[ovirt-users] Re: Still having NFS issues. (Permissions)

2019-12-09 Thread Tony Brian Albers
On Mon, 2019-12-09 at 18:43 +, Robert Webb wrote: > To add, the 757 permission does not need to be on the .lease or the > .meta files. > > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/KZF6RCSRW2QV3PUEJCJW5DZ54DLAOGAA/ Good morning, Check SELinux just in case. Here's my conf

[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt on a Single Server

2020-01-20 Thread Tony Brian Albers
On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 07:35 +, webma...@hotmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > I can't seem to install the self-hosted engine onto local storage. It > gives me glustefs, iscsi, fc, and nfs as the available options. I'm > using this in a home-lab scenario, and don't have budget/etc. for > building out

[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt on a Single Server

2020-01-21 Thread Tony Brian Albers
f-hosted deployment methodology instead. > > Would a regular engine be better for my deployment type? If so, I can > investigate why that isn't working, and start over. > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Jan 20, 2020, at 11:46 PM, Tony Brian Albers wrote: >

[ovirt-users] Re: Backup software recommendations

2020-05-06 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Also: Storware vprotect Acronis Cyber Backup There might be others. /tony On Wed, 2020-05-06 at 16:03 +0800, Colin Coe wrote: > Thanks for the reply > > On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 15:18, wrote: > > Take Vinchin Backup & Recovery as a chioce, it can agentlessly > > backup RHV and Hyper-V. But curre

Re: [ovirt-users] Gluster: VM disk stuck in transfer; georep gone wonky

2018-03-20 Thread Tony Brian Albers
I read somewhere about clearing out wrong stuff from the UI by manually editing the database, maybe you can try searching for something like that. With regards to the VM, I'd probably just delete it, edit the DB and remove all sorts of references to it and then recover it from backup. Is there

Re: [ovirt-users] Hardware critique

2018-04-06 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Also keep in mind that extensive logging in the vm's can seriously impact your fs performance, so using a central syslogserver is a really good idea. /tony On 2018-04-06 17:03, Karli Sjöberg wrote: > > > Den 6 apr. 2018 15:46 skrev Jayme : > > Yaniv, > > I appreciate your input, th

Re: [ovirt-users] Performance Issue

2018-04-18 Thread Tony Brian Albers
You need a lot faster disks to keep up with all that random I/O. "Storage IO is average on 75 M/s Read Disk and 25 Write Disk. ( SSD > Raid )" Ehm, are you running VM's on a DD box? Why on earth would you do that? /tony On 2018-04-18 14:09, Thomas Fecke wrote: > Atleast we found the Bott

Re: [ovirt-users] Performance Issue

2018-04-18 Thread Tony Brian Albers
On 18/04/18 14:54, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 2:25 PM, Tony Brian Albers <mailto:t...@kb.dk>> wrote: > > You need a lot faster disks to keep up with all that random I/O. > > "Storage IO is average on 75 M/s Read Disk and 25 Write D

Re: [ovirt-users] Posix FS as alternative to local storage?

2018-04-30 Thread Tony Brian Albers
On 30/04/18 11:43, Eduardo Mayoral wrote: > Hi, > >     I would like to set up a new oVirt deployment with hosts that have > the VMs running on local attached storage. I understand this has the > requirement of having each host in its own cluster (and own datacenter, > it seems, I understand the

[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt web console for VM

2018-06-08 Thread Tony Brian Albers
On linux you shoudl use virt-viewer to open the .vv file. I have no idea how to do it on mac or windows /tony On 08/06/18 11:05, Hari Prasanth Loganathan wrote: > Thanks for the respinse Pavol. > > When I click on console, It is downloading the file console.vv, But not > opening a console for

[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt web console for VM

2018-06-08 Thread Tony Brian Albers
ibvirt with URI [none] * > > > Thanks, > Hari > > > On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 2:48 PM, Tony Brian Albers <mailto:t...@kb.dk>> wrote: > > On linux you shoudl use virt-viewer to open the .vv file. I have no > idea > how to do it on mac or windows

[ovirt-users] Re: Issue with NFS and Storage domain setup

2018-08-16 Thread Tony Brian Albers
On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:21:35 +0800 Inquirer Guy wrote: > Adding to the below issue, my NODE01 can see the NFS share i created from > the ENGINE01 which I don't know how it got through because when I add a > storage domain from the ovirt engine I still get the error > > It looks to me like you'

[ovirt-users] Re: ovirt question

2020-10-14 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Hi, Read the docs at: https://ovirt.org/documentation/ For installation, in my experience, the most stable solution is to use a dedicated VM or physical host for running the oVirt engine(management system): https://ovirt.org/documentation/installing_ovirt_as_a_standalone_manager_with_local_data

