[ovirt-users] Ovirt remove network from hosted engine

Abi Askushi rightkicktech at gmail.com
Wed Jun 28 07:06:07 UTC 2017


Hi,

I was trying to remove the nic from the edit menu of the VM and that failed.

I had to unplug the nic first to be able to remove it from the network
interfaces submenu of the vm.

On Jun 28, 2017 08:29, "knarra" <knarra at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 06/27/2017 09:49 PM, Abi Askushi wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Just in case ones needs it, in order to remove the secondary network
> interface from engine, you can go to:
> Virtual Machines -> Hostedengine -> Network Interfaces -> edit -> unplug
> it -> confirm -> remove it.
>
> cool. But in your previous mail you did mention that it fails for you
> since the engine is running. Instead of remove you tried unplug here ?
>
>
> It was simple...
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Abi Askushi <rightkicktech at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Knarra,
>>
>> Then I had already enabled NFS on ISO gluster volume.
>> Maybe i had some networking issue then. I need to remove the secondary
>> interface in order to test that again.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 4:25 PM, knarra <knarra at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 06/27/2017 06:34 PM, Abi Askushi wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Knarra,
>>>
>>> The ISO domain is of type gluster though I had nfs enabled on that
>>> volume.
>>>
>>> you need to have nfs enabled on the volume. what i meant is nfs.disable
>>> off which means nfs is on.
>>>
>>> For more info please refer to bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/sh
>>> ow_bug.cgi?id=1437799
>>>
>>> I will disable the nfs and try. Though in order to try I need first to
>>> remove that second interface from engine.
>>> Is there a way I can remove the secondary storage network interface from
>>> the engine?
>>>
>>> I am not sure how to do that, but   you may shutdown the vm using the
>>> command hosted-engine --vm-shutdown which will power off the vm and try to
>>> remove the networks using vdsclient. (not sure if this is right, but
>>> suggesting a way)
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanx
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 3:32 PM, knarra <knarra at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 06/27/2017 05:41 PM, Abi Askushi wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> When setting up hosted engine setup on top gluster with 3 nodes, I had
>>>> gluster configured on a separate network interface, as recommended. When I
>>>> tried later to upload ISO from engine to ISO domain, the engine was not
>>>> able to upload it since the VM did not have access to the separate storage
>>>> network. I then added the storage network interface to the hosted engine
>>>> and ISO upload succeeded.
>>>>
>>>> May i know what was the volume type created and added as ISO domain ?
>>>>
>>>> If you plan to use a glusterfs volume below is the procedure :
>>>>
>>>> 1) Create a glusterfs volume.
>>>> 2) While adding storage domain select Domain Function as 'ISO' and
>>>> Storage Type as 'glusterfs' .
>>>> 3) You can either use 'use managed gluster volume' check box and select
>>>> the gluster volume which you have created for storing ISO's or you can type
>>>> the full path of the volume.
>>>> 4) Once this is added please make sure to set the option nfs.disable
>>>> off.
>>>> 5) Now you can go to HE engine and run the command engine-iso-uploader
>>>> upload -i <gluster_iso_domain_name> <iso_file>
>>>>
>>>> Iso gets uploaded successfully.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 1st question: do I need to add the network interface to engine in order
>>>> to upload ISOs? does there exist any alternate way?
>>>>
>>>> AFAIK, this is not required when glusterfs volume is used.
>>>>
>>>> Attached is the screenshot where i have only one network attached to my
>>>> HE which is ovirtmgmt.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Then I proceeded to configure bonding for the storage domain, bonding 2
>>>> NICs at each server. When trying to set a custom bond of mode=6 (as
>>>> recommended from gluster) I received a warning that mode0, 5 and 6 cannot
>>>> be configured since the interface is used from VMs. I also understood that
>>>> having the storage network assigned to VMs makes it a bridge which
>>>> decreases performance of networking. When trying to remove the network
>>>> interface from engine it cannot be done, since the engine is running.
>>>>
>>>> 2nd question: Is there a way I can remove the secondary storage network
>>>> interface from the engine?
>>>>
>>>> Many thanx
>>>>
>>>>
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