[ovirt-users] GlusterFS performance questions

2017-10-16 Thread Jayme
I am currently in the process of researching converting an existing SMB infra to virtual. Ovirt/RHEV is a strong contender and checks off a lot of boxes on our list. GlusterFS is appealing but I am finding it very difficult to find any answers or stats/numbers regarding how well it can perform a

[ovirt-users] Re: Beginning oVirt / Hyperconverged

2019-10-31 Thread Jayme
Iirc you need to have multiples of three severs for hyperconverged. You could have a 4 server cluster but only three of them would be participating in storage and one would be compute only. Someone correct me if I’m wrong. On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 6:41 AM wrote: > Hey folks! > > Quick question,

[ovirt-users] Re: Quick generic Questions

2019-11-07 Thread Jayme
Your nodes should have separate drives for node image. The installer will expect empty block device for gluster setup. I would do a separate array for OS and storage. Most of your node specific questions I think can be cleared up if you think of the storage as being networked storage. Even though

[ovirt-users] Re: I want to configure an web server

2019-11-10 Thread Jayme
The same as you would network a bare metal server. If you want to access a web server from anywhere you need a public ip. The vm itself doesn’t necessary have to have the public ip bound you could do nat with an internal up address then have a public ip forwarded to it. On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 10

[ovirt-users] Re: Migrate VM from oVirt to oVirt

2019-11-12 Thread Jayme
I’ve done this before by attaching an nfs storage domain, exporting the vm to it the. Detaching and reattaching to the other cluster and importing. There are probably more efficient ways to go about it. On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 10:42 PM wrote: > Hello, > What would be the procedure to migrate a V

[ovirt-users] Re: metrics

2019-11-14 Thread Jayme
An RH subscription is not needed to install ovirt metrics. On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 12:21 PM wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install metrics for Version 4.3.6.7-1.el7 > Do I need a RH subscription to downloading the RHEL guest image? > (qcow_url:) > > Thanks > > > -- > ---

[ovirt-users] Re: metrics

2019-11-14 Thread Jayme
It has been a while but I think you either just leave it commented out or have to replace URL with open shift upstream. Try leaving it commented On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 1:06 PM wrote: > Ok, so how can I get the guest image? > > Thanks > > -- > *De:

[ovirt-users] Re: metrics

2019-11-14 Thread Jayme
ewbie with openshift, can you point me to the right direction? > > Thanks > > > -- > *De: *"Jayme" > *Para: *supo...@logicworks.pt > *Cc: *"users" > *Enviadas: *Quinta-feira, 14 De Novembro de 2019 17:15:26 > *Assun

[ovirt-users] Re: Gluster setup

2019-11-15 Thread Jayme
It looks like you may have those host entries backward. Put the IP first then the hostname i.e. 1.1.1.1 host.example.com On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 8:17 AM wrote: > I have set up a 3 node system. > > Gluster has its own backend network and I have tried entering the FQDN > hosts via ssh as follows

[ovirt-users] Re: Gluster setup

2019-11-15 Thread Jayme
Did you setup ssh keys between the hosts? On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 9:16 AM wrote: > So using FQDN or ip I get this > task path: /usr/share/cockpit/ovirt-dashboard/ansible/hc_wizard.yml:4 > fatal: [10.10.45.13]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to > connect to the host via ssh: Pe

[ovirt-users] Re: Gluster & Hyper Converged setup

2019-11-18 Thread Jayme
It’s looking for a storage device on /dev/sdb to use for gluster bricks and is not finding one. Do you have a secondary storage device aside from OS? On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 6:42 AM wrote: > Hi, > > Gluster will not set up and fails... can anyone see why ? > > /etc/hosts set up for both backend

[ovirt-users] Re: Gluster & Hyper Converged setup

2019-11-18 Thread Jayme
You need a separate block device for gluster storage. On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 7:49 AM wrote: > Logical Volumes Create new Logical Volume > 1.35 TiB Pool for Thin Volumes pool00 > 1 GiB ext4 File System /dev/onn_ovirt1/home > 1.32 TiB Inactive volumeovirt-node-ng-4.3.6-0.20190926.0 > __

[ovirt-users] Re: Newbie Questions

2019-11-18 Thread Jayme
you might have better luck setting ovirt up on cheap VMs in AWS or something like that On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 5:28 PM Dirk Streubel wrote: > Hi, > > thanks a lot for the quick answers. So, my Server Management will run on > another machine, not a pi4 :) > > But i have still the problem with the

[ovirt-users] Re: Gluster set up fails - Nearly there I think...

