[ovirt-users] Re: Beginning oVirt / Hyperconverged

2019-11-11 Thread thomas
I guess this is a little late now... but: I wanted to do the same, especially because the additional servers (beyond 3) would lower the relative storage cost overhead when using erasure coding, but it's 'off the trodden path' and I cannot recommend it, after seeing just how fragile the whole ho

[ovirt-users] Re: SSBD issues on live cluster

2019-11-15 Thread thomas
Hi Christian, I'd say that the CPUs aren't perfectly uniform in terms of capabilities and microcode patches. "ssbd" is a speculative store bypass, as far as I know and if your host doesn't have the µ-code patches installed but your cluster definition has them (based typically on the machine use

[ovirt-users] Re: SSBD issues on live cluster

2019-11-15 Thread thomas
After re-reading... The primary host determines the CPU base requirements. But in this case the base may be newer than what the canned hosted image for the hosted-engine supports initially (before you update it). So by deactivating the mitigations temporarily via a boot flag on the host, you c

[ovirt-users] Re: SSBD issues on live cluster

2019-11-15 Thread thomas
I have a somewhat similar issue because I use J5005 based Atom boxes for oVirt in the home-lab, but these fail strangely during installation and are just hair-tairingly slow during installation. So I move to a Kaby-Lake desktop for the installation and then need to downgrade all the way to Neha

[ovirt-users] Re: SSBD issues on live cluster

2019-11-15 Thread thomas
At least you're not alone: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1745181 Now since that Epyc is useless: Do you want to swap for a J5005? (tschuldigung... konnte mich wieder nicht bremsen) All that code is Python somewhere, so you can find who adds that tag and suppress it until they fix

[ovirt-users] Re: hyperconverged single node with SSD cache fails gluster creation

2019-11-28 Thread thomas
caching with 550GB size (note that it fails to apply that value beyond the first node). Has anyone else tried a hyperconverged 3-node with SSD caching with success recently? Thanks for your feedback and help so far, Thomas ___ Users mailing list -- us

[ovirt-users] 3node HCI fails when HostedEngineLocal is trying to add additional Gluster members

2019-12-01 Thread thomas
Three Gen8 HP360 recalled from retirement with single 1TB TLC SATA SSD for boot and oVirt /engine and 7x4TB HDD RAID6 for /vmstore and /data, 10Gbit NICs and network. All CentOS 7.7 updated daily. These machines may not be used exclusively for oVirt so I don't want to re-install the OS, when a

[ovirt-users] Did a change in Ansible 2.9 in the ovirt_vm_facts module break the hosted-engine-setup?

2019-12-04 Thread thomas
I am having problems installing a 3-node HCI cluster on machines that used to work fine and on a fresh set of servers, too. After a series of setbacks on a set of machines with failed installations and potentially failed clean-ups, I am ssing a fresh set of servers that had never run oVirt

[ovirt-users] Re: 3node HCI fails when HostedEngineLocal is trying to add additional Gluster members

2019-12-04 Thread thomas
Thanks Strahil, for your suggestions. Actually, I was far beyond the pick-up point you describe, as the Gluster had all been prepared and was operable, even the local VM was already running and accessible via the GUI. But I picked up your hint to try to continue with the scripted variant, and

[ovirt-users] Re: 3node HCI fails when HostedEngineLocal is trying to add additional Gluster members

2019-12-04 Thread thomas
After spending another couple of hours trying to track down the problem, I have found that the "lost connection" seems due to KVM shutting down, because it cannot find the certificates for the Spice and VNC connections in /etc/pki/vdsm/*, where 'ovirt-hosted-engine-cleanup' deleted them. So now

[ovirt-users] Re: Gluster set up fails - Nearly there I think...

2019-12-11 Thread thomas
The error message "/dev/sdXX has been excluded by a filter" is potentially very misleading, because it catches all sorts of conditions. Basically any known storage signature on the storage you may recycle (perhaps from a previous attempt) will trigger this. The functionality is more of a feature,

[ovirt-users] Re: Issue deploying self hosted engine on new install

2019-12-11 Thread thomas
Yes, I have had the same and posted about it here somewhere: I believe it's an incompatible Ansible change. Here is the critical part if the message below: "The 'ovirt_host_facts' module has been renamed to 'ovirt_host_info', and the renamed one no longer returns ansible_facts" and that change

