• Create and Export Full oVirt VM Backups to NFS Storage Domain

    Create and Export Full oVirt VM Backups to NFS Storage Domain. Now that I had my first virtual machine up and running and before moving on by configuring all the cool stuff that I had in mind, I needed to find a way to create daily virtual machine backups and...


  • Configure oVirt Engine on CentOS 7 - Part Two

    Create your first Virtual Machine and Save it as a Template. In the First Part of this tutorial, we documented in detail everything needed to setup our oVirt Infrastructure which is ready to host new virtual machines. I suppose that you had enought time to familiarize yourself with the oVirt...


  • Configure oVirt Engine on CentOS 7 - Part One

    Create a basic Cluster/Host and Configure a Storage Data and ISO Domain. In my previous post I gave a general overview of my oVirt setup that followed the official installation guidelines and default suggested values. So it’s time to provide a more detailed configuration on how to prepare everything, from...


  • Replace oVirt Engine SSL/TLS Certificate with a third-party CA certificate

    Homelab - Replace oVirt Engine SSL/TLS Certificate with a third-party CA certificate NOTE: : Find updated notes and configuration on SSO Keycloak changes after oVirt v4.5.1 which caused ovirtsdk4 to fail after engine’s CA replacement, at the end of the article. As promised in my previous post, now that we...


  • Create your own local SSL Certificate Authority

    Homelab - Create your own local SSL Certificate Authority Now that I had my own Ovirt infrastructure and local DNS (DNSSEC enabled in case you forgot) server I was finally able to get rid of the host file maintaining pain and start accessing different URLs just by adding them in...