[ovirt-users] migrate to Hosted engine set up using ovirt node 3.6

[Simone Tiraboschi]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Alastair Neil <ajneil.tech at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On 11 November 2015 at 12:52, Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Alastair Neil <ajneil.tech at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am in the process of upgrading my ovirt DC to 3.6.  I would like to
>>> migrate to hosted-engine with gluster replica 3 storage in the process.
>>> The engine has been upgraded and I have installed 3 of the VM hosts in one
>>> cluster  using the ovirt-node iso.  I have three other VM hosts in a
>>> separate cluster to upgrade.
>>>
>>> I see an option to configure the hosted engine through the node admin
>>> login tui, however I have not found any up to date instructions on how to
>>> perform a migration to hosted using the ovirt-node.  I thought I'd ask a
>>> few questions before I started:
>>>
>>> Should I connect and approve the node in the current engine prior to
>>> configuring the hosted engine?
>>> Does the node hosted-engine-setup provide a pause to restore the engine
>>> db from the external engine? Or even better a facility to upload the
>>> database backup file?
>>>
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>> http://www.ovirt.org/Migrate_to_Hosted_Engine
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> Yes I am familiar with these instructions, however they are quite old and
> have not been updated to include any information about how to perform this
> in the case of using the 3.6 ovirt-node image as the host and the
> ovirt-live installation image as the VM installation.
>
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>> hosted-engine-setup has to be run on the host.
>> engine-setup has to be run on the engine VM.
>> The DB restore from you previous setup has to be performed on the engine
>> VM. If you are using the ready to use oVirt engine appliance and you choose
>> to automatically execute engine-setup on your VM it will not wait for you
>> to replace the engine DB so you have just to avoid that and manually
>> execute engine-setup on the engine VM.
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> This is the crux: if the hosted-engine-setup using the live image allows
> you to pause the setup and do a manual engine-setup. Its seems like it is
> probably a quite common thing for people to want to do so I thought I'd
> check.  If it has not been attempted and/or documented then I will try it.
>

Hosted-engine-setup will ask you about automatic execution of engine setup
on the engine VM. You have just to respond no at that question.


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>> In this way you have all the time to perform your import.
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>>>
>>> Any feedback gratefully received.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Alastair
>>>
>>>
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