What is the difference between:

host CLI command: hosted-engine --vm-maintenance --mode=local

and RHVEM gui click action: Hosts -> <hostname> -> Maintenance?

So if the maintenance mode from the GUI is necessary to upgrade host, how to launch it from the CLI on that host?

2017-03-14 11:30 GMT+01:00 Yedidyah Bar David <didi(a)redhat.com&gt;: > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Marcin Kruk <askifyouneed(a)gmail.com&gt; > wrote: > > What is the difference between: > > There are two different notions of host maintenance: > > 1. in the engine, meaning the engine will migrate away VMs from > this host, not start new ones on it, etc. This applies to all > hosts, not just hosted-engine ones > > 2. in ovirt-hosted-engine-ha, the high availability daemons. > Here it means similar things, but applies only to the hosted > engine vm, and is maintained in the HE shared storage (not in > the engine db). > > > host CLI command: hosted-engine --vm-maintenance --mode=local > > This one does (2.). > > > and > > RHVEM gui click action: Hosts -> <hostname> -> Maintenance? > > In the past, this did only (1.), but now it does both. > > See also: > > > https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/engine/self-hos... > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047649 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1277646 > > Best, > -- > Didi