On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Brett I. Holcomb <biholcomb@l1049h.com> wrote:
On Sun, 2016-02-28 at 11:31 +0200, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 3:58 AM, Brett I. Holcomb om> wrote:
#4 - finally decided to add new storage from another iSCSI LUN and suddenly the DC was running! The local storage (#1), ISO Domain (#2) suddenly are available. This is definitely non-intuitive behaviour. i can't see why the DC has to have additional storage added to make it work. It already has it's storage - which is available for use when creating VMS. The DC should just come up and if there is an issue putting VMs on the host_storage (space issues maybe?) then it shouldn't be allowed as a choice when creating a VM or there should be a message about not enough space. Well, now I know I can work with it and just wonder why it was designed this way. Very strange.
This is how it currently works.
This is because the hosted_storage domain can't be used as the "master storage domain", and such as master is required for many things.
That makes some sense. I'd suggest that there be some indication that we need to add a master storage domain.
Perhaps. Actually we are trying to get rid of it: https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/decommissi...
Is the master storage domain the same one used to store VMs or can it be a separate domain which is used only as the master and VMs go elsewhere. Does is need a minimum amount of storage space?
Normally it's the first "normal" data domain, used to store VMs. Not sure about minimum size if you do not intend to store VMs there. I guess it can be very small - a few MBs or so.
Did this solve all your problems? If not, please: 1. Try again with 3.6.3, which should be out in a few days, or the latest RC [1]. 2. If you still have problems, please state versions of OSes and whatever other relevant tools, and post (links to) full logs of both the host and the engine: /var/log/ovirt* /var/log/vdsm*
[1] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2016-February/038125.html
Once I got the Data Center initialized things all fell into place and it's working. The confirm reboot issue I think is because it's a menu entry that shows up whether or not the confirmation is needed and I thought it might have been an issue when I was troubleshooting. Currently my issues are due to running the oVirth Host and engine on a guest hosted on VMware Workstation on a Windows PC with limited memory <G>. But it's enough to do some testing and get ready to replace ESXi on my physical server. As always there is a learning curve when moving to a new product and oVirt/RHEV looks like a worthy alternative to VMware, MS, etc. I will check out the new release and definitely use it on the server. Thank you for your help.
Good luck and best regards, -- Didi