[ovirt-users] Re: Issue deploying self hosted engine on new install

2019-12-11 Thread thomas
This is the reference https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/thread/YWAPIHYM7RMJIWFBC5WCAAWG3EQIGTRZ/ ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/

[ovirt-users] Re: CPU Type compatibility matrix

2019-12-11 Thread thomas
Actually oVirt simply makes the node you initially install the HostedEngine on the baseline, which is why it says in the docs that you should run it from your "oldest" machine to ensure it doesn't fall over in case an even older host wins the contest for running the management engine VM after "H

[ovirt-users] Re: 3node HCI fails when HostedEngineLocal is trying to add additional Gluster members

2019-12-11 Thread thomas
Hi Strahil, first of all, thanks for following up on this... I think I'll put that list of yours on the wall: It's a key piece of documentation that I found missing: Perhaps you could reconstruct it from systemd dependencies, but... I may not have rebooted... it takes a long time on these olde

[ovirt-users] Mixing compute and storage without (initial) HCI

2019-12-11 Thread thomas
Some documentation, especially on older RHEV versions seems to indicate that Gluster storage roles and compute server roles in an oVirt cluster or actually exclusive. Yet HCI is all about doing both, which is slightly confusing when you try to overcome HCI issues simply by running the managemen

[ovirt-users] Re: Did a change in Ansible 2.9 in the ovirt_vm_facts module break the hosted-engine-setup?

2019-12-12 Thread thomas
This seems to be a much bigger generic issue with Ansible 2.9. Here is an excerpt from the release notes: "Renaming from _facts to _info Ansible 2.9 renamed a lot of modules from _facts to _info, because the modules do not return Ansible facts. Ansible facts relate to a specific host. For exam

[ovirt-users] Re: HCL: 4.3.7: Hosted engine fails

2019-12-12 Thread thomas
You may just be able to use the username and password already created during the installation: vdsm@ovirt/shibboleth. ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org

[ovirt-users] Re: Did a change in Ansible 2.9 in the ovirt_vm_facts module break the hosted-engine-setup?

2019-12-12 Thread thomas
Thanks Martin, that actually helps a lot, because I was afraid of the implications. So the error must really be elsewhere. I am having another look at the logs from the HostedEngineLocal and it seems to complain that no Gluster members are up, not even the initial one. I also saw no entries in

[ovirt-users] Re: Did a change in Ansible 2.9 in the ovirt_vm_facts module break the hosted-engine-setup?

2019-12-12 Thread thomas
What got me derailed was the "ERROR" tag and the fact that it was the last thing to happen on the outside ("waiting for engine to be up"), while the HostedEngineLocal on the inside was looking for Gluster members it couldn't find... ___ Users mailing l

[ovirt-users] Re: multiple subnets on hosts for vm's

2020-04-12 Thread thomas
I'd basically like to second the "request" or question: I started on an /28 allocation, because that was the only available at the time. In the mean-time I managed to get hold of a full class C net, which I'd like to use for the VMs on a 3-node HCI with a couple of extra compute and gluster stor

[ovirt-users] oVirt thrashes Docker network during installation

2020-04-12 Thread thomas
I want to run containers and VMs side by side and not necessarily nested. The main reason for that is GPUs, Voltas mostly, used for CUDA machine learning not for VDI, which is what most of the VM orchestrators like oVirt or vSphere seem to focus on. And CUDA drivers are notorious for refusing to

[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt thrashes Docker network during installation

2020-04-12 Thread thomas
Hi Strahil, color me surprised, too, especially considering where things are supposed to go in terms of roadmap. Yet again, both oVIrt and Docker could be excused to think that they "own the hardware" they are running on, because it's a rather natural assumption, even if there are good reason

[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt thrashes Docker network during installation

2020-04-12 Thread thomas
The general idea was, that with oVirt I'd get a little more automation and benefits than with just using VirtualBox as a GUI for KVMs. Boy did I underestimate the amount of intellectual investment for the first value return. Turned out quite a bit bigger than vSphere, but much more intriguing,

[ovirt-users] Non storage nodes erronously included in quota calculations for HCI?

