[ovirt-users] Re: [Help] The engine is not stable on HostedEngine with GlusterFS Herperverged deployment

2021-04-19 Thread Thomas Hoberg
It's an effect that also had me puzzled for a long time: To my understanding gluster volume command should only ever show peers that contribute bricks to a volume, not peers in general. Now perhaps an exception needs to be made for hosts that have been enabled to run the management engine, as

[ovirt-users] Re: How do I share a disk across multiple VMs?

2021-04-19 Thread Thomas Hoberg
Sharing disks typically requires that you need to coordinate their use above the disk. So did you consider sharing a file system instead? Members in my team have been using NetApp for their entire career and are quite used to sharing files even for databases. And since Gluster HCI basically

[ovirt-users] Re: ovirt-hosted-engine-cleanup

2021-04-19 Thread Thomas Hoberg
ovirt-hosted-engine-cleanup will only operate on the host you run it on. In a cluster that might have side-effects, but as a rule it will try to undo all configuration settings that had a Linux host become an HCI member or just a host under oVirt management. While the GUI will try to do the

[ovirt-users] Re: Introduction & general question about oVirt

2021-04-19 Thread Thomas Hoberg
That very much describes my own situation two years ago..., just a slight time and geographic offset as my home is near Frankfurt and my work is in Lyon. I had been doing 70:1 consolidation via virtualization based on OpenVZ (containers, but with a IaaS abstraction), since 2006 because it was

[ovirt-users] Re: FreeBSD 13 and virtio

2021-04-19 Thread Thomas Hoberg
I've just given it a try: works just fine with me. But I did notice, that I chose virtio-scsi when I created the disk, don't now if that makes any difference, but as an old-timer, I still got "SCSI" ingrained as "better than ATA". Chose FreeBSD 9.2 x64 as OS type while creating the VM (nothing

[ovirt-users] Re: Why and when does oVirt make a compute host part of the HCI Gluster?

2021-04-19 Thread Thomas Hoberg
Well, that's why I really want a theory of operation here, because removing a host as a gluster peer might just break something in oVirt... And trying to fix that may be not trivial either. It's one of those cases where I'd just really love to have nested virtualization work better so I can

[ovirt-users] Why and when does oVirt make a compute host part of the HCI Gluster?

2021-04-19 Thread Thomas Hoberg
My understanding is that in a HCI environment, the storage nodes should be rather static, but that the pure compute nodes, can be much more dynamic or opportunistic: actually those should/could even be switched off and restarted as part of oVirt's resource optimization. The 'pure compute'

[ovirt-users] Re: Expand gluster volumes

2021-04-19 Thread Thomas Hoberg
Hi Strahil, when you said "The Gluster documentation on the topic is quite extensive", I wasn't quite sure, if that was mean to be ironic: you typically are not. At the moment the only documentation I can see navigating from the documentation menu on ovirt.org is this: 11.6. Preparing and

[ovirt-users] Re: Standard operating procedure for a node failure on HCI required

2021-04-04 Thread Thomas Hoberg
Hi Strahil, I did actually find the matching RHV documentation now. The reason I didn't before seems to be that this documentation was only added for RHHI 1.8 or oVirt 4.4 and did not exist for RHHI 1.7 or oVirt 4.3

[ovirt-users] Standard operating procedure for a node failure on HCI required

2021-04-01 Thread Thomas Hoberg
oVirt may have started as a vSphere 'look-alike', but it graduated to a Nutanix 'clone', at least in terms of marketing. IMHO that means the 3-node hyperconverged default oVirt setup (2 replicas and 1 arbiter) deserves special love in terms of documenting failure scenarios. 3-node HCI is

[ovirt-users] Re: 4.4 -> 4.3

2021-04-01 Thread Thomas Hoberg
I personally consider the fact that you gave up on 4.3/CentOS7 before CentOS 8 could have even been remotely reliable to run "a free open-source virtualization solution for your entire enterprise", a rather violent break of trust. I understand Redhat's motivation with Python 2/3 etc., but

[ovirt-users] Re: Power failure makes cluster and hosted engine unusable

2021-04-01 Thread Thomas Hoberg
I am glad you got it done! I find that oVirt resembles more an adventure game (with all its huge emotional rewards, once you prevail), than a streamlined machine, that just works every time you push a button. Those are boring, sure, but really what I am looking for when the mission is to run

[ovirt-users] Re: Hyperconverged engine high availability?

