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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 14 Nov 2016, at 22:51, <a href="mailto:ccox@endlessnow.com" class="">ccox@endlessnow.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" class="">Export domains are to move VMs between oVirt environments. As already mentioned, you attach the export domain to one data center, export the vm, maint/detach, attach to different data center, attach and import (then maint/detach, etc.).<br class=""><br class="">The language "export domains .... 'between' engines" is a bit confusing...<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote class=""><br class="">----- Original Message -----<br class=""><div id="origionalMessageFromField" style="width:100%;background:rgb(228,228,228);" class=""><div style="font-weight:bold;" class="">From:</div> "Christophe TREFOIS" <<a href="mailto:christophe.trefois@uni.lu" class="">christophe.trefois@uni.lu</a>></div><br class=""><div id="origionalMessageToField" style="font-weight:bold;" class="">To:</div>"Beckman Daniel" <<a href="mailto:Daniel.Beckman@ingramcontent.com" class="">Daniel.Beckman@ingramcontent.com</a>>, "users" <<a href="mailto:users@ovirt.org" class="">users@ovirt.org</a>><br class=""><div id="origionalMessageSentField" style="font-weight:bold;" class="">Cc:</div><br class=""><div style="font-weight:bold;" class="">Sent:</div>Mon, 14 Nov 2016 20:10:16 +0000<br class=""><div id="origionalMessageSubjectField" style="font-weight:bold;" class="">Subject:</div>Re: [ovirt-users] Move a VM between 2 setups<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class="">Hi Daniel,</span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class="">Fantastic information. Thanks so much for this.</span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class="">I was already using export domains inside my current engine, but not sure if it would also work “between” engines so to speak.</span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class="">Have a great evening!</span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class="">Christophe</span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="border:none;border-left:solid #0000FF 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4pt;" class=""><div class=""><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1pt;padding:3pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class=""> Beckman, Daniel [<a href="mailto:Daniel.Beckman@ingramcontent.com" class="">mailto:Daniel.Beckman@ingramcontent.com</a>] <br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b> lundi 14 novembre 2016 20:43<br class=""><b class="">To:</b> Christophe TREFOIS <<a href="mailto:christophe.trefois@uni.lu" class="">christophe.trefois@uni.lu</a>>; users <<a href="mailto:users@ovirt.org" class="">users@ovirt.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b> Re: [ovirt-users] Move a VM between 2 setups</span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class="">Hi Christophe,</span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class="">An “export domain” is made for just this purpose. Create a NFS (version 3) share and make it accessible to the hypervisors for each engine. (It should be a dedicated NFS share, not used for anything else.) As I recall it should be owned by vdsm:vdsm (36:36). In one of the engines (doesn’t matter which), in the web admin page go to Storage and add a new NFS based export domain, using the NFS share you created. Once it’s activated, test it out; try right-clicking on a VM to “export” it. </span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class="">Note that there can only be one engine connected to a given export domain at any one time. When you’re done testing the export domain on the first engine, you need to put it into “maintenance” and ultimately “detach” it.</span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class="">Then go to the other engine, and this time under Storage instead of “new domain” click “import domain” and enter the same NFS share information. It should recognize that you already have an export domain setup under that NFS share. Attach and activate it, and under Storage / <your export domain name> / VM Import, try importing the VM you had previously exported. </span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class="">This is covered (sparsely) in the oVirt documentation at <a href="https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/admin-guide/administration-guide/" class="">https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/admin-guide/administration-guide/</a>, and it’s covered more coherently in the commercial RHV documentation at <a href="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-virtualization/4.0/single/administration-guide#Storage_properties" class="">https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en/red-hat-virtualization/4.0/single/administration-guide#Storage_properties</a>. </span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class="">Best,</span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class="">Daniel</span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" lang="en-us" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div 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lang="en-us" class="">Hi, </span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><div class=""><span lang="en-us" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-us" class="">We have a setup where we want to deploy 2 engines as the network between 2 buildings is unreliable.</span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><span lang="en-us" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-us" class="">With 2 engines, we then want to be able to move VMs (one time) from current engine where they are running to new engine in the other building.</span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><span lang="en-us" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-us" class="">Is there a recommended workflow for doing this?</span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-us" class="">We have access to shared NFS for this task if required.</span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><span lang="en-us" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-us" class="">Thanks for any pointers,</span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-us" class="">Christophe</span></p><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class=""><div 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