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

[Andrew Lau]

-----Original Message-----
From: Doron Fediuck [mailto:dfediuck at redhat.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:50 PM
To: Andrew Lau
Cc: users
Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck at redhat.com>
> To: "Andrew Lau" <andrew at andrewklau.com>
> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 2:48:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andrew Lau" <andrew at andrewklau.com>
> > To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com>
> > Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:15:21 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
> > 
> > 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?
> > 
> Andrew, in general I get positive feedbacks from RHEL users. For 
> Fedora and other distros, this should be in a better situation in the 
> following
> 1-2 weeks when we'll have 3.4 beta available.
> I'd love to get your feedback on it.
> 
> I missed your NFS question, sorry;
> Yes. Currently we have NFS limitation and we will do our best to see if SAN can be added. Note that time is not on our side for 3.4.
Is there support for glusterfs with libgfapi?

> > 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.
> > 
> Next time please open bugs... That's the best way to improve the 
> project, regardless of the version state. If unsure, you can always 
> try irc / this list first to see if this is a known issue and if there 
> are workarounds.

Sorry about that, I thought it was still very dev style I didn't want to flood bzs with things that are already being worked on.

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