I fixed my own issue, and for everyone else that may run into this, the issue was the fact that I created the first oVirt node VM inside VMware, and got it fully configured with all the software/disks/partitioning/settings, then cloned it to two more VMs. Then I ran the hosted-engine deployment and set up the cluster. I think it was because I used clones for each cluster node, and that confused things due to device/system identifiers. I rebuilt all 3 node VMs from scratch, and everything works perfectly now. Thanks for listening. ________________________________ From: Robert Tongue Sent: Monday, January 25, 2021 10:03 AM To: users <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; Subject: VM templates Hello, Another weird issue over here. I have the latest oVirt running inside VMware Vcenter, as a proof of concept/testing platform. Things are working well finally, for the most part, however I am noticing strange behavior with templates, and deployed VMs from that template. Let me explain: I created a basic Ubuntu Server VM, captured that VM as a template, then deployed 4 VMs from that template. The deployment went fine; however I can only start 3 of the 4 VMs. If I shut one down one of the 3 that I started, I can then start the other one that refused to start, then the one I JUST shut down will then refuse to start. The error is: VM test3 is down with error. Exit message: Bad volume specification {'device': 'disk', 'type': 'disk', 'diskType': 'file', 'specParams': {}, 'alias': 'ua-2dc7fbff-da30-485d-891f-03a0ed60fd0a', 'address': {'bus': '0', 'controller': '0', 'unit': '0', 'type': 'drive', 'target': '0'}, 'domainID': '804c6a0c-b246-4ccc-b3ab-dd4ceb819cea', 'imageID': '2dc7fbff-da30-485d-891f-03a0ed60fd0a', 'poolID': '3208bbce-5e04-11eb-9313-00163e281c6d', 'volumeID': 'f514ab22-07ae-40e4-9146-1041d78553fd', 'path': '/rhev/data-center/3208bbce-5e04-11eb-9313-00163e281c6d/804c6a0c-b246-4ccc-b3ab-dd4ceb819cea/images/2dc7fbff-da30-485d-891f-03a0ed60fd0a/f514ab22-07ae-40e4-9146-1041d78553fd', 'discard': True, 'format': 'cow', 'propagateErrors': 'off', 'cache': 'none', 'iface': 'scsi', 'name': 'sda', 'bootOrder': '1', 'serial': '2dc7fbff-da30-485d-891f-03a0ed60fd0a', 'index': 0, 'reqsize': '0', 'truesize': '2882392576', 'apparentsize': '3435134976'}. The underlying storage is GlusterFS, self-managed outside of oVirt. I can provide any logs needed, please let me know which. Thanks in advance.