Re: System VMs not migrating when host down

2018-02-17 Thread Andrija Panic
ing mechanisms in libvirtd seem >> like the best idea to us so far - but we are just starting to look into it >> and implement it. >> >> https://libvirt.org/locking-lockd.html >> >> It reminds us of how VMware vSphere does locking, which works great. >> >>

Re: System VMs not migrating when host down

2018-02-17 Thread Andrija Panic
ting to look into it > and implement it. > > https://libvirt.org/locking-lockd.html > > It reminds us of how VMware vSphere does locking, which works great. > > > > -Original Message- > From: Andrija Panic [mailto:andrija.pa...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, F

RE: System VMs not migrating when host down

2018-02-15 Thread Sean Lair
oes locking, which works great. -Original Message- From: Andrija Panic [mailto:andrija.pa...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 3:22 AM To: dev Subject: Re: System VMs not migrating when host down Humble opinion (until HOST HA is ready in 4.11 if not mistaken?), avoid using HA optio

Re: System VMs not migrating when host down

2018-02-15 Thread Simon Weller
ost is removed from ACS. We are running a heavily patched 4.8. - Si From: Andrija Panic Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 3:22 AM To: dev Subject: Re: System VMs not migrating when host down Humble opinion (until HOST HA is ready in 4.11 if not mistaken?), avoid

Re: System VMs not migrating when host down

2018-02-14 Thread Andrija Panic
Humble opinion (until HOST HA is ready in 4.11 if not mistaken?), avoid using HA option for VMs - avoid setting the "Offer HA" option on any compute/service offerings, since we did end up (was it ACS 4.5 or 4.8, can't remember now) having 2 copies of SAME VM running on 2 different hosts...imagin

RE: System VMs not migrating when host down

2018-02-14 Thread Paul Angus
Hi Sean, The 'problem' with VM HA in KVM is that it relies on the parent host agent to be connected to report that the VM is down. We cannot assume that just because a host agent is disconnected, that the VMs on that host are not running. This is where HOST HA comes in, this feature detects l