-----Original Message----- From: Doron Fediuck [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:50 PM To: Andrew Lau Cc: users Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine
----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doron Fediuck" <[email protected]> > To: "Andrew Lau" <[email protected]> > Cc: "users" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 2:48:20 PM > Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Andrew Lau" <[email protected]> > > To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <[email protected]> > > Cc: "users" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:15:21 AM > > Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted engine > > > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Yedidyah Bar David < [email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Blaster" < [email protected] > > > > To: "Yedidyah Bar David" < [email protected] > > > > Cc: [email protected] > > > Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 5:20:00 PM > > > Subject: Re: [Users] virtualized engine / port to self-hosted > > > engine > > > > > > On 1/6/2014 7:12 AM, Yedidyah Bar David wrote: > > > > Did you have problems with engine-backup? Or had other reasons > > > > to not use it? Thanks! > > > > > > Can engine-backup be used to move an AIO configuration from one > > > host to another? > > > > I didn't try that. In principle it can. Note that it will only > > backup/restore the engine - not local storage domains (ISO or data), > > VM images, etc. > > > > If you try that, please report back. Thanks! > > > > > > > > I currently need to move an AIO configuration from AMD hardware to > > > Intel > > > I7 hardware. The engine-backup WIKI discusses backups, but not > > > restores. I am a bit concerned about using engine-backup to > > > restore an AIO configuration to a different system as another WIKI > > > page with step-by-step instructions to do what engine-backup does > > > for you, mentions you have to do some extra steps if you are > > > changing hostnames as the hostname of the ovirt-engine is embedded in the > > > database. > > > > Changing the hostname is specifically not in the scope of engine-backup. > > > > Note that you do not need to have the hostname equal to the "fqdn" > > input during engine-setup - this last one just needs to be > > dns-resolvable and point to the machine intended. > > > > Also, there is another utility to do that, called > > ovirt-engine-rename - see this for details and implications: > > > > http://www.ovirt.org/Changing_Engine_Hostname > > > > > > > > There really needs to be some work done in Ovirt on making it > > > easier to import existing disk images and just generally moving > > > things around without having to bounce off an NFS server. > > > > > > Should I do a BZ on that? > > > > Not sure what you mean exactly, but you are always welcome to open > > BZs on bugs/RFEs... > > > > Best regards, > > -- > > Didi > > > > Sorry for going slightly off topic, but how is everyone's hosted > > engine deployment going? Are you restricted to NFS? > > > Andrew, in general I get positive feedbacks from RHEL users. For > Fedora and other distros, this should be in a better situation in the > following > 1-2 weeks when we'll have 3.4 beta available. > I'd love to get your feedback on it. > > I missed your NFS question, sorry; > Yes. Currently we have NFS limitation and we will do our best to see if SAN > can be added. Note that time is not on our side for 3.4. Is there support for glusterfs with libgfapi? > > I tried the migration procedure last month and it worked.. but had > > quite a lot of issues so I ended up reverting back. I didn't open > > any bugs in the assumption it was in super alpha stage. > > > Next time please open bugs... That's the best way to improve the > project, regardless of the version state. If unsure, you can always > try irc / this list first to see if this is a known issue and if there > are workarounds. Sorry about that, I thought it was still very dev style I didn't want to flood bzs with things that are already being worked on. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