[ovirt-users] Re: CentOS 8 is dead

2020-12-08 Thread Tony Brian Albers
FYI we still have: Springdale Open Enterprise Linux (http://springdale.math.ias.edu) Oracle Enterprise Linux (https://www.oracle.com/linux/) So all is not lost. They are both rebuilds of RHEL from the SRPMS. /tony -- Tony Albers - Systems Architect - IT Development Royal Danish Library, Vic

[ovirt-users] Re: Old mailing list SPAM

2019-05-15 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Yeah, I tried whois'ing teknikservice.nu, but I can't find the owner or any contact information. I suppose we'll just have to be busy hitting the delete button for now.. /tony On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 05:46 +, Markus Stockhausen wrote: > Hi, > > does anyone currently get old mails of 2016 fr

[ovirt-users] Re: Can't unsubscribe myself from here

2019-07-07 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Try this: https://lists.ovirt.org/admin/lists/users.ovirt.org/ HTH /tony On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 06:07 +, csi-la...@cisco.com wrote: > Hi, > I sent a mail in order to unsubsribe my mailer team "csi-laser@cisco. > com", and I'm still getting e-mails. > I already sent mails  to "'users-le...@

[ovirt-users] Re: user role

2019-09-16 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Godmorgen Kim, Not sure this is actually doable. IMO you're trying to make a kind of not-really-admins. Others might have better ideas than me, but I'd look into some sort of provisioning tool where you can use a more fine-grained access/permissions control. /tony On Tue, 2019-09-17 at 06:29

[ovirt-users] Re: Super Low VM disk IO via Shared Storage

2019-09-25 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Guys, Just for info, this is what I'm getting on a VM that is on shared storage via NFSv3: --snip-- [root@proj-000 ~]# time dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=4096 count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 409600 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 18

[ovirt-users] Re: Desktops as Nodes and Client?

2018-10-31 Thread Tony Brian Albers
On Wed, 2018-10-31 at 22:17 +, gilbert.drew+ov...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi,  > > I'm starting to look at oVirt to help with a datacentre consolidation > project to drastically reduce the number of physical servers and it > seems like a great fit. > > As an added bonus, it looks like it might hel

[ovirt-users] non-ovirt node as gluster node

2018-11-06 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Hi guys, I have 3 machines that I'd like to test oVirt/gluster on. The idea is that I want two of them to be oVirt nodes and the third to run the oVirt engine. They all have 8 hdd's, and I'd like to use these in gluster for storing the vm images. (on all 3 machines) So,  machine1 is a gluster s

[ovirt-users] Re: non-ovirt node as gluster node

2018-11-06 Thread Tony Brian Albers
On Tue, 2018-11-06 at 13:47 +0100, Karli Sjöberg wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-11-06 at 12:36 +, Tony Brian Albers wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I have 3 machines that I'd like to test oVirt/gluster on. > > > > The idea is that I want two of them to be oVi

[ovirt-users] using vlan-tagged nic for ovirtmgmt

2018-11-14 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Is this possible? I have 3 hosts with each four physical interfaces. On one of them, I have a vlan defined which I'd like to use for ovirtmgmt. However, after installing the host, it says that the ovirtmgmt network is missing on it and if I try to assign ovirtmgmt I can only do it on the physical

[ovirt-users] Re: using vlan-tagged nic for ovirtmgmt

2018-11-15 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Hi Nathanaël, Yeah, I think I'll have to just use a physical NIC for the ovirtmgmt. Too bad, it would be nice to be able to separate it from the standard network. /tony On Wed, 2018-11-14 at 18:24 +0100, Nathanaël Blanchet wrote: > Nathanaël -- --  Tony Albers Systems Architect Systems Direct

[ovirt-users] Re: using vlan-tagged nic for ovirtmgmt

2018-11-15 Thread Tony Brian Albers
doesn't use the ovirtmgmt > network ( another interface/KVM/console). I believe it was > /var/lib/vdsm/persistence/netconf/nets/ovirtmgmt I edited then restarted the > neworking. > > Regards, > Paul S. > ________ > From:

[ovirt-users] Re: Ovirt Node Installtion

2018-11-21 Thread Tony Brian Albers
On Wed, 2018-11-21 at 12:03 +, aru_bar...@yahoo.com wrote: > 1. I install the ovirt node 4.2 in KVM on centos 7. when i try to > install package or yum update it shows the message" Cannot retrieve > metalink for repository:   ovirt-4.2-epel/x86_64. Please verify its > path and try again Uploadi

[ovirt-users] Re: cluster 4 pc's for more scanning power?

