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  1. Maintaining Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Virtualization
  2. I. Configuration tasks
    1. 1. Add compute and storage resources
      1. 1.1. Expanding the hyperconverged cluster by adding a new volume on new nodes using Cockpit
    2. 2. Configure high availability using fencing policies
      1. 2.1. Configuring Fencing Policies in the Cluster
      2. 2.2. Configuring Fencing Parameters on the Hosts
    3. 3. Configuring backup and recovery options
      1. 3.1. Prerequisites
        1. 3.1.1. Prerequisites for geo-replication
        2. 3.1.2. Prerequisites for failover and failback configuration
      2. 3.2. Supported backup and recovery configurations
      3. 3.3. Configuring backup to a secondary volume
        1. 3.3.1. Prerequisites
        2. 3.3.2. Create a suitable target volume for geo-replication
        3. 3.3.3. Configuring geo-replication for backing up volumes
        4. 3.3.4. Scheduling regular backups using geo-replication
      4. 3.4. Configuring failover to and failback from a secondary cluster
        1. 3.4.1. Creating a secondary cluster for failover
        2. 3.4.2. Creating a mapping file between source and target clusters
        3. 3.4.3. Creating a failover playbook between source and target clusters
        4. 3.4.4. Creating a failover cleanup playbook for your primary cluster
        5. 3.4.5. Create a failback playbook between source and target clusters
    4. 4. Configure encryption with Transport Layer Security (TLS/SSL)
      1. 4.1. Configuring TLS/SSL using self-signed certificates
      2. 4.2. Configuring TLS/SSL using Certificate Authority signed certificates
    5. 5. Configure performance improvements
      1. 5.1. Improving volume performance by changing shard size
        1. 5.1.1. Prerequisites
        2. 5.1.2. Safely changing the shard block size parameter value
      2. 5.2. Configuring a logical volume cache (lvmcache) for improved performance
    6. 6. Configure monitoring
      1. 6.1. Configuring event notifications
  3. II. Maintenance tasks
    1. 7. Basic Operations
      1. 7.1. Creating a shutdown playbook
      2. 7.2. Shutting down RHHI for Virtualization
      3. 7.3. Starting up a hyperconverged cluster
    2. 8. Upgrading to Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Virtualization 1.5
      1. 8.1. Major changes in version 1.5
      2. 8.2. Upgrade workflow
      3. 8.3. Preparing to upgrade
        1. 8.3.1. Verify brick mount options
        2. 8.3.2. Update to the latest version of the previous release
        3. 8.3.3. Update subscriptions
        4. 8.3.4. Verify that data is not currently being synchronized using geo-replication
      4. 8.4. Upgrading Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Virtualization
        1. 8.4.1. Upgrading the Hosted Engine virtual machine
        2. 8.4.2. Upgrading the virtualization hosts
        3. 8.4.3. Cleaning up after upgrading
    3. 9. Monitoring Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Virtualization
      1. 9.1. Monitoring Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO)
        1. 9.1.1. Monitoring VDO using the command line interface
        2. 9.1.2. Monitoring VDO using the Cockpit UI
    4. 10. Add virtualization hosts to Red Hat Virtualization Manager
    5. 11. Reinstalling a virtualization host
    6. 12. Replacing the primary storage host
    7. 13. Replacing a Gluster Storage Host
      1. 13.1. Replacing a Gluster Storage Host (Different FQDN)
      2. 13.2. Replacing a Gluster Storage Node (Same FQDN)
    8. 14. Recovering from disaster
      1. 14.1. Manually restoring data from a backup volume
        1. 14.1.1. Restoring a volume from a geo-replicated backup
      2. 14.2. Failing over to a secondary cluster
      3. 14.3. Failing back to a primary cluster
      4. 14.4. Stopping a geo-replication session using RHV Manager
      5. 14.5. Turning off scheduled backups by deleting the geo-replication schedule
  4. III. Reference material
    1. A. Fencing Policies for Red Hat Gluster Storage
    2. B. Example gdeploy configuration files
      1. B.1. Example gdeploy configuration file for setting up TLS/SSL
      2. B.2. Example gdeploy configuration file for preparing a replacement host
      3. B.3. Example gdeploy configuration file for scaling to additional nodes
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Part I. Configuration tasks

  • Maintaining Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Virtualization
  • 1. Add compute and storage resources
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