[Users] Attaching a storage domain

[Itamar Heim]

On 10/11/2013 12:36 PM, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At present, I have a 3.1 oVirt setup and a new 3.3 other oVirt setup.
> Those two setups have no relations, except they are plugged on the same
> iSCSI SAN.
>
> I was trying to to the following test :
> - on ovirt3.1, create a new storage domain
> - put it a VM disk
> - shutdown this VM
> - desactivate the storage domain
> - detach it
>
> - on the ovirt3.3, attach this storage domain as an additionnal one
> (obviously, I already have a master domain)
> - activate it
> - start the VM
>
> But on the first part of this plan, I can't even detach it because
> "Cannot detach Storage Domain while VMs/Templates reside on it.
> -Please remove all objects and try again."
>
> Well, OK.
>
> In fact, let's forgot the speach above and just read this :
> I'm trying to understand what I can do with my oVirt LUNs when I get a
> complete serious crash (datacenter on fire) and I just have the SAN.
> I was hoping I could import the storage domains into another oVirt
> setup. Maybe I should store data another way?
>
> I'm sure you know the best practices - the oVirt way.
>

also review this thread
http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-October/016725.html