[ovirt-users] Graceful shutdown on power loss

2015-08-06 Thread John Gardeniers
I'm looking into the best way to shut down our VM environment if a power outage looks like draining the UPS batteries. Is there API documentation covering this or does someone know of a article somewhere on the topic? We're currently running v3.5 engine and v3.4 hypervisors with gluster v3.4

Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt and Gluster

2015-07-28 Thread John Gardeniers
for your production environment? I would be looking for !required! features for the environment, and then which versions are the most mature. On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 5:07 PM, John Gardeniers jgardeni...@objectmastery.com mailto:jgardeni...@objectmastery.com wrote: That popular Linux

Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt and Gluster

2015-07-28 Thread John Gardeniers
Of *John Gardeniers *Sent:* Tuesday, July 28, 2015 04:06 PM *To:* Donny Davis *Cc:* users *Subject:* Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt and Gluster No, not yet. I figured that I should be able to get better answers here, as the Gluster list has been particularly poor for answers to Ovirt related questions

Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt and Gluster

2015-07-28 Thread John Gardeniers
wrote: I would stick with the same versions I see a popular Linux company putting out. On Jul 27, 2015 6:15 PM, John Gardeniers jgardeni...@objectmastery.com mailto:jgardeni...@objectmastery.com wrote: Hi All, What information

Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt and Gluster

2015-07-28 Thread John Gardeniers
It's being considered, at least as an interim measure, in an effort to obtain some stability while we look at other storage options. On 29/07/15 08:41, Donny Davis wrote: Are you switching to oVirt? On Jul 28, 2015 5:32 PM, John Gardeniers jgardeni...@objectmastery.com mailto:jgardeni

Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt and Gluster

2015-07-28 Thread John Gardeniers
result has not been described. On 29/07/15 09:31, Matthew Lagoe wrote: Sorry my mistake I ment RHEV *From:*John Gardeniers [mailto:jgardeni...@objectmastery.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, July 28, 2015 04:30 PM *To:* Matthew Lagoe; 'Donny Davis' *Cc:* 'users' *Subject:* Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt and Gluster

Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt and Gluster

2015-07-28 Thread John Gardeniers
have more questions, please ask Thanks, Raz Tamir Red Hat Israel *From: *John Gardeniers jgardeni...@objectmastery.com *To: *users users@ovirt.org *Sent: *Tuesday, July 28, 2015 2:15:12 AM *Subject: *[ovirt-users] Ovirt

Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt and Gluster

2015-07-28 Thread John Gardeniers
That popular Linux company uses versions with reduced features and functionality, which have no direct comparison to the community versions. On 29/07/15 08:04, Donny Davis wrote: I would stick with the same versions I see a popular Linux company putting out. On Jul 27, 2015 6:15 PM, John

[ovirt-users] Ovirt and Gluster

2015-07-27 Thread John Gardeniers
Hi All, What information is available regarding the compatibility of Ovirt and Gluster? Is there a combination known to be stable and if so, what are the relevant versions? I am asking with respect to a production system, not an experimental lab environment. regards, John

[ovirt-users] Most popular data storage connection

2015-07-15 Thread John Gardeniers
Does anyone have any information about what data domain storage connection is the most popular or most common? e.g. Gluster, iSCSI, NFS, etc. regards, John ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: [ovirt-users] Exporting a VM's disks

2015-02-22 Thread John Gardeniers
(see [1]), though it is only supported from oVirt 3.5. [1] http://www.ovirt.org/Features/ImportStorageDomain#Work_flow_for_Import_File_Storage_Domain_-_UI_flow Regards, Maor - Original Message - From: John Gardeniers jgardeni...@objectmastery.com To: users users@ovirt.org Sent: Friday

[ovirt-users] Exporting a VM's disks

2015-02-19 Thread John Gardeniers
Hi All, Having recently had a need to manually export a VM from our RHEV environment I searched for a way to identify the VM's disks with the files on the storage system. The search led me to http://rhevdup.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/manual-export-of-vm-from-rhev.html but unfortunately, the

