[Users] Ovirt Engine single point of failure

[Oved Ourfalli]

Consider trying the new hosted engine feature (http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Self_Hosted_Engine).
It runs the ovirt engine as a VM inside the engine, and also provides HA solution for it.

Oved

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs at redhat.com>
> To: "Alan Murrell" <lists at murrell.ca>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 9:17:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Ovirt Engine single point of failure
> 
> Alan,
> IMHO this is not the scenario described in the original question - or maybe I
> did not understand well the original question?
> I assume the original question is about a scenario where engine restarts, and
> not about a catastrophic failure as you describe here.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alan Murrell" <lists at murrell.ca>
> > To: users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 9:01:14 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Users] Ovirt Engine single point of failure
> > 
> > OK, so just so I understand this, in the described scenario of three
> > servers: one management server/engine and two nodes, let's say the
> > management server suffers catastrophic hard disk failure where no data
> > can be recovered from it, nor were any backups made.
> > 
> > Is it possible to perform a new installation of ovirt-engine, add the
> > two existing nodes, and everything "just works"?  Or would you at least
> > need to do some reconfiguring (e.g., re-add the logical networks etc.)
> > 
> > Basically, even though the nodes were part of the now-dead ovirt-engine,
> > there would be no problem in getting them added in to the
> > newly-installed ovirt-engine?
> > 
> > -Alan
> > 
> > 
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