[ovirt-users] Backup / Export Storage

2015-10-28 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear all, We have a large amount of Vms in the backup/export storage, basically every of the approx 50 machines in approx 20-30 generations, the listing (in VM Import Tab of the storage) was always very slow, but now i get an error – am small popup with a 502. I can not even delete Vms to

[ovirt-users] Backup / Export Storage

2015-10-28 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear all, We have a large amount of Vms in the backup/export storage, basically every of the approx 50 machines in approx 20-30 generations, the listing (in VM Import Tab of the storage) was always very slow, but now i get an error – am small popup with a 502. I can not even delete Vms to

[ovirt-users] Very old tasks hanging

2015-10-28 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear all, I have tasks hanging for a very long time, there are 2 different possibilities 1. The task has nothing to work on anymore, e.g. I have one task that is weeks old that was deleting a cloned VM 2. I have a cloned VM and that was exported and the task is still running after 5

Re: [ovirt-users] Migrating hosts from RHEL6 to RHEL7

2015-08-20 Thread Soeren Malchow
Hi Ryan, We did exactly that, we create a new cluster and then did a live migration between clusters, we had no problems with this (same hardware, same cpu …. ) Cheers Soeren From: users-boun...@ovirt.orgmailto:users-boun...@ovirt.org on behalf of matthew lagoe Date: Thursday 20 August 2015

Re: [ovirt-users] VM Live Backup

2015-08-07 Thread Soeren Malchow
Hi, To support Michael here (i think he knows the script i sent around already) having a builtin backup would be much nicer. The current procedure (ovirt 3.5) involves not only snapshotting and exporting, but also a clone before the export which puts massive unnecessary load on the

Re: [ovirt-users] Live VM Backups

2015-07-08 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear Chris, It is not true, you can snapshot a machine, then clone the snapshot and export it for backup purposes after that you can remove the snapshot, all on the live VM. However, you need newer versions of libvirt to do that, right now we are using CentOS 7.1 and the libvirt that comes with

Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt 3.5.3 Host Network Interfaces

2015-07-07 Thread Soeren Malchow
=no -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Soeren Malchow [mailto:soeren.malc...@mcon.net] Gesendet: Montag, 6. Juli 2015 15:01 An: Prof. Dr. Michael Schefczyk; users@ovirt.org Betreff: Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt 3.5.3 Host Network Interfaces Dear Michael We actually created the ovirtmgmt

[ovirt-users] Moving a hosted engine

2015-07-06 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear all, Is there somewhere a document or information on how to move a hosted engine form one cluster to another ? Right now we still have one cluster running fedora 20 that is also running the hosted engine and we have one cluster running CentOS 7.1 where the hosted engine should go. Any

Re: [ovirt-users] Can´t use a VM Network VLAN, because the Virtual Machines inside can't reach the Gateway

2015-07-06 Thread Soeren Malchow
Hi, To make it easier to understand what the situation is, it would help to see your bridging configuration and your interface configration. Something like: # ip addr And # brctl show Regards Soeren On 06/07/15 13:30, users-boun...@ovirt.org on behalf of Dan Kenigsberg

Re: [ovirt-users] Autostart VM

2015-07-06 Thread Soeren Malchow
Alternatively you can use something like Foreman/puppet to deploy new hosts, this usually also brings the machines right up and also takes care of IP address management (if configured) And you can use neat features such as cloud-init from foreman as well Goes a little beyond your question, but

Re: [ovirt-users] oVirt 3.5.3 Host Network Interfaces

2015-07-06 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear Michael We actually created the ovirtmgmt and the bond manually upfront and then in the ³Setup Hosts Network² we basically did this again (including setting the IP address), regarding the bonding in the gluster network we did not have a problem, you just drag one interface onto the other and

Re: [ovirt-users] Bug in Snapshot Removing

2015-06-11 Thread Soeren Malchow
We are still having this problem and we can not figure out what to do, i sent the logs already as download, can i do anything else to help ? On 04/06/15 17:08, Soeren Malchow soeren.malc...@mcon.net wrote: Hi, I would send those, but unfortunately we did not think about the journals getting

Re: [ovirt-users] Bug in Snapshot Removing

2015-06-04 Thread Soeren Malchow
chance that it comes up again. Also the libvirt logs to the journal not to libvirtd.log, i would send the journal directly to you and Eric via our data exchange servers Soeren On 04/06/15 16:17, Adam Litke ali...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/06/15 13:08 +, Soeren Malchow wrote: Hi Adam, Hi

