[ovirt-users] Maintenance GUI vs CLI

Marcin Kruk askifyouneed at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 12:31:36 UTC 2017


So if the maintenance mode from the GUI is necessary to upgrade host, how
to launch it from the CLI on that host?

2017-03-14 11:30 GMT+01:00 Yedidyah Bar David <didi at redhat.com>:

> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Marcin Kruk <askifyouneed at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > What is the difference between:
>
> There are two different notions of host maintenance:
>
> 1. in the engine, meaning the engine will migrate away VMs from
> this host, not start new ones on it, etc. This applies to all
> hosts, not just hosted-engine ones
>
> 2. in ovirt-hosted-engine-ha, the high availability daemons.
> Here it means similar things, but applies only to the hosted
> engine vm, and is maintained in the HE shared storage (not in
> the engine db).
>
> > host CLI command:  hosted-engine --vm-maintenance --mode=local
>
> This one does (2.).
>
> > and
> > RHVEM gui click action:  Hosts -> <hostname> -> Maintenance?
>
> In the past, this did only (1.), but now it does both.
>
> See also:
>
> https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/
> engine/self-hosted-engine-maintenance-flows/
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047649
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1277646
>
> Best,
> --
> Didi
>
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