On 02/02/12 10:57, Laszlo Hornyak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yes, the ovirt backend does not shut down or power up any hosts directly, it 
> can work only through vdsm. Therefore you need one running host per 
> datacenter to be able to manage the rest of the hosts.
> 
> I understand the motivation, but for smaller installations I believe it would 
> be so great if the backend could do it as well. What vdsm does in the 
> background is not much more than calling the ipmipower command.
> 

I agree, there is no real reason not to fence hosts from the management
host, yet another feature we would love to have.

Worth checking if the engine can reuse the vdsm code for fencing.


> Laszlo
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Perry Myers" <[email protected]>
>> To: "Spyro Polymiadis" <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2012 4:16:12 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Users] Power Management question
>>
>> On 02/01/2012 10:13 PM, Spyro Polymiadis wrote:
>>> so, if i read that right - does this mean that i need to have 2
>>> nodes
>>> in the cluster to get this working (thats the only difference from
>>> the rhev environment) i havent moved the other hypervisors into it
>>> yet... i figured the manager host could perform the power
>>> management..
>>
>> That's my understanding, but I could be wrong :)  The vdsm/oVirt
>> Engine
>> folks would know better
>>
>> Try moving a 2nd host over and see if that resolves the issue
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