Re: [ovirt-users] Bug in Snapshot Removing

2015-06-04 Thread Soeren Malchow
with 1 and some with several snapshots. Can i provide anything from the logs that helps ? Regards Soeren On 03/06/15 18:07, Soeren Malchow soeren.malc...@mcon.net wrote: Hi, This is not happening every time, the last time i had this, it was a script runnning, and something like th 9. Vm

Re: [ovirt-users] Live Merge vanished after upgrade to 3.5.2.1

2015-06-03 Thread Soeren Malchow
all the time, therefore we can not test anymore Regards Soeren From: Allon Mureinik amure...@redhat.commailto:amure...@redhat.com Date: Tuesday 2 June 2015 15:11 To: Soeren Malchow soeren.malc...@mcon.netmailto:soeren.malc...@mcon.net Cc: Users@ovirt.orgmailto:Users@ovirt.org Users

Re: [ovirt-users] Bug in Snapshot Removing

2015-06-03 Thread Soeren Malchow
to become responsive again? Note that this operation may cause the host to move to Unresponsive state in the UI for a short period of time. Thanks for your report. On 31/05/15 23:39 +, Soeren Malchow wrote: And sorry, another update, it does kill the VM partly, it was still pingable when i wrote

Re: [ovirt-users] gluster config in 4 node cluster

2015-06-01 Thread Soeren Malchow
that are relativley cheap when it comes to 10Gbit ( http://opennetlinux.org/hcl ) Cheers Soeren From: Юрий Полторацкий y.poltorats...@gmail.commailto:y.poltorats...@gmail.com Date: Monday 1 June 2015 08:56 To: Soeren Malchow soeren.malc...@mcon.netmailto:soeren.malc...@mcon.net Cc: users@ovirt.orgmailto:users

[ovirt-users] Snapshot remove bug (this time from the GUI)

2015-06-01 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear all, The problem i already sent a few mails about now came up while removing a snapshot from the GUI, the otput in the log files was exactly the same. In vdsm.log Thread-189739::DEBUG::2015-06-01 09:39:10,001::libvirtconnection::143::root::(wrapper) Unknown libvirterror: ecode: 68 edom:

Re: [ovirt-users] gluster config in 4 node cluster

2015-05-31 Thread Soeren Malchow
Hi For a production environment i would not build a 2 node gluster, i would build at least 3 nodes to have it much easier with the quorum. Taking into account that you can use commodity hardware i would also suggest to split the services, but i would go for at least 3 gluster nodes – which add

[ovirt-users] Bug in Snapshot Removing

2015-05-31 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear all I am not sure if the mail just did not get any attention between all the mails and this time it is also going to the libvirt mailing list. I am experiencing a problem with VM becoming unresponsive when removing Snapshots (Live Merge) and i think there is a serious problem. Here are

Re: [ovirt-users] Bug in Snapshot Removing

2015-05-31 Thread Soeren Malchow
And sorry, another update, it does kill the VM partly, it was still pingable when i wrote the last mail, but no ssh and no spice console possible From: Soeren Malchow soeren.malc...@mcon.netmailto:soeren.malc...@mcon.net Date: Monday 1 June 2015 01:35 To: Soeren Malchow soeren.malc

Re: [ovirt-users] Upgrade path

2015-05-28 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear Johan Basically we did just that last week, but we created a new cluster and put it new hosts with CentOS 7.1 and then migrated the machines, we also made the experience that Live Migration between clusters (in this Case Fedora 20 - CentOS 7.1) does work if not you have to reboot the

Re: [ovirt-users] metadata not present

2015-05-27 Thread Soeren Malchow
/ Brno, CZ - Original Message - On 26/05/15 18:36, Soeren Malchow wrote: Dear all, Now i have to ask again, i am getting this Thread-7313::DEBUG::2015-05-26 17:34:08,936::libvirtconnection::143::root::(wrapper) Unknown libvirterror: ecode: 80 edom: 20 level: 2 message: metadata

Re: [ovirt-users] VM crashes during snapshot/clone/export and show only ?

2015-05-27 Thread Soeren Malchow
.noarch vdsm-xmlrpc-4.16.14-0.el7.noarch Kernel 3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64 Any idea where to go ? Regards Soeren From: Soeren Malchow soeren.malc...@mcon.netmailto:soeren.malc...@mcon.net Date: Monday 25 May 2015 22:27 To: users@ovirt.orgmailto:users@ovirt.org users@ovirt.orgmailto:users

Re: [ovirt-users] glusterfs takes a long time to syncing after host has been rebooted

2015-05-25 Thread Soeren Malchow
Hi, This is strictly speaking a gluster issue, not an ovirt issue, however, first of all, it does take very long to resync, that is normal, second, we have vey good experiences so far in tuning a few of the parameters in gluster These are the ones (at least partly) we modified

[ovirt-users] VM crashes during snapshot/clone/export and show only ?

