[Users] Ovirt engine high availability

Wed Sep 25 20:34:55 UTC 2013

Yes. However we are using it for a dev / qa environments in house. We plan to roll rhev into production soon and will be using backend storage.

Doug Bishop
Sr. Systems Engineer
Cell: 678-848-6658
dbishop at controlscan.com

Controlscan, Inc.
11475 Great Oaks Way, Suite 300
Alpharetta, GA 30022
www.controlscan.com

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From: Dan Yasny [dyasny at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 4:34 PM
To: Doug Bishop
Cc: users at ovirt.org
Subject: Re: [Users] Ovirt engine high availability

The official way is to have a SAN or NFS in place, so you can allocate a LUN for the engine. Multiple hosts/DCs with local storage are quite the corner case IMO.

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Doug Bishop <dbishop at controlscan.com<mailto:dbishop at controlscan.com>> wrote:
Yeah, that was along the lines of what I was thinking. Just wanted to make sure there wasnt an official way to do it as well.

Thanks!

Doug Bishop
Sr. Systems Engineer
Cell: 678-848-6658
dbishop at controlscan.com<mailto:dbishop at controlscan.com>

Controlscan, Inc.
11475 Great Oaks Way, Suite 300
Alpharetta, GA 30022
www.controlscan.com<http://www.controlscan.com>

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From: Dan Yasny [dyasny at gmail.com<mailto:dyasny at gmail.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013<tel:2013> 4:31 PM
To: Doug Bishop
Cc: users at ovirt.org<mailto:users at ovirt.org>
Subject: Re: [Users] Ovirt engine high availability

The classic answer here would be to use DRBD to replicate the engine storage to a standby host's local storage.

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013<tel:2013> at 2:25 PM, Doug Bishop <dbishop at controlscan.com<mailto:dbishop at controlscan.com><mailto:dbishop at controlscan.com<mailto:dbishop at controlscan.com>>> wrote:
Those are good options, however since I am not running centralized storage, all my hosts are in their own data center with local storage options only. Thats why I have two standalone machines to run ovirt on. Im guessing this is not recommended? If not is there away to allow local storage and nfs based storage in a data center?

Doug Bishop
Sr. Systems Engineer
Cell: 678-848-6658
dbishop at controlscan.com<mailto:dbishop at controlscan.com><mailto:dbishop at controlscan.com<mailto:dbishop at controlscan.com>>

Controlscan, Inc.
11475 Great Oaks Way, Suite 300
Alpharetta, GA 30022
www.controlscan.com<http://www.controlscan.com><http://www.controlscan.com>

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From: Dan Yasny [dyasny at gmail.com<mailto:dyasny at gmail.com><mailto:dyasny at gmail.com<mailto:dyasny at gmail.com>>]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013<tel:2013><tel:2013<tel:2013>> 12:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [Users] Ovirt engine high availability

There are plenty of options:
1. Run the engine as a VM under a local libvirt, and cluster the libvirt VM as a protected service using RHCS (well tested and documented)
2. Use the self hosted engine (recently announced, coming up tech)
3. Use any other clustering technology you like best, an engine VM with a centrally backed storage is very easy to start on any capable host

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013<tel:2013><tel:2013<tel:2013>> at 10:06 AM, Doug Bishop <dbishop at controlscan.com<mailto:dbishop at controlscan.com><mailto:dbishop at controlscan.com<mailto:dbishop at controlscan.com>><mailto:dbishop at controlscan.com<mailto:dbishop at controlscan.com><mailto:dbishop at controlscan.com<mailto:dbishop at controlscan.com>>>> wrote:
Hello,

Was wondering if anyone can shed a light on this subject as I could not find any documentation specific to this. I am currently running an ovirt 3.2 cluster with 5 hosts with local storage. I have a dedicated box running ovirt engine. I would like to have the ability to run an additional box with ovirt engine on it for high availability of the portal. I realize this would most likely require I run a separate instance of postgres for the engine, however I was wondering if this is something that is officially supported?

Thanks!

Doug Bishop
Sr. Systems Engineer
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