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

[Doron Fediuck]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Lau" <andrew at andrewklau.com>
> To: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck at redhat.com>
> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 3:36:19 PM
> Subject: RE: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
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> -----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
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> ----- 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
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> > 
> > ----- 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?
> 
Currently not sue to some gluster issues we had.
Adding Sahina to shed some more light (if needed).


> > > 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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