Re: [ovirt-users] Before migrating to Ovirt

2018-02-28 Thread Tal Bar-Or
Thanks for the clear answer

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Yedidyah Bar David  wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 6:33 PM, Tal Bar-Or  wrote:
> > Hello Ovirt users,
> >
> > Currently we haveing 4 Xen pools in our organization each pool have 8
> > servers.
> > Due to new 7.3 version change ,we plan to migrate our upcoming 5th pool
> to
> > Ovirt, the decision to do POC migration to Ovirt is from lots of Xen
> users
> > that suggested Ovirt migration better and  mature product migrate to it.
> >
> > I started to test Ovirt currently only with one server with engine
> > installed, my question regarding Ovirt sine i am really newbie with that
> > system , is , is it possible to have multiple engine on it ?
> > What happen if the engine server crash with some reason? can i load it on
> > another cluster server?
> > Please advice
>
> The standard way to have HA for oVirt engine is to set it up as a
> self-hosted-engine and have more than one host in the hosted-engine
> cluster.
>
> We do know that there are people doing HA using other means, based on
> external
> HA software (heartbeat), but that's more expensive (in hardware, work,
> and perhaps software, depends on what you use) - I'd suggest doing that
> only if your organization already has in-house expertise and experience
> with such software.
>
> Good luck and best regards,
> --
> Didi
>



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Re: [ovirt-users] Before migrating to Ovirt

2018-02-26 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 6:33 PM, Tal Bar-Or  wrote:
> Hello Ovirt users,
>
> Currently we haveing 4 Xen pools in our organization each pool have 8
> servers.
> Due to new 7.3 version change ,we plan to migrate our upcoming 5th pool to
> Ovirt, the decision to do POC migration to Ovirt is from lots of Xen users
> that suggested Ovirt migration better and  mature product migrate to it.
>
> I started to test Ovirt currently only with one server with engine
> installed, my question regarding Ovirt sine i am really newbie with that
> system , is , is it possible to have multiple engine on it ?
> What happen if the engine server crash with some reason? can i load it on
> another cluster server?
> Please advice

The standard way to have HA for oVirt engine is to set it up as a
self-hosted-engine and have more than one host in the hosted-engine
cluster.

We do know that there are people doing HA using other means, based on external
HA software (heartbeat), but that's more expensive (in hardware, work,
and perhaps software, depends on what you use) - I'd suggest doing that
only if your organization already has in-house expertise and experience
with such software.

Good luck and best regards,
-- 
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Re: [ovirt-users] Before migrating to Ovirt

2018-02-26 Thread Dan Yasny
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 11:33 AM, Tal Bar-Or  wrote:

> Hello Ovirt users,
>
> Currently we haveing 4 Xen pools in our organization each pool have 8
> servers.
> Due to new 7.3 version change ,we plan to migrate our upcoming 5th pool to
> Ovirt, the decision to do POC migration to Ovirt is from lots of Xen users
> that suggested Ovirt migration better and  mature product migrate to it.
>
> I started to test Ovirt currently only with one server with engine
> installed, my question regarding Ovirt sine i am really newbie with that
> system , is , is it possible to have multiple engine on it ?
>

No, but you can either cluster the engine in an HA cluster, run backup
frequently (I've had environments where I did an engine dump every hour
without any issues), or use self hosted engine, which is basically the
engine as a VM, so if a host goes down, it gets started on another. What
you cannot do is have multiple engines load-balancing the work, like
openstack controllers for example.


> What happen if the engine server crash with some reason? can i load it on
> another cluster server?
>

If the engine goes down, the hosts and VMs keep working, so you have time
to restore from backup or fix the engine without outages, besides a
management outage of course. If you are running hosted engine, it will
simply get started on another eligible host.


> Please advice
>
> Thanks
>
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>
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[ovirt-users] Before migrating to Ovirt

2018-02-26 Thread Tal Bar-Or
Hello Ovirt users,

Currently we haveing 4 Xen pools in our organization each pool have 8
servers.
Due to new 7.3 version change ,we plan to migrate our upcoming 5th pool to
Ovirt, the decision to do POC migration to Ovirt is from lots of Xen users
that suggested Ovirt migration better and  mature product migrate to it.

I started to test Ovirt currently only with one server with engine
installed, my question regarding Ovirt sine i am really newbie with that
system , is , is it possible to have multiple engine on it ?
What happen if the engine server crash with some reason? can i load it on
another cluster server?
Please advice

Thanks

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