[ovirt-users] quick question on hosted engine storage

Martin Sivak msivak at redhat.com
Thu Jun 15 09:08:19 UTC 2017


Hi,

the current code does not officially allow using the hosted engine
storage domain for other VMs. We are currently working on removing
that limitation.

Best regards

Martin Sivak

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:59 AM, cmc <iucounu at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you choose fibre channel for the hosted engine storage, can this
> storage be shared later by other VMs? I assume you don't need a
> dedicated LUN, just one that isn't in use before hand.
>
> Thanks,
>
> C
>
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 6:28 PM, cmc <iucounu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Martin.
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Martin Sivak <msivak at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the storage is not migrated automatically. Hosted engine VM will keep
>>> using the storage domain you configured during the setup phase.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> --
>>> Martin Sivak
>>> SLA / oVirt
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 5:02 PM, cmc <iucounu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> When building a hosted engine VM, and choosing 'nfs' for storage, it
>>>> does the install to this nfs share. Once the host is setup with, e.g.,
>>>> fibre channel as storage for VMs, does the hosted engine get migrated
>>>> automatically to this storage? When does this actually happen?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Cam
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