[Users] Multiple network interfaces on engine?

[Michael Pasternak]

is it possible that you have all-in-one installed and have both the engine
and host on a same machine?

On 09/23/2013 04:05 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 09/23/2013 02:41 PM, Rickard Kristiansson wrote:
>> OK. Maybe I'm asking for something irrelevant, but to answer René's
>> question; The use case is that there are two separate physical networks
>> for general IP and storage IP, and Engine seems to require to be able to
>> reach the NFS server to validate the connection when configuring
>> mapping. So to be able to configure a NFS server, the Engine needs to be
>> connected also to the storage network.
> 
> engine does not need to be connected to storage network. it does all storage access via the hosts.
> 
>> It worked fine after manually tweaking the sysconfig/network-scripts,
>> but this config was then shortly overridden by Engine discovering and
>> trying to use the second NIC for bonding with ovirtmgmt.
> 
> the engine isn't trying to bond by itself. have you bonded the interfaces on the host setup-network dialog?
> 
>>
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>> *Från: *"Michael Pasternak" <mpastern at redhat.com>
>> *Till: *"Rickard Kristiansson" <rickard at sanuksystems.com>,
>> users at ovirt.org, "Oved Ourfalli" <ovedo at redhat.com>
>> *Kopia: *"Ohad Levy" <olevy at redhat.com>
>> *Skickat: *måndag, 23 sep 2013 13:35:40
>> *Ämne: *Re: [Users] Multiple network interfaces on engine?
>>
>> On 09/23/2013 02:23 PM, Rickard Kristiansson wrote:
>>  > Hmm.. yes, I do have the storage network configured in DC and
>> Cluster, and also attached to all my hypervisors.
>>  > The question is just how I also attach it to the Engine server, as
>> this isn't visible as a node in the GUI?
>>
>> i think this could be done with puppet, afaik some work for integrating
>> it to
>> oVirt been done lately, though not sure if it's already available,
>>
>> oved?
>>
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  > *Från: *"Michael Pasternak" <mpastern at redhat.com>
>>  > *Till: *"Rickard Kristiansson" <rickard at sanuksystems.com>
>>  > *Kopia: *users at ovirt.org, "\"René \"Koch (ovido)\"\"" <r.koch at ovido.at>
>>  > *Skickat: *måndag, 23 sep 2013 13:20:06
>>  > *Ämne: *Re: [Users] Multiple network interfaces on engine?
>>  >
>>  > On 09/23/2013 01:50 PM, Rickard Kristiansson wrote:
>>  >> Thanks Michael,
>>  >>
>>  >> I'm still trying to get my head around this, but I can't see how I
>> configure the networks on the engine?
>>  >> For nodes and AOI it's OK, but in my case I am running the engine as
>> a separate server which is not a node and does not show up as a Host in
>> the GUI.
>>  >> Or do I need to add the engine as a host in the GUI as well, to be
>> able to configure it?
>>  >
>>  > IIUC your question, you have various options:
>>  >
>>  > 1. GUI
>>  > 2. SDKs
>>  > 3. CLI
>>  >
>>  > you need to create network in DC, attach it to cluster, attach to
>> host NIC/s (if you want it to be
>>  > atomic operation, i.e you expect connectivity loss during the
>> operation/s, setupnetworks should be used,
>>  > otherwise you can use attach-network dialogues in UI)
>>  >
>>  >>
>>  >>
>>  >>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>  >> *Från: *"Michael Pasternak" <mpastern at redhat.com>
>>  >> *Till: *"Rickard Kristiansson" <rickard at sanuksystems.com>
>>  >> *Kopia: *users at ovirt.org
>>  >> *Skickat: *måndag, 23 sep 2013 12:21:40
>>  >> *Ämne: *Re: [Users] Multiple network interfaces on engine?
>>  >>
>>  >> On 09/23/2013 12:54 PM, Rickard Kristiansson wrote:
>>  >>> Hi,
>>  >>>
>>  >>> I want to use two network interfaces connected to different
>> networks in Engine (3.3), where one is for ovirtmgmt and one is for a
>> separate storage network.
>>  >>> It works fine for a minute or so after rebooting Engine, but then
>> the configuration is changed by Engine, connecting both interfaces to
>> bond0 and losing connectivity (as
>>  >>> obviously you can't bond those two interfaces when they are
>> connected to separate physical networks..).
>>  >>> What is the mechanism doing this,
>>  >>
>>  >> please see this [1].
>>  >>
>>  >> [1] http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Design/Network/SetupNetworks
>>  >>
>>  >>> and it is possible to disable this automatic network bonding on the
>> engine so that we can use separate networks on the network interfaces..?
>>  >>
>>  >> attaching logs would help, but i guess it happen cause you did not saved
>>  >> your host network config, i.e when host got rebooted, it performs
>> roll-back
>>  >> to old config, this is actually disaster recovery mechanism.
>>  >>
>>  >>>
>>  >>> Rickard
>>  >>>
>>  >>> **
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