2021-03-31 Thread Thomas Hoberg
It's important to understand the oVirt design philosophy. That may be somewhat understated in the documentation, because I am afraid they copied that from VMware's vSphere who might have copied it from Nutanix, who might have copied it from who-know-else... which might explain why they are a

[ovirt-users] Re: 4.4 -> 4.3

2021-03-31 Thread Thomas Hoberg
Export domain should work, with the usual constraints that you have to detach/attach the whole domain and you'd probably want to test with one or a few pilot VMs first. There could be issues with 'base' templates etc. for VMs that where created as new on 4.4: be sure to try every machine type

[ovirt-users] Re: Power failure makes cluster and hosted engine unusable

2021-03-31 Thread Thomas Hoberg
Roman, I believe the bug is in /usr/share/ansible/roles/ovirt.hosted_engine_setup/tasks/pre_checks/validate_memory_size.yml - name: Set Max memory set_fact: max_mem: "{{ free_mem.stdout|int + cached_mem.stdout|int - he_reserved_memory_MB + he_avail_memory_grace_MB }}" If these

[ovirt-users] Re: Power failure makes cluster and hosted engine unusable

2021-03-31 Thread Thomas Hoberg
Yup, that's a bug in the ansible code, I've come across on hosts that had 512GB of RAM. I quite simply deleted the checks from the ansible code and re-ran the wizard. I can't read YAML or Python or whatever it is that Ansible uses, but my impression is that things are 'cast' or converted into

[ovirt-users] Re: vGPU on ovirt 4.3

2021-01-27 Thread Thomas Hoberg
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 9:14 AM > > Ok, I think I found at least for Nvidia. You can follow what described for > RHV: > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.4/... > > In the same manual there are also instructions for vGPU. > > There is also the guide for

[ovirt-users] Re: Geographically-distrbuted Ovirt Cluster?

2021-01-25 Thread Thomas Hoberg
A geographically distributed cluster is a very expensive random number generator: any cluster crtically depends on the assumption that the communication between nodes is at least an order of magnitude more reliable than the node itself. Otherwise you just multiply the chance of failures. That

[ovirt-users] Re: Is there a plan for ovirt 4.5 and furture versions?

2021-01-25 Thread Thomas Hoberg
To your question "Is it worth building a new virtualization platform based on ovirt?" Sandro answered "currently there's no change in the Red Hat's support of the oVirt project". That may technically be true, but it doesn't really answer your question, I'd believe. oVirt is a management layer

[ovirt-users] Re: vGPU on ovirt 4.3

2021-01-25 Thread Thomas Hoberg
The main issue isn't oVirt, but Nvidia's drivers inside a virtual machine: You use 'unapproved' GPUs in what Nvidia drivers recognise as a VM, they'll refuse to load. RTX series cards should be ok, I've tried K40 and P100 and they are just as fine with oVirt pass-through. V100 tests are still

[ovirt-users] Re: centos 7.9

2021-01-25 Thread Thomas Hoberg
I would agree, if CentOS 8 could still be considered a proper base to build on. But since that is now EOL at the end of this year, oVirt is no longer viable, because it's beta-on-beta. I can only hope that IBM will read the writing on the wall before you guys will be out of a job.

[ovirt-users] Re: How to unlock disk images?

2020-12-15 Thread thomas
Unlocked the snapshot, deleted the VM... done! That was easiser than I thought. Thanks for your help in any case! ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statement:

[ovirt-users] Re: How to unlock disk images?

2020-12-15 Thread thomas
And I should have guessed, that this is only how trouble starts =:-O I immediately removed the locked snapshot image (actually they pretty much seemed to disappear by themselves as delete operations might have been pending) but the VM that was doing the snapshot, is still there, even if the

[ovirt-users] Re: How to unlock disk images?

2020-12-15 Thread thomas
Thanks Shani, I had just found that myself and even managed to unlock and remove the images. Somehow the reference to https://ovirt.org/develop/developer-guide/ seems to not be available from the ovirt site navigation but now I have discovered it via another post here and found a treasure

[ovirt-users] How to unlock disk images?

