Why Hosted engine failover is not working when the underlying hypervisor goes down

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Hypervisor where the hosted engine VM is running goes down. However the hosted engine VM doesn't failover automatically to the next host.
  • ISO domain is configured within the hosted engine VM.
  • From the agent log, we can see that it's stuck in below process.
MainThread::INFO::2016-04-26 11:13:19,008::ovf_store::109::ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.lib.ovf.ovf_store.OVFStore::(getEngineVMOVF) Extracting Engine VM OVF from the OVF_STORE

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.6

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