----- Yedidyah Bar David <d...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Joop <jvdw...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > On 18-11-2016 23:47, Mark Steckel wrote: > >> Hi folks, > >> > >> I'm a complete OVirt newbie trying to set up a self hosted, single server > >> and looking for some pointers to get going... (While new to OVirt, I'm > >> long time sysadmin so not totally clueless.) > > Welcome :-)
Thanks! > > >> > >> The server I'm using has a 4-core CPU, 64 GB of ram, and a pair of 500 GB > >> SSDs set up with RAID 1 and running CentOS 7.2. (I do not have physical > >> access to the server but can get KVM access when required.) > >> > >> The goal is to set up this server as a self hosted, single server OVirt > >> platform. Nothing mission critical, just want to be able to spin up VMs > >> when needed and destroy them afterwards. > >> > >> Trying to use OVirt 4.0.4 (now 4.0.5). > >> > >> I've read some docs for setting this up including those just below as well > >> as a bunch of googling and reading through the list archive. > >> > >> http://www.ovirt.org/documentation/how-to/hosted-engine/ > >> > >> http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/heapplianceflow/ > >> > >> http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/08/up-and-running-with-ovirt-4-0-and-gluster-storage/ > >> > >> Every time I execute "hosted-engine --deploy" the process "hangs" when it > >> migrates the public IP address to a virtual nic interface. And in this > >> case, by "hang" I mean that I lose the connection to the server. I have no > >> idea if the process finishes or errors out. > > Can you share logs at this point? Including /var/log/vdsm/* and > /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/* . If you have KVM access, you > might manage to get them. Or copy after a reboot. > Also please share your network configuration. Are you using > NetworkManager (IIRC unsupported currently)? DHCP? Static IP conf? I reinstalled the OS (wiping the logs) since my initial email. When/if it fails again I will provide the logs. > > >> > >> So obviously I'm doing something wrong. > > Or it might be a bug. > > >> > >> I suspect that I need to take care of some network requirement before > >> starting. However, I can't find anything in the docs of how to prep the > >> server network environment before running "hosted-engine --deploy". > >> > >> Should probably also mention that some, if not all of the VMs will need a > >> public IP address. The physical server has a /29 to get started. > >> > > I have never setup such a server but if you create the ovirtmgmt bridge > > first then the deploy will leave it alone and you won't lose network > > connectivity. > > See also [1]. Adding Dan (who wrote this). Best, > > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301879#c1 Comments 4 in the link above mentions an "Installation Guide." Besides the "Quick Start Guide" and the links I initially reference I have not seen a "Installation Guide". Am I just missing it? Thanks Mark > -- > Didi > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users