2020-12-15 Thread thomas
On one oVirt 4.3 farm I have three locked images I'd like to clear out. One is an ISO image, that somehow never completed the transfer due to a slow network. It's occupying little space, except in the GUI where it sticks out and irritates. I guess it would just be an update somewhere on the

[ovirt-users] Re: CentOS 8 is dead

2020-12-15 Thread thomas
I am glad you think so and it works for you. But I'd also guess that you put more than a partial FTE to the project. I got attracted via the HCI angle they started pushing as a result of Nutanix creating a bit of a stir. The ability to use discarded production boxes for a lab with the

[ovirt-users] Re: CentOS 8 is dead

2020-12-15 Thread thomas
Hi Strahil, OpenVZ is winding down, unfortunately. They haven't gone near CentOS8 yet any I don't see that happen either. It's very unfortunate, because I really loved that project and I always preferred its container abstraction as well as the resource management tools, because scale-in is

[ovirt-users] Re: CentOS 8 is dead

2020-12-14 Thread thomas
The major issue with that is that oVirt 4.3 is out of maintenance, with Python2 EOL being a main reason. CentOS reboots are happening, but will be to little avail, when the oVirt team won't support them. It's a mess that does lots of damage to this project, but IBM might just have different

[ovirt-users] Re: High performance VM cannot migrate due to TSC frequency

2020-12-14 Thread thomas
I'd put my money on a fall-through error condition where TSC is simply the last one with a 'good' error message pointed to. I have clusters with CPUs that are both 10 years and 10x apart in performance performing migrations between themselves quite happily (Sandy Bridge dual quads to Skylake 56

[ovirt-users] Re: Bad CPU TYPE after Centos 8.3

2020-12-14 Thread thomas
Hi, that CPU looks rather good to me: KVM/oVirt should love it (as would I)! I am actually more inclined to believe that it may be a side channel mitigation issue: KVM is distingiuishing between base CPUs and CPUs with enabled mitigations to ensure that you won't accidentally migrate a VM from

[ovirt-users] Re: CentOS 8 is dead

2020-12-10 Thread thomas
I came to oVirt thinking that it was like CentOS: There might be bugs, but given the mainline usage in home and coporate labs with light workloads and nothing special, chances to hit one should be pretty minor: I like looking for new fronteers atop of my OS, not inside. I have been runing

[ovirt-users] Re: Latest ManagedBlockDevice documentation

2020-10-15 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/15/20 11:27 AM, Jeff Bailey wrote: On 10/15/2020 12:07 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: On 10/15/20 10:19 AM, Jeff Bailey wrote: On 10/15/2020 10:01 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: Getting closer... I recreated the storage domain and added rbd_default_features=3 to ceph.conf.  Now I see the new

[ovirt-users] Re: Latest ManagedBlockDevice documentation

2020-10-15 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/15/20 10:19 AM, Jeff Bailey wrote: On 10/15/2020 10:01 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: Getting closer... I recreated the storage domain and added rbd_default_features=3 to ceph.conf.  Now I see the new disk being created with (what I think is) the correct set of features: # rbd info

[ovirt-users] Re: Latest ManagedBlockDevice documentation

2020-10-15 Thread Michael Thomas
guessing that it's being accessed by the vdsm user? --Mike On 10/14/20 10:59 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: Hi Benny, You are correct, I tried attaching to a running VM (which failed), then tried booting a new VM using this disk (which also failed). I'll use the workaround in the bug report going

[ovirt-users] Re: Latest ManagedBlockDevice documentation

2020-10-14 Thread Michael Thomas
r this, but it is currently > not possible. The options are indeed to either recreate the storage > domain or edit the database table > > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1881832#c8 > > > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 3:40 PM Michael Thomas wrote: >>

[ovirt-users] Re: Latest ManagedBlockDevice documentation

2020-10-14 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/14/20 3:30 AM, Benny Zlotnik wrote: Jeff is right, it's a limitation of kernel rbd, the recommendation is to add `rbd default features = 3` to the configuration. I think there are plans to support rbd-nbd in cinderlib which would allow using additional features, but I'm not aware of

[ovirt-users] Re: Latest ManagedBlockDevice documentation

2020-10-13 Thread Michael Thomas
ote: When you ran `engine-setup` did you enable cinderlib preview (it will not be enabled by default)? It should handle the creation of the database automatically, if you didn't you can enable it by running: `engine-setup --reconfigure-optional-components` On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 1:58 AM Mich

[ovirt-users] Re: Latest ManagedBlockDevice documentation

2020-10-13 Thread Michael Thomas
: When you ran `engine-setup` did you enable cinderlib preview (it will not be enabled by default)? It should handle the creation of the database automatically, if you didn't you can enable it by running: `engine-setup --reconfigure-optional-components` On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 1:58 AM Michael Thomas

