[ovirt-users] when creating VMs, I don't want hosted_storage to be an option

aduckers alex.duckers at gmail.com
Thu Jun 22 15:03:00 UTC 2017


So far so good.  I renamed it, but it was still listed first in the list when creating an image for a VM.  After closing out my browser and reconnecting, it’s now behaving as I’d expect - in alphabetical order.


> On Jun 22, 2017, at 7:57 AM, Martin Sivak <msivak at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> I do not see any reference to the name in the engine source code.
> Hosted engine agent uses UUID to identify it. So I think it should be
> fine.
> 
> Martin
> 
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 4:49 PM, aduckers <alex.duckers at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can it be safely renamed?  It looks like the GUI will let me but I don’t
>> feel confident that it won’t create other issues.
>> 
>> On Jun 22, 2017, at 1:56 AM, Fred Rolland <frolland at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>> As a workaround, I think that the list of storage domains in the new disk
>> window is sorted alphabetically.
>> You can try to edit the name of the storage domain to be on the bottom of
>> the list and not first.
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Chris Boot <bootc at bootc.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 19/06/17 15:30, Mike Farnam wrote:
>>>> Hi All - Is that a way to mark hosted_storage somehow so that it’s not
>>>> available to add new VMs to?  Right now it’s the default storage domain when
>>>> adding a VM.  At the least, I’d like to make another storage domain the
>>>> default.
>>>> Is there a way to do this?
>>> 
>>> This would be a nice thing to have.
>>> 
>>> AIUI, however, the oVirt folks are working towards not needing a
>>> dedicated storage domain for the hosted engine, which may alleviate this
>>> particular gripe. That being said, it would otherwise be nice to mark a
>>> storage domain as not usable for new volumes (a bit like the allocatable
>>> option for LVM physical volumes).
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Chris
>>> 
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>>> Chris Boot
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