Hi,

If you want to upgrade from 4.3 to 4.4, keeping the SHE deployment, you can use 
the steps outlined in the 
https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/olvm44/olvm-4.4-admin-guide.pdf, chapter 5. 
It describes the process for OLVM but is the same for oVirt.

Marcos

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From: red...@intheoutback.com <red...@intheoutback.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 7:15 PM
To: users@ovirt.org
Subject: [External] : [ovirt-users] Migrating from a self hosted engine to 
standalone

Hi, I am in the process of moving our oVirt environment from a self hosted 
engine to a standalone engine on it's own HW. I have Googled and found a 
procedure for standalone > self hosted, but not the other way around. 

My current situation is that I have 5 locations running oVirt 4.3 with 3 to 4 
hypervisors and iSCSI storage backend, with a self hosted engine. All these 
locations are operational and short a downtime is acceptable if a must, losing 
a VM is NOT good.
I also have 1 oVirt environment 4.3 with 2 hypervisors and iSCSI backend that 
is my QA/Test.
All my networks are on internal networks with no outside world connections.

Most importantly, we are also looking at upgrading from 4.3 to 4.4

I have not found any straightforward way to migrate from self hosted to 
standalone.

My current plan is to do the following.
1) Create a new 4.4 standalone engine
2) Remove one hypervisor from the 4.3 cluster
3) Kickstart the hypervisor to RHEL 8.8 and configure ready for oVirt 4.4
4) Add the new host to the standalone engine.
5) Shutdown and export a number of VMs in the oVirt 4.3 and import them in to 
the new oVirt 4.4.
6) Repeat steps 2 > 5 until the everything is moved over.

Just wanting to get your expert opinions on this method or is there a much 
quicker easier method that will not risk the chances of losing the cluster/VMs 
or an extended outage.
Since we need to upgrade anyway from 4.3 to 4.4 I thought this the better 
method that upgrading the operational clusters.

Thanks
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