[ovirt-users] Re: CEPH - Opinions and ROI

2020-10-04 Thread thomas
Thanks a lot for this feed back! I've never had any practical experience with Ceph, MooseFS, BeeGFS or Lustre: GlusterFS to me mostly had the charme of running on 1/2/3 nodes and then anything beyond at a balanced benefits in terms of resilience vs. performance... in theory, of course. And on

[ovirt-users] Re: CEPH - Opinions and ROI

2020-10-04 Thread thomas
Thank you very much for your story! It has very much confirmed a few suspicions that have been gathering over the last... O my God! Has it two years already? 1. Don't expect plug-and-play, unless you're on SAN or NFS (even HCI doesn't seem to be in the heart of the oVirt team) 2. Don't expect

[ovirt-users] Re: ovirt-engine and host certification is expired in ovirt4.0

2020-10-04 Thread thomas
From what I observed (but it's not something I try often), if you try to enable maintenance on a host and have VMs on it, it will try migrating the VMs first, which is a copy-first, state-transfer-afterwards process. So if there is no migration target available or if the copying and

[ovirt-users] Re: Upgrade oVirt Host from 4.4.0 to 4.4.2 fails

2020-10-02 Thread Michael Thomas
This is a shot in the dark, but it's possible that your dnf command was running off of cached repo metadata. Try running 'dnf clean metadata' before 'dnf upgrade'. --Mike On 10/2/20 12:38 PM, Erez Zarum wrote: Hey, Bunch of hosts installed from oVirt Node Image, i have upgraded the

[ovirt-users] Re: Problem with Cluster-wise BIOS Settings in oVirt 4.4

2020-10-01 Thread thomas
Que yo sepa, no existe alternativa al reinstalarlo... La maquina de manejamiento hereda su configuracion del cluster y en este caso, cuando lo tengas cambiado, le falta la hardware virtualizada para arrancar, y como no tienes GUI tampoco lo puedes cambiar... ¡No eres el primero quien haya

[ovirt-users] Re: Latest ManagedBlockDevice documentation

2020-09-30 Thread Michael Thomas
handle the creation of the database automatically, if you didn't you can enable it by running: `engine-setup --reconfigure-optional-components` On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 1:58 AM Michael Thomas wrote: Hi Benny, Thanks for the confirmation. I've installed openstack-ussuri and ceph Octopus. Then I

[ovirt-users] Re: Latest ManagedBlockDevice documentation

2020-09-29 Thread Michael Thomas
or.centos.org/centos/8/cloud/x86_64/openstack-ussuri/Packages/p/ On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 10:37 PM Michael Thomas wrote: I'm looking for the latest documentation for setting up a Managed Block Device storage domain so that I can move some of my VM images to ceph rbd. I found this: https://ovirt

[ovirt-users] Latest ManagedBlockDevice documentation

2020-09-29 Thread Michael Thomas
I'm looking for the latest documentation for setting up a Managed Block Device storage domain so that I can move some of my VM images to ceph rbd. I found this: https://ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/cinderlib-integration.html ...but it has a big note at the top that it

[ovirt-users] Single Node HCI upgrade procedure from CentOS7/oVirt 4.3 to CentOS8/oVirt 4.4?

2020-09-26 Thread thomas
I can hear you saying: "You did understand that single node HCI is just a toy, right?" For me the primary use of a single node HCI is adding some disaster resilience in small server edge type scenarios, where a three node HCI provides the fault tolerance: 3+1 with a bit of distance, warm or

[ovirt-users] Re: Node upgrade to 4.4

2020-09-26 Thread thomas
I was looking forward to that presentation for exactly that reason: But it completely bypassed the HCI scenario, was very light on details and of course assumed that everything would just work, because there is no easy fail-back and you're probably better off taking down the complete farm

[ovirt-users] Re: Node upgrade to 4.4

2020-09-24 Thread thomas
I am hoping for a miracle like that, too. In the mean-time I am trying to make sure that all variants of exports and imports from *.ova to re-attachable NFS domains work properly, in case I have to start from scratch. HCI upgrades don't get the special love you'd expect after RHV's proud

[ovirt-users] Re: Node upgrade to 4.4

2020-09-23 Thread Michael Thomas
Not to give you any false hope, but when I recently reinstalled my oVirt 4.4.2 cluster, I left the gluster disks alone and only reformatted the OS disks. Much to my surprise, after running the oVirt HCI wizard on this new installation (using the exact same gluster settings as before), the

[ovirt-users] Posts not updating on lists.ovirt.org web site since September 10th?

