[ovirt-users] Link multiple self-hosted engines

2022-03-14 Thread ravi k
Hello, We are planning to install self-hosted engines in our production and DR locations which are separated physically. VMware's vcenter has a feature wherein we can link vcenters so we can access both DCs in the same console. Do we have something like that in oVirt as well? I was searching

[ovirt-users] Re: Link multiple self-hosted engines

2022-03-14 Thread ravi k
The thread https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/thread/CD5WDA2Y77MHQOV73DQ5UA7W3YO7COUY/ also suggests using ManageIQ. I'll read more on that to find out. ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to

[ovirt-users] Re: OVS switch type for hosted-engine

2022-03-10 Thread ravi k
I tried this and it didn't work. In 4.3 the option to change the switch type is not allowed. I still changed the switch type of ovirtmgmt in the file and rebooted. But it didn't have any effect. Isn't there a way we can specify OVS as switch type when installing the self-hosted engine?

[ovirt-users] Re: OVS switch type for hosted-engine

2022-03-09 Thread ravi k
> Just to close this thread, we were able to manually convert our hosted-engine > 4.1.1 Hello Devin, Thanks a lot for this. I was setting up a cluster and intended it enable OVN in it. I came across this thread when searching for a solution. Does this change in 4.3 version or 4.4 so we can

[ovirt-users] New oVirt self-hosted engine deployment : design ideas

2022-03-09 Thread ravi k
Hello, We are creating a self-hosted engine deployment and have come up with a draft design. I thought I'll get your thoughts on improving it. It is still a test setup and so we can make changes to make it resilient. We have four hosts, host01..04. I did the self-hosted engine deployment on the

[ovirt-users] Re: New oVirt self-hosted engine deployment : design ideas

2022-03-09 Thread ravi k
> If you are going to have more hosts, please note that it's not > recommended to have more than 8 hosted-engine hosts. So if you'll > still want to keep them all in the same cluster, some of them will be > HE hosts and some not - this might be slightly confusing, depending on > your use case.

[ovirt-users] New virtual machine default properties

2022-03-04 Thread ravi k
Hello, We are currently using oVirt version 4.3.10.4-1.0.22.el7. When we click on create new VM, the OS is selected as "other OS" and "optimized for" is desktop. I'm creating the VMs from Ansible. The problem is that the "video type" is defaulting to QXL due to which the VM is failing to start

[ovirt-users] Re: Network filters in oVirt : zero-trust, IP and port filtering

2022-04-01 Thread ravi k
I've created the below filter. The intention is that it will allow incoming traffic only from SRCIP parameter and within the port range. However I'm still able to access the VM from other IPs as well. We are running oVirt 4.3 and the networks are vlan tagged. virsh -r nwfilter-dumpxml

[ovirt-users] Re: Installing a windows vm from importing an OVA Template

2022-02-04 Thread ravi k
Hello, I work along with Moiz and here's what we tried. We created a blank VM, loaded Windows 2016 ISO and booted it up. When we select the OS as Windows 2016 x64 the ISO is loaded but the screen is stuck with the windows logo. The CPU spikes up to 99%. However if we select the OS as 'Other

[ovirt-users] Network filters in oVirt : zero-trust, IP and port filtering

2022-02-08 Thread ravi k
Good people of the community, Hope you are all doing well. We are exploring the network filters in oVirt to check if we can implement a zero-trust model at the network level. The intention is to have a filter which takes two parameters, IP and PORT. After that there will be a 'deny all' rule.

[ovirt-users] Re: Network filters in oVirt : zero-trust, IP and port filtering

2022-02-08 Thread ravi k
> you can use it from the engine under some conditions. > 1) You need to make sure that all hosts have this filter. > 2) You need to define this filter in engine DB otherwise you would need > some kind of hook to apply it. Thanks a lot for that. If there's any doc that hints on how to define the

[ovirt-users] New oVirt setup with OVN : Hypervisor with LACP bond : queries

2022-01-22 Thread ravi k
Hello team, Thank you for all the wonderful work you've been doing. I'm starting out new with oVirt and OVN. So please excuse me if the questions are too naive. We intend to do a POC to check if we can migrate VMs off our current VMware to oVirt. The intention is to migrate the VMs with the

[ovirt-users] Re: New oVirt setup with OVN : Hypervisor with LACP bond : queries

2022-01-24 Thread ravi k
> Can you give some more details about your current vSphere infrastructure? > What about the level of downtime you could give when migrating? > Have you already planned the strategy to transfer your VMs from vSphere to > oVirt? We are still in the initial stages and so conducting a POC. > Take

