Consider trying the new hosted engine feature (http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Self_Hosted_Engine). It runs the ovirt engine as a VM inside the engine, and also provides HA solution for it.
Oved ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzasl...@redhat.com> > To: "Alan Murrell" <li...@murrell.ca> > Cc: users@ovirt.org > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 9:17:53 AM > Subject: Re: [Users] Ovirt Engine single point of failure > > Alan, > IMHO this is not the scenario described in the original question - or maybe I > did not understand well the original question? > I assume the original question is about a scenario where engine restarts, and > not about a catastrophic failure as you describe here. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Alan Murrell" <li...@murrell.ca> > > To: users@ovirt.org > > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 9:01:14 AM > > Subject: Re: [Users] Ovirt Engine single point of failure > > > > OK, so just so I understand this, in the described scenario of three > > servers: one management server/engine and two nodes, let's say the > > management server suffers catastrophic hard disk failure where no data > > can be recovered from it, nor were any backups made. > > > > Is it possible to perform a new installation of ovirt-engine, add the > > two existing nodes, and everything "just works"? Or would you at least > > need to do some reconfiguring (e.g., re-add the logical networks etc.) > > > > Basically, even though the nodes were part of the now-dead ovirt-engine, > > there would be no problem in getting them added in to the > > newly-installed ovirt-engine? > > > > -Alan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > Users@ovirt.org > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