2019-11-23 Thread Jayme
Check lvm.conf so see if there are any filters set on that device On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 3:27 PM wrote: > Gluster fails with > vdo: ERROR - Device /dev/sdb excluded by a filter.\n", > > however I have run > > [root@ovirt1 ~]# vdo create --name=vdo1 --device=/dev/sdb --force > Creating VDO vdo1

[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt Admin Portal unaccessible via chrome (firefox works)

2019-11-24 Thread Jayme
Chrome is my primary browser and I use oVirt admin portal daily without issue. Are you getting any errors accessing at all? Could it be a certificate issue perhaps? On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 7:37 AM Siddharth Patil wrote: > Do you have any extensions installed? I also had a similar problem with

[ovirt-users] Re: Scenario: Ovirt-engine on hardware and recovery

2019-12-03 Thread Jayme
Take a look at vProtect for backups. Works really well for our environment, and supports incremental backups as well which is very handy. It's free for up to 10 VMs to try. On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 4:20 PM Robert Webb wrote: > Didi, > > Thanks for the reply. > > Yes, backups are done, I am just t

[ovirt-users] Problems after 4.3.8 update

2019-12-12 Thread Jayme
I'm running a three server HCI. Up and running on 4.3.7 with no problems. Today I updated to 4.3.8. Engine upgraded fine, rebooted. First host updated fine, rebooted and let all gluster volumes heal. Put second host in maintenance, upgraded successfully, rebooted. Waited for gluster volumes to

[ovirt-users] Re: Problems after 4.3.8 update

2019-12-12 Thread Jayme
data corruption, a gluster split-brain issue or something else? Maybe I just need to re-generate metadata for the hosted engine? On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 6:36 PM Jayme wrote: > I'm running a three server HCI. Up and running on 4.3.7 with no > problems. Today I updated to 4.3.8.

[ovirt-users] Re: Problems after 4.3.8 update

2019-12-12 Thread Jayme
s still have un-healed entires which I can't seem to heal. I'm not sure what the answer is here. On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 12:33 AM Jayme wrote: > I was able to get the hosted engine started manually via Virsh after > re-creating a missing symlink in /var/run/vdsm/storage -- I later sh

[ovirt-users] Libgfapi considerations

2019-12-14 Thread Jayme
Are there currently any known issues with using libgfapi in the latest stable version of ovirt in hci deployments? I have recently enabled it and have noticed a significant (over 4x) increase in io performance on my vms. I’m concerned however since it does not seem to be an ovirt default setting.

[ovirt-users] Re: Problems after 4.3.8 update

2019-12-14 Thread Jayme
ctivating to re-mount gluster volumes. I've also stopped and started all gluster volumes. I'm thinking I might be able to solve this by shutting down all VMs and placing all hosts in maintenance and safely restarting the entire cluster.. but that may not be necessary? On Fri, Dec 1

[ovirt-users] Re: Problems after 4.3.8 update

2019-12-14 Thread Jayme
ou can also run a 'full heal'. > > Best Regards, > Strahil Nikolov > > В събота, 14 декември 2019 г., 21:18:44 ч. Гринуич+2, Jayme < > jay...@gmail.com> написа: > > > *Update* > > Situation has improved. All VMs and engine are running. I'm lef

[ovirt-users] Re: Problems after 4.3.8 update

2019-12-15 Thread Jayme
st Regards, > Strahil Nikolov > В неделя, 15 декември 2019 г., 3:49:27 ч. Гринуич+2, Jayme < > jay...@gmail.com> написа: > > > on that page it says to check open bugs and the migration bug you mention > does not appear to be on the list. Has it been resolved or is it jus

[ovirt-users] Re: Problems after 4.3.8 update

2019-12-15 Thread Jayme
ue. > > I am,now, quite confident that is a bug. Are you using the gluster fuse > mounts ( the ones in /rhev...) or libgfapi ? > > Can you open a case in the bugzilla.redhat.com ? > > Best Regards, > Strahil Nikolov > On Dec 15, 2019 13:16, Jayme wrote: > > I compared eac

[ovirt-users] Re: Libgfapi considerations

2019-12-16 Thread Jayme
with Live Storage > Migration. > > Best Regards, > Strahil Nikolov > > > В събота, 14 декември 2019 г., 17:06:32 ч. Гринуич+2, Jayme < > jay...@gmail.com> написа: > > > Are there currently any known issues with using libgfapi in the latest > stable version