2020-09-15 Thread thomas
I can see new posts coming in via e-mail, but updates on the web sites have stopped and posts don't disappear? ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statement:

[ovirt-users] Re: Gluster quorum issue on 3-node HCI with extra 5-nodes as compute and storage nodes

2020-09-14 Thread Thomas Hoberg
Am 14.09.2020 um 15:23 schrieb tho...@hoberg.net: Sorry two times now: 1. It is a duplicate post, because the delay for posts to show up on the web site is ever longer (as I am responding via mail, the first post is still not shown...) 2. It seems to have been a wild goose chase: The gluster

[ovirt-users]oVirt HCI issue: GlusterD refusing to start due to quorum issues for volumes where it isn’t contributing any brick

2020-09-14 Thread thomas
Sorry if it's a duplicate: I go an error on post... And yes I posted it on the Gluster slack first, but I am using Gluster only because the marketing on oVirt HCI worked so well... I got 3 recycled servers for an oVirt test environment first and set those up as 3-node HCI using defaults

[ovirt-users] Gluster quorum issue on 3-node HCI with extra 5-nodes as compute and storage nodes

2020-09-14 Thread thomas
Yes, I've also posted this on the Gluster Slack. But I am using Gluster mostly because it's part of oVirt HCI, so don't just send me away, please! Problem: GlusterD refusing to start due to quorum issues for volumes where it isn’t contributing any brick (I've had this before on a different

[ovirt-users] Re: How to Backup a VM

2020-09-03 Thread thomas
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 7:13 PM > Using export domain is not a single click, but it is not that complicated. > But this is good feedback anyway. > > > I think the issue is gluster, not qemu-img. > > > How did you try? transfer via the UI is completely different than > transfer using the

[ovirt-users] CLI for HCI setup

2020-09-02 Thread Michael Thomas
Is there a CLI for setting up a hyperconverged environment with glusterfs? The docs that I've found detail how to do it using the cockpit interface[1], but I'd prefer to use a cli similar to 'hosted-engine --deploy' if it is available. Thanks, --Mike

[ovirt-users] Re: How can Gluster be a HCI default, when it's hardly ever working?

2020-09-02 Thread thomas
In this specific case Ieven used virgin hardware originally. Once I managed to kill the hosted-engine by downgrading the datacenter cluster to legacy, I re-installed all gluster storage from the VDO level up. No traces of a file system should be left with LVM and XFS on top, even if I didn't

[ovirt-users] How can Gluster be a HCI default, when it's hardly ever working?

2020-08-31 Thread thomas
I've just tried to verify what you said here. As a base line I started with the 1nHCI Gluster setup. From four VMs, two legacy, two Q35 on the single node Gluster, one survived the import, one failed silently with an empty disk, two failed somewhere in the middle of qemu-img trying to write

[ovirt-users] Re: How can you avoid breaking 4.3.11 legacy VMs imported in 4.4.1 during a migration?

2020-08-31 Thread thomas
Thanks for the suggestion, I tried that, but I didn't get very far on a single node HCI cluster... And I'm afraid it won't be much better on HCI in general, which is really the use case I am most interested in. Silently converting VMs is something rather unexpected from a hypervisor, doing it

[ovirt-users] Re: Promiscuous Mode

2020-08-31 Thread thomas
Not sure it will actually do that, but if you create a new network profile, you can select a 'port mirroring' option: It is my understanding that is what you need. You may also want to deselect the filtering rules in the same place. ___ Users mailing

[ovirt-users] Re: can't mount an export domain with 4K block size (VDO) as PosixFS (xfs)

2020-08-31 Thread thomas
I like playing with shiny new toys and VDO is one :-) Actually with that it shouldn't matter if whatever is put on top actually has spare allocation in the file format or just blocks with zeros, which makes for a reusable HDD in case I am working with imageio images that are raw. Good to know

[ovirt-users] Re: How can you avoid breaking 4.3.11 legacy VMs imported in 4.4.1 during a migration?

2020-08-31 Thread thomas
On a machine that survived the import, that worked as expected. May want to add that to a check list, that the original machine type for legacy isn't carried over after an import but needs to be set explicitly. ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org

[ovirt-users] Re: How can you avoid breaking 4.3.11 legacy VMs imported in 4.4.1 during a migration?

