Thank you all for the replies. When I said "moved the VMs" I meant "rebuilt the VMs". We just created new VMs and restored services from backups. I'm sorry for the confusion.
I followed Idan's suggestions and was able to remove the datacenter. Thank you. On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 1:07 AM, Liron Aravot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Idan Shaby <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Peter, >> >> You can take your hosts down to maintenance and then right click on your >> data center -> force remove. >> That will remove your storage and vms along with your datacenter. >> >> >> Regards, >> Idan >> > > Hi, > I'd start off with backing up your db so you'll have a way to access your > old configuration. > I didn't understand how did you move the vms to another cluster - can you > elaborate? > Generally speaking, you can take a look at the import storage domain > feature (http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/ > storage/importstoragedomain/ ). > > Regards, > Liron > >> >> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 9:53 PM, Peter Wood <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I inherited a small oVirt cluster with 3 nodes using iSCSI storage. >>> >>> The LUNs used by the oVirt nodes were also accessible by some VMware >>> nodes. >>> >>> By mistake an action was started on VMware to initialize and start using >>> the same LUNs, which it happily did. This rendered the storage no longer >>> usable by oVirt nodes. All VMs went down, their image files no longer >>> accessible, the whole cluster became unusable without access to the shared >>> storage. >>> >>> We have recovered from backups and moved the VMs to another cluster and >>> now I want to get this oVirt cluster back up and running. >>> >>> I'm not an oVirt expert so everything I tried was through the web >>> interface and everything failed because storage is not accessible. I can't >>> remove VMs, I can't remove nodes, I can't remove the storage domain. >>> >>> What is the right approach to destroy the cluster and rebuild it and >>> re-initialize the storage? >>> >>> Even better if I can just remove all VMs from the inventory and somehow >>> tell it to make the storage LUNs usable again? >>> >>> Any help is highly appreciated? >>> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> -- Peter >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> >
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