[ovirt-users] Migration oVirt Engine from Dedicated Host to Self-Hosted Engine

[FERNANDO FREDIANI]

The goal is to use Self-Hosted Engine and use any snapshot technique, if
possible.

Fernando

2018-03-19 18:23 GMT-03:00 Andrei Verovski <andreil1 at starlett.lv>:

>
> Your current setup is optimal.
> For example - if node running self-hosted engine dies for whatever reason,
> what happens next?
>
> As an option you can buy a couple of fanless Celeron mini PCs (1 active +
> 2nd backup with 8GB RAM and 128 - 256 GB SSD) and run host engine here
> under KVM, so image can be easily cloned/restored/moved if necessary.
>
>
>
> On 03/19/2018 06:41 PM, FERNANDO FREDIANI wrote:
>
> Just to add up, for the second question I am following this URL:
>
> https://ovirt.org/documentation/self-hosted/chap-Migrating_from_Bare_
> Metal_to_an_EL-Based_Self-Hosted_Environment/
>
> So the question is more of anything else that may be good to take in
> attention other than what is already there.
>
> Thanks
> Fernando
>
> 2018-03-19 13:38 GMT-03:00 FERNANDO FREDIANI <fernando.frediani at upx.com>:
>
>> Hello folks
>>
>> I currently have a oVirt Engine which runs in a Dedicated Virtual Machine
>> in another ans separate environment. It is very nice to have it like that
>> because every time I do a oVirt Version Upgrade I take a snapshot before
>> and if it failed (and it did failed in the past several times) I just go
>> back in time before the snapshot and all comes back to normal.
>>
>> Two quick questions:
>>
>> - Going to a Self-Hosted Engine will snapshots or recoverable ways be
>> possible ?
>>
>> - To migrate the Engine from the current environment to the self-hosted
>> engine is it just a question to backup the Database, restore it into the
>> self-hosted engine keeping it with the same IP address ? Are there any
>> special points to take in consideration when doing this migration ?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Fernando
>>
>>
>>
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