On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Alastair Neil <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 11 November 2015 at 12:52, Simone Tiraboschi <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Alastair Neil <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I am in the process of upgrading my ovirt DC to 3.6. I would like to >>> migrate to hosted-engine with gluster replica 3 storage in the process. >>> The engine has been upgraded and I have installed 3 of the VM hosts in one >>> cluster using the ovirt-node iso. I have three other VM hosts in a >>> separate cluster to upgrade. >>> >>> I see an option to configure the hosted engine through the node admin >>> login tui, however I have not found any up to date instructions on how to >>> perform a migration to hosted using the ovirt-node. I thought I'd ask a >>> few questions before I started: >>> >>> Should I connect and approve the node in the current engine prior to >>> configuring the hosted engine? >>> Does the node hosted-engine-setup provide a pause to restore the engine >>> db from the external engine? Or even better a facility to upload the >>> database backup file? >>> >> >> http://www.ovirt.org/Migrate_to_Hosted_Engine >> > > Yes I am familiar with these instructions, however they are quite old and > have not been updated to include any information about how to perform this > in the case of using the 3.6 ovirt-node image as the host and the > ovirt-live installation image as the VM installation. > > >> >> hosted-engine-setup has to be run on the host. >> engine-setup has to be run on the engine VM. >> The DB restore from you previous setup has to be performed on the engine >> VM. If you are using the ready to use oVirt engine appliance and you choose >> to automatically execute engine-setup on your VM it will not wait for you >> to replace the engine DB so you have just to avoid that and manually >> execute engine-setup on the engine VM. >> > > This is the crux: if the hosted-engine-setup using the live image allows > you to pause the setup and do a manual engine-setup. Its seems like it is > probably a quite common thing for people to want to do so I thought I'd > check. If it has not been attempted and/or documented then I will try it. > Hosted-engine-setup will ask you about automatic execution of engine setup on the engine VM. You have just to respond no at that question. > > >> In this way you have all the time to perform your import. >> >> >> >>> >>> Any feedback gratefully received. >>> >>> Thanks, Alastair >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>> >>> >> >
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