[Users] High Availability OVirt

[Itamar Heim]

On 04/19/2013 02:41 PM, René Koch (ovido) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You can use a cluster software like pacemaker or RH Cluster to make your
> ovirt-engine high available.
>
> I personally recommend to virtualise it on a KVM host, as keeping
> virtual machines high available is much easier then making all services
> ovirt-engine need high available (but it's possible for sure).
>
> So what happens when your engine hosts goes down:
> - You can't login into webadmin and user portals
> - high availability and live migration features of your virtual machines
> aren't working
> - You can't start/deploy new virtual machines
> - Your hosts and virtual machines that are already running stay up of
> course
>
> As clustering brings in more complexity I would use a server with RAID,
> redundant power supplies and redundant network interfaces (bonding) for
> ovirt-engine instead of clustering. Only when using desktop
> virtualization where availabilty of the user portal is really important
> I would cluster ovirt-engine.
> (But this is just my personal opinion)
>

and we're looking at a hosted engine which will try to solve this "out 
of the box".

>
>
> Regards,
> René
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 08:19 -0300, victor nunes wrote:
>>
>> Is there any way to create redundancy oVirt-engine?
>> We install oVirt-engine in a machine, and what happens if that burning
>> machine?
>>
>>
>> Is there anything that can be done to remedy this?
>>
>>
>> Att,
>> --
>> “Encarada do ponto de vista da juventude, a vida parece um futuro
>> indefinidamente longo, ao passo que, na velhice, ela parece um
>> passado
>> deveras curto. Assim, a vida no seu início se apresenta do mesmo modo
>> que as coisas quando as olhamos através de um binóculo usado ao
>> contrário; mas, ao
>> seu final, ela se parece com as coisas  tal qual são vistas quando o
>> binóculo
>> é usado de modo normal. Um homem precisa ter envelhecido e vivido
>> bastante para perceber como a vida é curta”.
>>
>>           (Poema de Arthur Schopenhauer)
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