[ovirt-users] Re: Libgfapi considerations

2019-12-16 Thread Jayme
s://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/glusterfs-storage-domain.html> > > the feature is not the default as it is incompatible with Live Storage > Migration. > > Best Regards, > Strahil Nikolov > > > В събота, 14 декември 2019 г., 17:06:32 ч. Гр

[ovirt-users] Re: Libgfapi considerations

2019-12-18 Thread Jayme
have libgfapi working in a replica 3 cluster. > See : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1465810 > > I wish someone would reopen those closed bugs in order for that issue not > being forgotten. > > Guillaume Pavese > Ingénieur Système et Réseau > Interactiv-Group > &g

[ovirt-users] Re: ovirt 4.3.7 + Gluster in hyperconverged (production design)

2019-12-23 Thread Jayme
If you can afford it I would definitely do raid. Being able to monitor and replace disks at the raid level is much easier than brick. With raid I’d do a gluster arbiter setup so your aren’t losing too much space. Keep an eye on libgfapi. It’s not default setting due to a few bugs but I’ve been tes

[ovirt-users] Re: I am interested in using oVirt for my homelab but is it dead?

2020-01-01 Thread Jayme
I’ve been using ovirt for the past two years and I’d say it’s anything but dead. The releases and bug fixes have been fast and this mailing list In particular has been quite active. It may have slowed down a bit around the holidays. Did you download ovirt 4.3.7 or 4.4? 4.4 is beta and may be prob

[ovirt-users] gluster shards not healing

2020-01-13 Thread Jayme
I have a 3-way replica HCI setup. I recently placed one host in maintenance to perform work on it. When I re-activated it I've noticed that many of my gluster volumes are not completing the heal process. heal info shows shard files in heal pending. I looked up the files and it appears that they

[ovirt-users] Re: gluster shards not healing

2020-01-13 Thread Jayme
I'm not exactly sure how but it looks like the problem worked itself out after a few hours On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 5:02 PM Jayme wrote: > I have a 3-way replica HCI setup. I recently placed one host in > maintenance to perform work on it. When I re-activated it I've noticed &

[ovirt-users] SPM contending loop

2020-01-13 Thread Jayme
My cluster appears to be experiencing an SPM problem. I recently placed each host in maintenance to move the ovirt management network to another interface. All was successful and all VMs are currently running. However, I'm not facing an SPM contending loop with data center going in and out of res

[ovirt-users] Re: SPM contending loop

2020-01-14 Thread Jayme
I seem to have been able to break the loop by manually restarting vdsmd. As soon as I restarted on one host it was able to be selected as spm. On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 6:21 AM Jorick Astrego wrote: > Hi Jayme, > > The only thing I can find related to the vdsm errors you post i

[ovirt-users] Re: Ovirt backup

2020-01-19 Thread Jayme
Good backup products for ovirt seem hard to come by. If you want to backup 10 or less vms I’d recommend vprotect as it’s free. It works great but it’s costly for a license above 10 vms. On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 5:08 AM Nazan CENGİZ wrote: > Hi all, > > > I want to back up Ovirt for free. Is there

[ovirt-users] Re: Ovirt backup

2020-01-19 Thread Jayme
The biggest problem with these tools is that they are very inefficient. To work they snapshot the VM then clone the snapshot into a new VM, back it up then delete. This takes a lot of space and time. vProtect and some other enterprise backup software snapshot the VM and stream the snapshot from

[ovirt-users] Re: Gluster: a lof of Number of ntries in heal pending

2020-01-20 Thread Jayme
I would try running a full heal first and give it some time to see if it clears up. I.e. gluster volume heal full If that doesn't work, you could try stat on every file to trigger healing doing something like this: find /fuse-mountpoint -iname '*' -exec stat {} \; On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 12:16

[ovirt-users] Re: Ovirt backup

2020-01-20 Thread Jayme
Looking at oVirt ansible roles, I wonder if it would be easy to implement VM backups using the ovirt-snapshot-module to create a VM snapshot and download it. On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 5:04 AM Nathanaël Blanchet wrote: > > Le 19/01/2020 à 18:38, Jayme a écrit : > > The biggest proble

[ovirt-users] possible to export a running VM to OVA?

