[ovirt-users] 4.2: Can't add local storage

[Fred Rolland]

What about this chapter:

https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/admin-guide/chap-Storage/#preparing-and-adding-local-storage

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Dec 27, 2017 5:33 AM, "Blaster" <Blaster at 556nato.com> wrote:
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> On 12/24/2017 11:58 PM, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
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> Il 24 Dic 2017 18:28, "Blaster" <Blaster at 556nato.com> ha scritto:
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> Fresh install of 4.2 self hosted engine.
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> Right after install, I tried to add local storage.  I tried to put the
> hosted engine VM into maint mode, but it forever just sat there in the
> going into maint state, and never actually went into maint state.
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> The default Datacenter was in uninitialized state.
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> So I tried adding an NFS storage domain, which initialized the
> datacenter.  Now when I try and put the hosted engine VM into maint mode I
> get: Cannot switch the hosts to maintenance mode. There are no available
> hosts capable of running the engine VM.
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> What am I doing wrong?
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> You need to add a second host allowing the hosted engine to migrate in
> order to move the host to maintenance.
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> This is bad terminology on oVirt's part.  I was wanting to add local SATA
> disk as I have a 1 node environment with no shared storage.  To accomplish
> what I really wanted to do, I had to change the datacenter storage type to
> local storage, the a local file system option appeared in the create new
> storage domain diaglog.
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> oVirt/RHEV team really needs a good documentation writer, as this storage
> option isn't even documented in the storage section of the administration
> guide.
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> oVirt is a community project. I'd be happy if you could send a patch to
> improve the documentation around this!
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> Installing my first 4.2 system, and it's obvious the documentation writer
> hasn't sat down and down and done a clean install.  Lots of stuff missing.
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> Same as above - would be great to get constructive feedback and if
> possible, fixes.
> Y.
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> I've never looked at Proxmox, but it's taking the hobbyist and small
> environment virtualization world by storm, especially after Xen's latest
> licensing changes.  oVirt should have this.  But it's way too complicated
> and way too fragile and way under documented.
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