2020-08-31 Thread thomas
I might have found one: You can set the emulated machine to 'legacy' before the first launch. No idea yet, if it will actually work, because the boot disk was copied empty... ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to

[ovirt-users] How can you avoid breaking 4.3.11 legacy VMs imported in 4.4.1 during a migration?

2020-08-31 Thread thomas
Testing the 4.3 to 4.4 migration... what I describe here is facts is mostly observations and conjecture, could be wrong, just makes writing easier... While 4.3 seems to maintain a default emulated machine type (pc-i440fx-rhel7.6.0 by default), it doesn't actually allow setting it in the

[ovirt-users] can't mount an export domain with 4K block size (VDO) as PosixFS (xfs)

2020-08-31 Thread thomas
After this (https://devconfcz2020a.sched.com/event/YOtG/ovirt-4k-teaching-an-old-dog-new-tricks) I sure do not expect this (log below): Actually I am trying to evaluate just how portable oVirt storage is and this case I had prepared a USB3 HDD with VDO, which I could literally move between

[ovirt-users] Re: Error exporting into ova

2020-08-30 Thread thomas
BTW: This is the message I get on the import: VDSM nucvirt command HSMGetAllTasksStatusesVDS failed: value=low level Image copy failed: ("Command ['/usr/bin/qemu-img', 'convert', '-p', '-t', 'none', '-T', 'none', '-f', 'qcow2',

[ovirt-users] Re: Error exporting into ova

2020-08-30 Thread thomas
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 2:31 AM > You should really try the attach/detach storage domain, this is the > recommended way to move > vms from one ovirt system to another. > > You could detach the entire domain with all vms from the old system, > and connect it to the new > system, without

[ovirt-users] Re: How to Backup a VM

2020-08-30 Thread thomas
Struggling with bugs and issues on OVA export/import (my clear favorite otherwise, especially when moving VMs between different types of hypervisors), I've tried pretty much everything else, too. Export domains are deprecated and require quite a bit of manual handling. Unfortunately the

[ovirt-users] Re: Hosted Engine stuck in Firmware

2020-08-30 Thread thomas
Thanks for diving into that mess first, because it allowed me to understand what I had done as well... In my case the issue was a VM moved from 4.3 to 4.4 seemed to be silently upgraded from "default" (whatever was default on 4.3) to "Q35", which seems to be the new default of 4.4. But that

[ovirt-users] Re: deprecating export domain?

2020-08-30 Thread thomas
While I am trying to prepare a migration from 4.3 to 4.4 with the base OS switch, I am exploring all variants of moving VMs. OVA export/import and export domains have issues and failures so now I am trying backup domains and fail to understand how they are to be used and the sparse

[ovirt-users] Re: Error exporting into ova

2020-08-27 Thread thomas
I am testing the migration from CentOS7/oVirt 4.3 to CentOS8/oVirt 4.4. Exporting all VMs to OVAs, and re-importing them on a new cluster built from scratch seems the safest and best method, because in the step-by-step migration, there is simply far too many things that can go wrong and no easy

[ovirt-users] Re: TroubleshootingoVirt Node deploy FQDN not reachable

2020-08-27 Thread thomas
Just fresh from a single node HCI setup (CentOS 8 + oVirt 4.4.1) I did yesterday on an Intel i7-8559U NUC with a single 1TB NVMe storage stick and 64GB of RAM: The HCI wizard pretty much assumes a "second disk", but a partition will actually do. And it doesn't even have to be in /dev/mapper,

[ovirt-users] Re: Is the Hosted Engine setup finished + Can't connect vdsm storage

2020-08-27 Thread thomas
It would be interesting to know, how the previous team got to six nodes: I don't remember seeing any documentation how to do that easily... However, this state of affairs also seems to be quite normal, whenever I reboot a single node HCI setup: I've seen that with two systems now, one running

[ovirt-users] Re: Gluster Volume Type Distributed

2020-08-27 Thread thomas
Replicated is pretty much hard coded into all the Ansible scripts for the HCI setup. So you can't do anything but replicated and only choose between arbiter or full replica there. Distributed give you anything with three nodes, but with five, seven, nine or really high numbers, it becomes quite

[ovirt-users] ovirt 4.4 self-hosted deployment questions

2020-08-27 Thread Michael Thomas
I have not been able to find answers to a couple of questions in the self-hosted engine documentation[1]. * When installing a new Enterprise Linux host for ovirt, what are the network requirements? Specifically, am I supposed to set up the ovirtmgmt bridge myself on new hosts, or am I

