[Users] oVirt or RHEV ?

Itamar Heim iheim at redhat.com
Thu Feb 6 18:54:28 UTC 2014


On 02/06/2014 08:35 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 02/06/2014 05:18 PM, Martijn Grendelman wrote:
>> Would it be possible (and doable) to migrate from oVirt to RHEV?
>>
>> If we start out with oVirt, but after some time we decide that RHEV
>> would be a better fit after all, would it be possible to hook up
>> existing oVirt/VDSM hosts to a RHEV engine, or am I thinking way too
>> simple now?
>
> My understanding is that you can manage oVirt Node with RHEV-M. That
> isn't a long term solution, but it allows you to:
>
> - Point RHEV-M at the oVirt export domains
> - Shut down oVirt Engine
> - Provision some RHEV-H hypervisors
> - Live migrate workloads from oVirt Node to RHEV-H
> - Shut down oVirt Nodes and move to RHEV-H when they're empty
>
> I think that someone from the oVirt/RHEV team would have to validate
> this approach, but it seems to me that this should work.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>

oVirt node is not supported with RHEV-M, only RHEL as a hypervisor or 
RHEV-H.
export/import of VMs should be ok.
as i just replied, attach/detach of a storage domain may be relevant as 
well when will be implemented (tbd)



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