[Users] Ovirt DR setup

[Itamar Heim]

On 01/09/2014 10:34 AM, Sander Grendelman wrote:
> No experience there but I can make some suggestions.
>
> The upcoming self-hosted engine feature I mentioned before should have
> built-in HA for these kind of situations.
> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Self_Hosted_Engine
>
> Another option: AFAIK oVirt engine configuration is all in the database,
> configure it with an external DB and use postgres replication to have a
> warm standby DB on your secondary location, combine this with
> some kind of (rsync?) replication of OS/configuration.

so you could place the hosted engine vm on gluster, exposed via NFS.
*but* i suggest doing some testing on how a VM like ovirt engine behaves 
with geo-replication

>
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Hans Emmanuel <hansemmanuel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply .
>>
>> Yes we can replicate storage data with Gluster geo replication . Then what
>> should be strategy for replicating Ovirt Engine confs and db ?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Sander Grendelman <sander at grendelman.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Depending on the bandwidth/latency between the locations you could go for
>>> replicated GlusterFS strorage and make sure that data is replicated
>>> accross
>>> both sites. There is a self-hosted engine feature coming up, I don't know
>>> how
>>> that will fit into replication.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Hans Emmanuel <hansemmanuel at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Could any one please give me some suggestions ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Hans Emmanuel <hansemmanuel at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all ,
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to know about the possibility of setup Disaster Recovery
>>>>> Site
>>>>> (DR) for an Ovirt cluster . i.e if site 1 goes down I need to trigger
>>>>> the
>>>>> site 2 to come in to action with the minimal down time .
>>>>>
>>>>> I am open to use NFS shared storage or local storage for data storage
>>>>> domain . I know we need to replicate the storage domain and Ovirt confs
>>>>> and
>>>>> DB across the sites  , but couldn't find any doc for the same , isn't
>>>>> that
>>>>> possible with Ovirt ?
>>>>>
>>>>>   Hans Emmanuel
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> NOthing to FEAR but something to FEEL......
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Hans Emmanuel
>>>>
>>>> NOthing to FEAR but something to FEEL......
>>>>
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>> --
>> Hans Emmanuel
>>
>> NOthing to FEAR but something to FEEL......
>>
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