2020-01-21 Thread Jayme
I'm looking at using a script similar to https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine-sdk/blob/master/sdk/examples/export_vm_as_ova.py to export VMs as OVA for backup purposes. I tested it out and it seems that it does create a snapshot and allows me to export an OVA of a running VM. I read in guides tha

[ovirt-users] Re: OVA export to NFS share slow

2020-01-22 Thread Jayme
ested to hear how you get along as well. If it's helpful I'd be happy to run any testing you might be interested in on my equipment to see how it compares. - Jayme On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 10:16 AM Jürgen Walch wrote: > Hello, > > we are using oVirt on a production

[ovirt-users] ovirt_vm ansible module -- how to wait for ova export to finish

2020-01-22 Thread Jayme
I wrote a simple task that is using the ovirt_vm module https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/ovirt_vm_module.html -- it essentially loops over a list of vms and exports them to OVA. The problem I have is the task is deemed changed once it successfully submits the export task to oVirt. T

[ovirt-users] Re: Disconnecting drive from VM

2020-01-22 Thread Jayme
I suppose it would matter how that disk is presented and used by the operating system. If it’s the boot drive of course it would cause issues. If it’s just a data disk maybe not. On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 5:45 PM wrote: > Hi! > For a Virtual Machine that is already shutdown, does anyone know if I

[ovirt-users] Re: Gluster storage options

2020-01-23 Thread Jayme
Yes you should install node on separate boot drives and add your additional drives for gluster. You do not have to do anything with gluster beforehand. The ovirt installer will prepare the drives and do all the needed gluster configuration with gdeploy On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 4:32 AM Shareef Jallo

[ovirt-users] Re: OVA export to NFS share slow

2020-01-23 Thread Jayme
Hello, I did a test this morning attaching my NFS server as an export domain. I shutdown the same 50Gb VM and exported it to the NFS export domain with oVirt GUI. I surprisingly had very similar results to OVA exports, it took just about the same amount of time ~10 minutes, maybe even a tad long

[ovirt-users] Re: ovirt_vm ansible module -- how to wait for ova export to finish

2020-01-23 Thread Jayme
g in some cases an hour or more for very large VM backups to complete before moving on to the next with ansible. Thanks! Jayme On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:00 AM Jan Zmeskal wrote: > Hi Jayme, > > here's my idea. I haven't tested it but I believe it should work. > 1.

[ovirt-users] Re: ovirt_vm ansible module -- how to wait for ova export to finish

2020-01-23 Thread Jayme
path: "/backup/vm.ova" # will change to using vars here The backup folder isn't accessible from where I'm running ansible from so I will need to check it remotely but that should be easy to solve. On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 11:43 AM Jan Zmeskal wrote: > Hi Jayme, > > l

[ovirt-users] Re: Hyperconverged solution

2020-01-24 Thread Jayme
I believe you would have to either combine the drives with raid or lvm so it’s presented as one device or just create multiple storage domains On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 5:41 AM Benedetto Vassallo < benedetto.vassa...@unipa.it> wrote: > Def. Quota Nir Soffer : > > > Hyperconverged uses gluster, and

[ovirt-users] Re: API OVA export - getting job id/job status

2020-01-24 Thread Jayme
ght find this email thread interesting: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/thread/PXYAQ7YEBQCUWCAQCFAFXB3545LNB23X/ > > Jayme is trying to solve pretty much the same problem as you - although > he's using the Ansible approach instead of SDK. Feel free to join tha

[ovirt-users] Re: API OVA export - getting job id/job status

2020-01-24 Thread Jayme
Ansible can be daunting simply because of how powerful it is, but it’s actually quite easy to run a simple playbook like the one I’m writing for backups, especially if ran from ovirt hosted engine as it already has ansible and all the needed dependencies installed. I’m working on throwing together

[ovirt-users] Re: ovirt_vm ansible module -- how to wait for ova export to finish

2020-01-24 Thread Jayme
and will give it another try. On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 11:52 AM Jayme wrote: > Jan, > > I just ran a quick test with your suggestion and it seems like it is > working as intended. I need to do more testing with it but it looks like > this may well be a viable solution: &g

[ovirt-users] Re: command line vm start/stop

2020-01-27 Thread Jayme
Hello, I believe the best way would be to use ansible with the ovirt ansible modules i.e. https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/ovirt_vm_module.html#ovirt-vm-module -- you can do it with a simple task like: - name: Stop vm ovirt_vm: state: stopped name: myvm you could also us