2018-11-30 Thread Tony Brian Albers
On Sat, 2018-12-01 at 00:15 +, Peter C. wrote: > Hello and sorry for the ignorance behind this question. I've been > reading about various scale out, "hyper convergence" solutions and > want to ask this about oVirt. > > I do vulnerability scanning on my company's assets. I do it from an > obso

[ovirt-users] Memory usage inclines

2018-12-10 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Hi guys, We have a small test installation here running around 30 vms on 2 hosts. oVirt 4.2.5.3 The hosts each have 512 GB memory, and the vms are sized with 4-8 GB each. I have noticed that over the last months, the memory usage in the dashboard has been increasing and is now showing 946.8 GB

[ovirt-users] Re: Memory usage inclines

2018-12-10 Thread Tony Brian Albers
x for that. > > > On Dec 10, 2018, at 7:36 AM, Tony Brian Albers wrote: > > > > Hi guys, > > > > We have a small test installation here running around 30 vms on 2 > > hosts. > > > > oVirt 4.2.5.3 > > > > The hosts each have 512

[ovirt-users] Re: Memory usage inclines

2018-12-11 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Virt-engine that there's an issue. The > > host > > seems happy enough. > > > > /tony > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2018-12-10 at 20:14 -0600, Darrell Budic wrote: > > > Grab a shell on your hosts and check top memory use quick. Coul

[ovirt-users] Re: Memory usage inclines

2018-12-12 Thread Tony Brian Albers
re I understand > the disconnect between the top you shared and what you’re seeing > there. It shows lots more than 110G in use, I gather? Or are you > seeing this on the hosts page per host mem use? > > > On Dec 12, 2018, at 12:34 AM, Tony Brian Albers wrote: > > > >

[ovirt-users] Re: Memory usage inclines

2018-12-13 Thread Tony Brian Albers
eeing in the dashboard, I’m not sure I > > > understand > > > the disconnect between the top you shared and what you’re seeing > > > there. It shows lots more than 110G in use, I gather? Or are you > > > seeing this on the hosts page per host mem use? > > > > >

[ovirt-users] Re: Windows Virtual Machine

2019-01-17 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Did you add the guest agent drivers during windows install? See: https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/vmm-guide/chap-Installing_Wind ows_Virtual_Machines.html HTH /tony On Thu, 2019-01-17 at 13:05 -0300, Sebastian Antunez N. wrote: > Hello Guys > > When a VM Windows is created I install OVTools

[ovirt-users] Re: V2V Proxmox to Ovirt

2019-01-17 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Check this one out: https://serverfault.com/questions/195407/export-vm-from-proxmox HTH /tony On Thu, 2019-01-17 at 13:24 -0300, Sebastian Antunez N. wrote: > Hello Guys > > Have 3 nodes with Proxmox and 23 Virtual Machines (Linux, Windows) > and need migrate to Ovirt. > > I search informatio

[ovirt-users] Re: Forum available

2019-02-08 Thread Tony Brian Albers
On Fri, 2019-02-08 at 09:05 +0100, Josep Manel Andrés Moscardó wrote: > Hi all, > I am just wondering if anyone like me would like to have everything > that  > is bump here in a forum, with all the benefits it brings (and people  > will still be able to subscribe and reply through email). Something

[ovirt-users] Re: Commvault

2021-03-09 Thread Tony Brian Albers
I agree with Dan, however EMC NetWorker can also backup RHEV. I'm not that familiar with Storware, but I know that NetWorker can do pretty much anything you'd like. That includes handling multiple levels of backup, storage tiering, multiple clones on different media, archiving and so on... I'm

[ovirt-users] Re: Commvault

2021-03-10 Thread Tony Brian Albers
> Does EMC Networker do agentless RHV backups, or do I install > the software on all nodes? > > On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 16:41, Gianluca Cecchi <mailto:gianluca.cec...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 7:57 AM Tony Brian Albers <mailto:t...@kb

[ovirt-users] Re: Commvault

2021-03-10 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Oh, I just checked, and Bareos 20 now does agentless oVirt/RHV backups too. You should probably have a close look at it. It's quite simple to manage and very, very stable. /tony On 10/03/2021 11:47, Tony Brian Albers wrote: > Hmm.. It seems that NW does not support RHV, I was quite sur

[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt 2021 Spring survey questions

2021-04-29 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Maybe also some questions about what kind of storage people use? Do they use a dedicated file server or something distributed like gluster? Storage filesystems that could be used: XFS ZFS(FreeBSD/Solaris/Illumos/Linux) Hammer(DragonflyBSD) OneFS (EMC Isilon) GPFS(IBM) etc. /tony On 4/29/21 9:5

[ovirt-users] Re: Backup to tape

2021-08-24 Thread Tony Brian Albers
Hiya, The API in oVirt engine actually supports creating snapshots etc. for backups. Check out github for scripts, i.e.: https://github.com/luisperezmarin/oVirtVMBackup And there are others. There is also a commercial solution, Storware vProtect: https://storware.eu/products/vprotect/ And as