[ovirt-users] Hosted Engine - Live Migration

[Nir Soffer]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 7:18 PM, Maton, Brett <matonb at ltresources.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
>   Is it possible (and safe) to live migrate the hosted engine disk from one
> storage domain to another?

Hi Maton,

No, live snapshot, required for live storage migration is disabled on the hosted
engine vm, since it uses a volume lease, which would be invalidated by taking
a snapshot.

I hope that we can remove this limit by using vm lease instead of the the volume
lease, see:
https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/vm-leases/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVa-4fQo2V8

Cheers,
Nir