I am wondering if having the engine hosted on ovirt is actually a good
idea. It seems to me that it complicates things when doing some major
upgrades like with swapping domain server and such.  Does that make sense?
Should I keep the engine separate on another hypervisor maybe?

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 3:14 AM Alan G <alan+ov...@griff.me.uk> wrote:

> Depends what you mean by "sync" and "swap".
>
> If you can keep the same NFS endpoint, but swap-in your upgraded storage
> under the hood then I think you can do as you propose. Stop all VMs, put
> the storage domain in maintenance, make you changes and bring the domain
> out of maintenance.
>
> However, if you're moving to a different NFS server, or even different
> path on the same server then I think the answer is no. In this scenario
> you'd need to create a new domain and move each vdisk across.
>
>
>
> ---- On Wed, 09 Feb 2022 06:07:44 +0000 *Pascal D <pas...@butterflyit.com
> <pas...@butterflyit.com>>* wrote ----
>
> I need to upgrade my main domain storage (NFS) which hosts 100s of VMs and
> templates including the hosted engine. Can I put the data center in global
> maintenance, do a quick sync and swap of the domain storage and bring it
> back up without missing a beat?
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