last dec i installed hosted-engine seems to be working, we can migrate the engine to different host. but we need to reinstall everything because of gluster additional configuration. so we did installed hosted-engine. but as per checking. we cannot migrate the engine to other hosts. and the ovirt-ha-agent and ovirt-ha-broker is status is inactive (dead) what are we missing?

Hi Yedidyah. yep we reinstall everything from scratch even the operating system we reinstalled it. so technically its a fresh install. after successfully setting up the hosted-engine we did add the rest of the node. when i check the node status. its says ovirt agent HA N/A

On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, 15:32 Yedidyah Bar David, <didi(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 4:31 AM Ariez Ahito <aristotleahito(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > > > last dec i installed hosted-engine seems to be working, we can migrate the engine to different host. but we need to reinstall everything because of gluster additional configuration. > > so we did installed hosted-engine. but as per checking. we cannot migrate the engine to other hosts. and the ovirt-ha-agent and ovirt-ha-broker is status is inactive (dead) what are we missing? > > Please clarify what exact steps you took. > > Did you reinstall everything? How? > > Did you reinstall just one host? How? > > Best regards, > -- > Didi >

1. yes 2. yes it can migrate any of the hosts 3. yes we just tried the new ovirt 4.4. then we decided to used fiber ports and have it bonded. so we reinstalled everything from sratch. 4. Host 1 and the rest of the hosta was completely reinstalled from sratch. even our separate glusterfs storage we deleted the volumes bricks and redo everything. ok ill check it later thanks for your prompt response. On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, 16:01 Yedidyah Bar David, <didi(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 9:41 AM Aries Ahito <aristotleahito(a)gmail.com&gt; > wrote: > > > > Hi Yedidyah. yep we reinstall everything from scratch even the > operating system we reinstalled it. so technically its a fresh install. > > > > after successfully setting up the hosted-engine we did add the rest of > the node. when i check the node status. its says ovirt agent HA N/A > > Let me understand: > > 1. You had a hosted-engine setup. You started this by deploying on one > host, let's call it host1, and then added another one, let's call it > host2. Right? Perhaps you had more than 2, that's not the point, for > now. > > 2. At this point, you could migrate engine VM from host1 to host2 and > back and it all worked. > > 3. Then you decided to reinstall. It sounds like you reinstalled the > OS on host1, and then did another hosted-engine deployment there. Did > you also use backup? --restore-from-file? Did you use new storage? > Existing? If existing, did you clear it before reinstalling? > > 4. Assuming that you somehow got to a good state re host1, host2 now > still points at the old hosted-engine storage domain, so does not > "see" the new deployment. You should reinstall the OS there, and then > add it as a host to the new engine. Make sure you mark the checkbox > "hosted-engine" in "Add host" dialog. > > Best regards, > > > > > On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, 15:32 Yedidyah Bar David, <didi(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > >> > >> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 4:31 AM Ariez Ahito <aristotleahito(a)gmail.com&gt; > wrote: > >> > > >> > last dec i installed hosted-engine seems to be working, we can > migrate the engine to different host. but we need to reinstall everything > because of gluster additional configuration. > >> > so we did installed hosted-engine. but as per checking. we cannot > migrate the engine to other hosts. and the ovirt-ha-agent and > ovirt-ha-broker is status is inactive (dead) what are we missing? > >> > >> Please clarify what exact steps you took. > >> > >> Did you reinstall everything? How? > >> > >> Did you reinstall just one host? How? > >> > >> Best regards, > >> -- > >> Didi > >> > > > -- > Didi > >

After you removed the hosts, and before you added them again: Did you reinstall the OS? If not, there might be some mess left behind. I suggest to try again: Remove a host, reinstall the OS on it, then add it back and make sure you choose "Deploy". Then give it some time to update (should not be more than a few minutes, let's say 1 hour). If it still does not look good, please check/share all relevant logs. Thanks. Best regards, On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 3:14 PM Aries Ahito <aristotleahito(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > i tried all to remove all the hosts. run clean self hosted engine deployment. then i tried to add host again. and in hosted-engine tab. i tick drop down and chose "deploy". > > after adding all host have active ovirt-ha-agent and have score of (3400) when i tried to migrate the hosted-engine it keeps on failing. except for number 8 hosts. i can now migrated from host 1 and host 8. but rest of the hosts keeps failing.. > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 4:15 PM Aries Ahito <aristotleahito(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >> >> 1. yes >> >> 2. yes it can migrate any of the hosts >> >> 3. yes we just tried the new ovirt 4.4. then we decided to used fiber ports and have it bonded. so we reinstalled everything from sratch. >> >> 4. Host 1 and the rest of the hosta was completely reinstalled from sratch. even our separate glusterfs storage we deleted the volumes bricks and redo everything. ok ill check it later thanks for your prompt response. >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, 16:01 Yedidyah Bar David, <didi(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 9:41 AM Aries Ahito <aristotleahito(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >>> > >>> > Hi Yedidyah. yep we reinstall everything from scratch even the operating system we reinstalled it. so technically its a fresh install. >>> > >>> > after successfully setting up the hosted-engine we did add the rest of the node. when i check the node status. its says ovirt agent HA N/A >>> >>> Let me understand: >>> >>> 1. You had a hosted-engine setup. You started this by deploying on one >>> host, let's call it host1, and then added another one, let's call it >>> host2. Right? Perhaps you had more than 2, that's not the point, for >>> now. >>> >>> 2. At this point, you could migrate engine VM from host1 to host2 and >>> back and it all worked. >>> >>> 3. Then you decided to reinstall. It sounds like you reinstalled the >>> OS on host1, and then did another hosted-engine deployment there. Did >>> you also use backup? --restore-from-file? Did you use new storage? >>> Existing? If existing, did you clear it before reinstalling? >>> >>> 4. Assuming that you somehow got to a good state re host1, host2 now >>> still points at the old hosted-engine storage domain, so does not >>> "see" the new deployment. You should reinstall the OS there, and then >>> add it as a host to the new engine. Make sure you mark the checkbox >>> "hosted-engine" in "Add host" dialog. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> > >>> > On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, 15:32 Yedidyah Bar David, <didi(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >>> >> >>> >> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 4:31 AM Ariez Ahito < aristotleahito(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >>> >> > >>> >> > last dec i installed hosted-engine seems to be working, we can migrate the engine to different host. but we need to reinstall everything because of gluster additional configuration. >>> >> > so we did installed hosted-engine. but as per checking. we cannot migrate the engine to other hosts. and the ovirt-ha-agent and ovirt-ha-broker is status is inactive (dead) what are we missing? >>> >> >>> >> Please clarify what exact steps you took. >>> >> >>> >> Did you reinstall everything? How? >>> >> >>> >> Did you reinstall just one host? How? >>> >> >>> >> Best regards, >>> >> -- >>> >> Didi >>> >> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Didi >>> > > > -- > Aristotle D. Ahito > -------------------------- > -- Didi

I was avoiding reloading the OS. This to me was like "reboot as a fix"... to wipe environment out and restart, vs repair where I learn how to debug.

But after weeks... I am running out of time.

2) When I run HCI deployment... is their any work or means to scan the data volume and import VMs it finds? To rebuild my five or six VMs that keeping would be helpful would take a few hours.. .. My concern is what it would take when I have a few dozen.. or... how many tid-bits of disks / files will be left around because maybe I did not clean it up manually very well.