[ovirt-users] oVirt nested on oVirt works, when you enable MAC spoofing on host VMs

2020-08-13 Thread thomas
Howto: Create a new network profile that doesn't have the MAC spoofing filter included. In my case I used one without any filters, you may want to be more careful. Background: I had tried the nested approach with the default settings and found that the hosted-engine setup worked just find to

[ovirt-users] Re: Request for feedback about "Overview of Networking in oVirt"

2020-08-12 Thread thomas
One of the many cases where nested virtualization would be quite handy for testing... If only it worked with oVirt on top of oVirt... ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statement:

[ovirt-users] Re: Support for Shared SAS storage

2020-08-12 Thread thomas
> > Since 4.4 is the last feature release, this will never change even if it is > not > documented. > > Nir Hi Nir, could you please clarfiy: What does "last feature release" mean here: Is oVirt being feature frozen in preparation to something more drastic?

[ovirt-users] Re: Is the udev settling issue more wide spread? Getting failed 'qemu-img -convert' also while copying disks between data and vmstore domains

2020-08-11 Thread thomas
Hi Strahil, no updates, especially since I am stuck on 4.3.11 and they tell us it's final. Glusterfs is 6.9-1.el7. Apart from those three VMs and the inability to copy disks the whole farm runs fine so far. Where would I configure the verbosity of logging? Can't find an obvious config option.

[ovirt-users] Re: Request for feedback about "Overview of Networking in oVirt"

2020-08-11 Thread thomas
Thanks for putting in the effort! I learned a lot of new things. I also learned that I need to learn a few more now. The table could use some alternating background or a grid: Too easy to get lost. Environments change over time, e.g. you find you really should have split the management,

[ovirt-users] Re: Hosted Engine Deployment stuck at 3. Prepare VM

2020-08-11 Thread thomas
I came across this in an environment where the proxy was very slow. The downloaded image for the appliance gets deleted every so often (and perhaps also via the cleanup script), so when it needs to be reloaded from the internet, it can take its time, because its quite large (>1GB). Another

[ovirt-users] Is the udev settling issue more wide spread? Getting failed 'qemu-img -convert' also while copying disks between data and vmstore domains

2020-08-11 Thread thomas
While trying to diagnose an issue with a set of VMs that get stopped for I/O problems at startup, I try to deal with the fact that their boot disks cause this issue, no matter where I connect them. They might have been the first disks I ever tried to sparsify and I was afraid that might have

[ovirt-users] Re: hosted-engine upgrade from 4.3 to 4.4 fails with "Cannot edit VM."

2020-08-10 Thread thomas
If the defalt blank template from a fresh install had enabled high-availability, that would be a bug. But if someone had set this on their blank template, I can see how that would cause such an issue and I can just imagine the drama behind finding it... It seems common enough to code for it!

[ovirt-users] Re: OVA export creates empty and unusable images

2020-08-10 Thread thomas
ven't seen the need when moving VMs between VB/VMware/Hyper-V. And with Windows VMs, starting with W7/W2012 it's become almost a no-op, just pop it in and it will adjust with little more than a reboot, unless you want those virtio drivers for speed. > > Thanks Thomas, this is very useful fee

[ovirt-users] Re: Why OVA imports failed (the other reason...)

2020-08-07 Thread thomas
Here is the explanation, I think: root 12319 12313 15 16:59 pts/000:00:56 qemu-img convert -O qcow2 /dev/loop0 /rhev/data-center/mnt/glusterSD/192.168.0.91:_vmstore/9d1b8774-c5dc-46a8-bfa2-6a6db5851195/images/3be7c1bb-377c-4d5e-b4f6-1a6574b8a52b/845cdd93-def8-4d84-9a08-f8c991f89fe3 This

[ovirt-users] Why OVA imports failed (the other reason...)

2020-08-07 Thread thomas
Empty disks from exports that went wrong didn't help. But that's fixed now, even if I can't fully validate the OVA exports on VMware and VirtualBox. The export/import target for the *.ova files is an SSD hosted xfs file system on a pure compute Xeon D oVirt node, exported and automounted to the

[ovirt-users] Re: Has anyone ever had success importing an OVA VM exported from oVirt to VirtualBox or VMware? On Windows?