[ovirt-users] Re: New oVirt setup with OVN : Hypervisor with LACP bond : queries

2022-01-24 Thread ravi k
> You should not run ovn-config manually, if the host bond0 has ovirtmgmt on > top of it. That is all done by host deploy. The step might be needed if you > want to have a tunnel on a different interface than ovirtmgmt is using. Thanks for that. We performed a normal oVirt install and as a part

[ovirt-users] Re: New oVirt setup with OVN : Hypervisor with LACP bond : queries

2022-01-25 Thread ravi k
>With those conditions you don't need to start any > service, everything should be running and the hosts installed > in the cluster will have tunnels ready on ovirtmgmt. Thanks for that. It is clear now. We have an existing oVirt setup with logical networks created. In order to test OVN we are

[ovirt-users] Duplicate nameserver in Host causing unassigned state when adding. possible bug?

2022-04-08 Thread ravi k
Hello all, We are running oVirt 4.3.10.4-1.0.22.el7. I noticed an interesting issue or a possible bug yesterday. I was trying to add a host when I noticed that it was failing and the host status was going into 'unassigned' state. I saw the below error in the engine log.

[ovirt-users] new host addition to OVN cluster fails with Connectivity check failed, rolling back

2022-04-21 Thread ravi k
Hello, I have a a oVirt 4.3 installation with two clusters. One of the cluster has switch type as OVS. I'm trying to add a second host to this cluster. I did a clean install of the OS, configured bond0 and bond0.2306 as the VLAN interface. I was able to add the host to the cluster. When I go

[ovirt-users] Re: new host addition to OVN cluster fails with Connectivity check failed, rolling back

2022-04-25 Thread ravi k
Hi Sandro, Thanks for that. I remember you mentioned this in another post too :) I posted about this as there might be some users using 4.3 and might pitch in with some ideas. We're starting out with a greenfield setup. Would you suggest that we rather go with 4.4 directly? Regards, Ravi

[ovirt-users] Re: new host addition to OVN cluster fails with Connectivity check failed, rolling back

2022-04-26 Thread ravi k
> I would suggest to rather go with 4.5 directly. Thanks. I'm afraid we may not be able to go with 4.5 yet as we're going with Oracle. Regards, Ravi ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org

[ovirt-users] Re: new host addition to OVN cluster fails with Connectivity check failed, rolling back

2022-05-19 Thread ravi k
What's surprising is we're seeing the same issue in 4.4.8 as well. Sadly even this is also EOL now. ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statement:

[ovirt-users] adding host to cluster with ovs switch failing

2022-05-26 Thread ravi k
Hello all, I'm facing a strange error. I was able to add a host to a linux bridge based cluster. However if I try adding the host to a cluster with OVS switch it is failing. I can see that nmstate was able to create the ovirtmgmt bridge as well. At that point of time both the ovirtmgmt and the

[ovirt-users] what happens during a host bootstrap

2022-05-25 Thread ravi k
Hello, When we add a host to ovirt, the steps at a high level are virtualization checks, installation of packages, and creation of a bridge. Can someone please share more details around the bridge creation? I'll try explaining what I observed. We have a bond0 and the ip is assigned to

[ovirt-users] Re: LACP across multiple switches

2022-05-25 Thread ravi k
> For the ovirtmgmt there’s some caveats to add it on top of bonds. I’m not > sure if as today > is solved, but you need to preconfigure vdsm if you want the bonded > interfaces to host > ovirtmgmt. Can you please elaborate on the "preconfigure vdsm if you want the bonded interfaces to host

[ovirt-users] why ovirtmgmt requires untagged network

2022-06-03 Thread ravi k
Hello, I tried searching the archives but couldn't find anything related, so posting a new thread. When adding a new host to the cluster, why do we need to assign the IP on an untagged network in the bond? It is failing with error in setupnetworks when we tried it with the IP assigned to a

[ovirt-users] Re: OVN routing and firewalling in oVirt

2022-04-17 Thread ravi k
Thank you very much for listing down the steps. It's been 5 years. So I'm not sure if we still need to create LRPs and LSPs manually? I ask because I do not see any provision in the oVirt interface. If we have a large number of networks defined in OVN, then it'll be a task to add the LRPs and

[ovirt-users] OVN in oVirt : practical use cases

2022-04-17 Thread ravi k
Hello, I was exploring OVN in oVirt and got thinking as to where it's practical use cases are? Folks who've implemented it in their production environments, can you please explain how you are using OVN in your environment. It seemed to be a bit complex for implementing and maintaining. It might

[ovirt-users] static IP with OVN subnet

2022-09-16 Thread ravi k
Hello, Hope you are all doing well. We have an interesting thing going on and so wanted to share with you all for some ideas and feedback. We configured a cluster with OVS switch and added an external network with subnet. So OVN started managing the subnet using DHCP. But here's the problem.