.
On 01/10/2014 09:45 AM, Andrew Lau wrote:
Awesome!
Is it worth while trying it now, or should I wait for 3.4 beta?
well, we'd love input as early as possible - maybe with the 3.4 alpha
which should be out any day now.
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com
<mailto:iheim@redhat.com>> wrote:
On 01/08/2014 02:49 PM, Doron Fediuck wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com
<mailto:dfediuck@redhat.com>>
To: "Andrew Lau" <andrew(a)andrewklau.com
<mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com>>
Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org>>
Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 2:48:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to
self-hosted engine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Lau" <andrew(a)andrewklau.com
<mailto:andrew@andrewklau.com>>
To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi(a)redhat.com
<mailto:didi@redhat.com>>
Cc: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org
<mailto:users@ovirt.org>>
Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:15:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to
self-hosted engine
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Yedidyah Bar David <
didi(a)redhat.com <mailto:didi@redhat.com> >
wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Blaster" < Blaster(a)556nato.com
<mailto:Blaster@556nato.com> >
To: "Yedidyah Bar David" < didi(a)redhat.com
<mailto:didi@redhat.com> >
Cc: users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org>
Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 5:20:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to
self-hosted engine
On 1/6/2014 7:12 AM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
Did you have problems with engine-backup? Or had
other reasons to not
use it? Thanks!
Can engine-backup be used to move an AIO
configuration from one host to
another?
I didn't try that. In principle it can. Note that it
will only
backup/restore
the engine - not local storage domains (ISO or data), VM
images, etc.
If you try that, please report back. Thanks!
I currently need to move an AIO configuration from
AMD hardware to Intel
I7 hardware. The engine-backup WIKI discusses
backups, but not
restores. I am a bit concerned about using
engine-backup to restore an
AIO configuration to a different system as another
WIKI page with
step-by-step instructions to do what engine-backup
does for you,
mentions you have to do some extra steps if you are
changing hostnames
as the hostname of the ovirt-engine is embedded in
the database.
Changing the hostname is specifically not in the scope
of engine-backup.
Note that you do not need to have the hostname equal to
the "fqdn" input
during engine-setup - this last one just needs to be
dns-resolvable and
point to the machine intended.
Also, there is another utility to do that, called
ovirt-engine-rename -
see this for details and implications:
http://www.ovirt.org/Changing___Engine_Hostname
<http://www.ovirt.org/Changing_Engine_Hostname>
There really needs to be some work done in Ovirt on
making it easier to
import existing disk images and just generally
moving things around
without having to bounce off an NFS server.
Should I do a BZ on that?
Not sure what you mean exactly, but you are always
welcome to open BZs on
bugs/RFEs...
Best regards,
--
Didi
Sorry for going slightly off topic, but how is
everyone's hosted engine
deployment going? Are you restricted to NFS?
Andrew, in general I get positive feedbacks from RHEL users.
For Fedora
and other distros, this should be in a better situation in
the following
1-2 weeks when we'll have 3.4 beta available.
I'd love to get your feedback on it.
I missed your NFS question, sorry;
Yes. Currently we have NFS limitation and we will do our best to see
if SAN can be added. Note that time is not on our side for 3.4.
worth mentioning you can use hosted engine on an iscsi/FC cluster -
just the hosted engine VM needs to be on NFS
I tried the migration procedure last month and it
worked.. but had quite a
lot of issues so I ended up reverting back. I didn't
open any bugs in the
assumption it was in super alpha stage.
Next time please open bugs... That's the best way to improve
the project,
regardless of the version state. If unsure, you can always
try irc / this
list
first to see if this is a known issue and if there are
workarounds.
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7:09 a.m.
I did a migration from existing RHEVM to hosted engine vm. Both were on RHEL 6.5 )
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sven Kieske" <S.Kieske(a)mittwald.de>
To: "Leonid Natapov" <lnatapov(a)redhat.com>
Cc: users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 2:53:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
Hi Leonid,
thanks for pointing that out.
Actually, I was already aware of the wiki page
but it just mentions Fedora so I was curious
if someone did this on EL 6 ?
Maybe someone else can add his own experience.
If not, I will update the wiki with my own findings
when I start experimenting with it.
Am 06.01.2014 11:58, schrieb Leonid Natapov:
Basically there should be no problem to install RHEVM on virtual
machine so it should work ok.
Also there is no difference between migrating existing RHEVM that runs on physical
machine or on virtual machine.
You need to backup your existing DB and restore it on engine vm. See the following wiki
page for detailed explanation:
http://www.ovirt.org/Migrate_to_Hosted_Engine
--
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards
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