[Users] High Availability

[Tim Hildred]

You might also find this helpful:
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.1/html/Administration_Guide/High_availability_considerations.html

The topics before and after it explain a bit more about high availability. 

Tim Hildred, RHCE
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dafna Ron" <dron at redhat.com>
> To: suporte at logicworks.pt
> Cc: Users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 4:46:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] High Availability
> 
> I think that there is some confusion here so I will explain what are
> the
> configurations for fail-over.
> 
> power management will reboot your host if a connectivity issue is
> detected so all your vm's will be killed.
> resilience policy will allow you to choose vm migration policy during
> a
> host failure and its configured in the cluster level (clusters ->
> select
> cluster -> general sub tab -> edit policy)
> High Availability is configured only for servers type vm's and what
> it
> does is re-run the vm in case the pid of the vm is killed (so most
> commonly, if you have power management configured, and the host is
> rebooted, the vm will start automatically on a different host).
> 
> so it really depends what you want. if you want vm migration than
> look
> into cluster policy, if you want a specific vm to always be up and
> you
> don't care about the other vm's than configure power management and a
> HA
> vm. it really depends on what you need.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 03/17/2013 07:15 PM, suporte at logicworks.pt wrote:
> > Is it Mandatory to have power manamement enabled? if yes what
> > equipment do you recommend to use with it?
> >
> > Regards
> > Jose
> >
> >
> > ----- Mensagem original -----
> > De: "René Koch" <r.koch at ovido.at>
> > Para: suporte at logicworks.pt, Users at ovirt.org
> > Enviadas: Domingo, 17 Março, 2013 16:47:41
> > Assunto: RE: [Users] High Availability
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > You have to configure power management to make high availability
> > working and mark the vms high availability checkbox...
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > René
> >  
> >  
> > -----Original message-----
> >> From:suporte at logicworks.pt <suporte at logicworks.pt>
> >> Sent: Sunday 17th March 2013 17:28
> >> To: Users at ovirt.org
> >> Subject: [Users] High Availability
> >>
> >> What should I need to configure to put HA working? I mean, when a
> >> host broke all the VM automatically move to another host.
> >> Do I need to have Power management enabled?
> >>
> >> Thanks
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> >>
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> 
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