[ovirt-users] How to re-initialize storage?

[Idan Shaby]

Hi Peter,

You can take your hosts down to maintenance and then right click on your
data center -> force remove.
That will remove your storage and vms along with your datacenter.


Regards,
Idan

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 9:53 PM, Peter Wood <peterwood.sd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I inherited a small oVirt cluster with 3 nodes using iSCSI storage.
>
> The LUNs used by the oVirt nodes were also accessible by some VMware nodes.
>
> By mistake an action was started on VMware to initialize and start using
> the same LUNs, which it happily did. This rendered the storage no longer
> usable by oVirt nodes. All VMs went down, their image files no longer
> accessible, the whole cluster became unusable without access to the shared
> storage.
>
> We have recovered from backups and moved the VMs to another cluster and
> now I want to get this oVirt cluster back up and running.
>
> I'm not an oVirt expert so everything I tried was through the web
> interface and everything failed because storage is not accessible. I can't
> remove VMs, I can't remove nodes, I can't remove the storage domain.
>
> What is the right approach to destroy the cluster and rebuild it and
> re-initialize the storage?
>
> Even better if I can just remove all VMs from the inventory and somehow
> tell it to make the storage LUNs usable again?
>
> Any help is highly appreciated?
>
> Thank you,
>
> -- Peter
>
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