2015-05-25 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear all, In version 3.5.2 on CentOS 7.1 we now have the problem that the backup script seems to trigger a crash of Vms, this is the second time, the first time i could only solve the problem by rebooting the hypervisor host and acknowleding “host has been rebooted” This problems happens

Re: [ovirt-users] Switch from Fedora 20 to CentOS 7.1

2015-05-22 Thread Soeren Malchow
: Soeren Malchow soeren.malc...@mcon.net To: Jurriën Bloemen jurrien.bloe...@dmc.amcnetworks.com, users@ovirt.org Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 7:35:02 PM Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Switch from Fedora 20 to CentOS 7.1 Hi, We now created the new Cluster based on CentOS 7.1 which went fine, then we

Re: [ovirt-users] providing hosts with foreman

2015-05-22 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear Nathanaël We have all this running, i cced our “Foreman Guy” maybe he can bring you on the right track, but i assume that he won’t help before Tuesday Cheers Soeren On 22/05/15 18:57, users-boun...@ovirt.org on behalf of Nathanaël Blanchet users-boun...@ovirt.org on behalf of

[ovirt-users] Live Merge vanished after upgrade to 3.5.2.1

2015-05-21 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear all, In our environment the “Live Merge” capability is gone after the upgrade to ovirt 3.5.2.1 It was working before and we had our backup relying in this. Any idea what happened ? Environment Hosted Engine on CentOS 6.6 with ovirt 3.5.2.1 Compute hosts on Fedora 20 with vdsm 4.16.14

Re: [ovirt-users] Switch from Fedora 20 to CentOS 7.1

2015-05-21 Thread Soeren Malchow
...@ovirt.orgmailto:users-boun...@ovirt.org on behalf of Soeren Malchow Date: Wednesday 20 May 2015 15:42 To: Bloemen, Jurriën, users@ovirt.orgmailto:users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Switch from Fedora 20 to CentOS 7.1 Great, thanks, that is the plan then From: users-boun...@ovirt.orgmailto:users-boun

[ovirt-users] Linux VMs get stuck after Live Migration

2015-05-20 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear all, We are experiencing a problem with Linux Vms specifically the Vms we tested are CentOS 7.1 (so far it looks as if Windows Vms are not a problem), after the live migration the machines do not show the IP and hostname in the GUI, the same way as if the guest tools are not installed,

[ovirt-users] Switch from Fedora 20 to CentOS 7.1

2015-05-20 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear all, Would it be possible to switch from fedora 20 to centos 7.1 (as far as i understood it has live merge support now) within one cluster, meaning * take out one compute host * Reinstall that compute host with Centos 7.1 * Do a hosted-engine —deploy * Migrate VM to the

Re: [ovirt-users] Switch from Fedora 20 to CentOS 7.1

2015-05-20 Thread Soeren Malchow
before. But there can't be two type of distributions at the same time in one cluster. Regards, Vered - Original Message - From: Soeren Malchow soeren.malc...@mcon.net To: users@ovirt.org Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 2:58:11 PM Subject: [ovirt-users] Switch from Fedora 20 to CentOS 7.1

Re: [ovirt-users] Switch from Fedora 20 to CentOS 7.1

2015-05-20 Thread Soeren Malchow
perfectly. Did it myself several times. Regards, Jurriën On 20-05-15 14:19, Soeren Malchow wrote: Hi Vered, Thanks for the quick answer, ok, understood Then i could create a new Cluster in the same datacenter with newly installed hosts and then migrate the machines through shutting them down

Re: [ovirt-users] Linux VMs get stuck after Live Migration

2015-05-20 Thread Soeren Malchow
(1 ping and one “lala” output) but then stall Cheers Soeren From: users-boun...@ovirt.orgmailto:users-boun...@ovirt.org on behalf of Soeren Malchow Date: Wednesday 20 May 2015 13:42 To: users@ovirt.orgmailto:users@ovirt.org Subject: [ovirt-users] Linux VMs get stuck after Live Migration Dear

[ovirt-users] Half Upgraded ovirt packages - to 3.5.2.1

2015-05-19 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear all, I got a partially upgraded hosted engine, some of the packages are upgraded to 3.5.2.1 and some are not, i can not even upgrade afterwards Package list: ovirt-engine-sdk-python-3.5.2.1-1.el6.noarch ovirt-engine-lib-3.5.2.1-1.el6.noarch