Re: [ovirt-users] Change gluster primary

2015-01-20 Thread John Gardeniers
machine immediately. The only snag I can see is that you can't detach the master storage domain in Ovirt if any VMs are running. I think you'd have to shut the VMs down, put the storage domain into maintenance, and then edit it. Cheers Alex On 19/01/15 23:44, John Gardeniers wrote: We are using

[ovirt-users] Change gluster primary

2015-01-19 Thread John Gardeniers
We are using Gluster as our storage backend. Gluster is configured as 2 node replica. The two nodes are name nix and jupiter. At the Ovirt (RHEV really) end we have the gluster path configured as nix:/gluster-rhev, with a mount option of backupvolfile-server=jupiter.om.net. We now need to

Re: [ovirt-users] Import existing Gluster into Ovirt

2014-12-15 Thread John Gardeniers
Thank you. On 15/12/14 15:50, Kanagaraj wrote: On 12/15/2014 03:06 AM, Itamar Heim wrote: On 12/14/2014 11:26 PM, John Gardeniers wrote: While pondering the question of importing an existing Gluster into Ovirt I came across http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Gluster_Import_Existing_Cluster. One

[ovirt-users] Import existing Gluster into Ovirt

2014-12-14 Thread John Gardeniers
While pondering the question of importing an existing Gluster into Ovirt I came across http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Gluster_Import_Existing_Cluster. One rather important question not explicitly addressed in that article is - can the import be safely done while the Gluster installation is live

Re: [ovirt-users] Migrate Ovirt to/from RHEV

2014-11-20 Thread John Gardeniers
Bump. On 17/11/14 15:41, John Gardeniers wrote: What is the procedure to use when migrating Ovirt to or from RHEV? I'm assuming of course that there's little difference for the two directions. Is it just a matter of detaching the storage domain(s), dumping the engine database and attaching

Re: [ovirt-users] Migrate Ovirt to/from RHEV

2014-11-20 Thread John Gardeniers
domains On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 3:21 PM, John Gardeniers jgardeni...@objectmastery.com mailto:jgardeni...@objectmastery.com wrote: Bump. On 17/11/14 15:41, John Gardeniers wrote: What is the procedure to use when migrating Ovirt to or from RHEV? I'm assuming of course

Re: [ovirt-users] Balloon driver unavailable

2014-11-18 Thread John Gardeniers
-boun...@ovirt.org [mailto:users-boun...@ovirt.org] *On Behalf Of *John Gardeniers *Sent:* November-16-14 10:13 PM *To:* users@ovirt.org *Subject:* Re: [ovirt-users] Balloon driver unavailable Just an FYI. In my case the balloon driver was installed and it was running. The problem was eventually

[ovirt-users] Migrate Ovirt to/from RHEV

2014-11-16 Thread John Gardeniers
What is the procedure to use when migrating Ovirt to or from RHEV? I'm assuming of course that there's little difference for the two directions. Is it just a matter of detaching the storage domain(s), dumping the engine database and attaching/importing them into the other system? regards,

Re: [ovirt-users] Balloon driver unavailable

2014-11-16 Thread John Gardeniers
Just an FYI. In my case the balloon driver was installed and it was running. The problem was eventually resolved by uninstalling the entire agent suite, rebooting and reinstalling it. Doing the same just for the balloon driver didn't work. regards, John On 13/11/14 07:35, John Gardeniers

Re: [ovirt-users] Balloon driver unavailable

2014-11-12 Thread John Gardeniers
I'm seeing the same on a Win7 VM and also thought it might be just me. :) I've only noticed this quite recently. On 12/11/14 18:59, Karli Sjöberg wrote: On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 08:35 +0100, Demeter Tibor wrote: Hi, I have a lot of centos 6 based vms and I have install ovirt guest agent for

Re: [ovirt-users] Balloon driver unavailable

2014-11-12 Thread John Gardeniers
I'm seeing it for a VM that most definitely does have the balloon driver installed. Care to take another guess? regards, John On 12/11/14 20:04, Amedeo Salvati wrote: you receive this error because on your cluster configurations you have checked Enable Memory Balloon Optimization, and on

