<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Gianluca Cecchi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com" target="_blank">gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Yedidyah Bar David <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:didi@redhat.com" target="_blank">didi@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Gianluca Cecchi<br>
<<a href="mailto:gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com" target="_blank">gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
> playing with an environment where I have a CentOS 7.1 + updates server with<br>
> 3.6 repos configured.<br>
> no DNS resolution in place.<br>
> running the command<br>
> hosted-engine --deploy<br>
><br>
> I initially get, during the prompts inside setup, the message if I want to<br>
> set hostname for the sh engine and if I want to setup /etc/hosts of<br>
> hypervisor<br>
<br>
</span>IIRC we only suggest to update /etc/hosts of the engine, not the host.<br>
<div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Ok, I will crosscheck the output...</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>That question is:</div> Add lines for the appliance itself and for this host to /etc/hosts on the engine VM?<br> Note: ensuring that this host could resolve the engine VM hostname is still up to you<br><br>As Didi stated the properly way to use that is with a properly working DHCP/DNS infrastructure having each host resolving each others and so on.</div></div><div class="gmail_quote">Then hosted-engine setup will ask you about engine VM mac address and you have to create a reservation for that on your infrastructure.</div><div><br></div><div>For smaller/test deployment where a DHCP server is not present we are providing also a static IP addressing option for the engine appliance:</div><div>you can specify an IP address for your new VM and it will be configured in the appliance via cloud-init.</div><div>Then your host should be able to resolve it and so, if you don't have a registering DNS, it's up to you to configure it via /etc/hosts on your host.</div><div><br></div><div>Cause the appliance deployment is fully automated you don't have the time to do it on the appliance and so we provided a way to inject the host address into /etc/hosts on the appliance.</div><div>It's still up to you to add other hosts there if you want to deploy additional ones.</div><div>So having a properly working DNS and DHCP server is definitively a better option.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I run it through screen and I'm not able to scroll through the output of it....</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div><div>1. Hit your screen prefix combination ( C-a / control + A by default), then hit Escape .</div><div>2. Move up/down with the arrow keys to scrool the output buffer.</div><div>3. When you're done, hit Return twice to get back to the end of the scroll buffer.</div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div></div><span>
> Can I re-run using the answer file? In this case do I have to pre-insert sh<br>
> engine hostname inside /etc/hosts of hypervisor?<br>
<br>
</span>Yes.<br>
<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>What is the supposed command for using answer file?</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>hosted-engine --deploy --config-append=/var/lib/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/answers/answers-20151021154529.conf</div><div><br></div><div>Depending from where it stopped it could be that you have to manually destroy your previous empty appliance instance and cleanup its storage before being able to retry.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>What should have it put the generated output file? It seems there is nothing under /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine</div><div><br></div><div><div>[root@ovc71 ovirt-hosted-engine-setup]# ll /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine</div><div>total 4</div><div>-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 222 Oct 15 10:37 10-appliance.conf</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>[root@ovc71 ovirt-hosted-engine-setup]# cat /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/10-appliance.conf </div><div>description=The oVirt Engine Appliance image (OVA)</div><div>version=20151015.0-1.el7.centos</div><div>path=/usr/share/ovirt-engine-appliance/ovirt-engine-appliance-20151015.0-1.el7.centos.ova</div><div>sha1sum=010c974c81aa45560002b0e3dfdf56fc81e31eb4</div></div><div><br></div><div>AH ok.. I found it under</div><div>/var/lib/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/answers/answers-20151021154529.conf<br></div><div><br></div><div>So it remains the question regarding syntax for using answer file..</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Gianluca</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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