[ovirt-users] Re: 0virt VMs status down after host reboot

2020-01-29 Thread Jayme
Check if highly available is selected in vm configuration On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 2:55 AM Eugène Ngontang wrote: > Hi all, > > I've set up an infrastructure with OVirt, using self-hosted engine. > > I use some ansible scripts from my Virtualization Host (the physical > machine), to bootstrap the

[ovirt-users] Re: 0virt VMs status down after host reboot

2020-01-29 Thread Jayme
he VMs startup > behavior... > > Le mer. 29 janv. 2020 à 12:07, Jayme a écrit : > >> Check if highly available is selected in vm configuration >> >> On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 2:55 AM Eugène Ngontang >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>>

[ovirt-users] Re: Gluster Heal Issue

2020-01-31 Thread Jayme
I have run into this exact issue before and resolved it by simply syncing over the missing files and running a heal on the volume (can take a little time to correct) On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 7:05 PM Christian Reiss wrote: > Hey folks, > > in our production setup with 3 nodes (HCI) we took one ho

[ovirt-users] Re: Emergency :/ No VMs starting

2020-02-02 Thread Jayme
The log appears to indicate that there may be a permissions issue. What is the ownership and permissions on your gluster brick dirs and mounts? On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 8:21 PM Christian Reiss wrote: > Hey folks, > > oh Jesus. 3-Way HCI. Gluster w/o any issues: > > [root@node01:/var/log/glusterfs

[ovirt-users] Re: Emergency :/ No VMs starting

2020-02-02 Thread Jayme
vm 8.0K Jan 21 16:28 > 22cab044-a26d-4266-9af7-a6408eaf140c > drwxr-xr-x. 2 vdsm kvm 8.0K Jan 30 06:03 > 288d061a-6c6c-4536-a594-3bede63c0654 > drwxr-xr-x. 2 vdsm kvm 8.0K Jan 9 16:46 > 40c51753-1533-45ab-b9de-2c51d8a18370 > > > Containing files as well. > > > On 03/

[ovirt-users] Re: Snapshots not possible

2020-02-03 Thread Jayme
Chris, what is the storage configuration? I was under the impression that there was a bug preventing snapshots from working when using libgfapi on gluster replica configurations. This is one of the main reasons why I have been unable to implement libgfapi. On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 10:53 AM Christo

[ovirt-users] Re: Snapshots not possible

2020-02-03 Thread Jayme
Ah, the bug I'm referring to may only apply to replica 3 gluster. You appear to be using an arbiter. It sounds like you may need to file a bug for this one On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 12:05 PM Christoph Köhler < koeh...@luis.uni-hannover.de> wrote: > Hello Jayme, > > the gl

[ovirt-users] Re: Power Management - drac5

2020-02-03 Thread Jayme
I recall having a problem similar to this before and it was related to the user roles/permissions in iDrac. Check what access rights the user has. If that leads no where you might have some luck testing manually using the fence_idrac5 CLI tool directly on one of the oVirt hosts On Mon, Feb 3, 202

[ovirt-users] Re: Power Management - drac5

2020-02-03 Thread Jayme
Also make sure you have "Enable IPMI Over LAN" enabled under idrac settings. On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 2:15 PM Jayme wrote: > I recall having a problem similar to this before and it was related to the > user roles/permissions in iDrac. Check what access rights the user has. &g

[ovirt-users] Re: disk snapshot status is Illegal

2020-02-04 Thread Jayme
Hello, I believe you should be able to fix this issue using the "unlock_entity.sh" tool on the hosted engine VM in "/usr/share/ovirt-engine/setup/dbutils" -- unfortunately there is not much documentation on it but I IIRC I've used it to fix this very issue in the past. Someone else may be able to

[ovirt-users] Re: Emergency :/ No VMs starting

2020-02-06 Thread Jayme
Appreciate the updates you've been posting. It's concerning to me as a Gluster user as well. It would be nice to figure out what happened here. On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 11:43 AM Christian Reiss wrote: > Hey, > > For prosperity: Sadly the only way to fix this was to re-init (wipe) > gluster and st

[ovirt-users] Re: Backup Solution

2020-02-06 Thread Jayme
You should look at the gluster georeplication option, I think it would be more appropriate for disaster recovery purposes. It is also possible to export VMs as OVA which can then be reimported back into oVirt. I actually just wrote an ansible playbook to do this very thing and intend to share my fi