Re: [ovirt-users] Using a free-standing Spice viewer

2014-10-11 Thread John Gardeniers
/api/vms/UUID/ticket 4. Connect with a spice client (remote-viewer or spicec) with the target being HOST:PORT and the ticket you issued as password All this can be scripted via the API or the engine CLI Hope this helps Dan On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:03 PM, John Gardeniers jgardeni

[ovirt-users] Using a free-standing Spice viewer

2014-10-09 Thread John Gardeniers
Connecting to a VM console with Spice via the RHEV/Ovirt admin interface works just fine. How can I connect to a VM's console using a free-standing Spice viewer, such as the Chrome Spice Viewer plug-in? I've so far found no information on this at all. regards, John

Re: [ovirt-users] Admin console - Always show advanced options

2014-09-20 Thread John Gardeniers
remember your setting of the advanced mode so once you clicked it once, the next time it should be in advanced mode. I forget which version this became available, might be 3.5 or might be 3.4. On Friday, September 19, 2014 02:38:38 PM John Gardeniers wrote: Hi All, When viewing/editing a VM's

Re: [ovirt-users] Admin console - Always show advanced options

2014-09-20 Thread John Gardeniers
Thanks for the confirmation. On 20/09/14 05:47, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Trey Dockendorf treyd...@gmail.com mailto:treyd...@gmail.com wrote: If it was 3.4 then it's not working as I've always had to click the advanced options. Likely a 3.5 feature then?

Re: [ovirt-users] Ovirt / RHEV interoperability

2014-09-07 Thread John Gardeniers
one hypervisor at a time (or a few, depending in capacity). regards, John On 05/09/14 17:43, Sven Kieske wrote: Am 05.09.2014 06:50, schrieb John Gardeniers: Just curious and I'm not currently in a position to try it myself. Is there any interoperability between Ovirt and RHEV? In other words

[ovirt-users] Ovirt / RHEV interoperability

2014-09-04 Thread John Gardeniers
Just curious and I'm not currently in a position to try it myself. Is there any interoperability between Ovirt and RHEV? In other words, can an Ovirt hypervisor work with a REV engine or can a RHEV hypervisor work with a RHEV engine? regards, John

Re: [ovirt-users] Network real-time bar - nothing happened

2014-09-02 Thread John Gardeniers
FWIW, I have a ticket open about this with Red Hat, who have confirmed that the network display of VMs doesn't work correctly. regards, John On 03/09/14 05:09, Groten, Ryan wrote: Are you sure there is network traffic to/from these VMs? Most of my VMs show 0% as well because they’re not

Re: [ovirt-users] RHEV

2014-08-28 Thread John Gardeniers
I assume the same would apply in reverse. Given our utter disappointment with Red Hat support (or more accurately, the lack of it), we see no good reason to continue with RHEV and will very likely switch to Ovirt when our current subscription runs out. We've had far more support from this list

Re: [ovirt-users] Self-hosted engine won't start

2014-08-18 Thread John Gardeniers
manual intervention when something goes wrong is not HA. regards, John On 18/08/14 19:18, Daniel Helgenberger wrote: Hello John, On Mi, 2014-07-23 at 19:47 -0400, Jason Brooks wrote: - Original Message - From: John Gardeniers jgardeni...@objectmastery.com To: users users@ovirt.org

Re: [ovirt-users] Self-hosted engine won't start

2014-08-17 Thread John Gardeniers
it to 3.4 branch. --Jirka [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1093638 On 07/29/2014 11:41 PM, John Gardeniers wrote: Hi Jiri, Sorry, I can't supply the log because the hosts have been recycled but I'm sure it would have contained exactly the same information that you already have

[ovirt-users] Is there a plan to allow VM migration?

2014-08-05 Thread John Gardeniers
As per the subject, is there a plan to allow VM migration? By that I don't mean the current idea of detaching the export storage and attaching it to another compatible system. I mean a real migration to something external to the system the VM is currently on. At least in my universe, there are

Re: [ovirt-users] Is there a plan to allow VM migration?

