Upgrading oVirt Manager

This upgrade applies to the self-hosted engine of oVirt Manager. We need to first put the oVirt environment to the global maintenance mode. [root@trex ~]# hosted-engine --set-maintenance --mode=global To check the availability of oVirt Manager, run engine-upgrade-check command on the oVirt Manager machine. [root@ovirtm ~]# engine-upgrade-check ...omitted... VERB: Queue package ovirt-engine-setup for update VERB: Building transaction VERB: Transaction built VERB: Transaction Summary: VERB: install : ovirt-engine-setup-plugin-cinderlib-4.4.4.5-1.el8.noarch VERB: install : ovirt-engine-setup-base-4.4.4.5-1.el8.noarch VERB: install : ovirt-engine-setup-4....

December 26, 2020 · 5 min · 867 words · kenno

Configure oVirt Manager to Authenticate Against FreeIPA

This is quick note on how to configure an oVirt Manager or RHV Manager to use the FreeIPA to provide user external authentication. Here’s my servers’ information: IPA server: ipa.angkorian.io (CentOS 8.3.2011) oVirt Hosted-Engine: ovirtm.angkorian.io (CentOS 8.3.2011) IPA user: ovirtadmin First, open SSH connection to ovirtm as root and ensure that ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-ldap-setup package is installed. Here is a tip to figure out the name of this package - I’d search for ovirt*ldap....

December 26, 2020 · 4 min · 760 words · kenno

Passed Red Hat Virtualization Exam EX318

Another month, another Red Hat exam has been ticked off the list. This time, it’s about the Red Hat Virtualization, a technology based on oVirt. The code name of the exam is EX318, and as rumours has it, it’s one of the easiest Red Hat exams; I can’t agree more. The exam’s duration is 3 hours; it’s a hand-on closed book exams. The exam is based on Red Hat Virtualization version 4....

December 9, 2020 · 1 min · 170 words · kenno