[ovirt-users] Re: Backup Solution

2020-02-06 Thread Jayme
rusting this piece of software with my live data *and* my backups. > > I am really protecting myself against Gluster than anything else. So for > backup purposes: The less Gluster, the better. > > -Chris. > > On 06/02/2020 18:31, Jayme wrote: > > You should look at the

[ovirt-users] I wrote an article on using Ansible to backup oVirt VMs

2020-02-10 Thread Jayme
ng-up-ovirt-vms-with-ansible-4c2fca8b3b43 Any feedback, suggestions or questions are welcome. I hope this information is helpful. Thanks! - Jayme ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Priv

[ovirt-users] Re: Enabling Libgfapi in 4.3.8 - VMs won't start

2020-02-10 Thread Jayme
Curious do the vms have active snapshots? On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 5:59 PM wrote: > Hello, all. I have a 3-node Hyperconverged oVirt 4.3.8 cluster running on > CentOS 7.7 hosts. I was investigating poor Gluster performance and heard > about libgfapi, so I thought I'd give it a shot. Looking throu

[ovirt-users] Re: Enabling Libgfapi in 4.3.8 - VMs won't start

2020-02-12 Thread Jayme
ed to need some config in glusterd.vol to set >>> >>> option rpc-auth-allow-insecure on >>> >>> I’m not sure if that got added to a hyper converged setup or not, but >>> I’d check it. >>> >>> On Feb 10, 2020, at 4:41 PM

[ovirt-users] Re: Enabling Libgfapi in 4.3.8 - VMs won't start

2020-02-12 Thread Jayme
dic wrote: > Yes. I’m using libgfapi access on gluster 6.7 with overt 4.3.8 just fine, > but I don’t use snapshots. You can work around the HA issue with DNS and > backup server entries on the storage domain as well. Worth it to me for the > performance, YMMV. > > On Feb 12, 20

[ovirt-users] Re: backup

2020-02-17 Thread Jayme
Hello, I have not used this script myself so I don't have a resolution for you, however I recently wrote an article regarding a simple method to backup oVirt VMs using ansible without the need of any complicated software or proxy VMs involved. Here is the link to the article if it's helpful to you

[ovirt-users] Re: I wrote an article on using Ansible to backup oVirt VMs

2020-02-18 Thread Jayme
oughts on this method? I'd also be interested to hear if you have any thoughts or opinions on ways to improve backup retention policy to make it more versatile. Thanks again for your feedback! - Jayme On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 8:15 AM Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 5:01 PM J

[ovirt-users] oVirt ansible backup improvements

2020-02-25 Thread Jayme
/ovirt_ansible_backup Big thanks to Martin for helping out. Very much appreciated! - Jayme ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ oVirt Code

[ovirt-users] Re: Ovirt API and CLI

2020-02-27 Thread Jayme
Echoing what others have said. Ansible is your best option here. On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 7:22 AM Nathanaël Blanchet wrote: > > Le 27/02/2020 à 11:00, Yedidyah Bar David a écrit : > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 11:53 AM Eugène Ngontang > wrote: > > Yes Ansible ovirt_vms module is useful, I use it

[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt Python SDK and monitor export as OVA task

2020-02-27 Thread Jayme
you to explore. - Jayme On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 11:33 AM Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > Hello, > sometimes I have environments (typically with Oracle RDBMS on virtual > machines) where there is one boot disk and one (often big, such as 500Gb or > more) data disk. > The data disk has

[ovirt-users] Re: OVA import fails always

2020-02-27 Thread Jayme
If the problem is with the upload process specifically it’s likely that you do not have the ovirt engine certificate installed in your browser. On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 11:34 PM Juan Pablo Lorier wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running 4.3.8.2-1.el7 (just updated engine to see if it helps) and I > haven't b

[ovirt-users] Re: Hyperconverged setup questions

2020-02-28 Thread Jayme
Marko, >From my understanding, you can have more than 3 hosts in a HCI cluster but to expand HCI you need to add hosts in multiples of three. I.e. go from 3 hosts to 6 or 9 etc. You can still add hosts into the cluster as compute only hosts though. So you could have 3 hosts with gluster and a 4

[ovirt-users] Re: Hyperconverged setup questions

2020-02-29 Thread Jayme
I currently have a three host hci in rep 3 (no arbiter). 10gbe network and ssds making up the bricks. I’ve wondered what the result of adding three more nodes to expand hci would be. Is there an overall storage performance increase when gluster is expanded like this? On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 4:26 A

[ovirt-users] Re: Hyperconverged setup questions

2020-02-29 Thread Jayme
and Jayme, > > > > This thread is getting more and more useful, great. > > > > Atm, I have 15 nodes cluster with shared Storage from Netapp. The storage > network is (NFS4.1) on 20GB LACP, separated from control. > > Performance is generally great, except in several tes

[ovirt-users] What if anything can be done to improve small file performance with gluster?

