[ovirt-users] HostedEngine VM not visible, but running

[cmc]

Hi Jenny,

Does ovirt-hosted-engine-ha need to be installed across all hosts?
Could that be the reason it is failing to see it properly?

Thanks,

Cam

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 1:27 PM, cmc <iucounu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jenny,
>
> Logs are attached. I can see errors in there, but am unsure how they arose.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Campbell
>
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Evgenia Tokar <etokar at redhat.com> wrote:
>> From the output it looks like the agent is down, try starting it by running:
>> systemctl start ovirt-ha-agent.
>>
>> The engine is supposed to see the hosted engine storage domain and import it
>> to the system, then it should import the hosted engine vm.
>>
>> Can you attach the agent log from the host
>> (/var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/agent.log)
>> and the engine log from the engine vm (/var/log/ovirt-engine/engine.log)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jenny
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:41 PM, cmc <iucounu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi Jenny,
>>>
>>> > What version are you running?
>>>
>>> 4.1.2.2-1.el7.centos
>>>
>>> > For the hosted engine vm to be imported and displayed in the engine, you
>>> > must first create a master storage domain.
>>>
>>> To provide a bit more detail: this was a migration of a bare-metal
>>> engine in an existing cluster to a hosted engine VM for that cluster.
>>> As part of this migration, I built an entirely new host and ran
>>> 'hosted-engine --deploy' (followed these instructions:
>>>
>>> http://www.ovirt.org/documentation/self-hosted/chap-Migrating_from_Bare_Metal_to_an_EL-Based_Self-Hosted_Environment/).
>>> I restored the backup from the engine and it completed without any
>>> errors. I didn't see any instructions regarding a master storage
>>> domain in the page above. The cluster has two existing master storage
>>> domains, one is fibre channel, which is up, and one ISO domain, which
>>> is currently offline.
>>>
>>> > What do you mean the hosted engine commands are failing? What happens
>>> > when
>>> > you run hosted-engine --vm-status now?
>>>
>>> Interestingly, whereas when I ran it before, it exited with no output
>>> and a return code of '1', it now reports:
>>>
>>> --== Host 1 status ==--
>>>
>>> conf_on_shared_storage             : True
>>> Status up-to-date                  : False
>>> Hostname                           : kvm-ldn-03.ldn.fscfc.co.uk
>>> Host ID                            : 1
>>> Engine status                      : unknown stale-data
>>> Score                              : 0
>>> stopped                            : True
>>> Local maintenance                  : False
>>> crc32                              : 0217f07b
>>> local_conf_timestamp               : 2911
>>> Host timestamp                     : 2897
>>> Extra metadata (valid at timestamp):
>>>         metadata_parse_version=1
>>>         metadata_feature_version=1
>>>         timestamp=2897 (Thu Jun 15 16:22:54 2017)
>>>         host-id=1
>>>         score=0
>>>         vm_conf_refresh_time=2911 (Thu Jun 15 16:23:08 2017)
>>>         conf_on_shared_storage=True
>>>         maintenance=False
>>>         state=AgentStopped
>>>         stopped=True
>>>
>>> Yet I can login to the web GUI fine. I guess it is not HA due to being
>>> in an unknown state currently? Does the hosted-engine-ha rpm need to
>>> be installed across all nodes in the cluster, btw?
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help,
>>>
>>> Cam
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Jenny Tokar
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 6:32 PM, cmc <iucounu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi,
>>> >>
>>> >> I've migrated from a bare-metal engine to a hosted engine. There were
>>> >> no errors during the install, however, the hosted engine did not get
>>> >> started. I tried running:
>>> >>
>>> >> hosted-engine --status
>>> >>
>>> >> on the host I deployed it on, and it returns nothing (exit code is 1
>>> >> however). I could not ping it either. So I tried starting it via
>>> >> 'hosted-engine --vm-start' and it returned:
>>> >>
>>> >> Virtual machine does not exist
>>> >>
>>> >> But it then became available. I logged into it successfully. It is not
>>> >> in the list of VMs however.
>>> >>
>>> >> Any ideas why the hosted-engine commands fail, and why it is not in
>>> >> the list of virtual machines?
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks for any help,
>>> >>
>>> >> Cam
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>>> >
>>
>>