[Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
Itamar Heim
iheim at redhat.com
Fri Jan 10 07:46:05 UTC 2014
On 01/10/2014 09:45 AM, Andrew Lau wrote:
> Awesome!
>
> Is it worth while trying it now, or should I wait for 3.4 beta?
well, we'd love input as early as possible - maybe with the 3.4 alpha
which should be out any day now.
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com
> <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
> On 01/08/2014 02:49 PM, Doron Fediuck wrote:
>
>
>
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> To: "Andrew Lau" <andrew at andrewklau.com
> <mailto:andrew at andrewklau.com>>
> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org <mailto: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 -----
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> From: "Andrew Lau" <andrew at andrewklau.com
> <mailto:andrew at andrewklau.com>>
> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com
> <mailto:didi at redhat.com>>
> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org <mailto:users at ovirt.org>>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:15:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to
> self-hosted engine
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> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Yedidyah Bar David <
> didi at redhat.com <mailto:didi at redhat.com> >
> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "Blaster" < Blaster at 556nato.com
> <mailto:Blaster at 556nato.com> >
> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" < didi at redhat.com
> <mailto:didi at redhat.com> >
> Cc: users at ovirt.org <mailto:users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 5:20:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to
> self-hosted engine
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> 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
> <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.
>
>
> worth mentioning you can use hosted engine on an iscsi/FC cluster -
> just the hosted engine VM needs to be on 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
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