2020-05-19 Thread thomas
For my home-lab I operate a 3 node HCI cluster on 100% passive Atoms, mostly to run light infrastructure services such as LDAP and NextCloud. I then add workstations or even laptops as pure compute hosts to the cluster for bigger but temporary things, that might actually run a different OS most

[ovirt-users] Re: Upgrade Memory of oVirt Nodes

2020-05-19 Thread thomas
Just like Strahil, I would expect this to work just fine. RAM differences are actually the smallest concern, unless you run out of it in the mean-time. And there you may want to be careful and perhaps move VMs around manually with such a small HCI setup. oVirt will properly optimize the VMs and

[ovirt-users] Re: Non storage nodes erronously included in quota calculations for HCI?

2020-05-20 Thread thomas
OK ;-) 3 node HCI 2+1 data/arbiter added 3 compute-only nodes via host install without HE support which add no storage to the gluster (install still adds them as peers). With 2 compute-only nodes inactive/down I updated the third compute node (no contributing bricks) and saw all VMs pausing and

[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt 4.4.0 Release is now generally available

2020-05-20 Thread thomas
My enthusiasm for CentOS8 is limited. My enthusiasm for a hard migration even more so. So how much time do I have before 4.3 becomes inoperable? ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statem

[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt 4.4.0 Release is now generally available

2020-06-17 Thread thomas
Ciao Sandro, just tried to re-install a Centos7 based HCI cluster because it had moved to another network. And from what I can tell it fails because Gobinda Das introduced a hot-fix into 'gluster-ansible-infra/roles/backend_setup/tasks/vdo_create.yml' that adds a '--maxDiscardSize 16M' option

[ovirt-users] Does a slow Web proxy (can't run the update-check) ruin HA scores? (Solved, ...but really?)

2020-06-27 Thread thomas
Running a couple of oVirt clusters on left-over hardware in an R&D niche of the data center. Lots of switches/proxies still at 100Mbit and just checking for updates via 'yum update' can take awhile, even time out 2 times of out 3. The network between the nodes is 10Gbit though, faster than any o

[ovirt-users] Re: Does a slow Web proxy (can't run the update-check) ruin HA scores? (Solved, ...but really?)

2020-06-27 Thread thomas
I'd say you were close! I tried fiddling with the penalties, but that didn't do anything good. But once I found that hosted-engine --vm-status displayed the score across the hosts, I found them to be very low constantly, the 1600 gateway penalty seems a proper match. I then reinstalled the clus

[ovirt-users] Re: engine failure

2020-06-27 Thread thomas
Not sure I understand your interest for an older repo. I am still regularly doing ovirt 4.3 installs just by not chosing the 4.4 repo, which is exclusively CentOS 8 (while 4.3 is exclusively CentOS 7: You cannot mix). Here is my current ovirt-4.3.repo: [root@ yum.repos.d]# more ovirt-4.3.repo [o

[ovirt-users] Re: NVMe-oF

2020-06-27 Thread thomas
Irgendwie habe ich das Gefühl, daß Dir da eine schlüsselfertige Lösung vorschwebt, die Du direkt verticken kannst... From what I have gathered, Redhat prefers to work with layers of abstraction. NVMe, whether it's direct attached or over a nice (Mellanox operated dual personality?) fabric will

[ovirt-users] OVA exported from oVirt cannot be imported in oVirt

2020-07-29 Thread thomas
I have successfully imported OVA files which came from VirtualBox before, something I'd consider the slightly greater hurdle. Exporting a VM to an OVA file and then importing it on another platform can obviously create compatibility issues, but oVirt <-> oVirt exports and imports with the same

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

2020-07-29 Thread thomas
I tried using nested virtualization, too, a couple of weeks ago. I was using a 3 node HCI CentOS 7.8 cluster and I got pretty far. Configuring KVM to work with nested page tables isn't all that well documented but I got there, I even installed some host extensions, that seem requried. Even the

[ovirt-users] Re: where is error log for OVA import

2020-07-29 Thread thomas
From what I have observed, OVA import seems to have two modes: If the OVA is a 'foreign' format, the ova file needs to be converted and that conversion effort is then logged into /var/log/vdsm/import on the oVirt node where in import runs. Import failures are then mostly an issue with the inabi

[ovirt-users] Re: Management Engine IP change

2020-07-29 Thread thomas
I honestly don't know, because I have not tried myself, so you might just want to stop reading right here. But from what I understand about the design philosophy of oVirt, it should be ok to change it, while nobody probably ever tested it and everybody would tell you it's a bad idea to do so, u

[ovirt-users] Re: Ovirt hypervisor as an DRBD node

2020-07-29 Thread thomas
I believe the oVirt team thought it easier to implement on GlusterFS, which AFAIK does pretty much what you want to do, but comes supported as part of the product as an (almost-)ready-to-use HCI. ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe

[ovirt-users] Re: Problem with paused VMs in ovirt 4.3.10.