2020-03-06 Thread Jayme
I have 3 server HCI with Gluster replica 3 storage (10GBe and SSD disks). Small file performance inner-vm is pretty terrible compared to a similar spec'ed VM using NFS mount (10GBe network, SSD disk) VM with gluster storage: # dd if=/dev/zero of=test2.img bs=512 count=1000 oflag=dsync 1000+0 reco

[ovirt-users] Re: What if anything can be done to improve small file performance with gluster?

2020-03-06 Thread Jayme
tter... On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 5:06 PM Strahil Nikolov wrote: > On March 6, 2020 6:02:03 PM GMT+02:00, Jayme wrote: > >I have 3 server HCI with Gluster replica 3 storage (10GBe and SSD > >disks). > >Small file performance inner-vm is pretty terrible compared to a > >s

[ovirt-users] Re: What if anything can be done to improve small file performance with gluster?

2020-03-07 Thread Jayme
with replica 3 vs replica 3 arbiter. I’d assume arbiter setup would be faster but perhaps not by a considerable difference. I will check into c states as well On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 2:52 AM Strahil Nikolov wrote: > On March 7, 2020 1:09:37 AM GMT+02:00, Jayme wrote: > >Strahil, > >

[ovirt-users] Re: What if anything can be done to improve small file performance with gluster?

2020-03-07 Thread Jayme
No worries at all about the length of the email, the details are highly appreciated. You've given me lots to look into and consider. On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 10:02 AM Strahil Nikolov wrote: > On March 7, 2020 1:12:58 PM GMT+02:00, Jayme wrote: > >Thanks again for the info. Y

[ovirt-users] Re: What if anything can be done to improve small file performance with gluster?

2020-03-08 Thread Jayme
ost ? On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 6:24 PM Jayme wrote: > No worries at all about the length of the email, the details are highly > appreciated. You've given me lots to look into and consider. > > > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 10:02 AM Strahil Nikolov > wrote: > >&

[ovirt-users] Re: What if anything can be done to improve small file performance with gluster?

2020-03-08 Thread Jayme
xfs inode64,noatime,nodiratime 0 0 On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 12:23 PM Jayme wrote: > Strahil, > > I'm starting to think that my problem could be related to the use of perc > H310 mini raid controllers in my oVirt hosts. The os/boot SSDs are raid > mirror but gluster storage is SSDs in

[ovirt-users] Can anyone explain what gluster 4k support is?

2020-03-11 Thread Jayme
I noticed Gluster 4k support mentioned in recent oVirt release notes. Can anyone explain what this is about? ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-p

[ovirt-users] Re: Ansible playbook timeout

2020-03-15 Thread Jayme
This is all that should be needed, I've done so on my engine and it works fine to set the timeout much higher. My guess is that you did not restart the engine after changing the config. On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 10:44 AM Barrett Richardson wrote: > Version 4.2.8.2-1.0.9.el7 > > Per the info near t

[ovirt-users] Re: Can anyone explain what gluster 4k support is?

2020-03-17 Thread Jayme
zna 2020 21:13:13 CET Jayme wrote: > > >> I noticed Gluster 4k support mentioned in recent oVirt release notes. > > > > > >Can > > > > > >> anyone explain what this is about? > > > > > >before we supported only disks with block size

[ovirt-users] adding new gluster volume

2020-03-17 Thread Jayme
What if any steps do I need to take prior to adding an additional gluster volume to my HCI cluster using new storage devices via the oVirt gui? Will the gui prepare the devices (xfs/lvm etc) or do I need to do that prior? ___ Users mailing list -- users@o

[ovirt-users] Re: Gluster Settings

2020-03-19 Thread Jayme
At the very least you should make sure to apply the gluster virt profile to vm volumes. This can also be done using optimize for virt store in the ovirt GUI On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 6:54 AM Christian Reiss wrote: > Hey folks, > > quick question. For running Gluster / oVirt I found several places,

