[ovirt-users] Ovirt-Engine HA

[Yaniv Kaul]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Scott <romracer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Sandvik,
>
> I believe this ultimately is what the self hosted engine is planned to
> solve. It's up to you as to whether you feel comfortable with that idea
> currently.
>

Indeed. And many in the community are using it.


> Outside of that, I would point you to the Red Hat Cluster Suite in a
> RHEV/RHEL environment. The high availability component of that is based on
> Linux-HA but I have only used Red Hat's implementation.
>
> Lastly, the poor man's solution if this isn't critical infrastructure
> would be a hot standby server. Keep the packages in sync between the two
> however you feel appropriate. Run engine-backup as frequently as needed and
> copy it to the second server. Have your engine address as a secondary
> address with appropriate DNS and move it between them in a fail over (or
> use a CNAME). Restore the backup in a fail over and run engine-setup. I
> think you get the idea.
>

I don't like this approach very much - you always forget some
configuration. (For example, we've had an issue with Kerberos database
later on when migrating).
You are also 'wasting' a server.
Y.


> Personally I use hosted engine in all but my main production cluster. That
> one will use it once I've upgraded those hosts to RHEL 7.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Scott
>
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016, 11:40 AM Sandvik Agustin <agustinsandvik at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ovirt Users,
>>
>> Do you have any documentation, tutorial, howto or workaround to perform
>> or to have an ovirt-engine HA? Iv'e tried to google about this but I can't
>> find any.
>>
>> let's say I want to have two engine, engine1 is currently managing two
>> hypervisor, then engin2 is my reserved engine, so I can still managed those
>> vm that are running inside of my hypervisor if ever engine1 fails.
>>
>> TIA :)
>> Sandvik
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