[ovirt-users] Hosted engine problem - Engine VM will not start

[Jiri Moskovcak]

On 05/22/2014 09:06 AM, Sven Kieske wrote:
> Imho your assumptions are wrong, but _I_ also may be wrong
> so please correct me, if you can.
>
> AFAIK:
> first:
> A Datacenter without a master storage domain can't
> become operational.

- that's correct, first you need to attach master storage (which must be 
differetn from what you used for hosted engine setup) and then the data 
center will become operational and you can attach iso domain.

>
> second: for hosted engine, the only supported setup type
> is on an nfs master storage domain?

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>
> So I think you really need the nfs.
>
> Sorry if I'm wrong, I didn't install this setup yet, my
> knowledge is purely based of reading the wiki and the ML
> so there might be some errors in my statements, maybe some
> dev could correct me.

- you got it right, I think the confusing part here is the fact that you 
need additional storage and can't use the storage used for the HE. (at 
least that's what got me)

--Jirka

>
> Am 21.05.2014 16:17, schrieb Bob Doolittle:
>> I'm afraid NFS was a red herring. NFS shares from the host to the engine
>> are not required for basic oVirt operation, correct?
>> If I understand Sandro correctly, that should not be affecting my
>> storage connections to engine. I'm sorry I brought it up - it was my
>> misunderstanding.
>>
>> I believe the first thing to look at is why the ISO domain is unattached
>> to my Default Datacenter, is that correct? Then my Datacenter should
>> become operational, and I can add a Data Domain.
>>
>> I can manually mount the ISO_DOMAIN directory on both my host and my
>> engine without issues (it resides on my engine).
>>
>> So why is my Datacenter not visible when I go to attach my ISO domain?
>>
>> -Bob
>