2020-07-29 Thread thomas
Hi Damien, I'm afraid nobody will be able to help you here. What made the CPU jump into a sea of "FF FF FF FF..." can't be diagnosed remotely, but it's KVM that stopped, because that's not legal x86-64 code, nothing oVirt can do about it. Salut Damien, j'ai bien peur que personne ne puisse t'ai

[ovirt-users] Re: OVA import does not upload disks

2020-07-29 Thread thomas
I have the same issue, it seems, but AFAIK the problem is on the export side: While the OVA logical file size matches the size of the VM's disk, the actual storage usage on the VDO compressed and deduplicated NFS I use as export target per 'du -h *.ova' is a mere 28KB, while 'strings .ova' repor

[ovirt-users] Re: Hosted Engine Deployement

2020-07-29 Thread thomas
I might have run into similar issues at one point... And it might be where the network configuration on the installation host has already been partially changed to include the bridge that's used to communicate with HostedEngineLocal. The installation is not able to pick up cleanly from every po

[ovirt-users] Re: Non storage nodes erronously included in quota calculations for HCI?

2020-07-29 Thread thomas
Sorry Strahil, that I didn't get back to you on this... I dare not repeat the exercise, because I have no idea if I'll get out of such a complete break-down again cleanly. Since I don't have duplicate physical infrastructure to just test this behavior, I was going to use a big machine to run a

[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt thrashes Docker network during installation

2020-07-29 Thread thomas
Hi Jp, while the project looks intriging, it also looks still very whet behind the ears and nothing I could do on a side job time budget. ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: h

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

2020-07-30 Thread thomas
I've tested this now in three distinct farms with CentOS7.8 and the latest oVirt 4.3 release: OVA export files only contain an XML header and then lots of zeros where the disk images should be. Where an 'ls -l .ova' shows a file about the size of the disk, 'du -h .ova' shows mere kilobytes, 'st

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

2020-07-30 Thread thomas
Bongiorno Gianluca, I am entering the data in bugzilla right now... Logs: There is a problem, I have not found any log evidence of this export and import, I don't even know which component is actually doing this. For 'foreign' imports like VMware and other *.vmdk producing hypervisors, VDSM se

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

2020-07-30 Thread thomas
Here is the ticket: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1862115 ___ 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 Conduct: h

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

2020-07-30 Thread thomas
Export/Import/Transfer via export domain worked just fine. Just moved my last surviving Univention domain controller from the single node HCI disaster-recovery farm to the three node HCI primary, where I can now try to make it primary and start building new backups... Backups that do not work a

[ovirt-users] Re: It is possible to export a vm bigger as 5 TB?

2020-07-30 Thread thomas
Thanks to your log post, I was able to identify the proper place to find information about the export process. OVA exports don't fail for me, but result in empty disks, which is perhaps even worse. Two things I can suggest: Try with a new and smaller VM to see if it's actually a size related i

[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 t

[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 inc

[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 revea

[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. Bu

[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 send

[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

2020-08-04 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

2020-08-04 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 imagin

[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 also

[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 export

[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] 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: Ev

[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: 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.o

[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: 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] Re: OVA export creates empty and unusable images

2020-08-10 Thread thomas
t. Linux is so hypervisor enabled and comes with built-in guest additions, that I haven'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

[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] 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 mes

[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 sour

[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, storage,

[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: 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: 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: http

[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 th

[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] 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 4

[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, ev

[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: 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 documentatio

[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 ha

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

2020-08-30 Thread thomas
I found OVA export/import to be rather tricky. On the final 4.3 release there still remains a bug, which can lead to the OVA files containing nothing but zeros for the disks, a single line fix that only made it into 4.4 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1813028 Once I fixed that on 4.

[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 buttons

[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 copying

[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', '/rhev/data-center/mnt/petitcent.mtk.hoberg.net:_flash_export/fe9fb0

[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 f

[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 cluster

[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 user

[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: 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 t

[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 li

[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 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 the

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

2020-09-01 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 ac

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

2020-09-02 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 pyt

[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 farm

[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 mostly,

[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: https://www.ovirt.org/privac

[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 annou

[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 during

[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 eve

[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 caido

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