2020-08-07 Thread thomas
Not yet, because I was fighting a nasty outage, evidently created from importing, starting and deleting images too quickly for my Atoms + Xeon-D based test farm... But it's on the list :-) Ciao, Thomas ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org

[ovirt-users] Has anyone ever had success importing an OVA VM exported from oVirt to VirtualBox or VMware? On Windows?

2020-08-06 Thread thomas
After applying the OVA export patch, that ensured disk content was actually written ino the OVA image, I have been able to transfer *.ova VMs between two oVirt clusters. There are still problems that I will report once I have fully tested what's going on, but in the mean-time for all those, who

[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt Hyperconverged question

2020-08-06 Thread thomas
I have done that, even added five nodes that contribute a separate Gluster file system using dispersed (erasure codes, more efficient) mode. But in another cluster with such a 3-node-HCI base, I had a lot (3 or 4) of compute nodes, that were actually dual-boot or just shut off when not used:

[ovirt-users] Re: Thin Provisioned to Preallocated

2020-08-06 Thread thomas
If OVA export and import work for you, you get to chose between the two at import. ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of

[ovirt-users] Do distinct export domains share a name space? Can't export a VM, because it already exists in an unattached export domain...

2020-08-05 Thread thomas
After OVA export/import was a) recommended against b) not working with the current 4.3 on CentOS 7, I am trying to make sure I keep working copies of critical VMs before I test if the OVA export now works properly, with the Redhat fix from 4.4. applied to 4.3. Long story short, I have an

[ovirt-users] Re: OVA export creates empty and unusable images

2020-08-04 Thread thomas
HI Gianluca, I have had a look at the change and it's a single line of code added on the hosted-engine. I'll verify that it's working 4.3 and will make a note of checking it with engine upgrade, which for now seems the less troublesome approach. Hopefully it will get integrated/backported

[ovirt-users] Re: OVA export creates empty and unusable images

2020-08-04 Thread thomas
Dear Nir, I am sorry if that sounded too harsh. I do appreciate what you are doing! The thing is, that my only chances at getting my employer to go with the commercial variant depend a lot on the upstream project showing already demonstratable usability in the research lab. Just try to

[ovirt-users] Re: OVA export creates empty and unusable images

2020-08-04 Thread thomas
Nir, first of all, thanks a lot for the detailed description and the quick fix in 4.4! I guess I'll be able to paste that single line fix into the 4.3. variant myself, but I'd rather see that included in the next 4.3 release, too: How would that work? --- "OVA is not a backup solution": From

[ovirt-users] Re: OVA export creates empty and unusable images

2020-08-01 Thread thomas
Unfortunately that means OVA export/import doesn't seem to be a QA test case for oVirt releases... which would make me want to drop it like a hot potato, if there was any alternative at this point. I guess my biggest mistake was to assume that oVirt was like CentOS.

[ovirt-users] Re: OVA export creates empty and unusable images

2020-08-01 Thread thomas
I confirm, I get "qemu-img: /dev/loop0: error while converting qcow2: Could not open device: Permission denied", too. You've nailed it and Nir has pasted your log into the bug report 1862115. ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe

[ovirt-users] Re: OVA export creates empty and unusable images

2020-07-31 Thread thomas
Wow, it seems a good find for a potential reason! I'd totally subscribe to the cause, if it only affected my Atom HCI clusters, who have had timing issues so bad, even the initial 3 node HCI setup had to be run on a 5 GHz Kaby Lake to succeed, because my J5005 Atoms evidently were too slow.

[ovirt-users] Re: testing ovirt 4.4 as single node VM inside 4.3

2020-07-31 Thread thomas
Hi Nir, performance is not really an issue here, we're most interested in functional testing and migration support. That's where nesting 4.4 on top of 4.3 would be a crucial migration enabler, especially since you don't support a 7/8 or 4.3/4.4 mix that much elsewhere. Currently my tests

[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt 4.4.1 HCI single server deployment failed nested-kvm

2020-07-31 Thread thomas
Just looking at the release notes, using anything 'older' in the case of 4.4 seems very rough going... Testing 4.4 was actually how I got into the nesting domain this time around, because I didn't have physical hardware left for another HCI cluster. Testing of oVirt 4.4 on top of oVirt 4.3

[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt 4.4.1 HCI single server deployment failed nested-kvm

2020-07-31 Thread thomas
That's exactly the point: Running oVirt on top of a vanilla KVM seems to be the only case supported, because the Redhat engineers use that themselves for development, testing and demoing. Running virtual machines nested inside an oVirt VM via KVM also works per se, as HostedEngineLocal during

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