[Users] Ovirt Engine single point of failure

[Itamar Heim]

On 01/10/2014 09:01 AM, Alan Murrell wrote:
> 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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for now, you should backup the engine on a regular basis. once we close 
the gap of 'import existing data domain' will be easier to recover even 
without an engine backup (you'd still need to add the hosts of course).