2014-08-05 Thread John Gardeniers
Hi Russ, Could it be that you're over-thinking this? Why can't Ovirt simply export VMs to a standard format, preferably of course one already used elsewhere, such as ovf? That way it's a straight one-to-one. regards, John On 06/08/14 08:57, R P Herrold wrote: On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, John

Re: [ovirt-users] Self-hosted engine won't start

2014-07-29 Thread John Gardeniers
until you restart the host2. Unfortunately the logs doesn't contain the part from host1 from 2014-07-24 09:XX which I'd like to investigate because it might contain the information why host1 refused to start the vm when host2 killed it. Regards, Jirka On 07/28/2014 02:57 AM, John Gardeniers

Re: [ovirt-users] Self-hosted engine won't start

2014-07-24 Thread John Gardeniers
/07/14 19:10, Jiri Moskovcak wrote: Hi, please provide the the exact versions of ovirt-hosted-engine-ha and all logs from /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/ Thank you, Jirka On 07/24/2014 01:29 AM, John Gardeniers wrote: Hi All, I have created a lab with 2 hypervisors and a self-hosted

[ovirt-users] Self-hosted engine won't start

2014-07-23 Thread John Gardeniers
Hi All, I have created a lab with 2 hypervisors and a self-hosted engine. Today I followed the upgrade instructions as described in http://www.ovirt.org/Hosted_Engine_Howto and rebooted the engine. I didn't really do an upgrade but simply wanted to test what would happen when the engine was

Re: [ovirt-users] Migrate from one system to another.

2014-07-07 Thread John Gardeniers
support is pretty good. Am 07.07.2014 00:12, schrieb John Gardeniers: We each make some shared resources available to the other, so the normal method we use to transfer files is we upload them to a shared directory at the other end. ___ Users

Re: [ovirt-users] Migrate from one system to another.

2014-07-06 Thread John Gardeniers
Hi Gianluca, When I said the support has not been stellar I may have understated the problem. The reason I haven't opened a case with Red Hat this time is simply because *all* my other cases are still unresolved, with all but the most recent having been open for months. I've had to find my own

Re: [ovirt-users] Migrate from one system to another.

2014-07-03 Thread John Gardeniers
Thanks Sven but what you linked to is a bug in a feature in a version we don't use yet. On 04/07/14 01:21, Sven Kieske wrote: You are maybe interested in this 3.5 feature? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1083307 HTH ___ Users mailing

[ovirt-users] Migrate from one system to another.

2014-07-02 Thread John Gardeniers
Hi All, I've been googling but haven't found an answer to what I thought would be a fairly simple question. The systems involved are RHEV but, given that Red Hat support has been less than stellar and doesn't have a user discussion list and that RHEV is just Ovirt anyway, I thought I'd ask here.

Re: [ovirt-users] Migrate from one system to another.

2014-07-02 Thread John Gardeniers
for every VM to be migrated would result in far more downtime than we would be able to accommodate. Incidentally, I know of similar products but did not know about fsarchiver. I'll check that out, thanks. regard, John On 03/07/14 05:29, Joop wrote: On 2-7-2014 3:23, John Gardeniers wrote: Hi All

Re: [ovirt-users] Script to determine which Hypervisor a VM is running on

2014-06-17 Thread John Gardeniers
Hi Citros, I have this Python script I wrote to get VM information from Red Hat Virtualization which I believe should work for Ovirt as well. I should point out that I'm not a Python user normally and actually hate the language. If the formatting gets screwed I can email you a copy. To use it

Re: [ovirt-users] Engine HA?

2014-06-12 Thread John Gardeniers
Hi Kevin, I found this link while looking for the same solution: http://captainkvm.com/2013/05/providing-high-availability-for-rhev-m/ We now have rhev-m (which is the same thing as the Ovirt engine) running on a server using KVM/Qemu, with my Linux workstation acting as a backup host. The VM