<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 1:56 AM, wodel youchi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wodel.youchi@gmail.com" target="_blank">wodel.youchi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi again,</div><div><br></div><div>I found this article <a href="https://keithtenzer.com/2017/05/02/rhev-4-1-lab-installation-and-configuration-guide/" target="_blank">https://keithtenzer.com/2017/<wbr>05/02/rhev-4-1-lab-<wbr>installation-and-<wbr>configuration-guide/</a></div><div>I used the last section to delete the old hosted-engine storage, and it worked, the minute I deleted the old hosted-storage the system imported the new one and then imported the new VM-Manager into the Web admin portal.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In 4.1, engine-backup has new options during restore: '--he-remove-storage-vm' and '--he-remove-hosts'. Check '--help'. Sadly, we do not have enough documentation for this. This is worked on, I hope to have updates soon.<br><br></div><div>Best,<br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div></div>Regards.<br></div><div class="gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-08-25 23:15 GMT+01:00 wodel youchi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wodel.youchi@gmail.com" target="_blank">wodel.youchi@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi again,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I redid the test again, I re-read the Self-Hosted Engine documentation, there is a link to a RedHat article <a href="https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1517683" target="_blank">https://access.redhat.com/solu<wbr>tions/1517683</a> which talks about how to remove the dead hostedEngine VM from the web admin portal.</div><div><br></div><div>But the article does not talk about how to remove the old hosted engine storage, and this is what causes the problem.</div><div><br></div><div>This storage is still pointing to the old iscsi disk used by the dead Manager, it's is down, but the new manager cannot detach it, saying that the storage domain doesn't exist, which is right, but how to force the Manager to delete it? I have no idea, I tried to remove it with REST API, without luck.</div><div><br></div><div>I tried to import the new hosted storage, but the system said: the storage name is already in use. So I am stuck.<br></div><div><br></div><div>any idea? do I have to delete it from the database? if yes how?<br></div><div><br></div>Regards.<br></div><div class="gmail-m_-8103314251263333904HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-m_-8103314251263333904h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-08-25 20:07 GMT+01:00 wodel youchi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wodel.youchi@gmail.com" target="_blank">wodel.youchi@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I was able to remove the hostedEngine VM, but I didn't succeed to remove the old hostedEngine Storage domain.</div><div>I tried several time to remove it, but I couldn't, the VM engine goes in pause mode. All I could do is to detach the hostedEngine from the datacenter. I then put all the other data domains in maintenance mode, the I reactivated my master data domain hoping that it will import the new hostedEngine domain, but without luck.</div><div><br></div><div>It seems like there is something missing in this procedure.<br></div><div><br></div>Regards<br></div><div class="gmail-m_-8103314251263333904m_-2590168438000725267HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-m_-8103314251263333904m_-2590168438000725267h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-08-25 9:28 GMT+01:00 Alan Griffiths <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:apgriffiths79@gmail.com" target="_blank">apgriffiths79@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>As I recall (a few weeks ago now) it was after restore, once the host had been registered in the Manager. However, I was testing on 4.0, so maybe the behaviour is slightly different in 4.1.<br><br></div>Can you see anything in the Engine or vdsm logs as to why it won't remove the storage? Perhaps try removing the stale HostedEngine VM ?<br></div><div class="gmail-m_-8103314251263333904m_-2590168438000725267m_7057565286932519348HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-m_-8103314251263333904m_-2590168438000725267m_7057565286932519348h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 August 2017 at 09:14, wodel youchi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wodel.youchi@gmail.com" target="_blank">wodel.youchi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi and thanks,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But when to remove the hosted_engine storage ? During the restore procedure or after ? Because after I couldn't do it, the manager refused to put that storage in maintenance mode.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards</div></div><div class="gmail-m_-8103314251263333904m_-2590168438000725267m_7057565286932519348m_4457919776337353415HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-m_-8103314251263333904m_-2590168438000725267m_7057565286932519348m_4457919776337353415h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">Le 25 août 2017 08:49, "Alan Griffiths" <<a href="mailto:apgriffiths79@gmail.com" target="_blank">apgriffiths79@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">As I recall from my testing. If you remove the old hosted_storage domain then the new one should get automatically imported.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 August 2017 at 23:03, wodel youchi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wodel.youchi@gmail.com" target="_blank">wodel.youchi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I am testing the backup and restore procedure of the Self-hosted Engine, and I have a problem.</div><div><br></div><div>This haw I did the test.</div><div><br></div><div>I have two hypervisors hosted-engine. I am used iSCSI disk for the VM engine.</div><div><br></div><div>I followed the procedure described in the Self-hosted Engine document to execute the backup, I put the first host in maintenance mode, the I create the backup and save it elsewhere.</div><div><br></div><div>Then I've create a new iscsi disk, I reinstalled the first host with the save IP/hostname, then I followed the restore procedure to get the Manager up and running again.</div><div>- hosted-engine --deploy</div><div>- do not execute engine-setup, restore backup first</div><div>- execute engine-setup</div><div>- remove the host from the manager<br></div><div>- synchronize the restored manger with the host</div><div>- finalize deployment.</div><div><br></div><div>all went well till this point, but I have a problem with the VM-engine, it is shown as down in the admin portal. the ovirt-ha-agent cannot retrieve the VM config from the shared storage.</div><div><br></div><div>I think the problem, is that the hosted-engine storage domain is still pointing to the old disk of the old manager and not the new one. I don't know where is this information is stored, in the DB or in the Manager's config files, but when I click Manager hosted-engine domain, I can see the old LUN grayed and the new one (which is used by the restored Manager) is not grayed.</div><div><br></div><div>How can I fix this?<br></div><div><br></div><div></div><div></div><div>Regards.<br></div></div><div id="gmail-m_-8103314251263333904m_-2590168438000725267m_7057565286932519348m_4457919776337353415m_9177001278217562974m_7731007781891096843m_3883279741882476845DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br> <table style="border-top:1px solid rgb(211,212,222)">
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