[ovirt-users] migrating a vm from a down node

[Barak Korren]

On 28 June 2016 at 02:04, Bill James <bill.james at j2.com> wrote:
> I am doing some fault tolerance type testing with ovirt before we put it in
> production.
> One thing I noticed is if I unplug the power from a hardware node, including
> iLo (fence),
> that the VMs that were on that host go to unknown state.
> I have found no way in the GUI to migrate the hosts, even they they are
> marked HA.
> The only way I've found so far is to modify the database directly.
> Is that the only recovery from a host failure of this type?
>
If oVirt cannot use the fencing device it has no way to know that the
host really went down and its safe to bring up the VMs that were
running on it.

You can resolve the issue manually by using the "confirm host had been
rebooted" option in the host's right-click menu.

-- 
Barak Korren
bkorren at redhat.com
RHEV-CI Team