[ovirt-users] oVirt non-self-hosted HA

[Yaniv Kaul]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 3:12 PM, TomK <tomkcpr at mdevsys.com> wrote:

> Hey Guy's,
>
> If I'm looking to setup the oVirt engine in an HA configuration off the
> physical servers hosting my VM's (non self hosted), what are my options
> here?
>
> I want to setup two to four active oVirt engine instances elsewhere and
> handle the HA via something like haproxy / keepalived to keep the entire
> experience seamless to the user.
>

You will need to set up the oVirt engine service as well as the PG database
(and ovirt-engine-dwhd service and any other service we run next to the
engine) as highly available module.
In pacemaker[1], for example.
You'll need to ensure configuration is also sync'ed between nodes, etc.
Y.

[1] https://clusterlabs.org/quickstart-redhat.html

>
> From what I've seen in oVirt, that seems to be possible without the two
> oVirt engines even knowing each other's existence but is it something
> anyone has ever done?  Any recommendations in this case?
>
> Having settings replicated would be a bonus but I would be comfortable if
> they weren't and I handle that myself.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Tom K.
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