[Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine

[Andrew Lau]

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Yedidyah Bar David <didi at redhat.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Blaster" <Blaster at 556nato.com>
> > To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com>
> > Cc: users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 5:20:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
> >
> > On 1/6/2014 7:12 AM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
> > > Did you have problems with engine-backup? Or had other reasons to not
> > > use it? Thanks!
> >
> > Can engine-backup be used to move an AIO configuration from one host to
> > another?
>
> I didn't try that. In principle it can. Note that it will only
> backup/restore
> the engine - not local storage domains (ISO or data), VM images, etc.
>
> If you try that, please report back. Thanks!
>
> >
> > I currently need to move an AIO configuration from AMD hardware to Intel
> > I7 hardware.  The engine-backup WIKI discusses backups, but not
> > restores.  I am a bit concerned about using engine-backup to restore an
> > AIO configuration to a different system as another WIKI page with
> > step-by-step instructions to do what engine-backup does for you,
> > mentions you have to do some extra steps if you are changing hostnames
> > as the hostname of the ovirt-engine is embedded in the database.
>
> Changing the hostname is specifically not in the scope of engine-backup.
>
> Note that you do not need to have the hostname equal to the "fqdn" input
> during engine-setup - this last one just needs to be dns-resolvable and
> point to the machine intended.
>
> Also, there is another utility to do that, called ovirt-engine-rename -
> see this for details and implications:
>
> http://www.ovirt.org/Changing_Engine_Hostname
>
> >
> > There really needs to be some work done in Ovirt on making it easier to
> > import existing disk images and just generally moving things around
> > without having to bounce off an NFS server.
> >
> > Should I do a BZ on that?
>
> Not sure what you mean exactly, but you are always welcome to open BZs on
> bugs/RFEs...
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Didi



Sorry for going slightly off topic, but how is everyone's hosted engine
deployment going? Are you restricted to NFS?

I tried the migration procedure last month and it worked.. but had quite a
lot of issues so I ended up reverting back. I didn't open any bugs in the
assumption it was in super alpha stage.
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