[ovirt-users] Re: Gluster Settings

2020-03-19 Thread Jayme
9/03/2020 11:18, Jayme wrote: > > At the very least you should make sure to apply the gluster virt profile > > to vm volumes. This can also be done using optimize for virt store in > > the ovirt GUI > > -- > with kind regards, > m

[ovirt-users] Re: Speed Issues

2020-03-23 Thread Jayme
I too struggle with speed issues in hci. Latency is a big problem with writes for me especially when dealing with small file workloads. How are you testing exactly? Look into enabling libgfapi and try some comparisons with that. People have been saying it’s much faster, but it’s not a default opti

[ovirt-users] Re: Artwork: 4.4 GA banners

2020-03-24 Thread Jayme
Hey Sandro, Do you have more specific details or guidelines in regards to the graphics you are looking for? Thanks! On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:27 PM Sandro Bonazzola wrote: > Hi, > in preparation of oVirt 4.4 GA it would be nice to have some graphics we > can use for launching oVirt 4.4 GA on s

[ovirt-users] Re: Speed Issues

2020-03-24 Thread Jayme
I strongly believe that FUSE mount is the real reason for poor performance in HCI and these minor gluster and other tweaks won't satisfy most seeking i/o performance. Enabling libgfapi is probably the best option. Redhat has recently closed bug reports related to libgfapi citing won't fix and one c

[ovirt-users] Re: Speed Issues

2020-03-27 Thread Jayme
Christian, I've been following along with interest, as I've also been trying everything I can to improve gluster performance in my HCI cluster. My issue is mostly latency related and my workloads are typically small file operations which have been especially challenging. Couple of things 1. Abou

[ovirt-users] snapshot options on remote NFS storage

2020-04-03 Thread Jayme
Was wondering if there are any guides or if anyone could share their storage configuration details for NFS. If using LVM is it safe to snapshot volumes with running VM images for backup purposes? ___ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe se

[ovirt-users] engine certificate problems in MacOS Catalina

2020-04-13 Thread Jayme
I recently setup a new ovirt environment using latest 4.3.9 installer. I can't seem to get the novnc client to work for the life of me in safari or chrome on MacOS catalina. I have downloaded the CA from the login page and imported it into keychain and made sure it was fully trusted. In both syste

[ovirt-users] Re: Can't deploy engine vm with ovirt-hosted-engine-setup

2020-04-13 Thread Jayme
The error suggests a problem with ansible. What packages are you using? On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 1:51 AM Gabriel Bueno wrote: > Does anyone have any clue that it may be happening? > ___ > Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an em

[ovirt-users] Re: How to load VMs after importing a domain

2020-04-16 Thread Jayme
In oVirt admin go to Storage > Domains. Click your storage domain. Click "Virtual Machines" tab. You should see a list of VMs on that storage domain. Click one or highlight multiple then click import. On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 2:34 PM wrote: > If you click on the 3 dots in the vm portal, there is

[ovirt-users] Re: VM's in status unknown

2020-04-16 Thread Jayme
Do you have the guest agent installed on the VMs? On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 2:55 PM wrote: > Are you getting any errors in the engine log or > /var/log/libvirt/qemu/.log? > I have Windows 10 and haven't experienced that. You can't shut it down in > the UI? Even after you try to shut it down inside

[ovirt-users] Re: VM disk I/O

2020-04-21 Thread Jayme
What is the vm optimizer you speak of? Have you tried the high performance vm profile? When set it will prompt you to make additional manual changes such as configuring numa and hugepages etc On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 8:52 AM wrote: > On oVirt 4.3. i installed w10_64 with q35 cpu. > i've used v

[ovirt-users] Re: Can't ping gluster interfaces for HCI setup

2020-04-28 Thread Jayme
You should be using a different subnet for each. I.e. 10.0.0.30 and 10.0.1.30 for example On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 2:49 PM Shareef Jalloq wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the process of trying to set up an HCI 3 node cluster in my homelab > to better understand the Gluster setup and have failed at the fir

[ovirt-users] Re: Can't ping gluster interfaces for HCI setup

2020-04-28 Thread Jayme
ng SSH keys seems to take over a minute just to >> prompt for a password. Something smells here. >> >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 7:32 PM Jayme wrote: >> >>> You should be using a different subnet for each. I.e. 10.0.0.30 and >>> 10.0.1.30 for example >>>

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