Re: [ovirt-users] Backup through export and clone

2015-05-19 Thread Soeren Malchow
One small addition: if someone has an idea how to keep the load down even when clone within the gluster storage domain, any suggestions are welcome and we would test that From: users-boun...@ovirt.orgmailto:users-boun...@ovirt.org on behalf of Soeren Malchow Date: Wednesday 20 May 2015 00:19

[ovirt-users] Backup through export and clone

2015-05-19 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear all, I am no python developer (basically no developer at all) but i struggled with the backup for a while but finally i have a script almost OK for the backup. Due to the fact that the “snapshot - export” feature is coming as it seems in 3.6 we still need to clone and then export. This

Re: [ovirt-users] Half Upgraded ovirt packages - to 3.5.2.1

2015-05-19 Thread Soeren Malchow
Thank you so much, that was it. Is that documented somewhere for reference ? On 19/05/15 17:15, Sandro Bonazzola sbona...@redhat.com wrote: Il 19/05/2015 16:51, Soeren Malchow ha scritto: Dear all, I got a partially upgraded hosted engine, some of the packages are upgraded to 3.5.2.1

Re: [ovirt-users] bonding interfaces

2015-04-19 Thread Soeren Malchow
Hi Bill, First, i would strongly suggest that you check whether the interfaces are explcicitly NOT managed by NetworkManager, thats the way we do it. We have something like this — DEVICE=ovirtmgmt TYPE=Bridge DELAY=0 STP=off ONBOOT=yes IPADDR= NETMASK= GATEWAY= BOOTPROTO=none DEFROUTE=yes

Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted Engine Migration fails

2015-02-26 Thread Soeren Malchow
Golan [mailto:rgo...@redhat.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 12:12 PM To: Soeren Malchow; users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted Engine Migration fails On 02/16/2015 04:55 AM, Soeren Malchow wrote: Dear all, we ahve a setup with several hosts running fedora 10 with the virt-preview

Re: [ovirt-users] Backup solution using the API

2015-02-16 Thread Soeren Malchow
through all machines and do a backup for all machines on a separate VM, I will let you know how that goes Cheers Soeren -Original Message- From: Liron Aravot [mailto:lara...@redhat.com] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 10:15 AM To: Soeren Malchow Cc: Adam Litke; Nir Soffer; Thomas Keppler

Re: [ovirt-users] Backup solution using the API

2015-02-15 Thread Soeren Malchow
[mailto:gianluca.cec...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 10:23 PM To: Adam Litke Cc: users; Soeren Malchow; Thomas Keppler (PEBA) Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Backup solution using the API Il 11/Feb/2015 19:10 Adam Litke ali...@redhat.commailto:ali...@redhat.com ha scritto: On 11/02/15 17

[ovirt-users] Hosted Engine Migration fails

2015-02-15 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear all, we ahve a setup with several hosts running fedora 10 with the virt-preview packages installed (for snapshot live merge) and a hosted engine running centos 6.6- We are experiencing a problem with the Live Migration of the Hosted Engine, in the case of setting the host for the Engine

Re: [ovirt-users] Backup solution using the API

2015-02-11 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear all, i am a little lost, i tried quite a few things with the snapshots, so far with python scripts I can iterate through the existing machines, take one, make a snapshot and all this. However, there are 2 problems I can not get around: 1. even when on 3.5.1 I can not delete a snapshot on

Re: [ovirt-users] Backup and Restore of VMs

2014-12-24 Thread Soeren Malchow
/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration Specifically: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration#Full_VM _Backups Regards, Vered - Original Message - From: Soeren Malchow soeren.malc...@mcon.net To: Users@ovirt.org Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 1:44:38 PM Subject

Re: [ovirt-users] Backup and Restore of VMs

2014-12-23 Thread Soeren Malchow
, 2014 4:56 AM To: Vered Volansky Cc: Soeren Malchow; Users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Backup and Restore of VMs Vered, It sounds like Soeren already knows about that page. His issue seems to be, as well as the issue of others judging by comments on here, is that there aren't any real

Re: [ovirt-users] Two new plugins for oVirt

2014-12-23 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear all, we already translated this, however, we can not send it back until after the holidays, but then we are happy to share this cheers Soeren -Original Message- From: users-boun...@ovirt.org [mailto:users-boun...@ovirt.org] On Behalf Of Nathanaël Blanchet Sent: Tuesday, December

[ovirt-users] Backup and Restore of VMs

2014-12-19 Thread Soeren Malchow
Dear all, ovirt: 3.5 gluster: 3.6.1 OS: CentOS 7 (except ovirt hosted engine = centos 6.6) i spent quite a while researching backup and restore for VMs right now, so far I have come up with this as a start for us - API calls to create schedule snapshots of virtual machines This is or