@john.c Indeed, John, and I almost forgot that the backup network on each host was actually on a separate, isolated NIC, and not at all on the VLAN.

Wonderful !

@acebmxer we are far more explicit on the real usage of NBD, paing the way to mark a failed NBD connexion as an error in a few month also working on a diagnostic tool to be more efficient on the checks thank you all for your time

@Emmanuel-V In my opinion, it would make more sense if a standalone disk exported in VMDK format were exported directly as monolithicSparse, so that it would not need to be converted. This makes more sense to me because when only the disk is exported, rather than the entire VM (OVA), it can be assumed that the disk will be attached directly to some VM.

Forwarded to the right team, thanks!

@lem2405 No problem. Let me know if you still encounter any issues.

@pierrebrunet Tested and working again, thanks

@poddingue Okay, we're back here. I was told I have a hung CIFS mount that no longer exists, so a host needs to reboot to clear it, and faulty XOSTOR resources. But I can't reboot the host until I can move VMs off. Is there any indication of how to repair the faulty XOSTOR resources so I can move the VMs and reboot the host? Thanks for taking a look.

@fohdeesha Hi all, I apologize that it's taken a while to get all the issues sorted, fixed and properly verified. I have pushed the corrected version up to my GitHub, and everything seems to be working much better (thanks to the efforts of everyone here)! A big shout out to all of you, as this is exactly how open source is supposed to work! Let me know if there are any other issues that arrise - and Happy Day to one and All!

@coolsport00 Sorry about the VMW need for the Cisco product. Sounds like you have a number of constraints, finances being I'm sure one of them! At least you have time on your hands and the means to experiment. You may, als, end up with a number of different platforms to meet your needs. We ran both Sun Microsystems and Red Hat Linux and Microsoft Windows servers, each taking on specific duties. It's far from ideal and probably not very cost-effective, but you do what you have to to get stuff to work.

Thanks a lot for your feeback, folks!

@stormi I dont doubt that the team works hard. The GPU passthrough support has been of lower priority for a long time, it has been said many times before by the team and Oliver. 99 percent of the dev team is working security and basic hypervisor, and is not prioritized for edge cases. Which i guess that PCI passthrough is for GPUs Please dont ask me to dig up the sources. It has always been the case with Xen.... Proxmox, KVM and vmware has the edge there, and that should be well known. But I would in any case where PCI passthrough for edge cases like the GPU marked kind of is, is not a requirement, Always recommend XCP-ng over the others.

@poddingue Turns out it is all secondary-to-secondary out of sync. So that makes it less intense, though if primary dies I wonder how it will resolve this, or if it will become split brained. Still unsure of how it happened, but the ones I manually cleaned up have not come back. Going to continue to manually clear them up. If it happens again I will have an alert setup to notify me, and I have all the xcp-ng logs and everything to be able to see what happened. If that happens I will post here with details and logs for the resource so we can see how it occurs. [image: image.jpeg]

@poddingue This was fixed a number of weeks ago via a ticket. I believe @florent may know the exact fix.

Great, thanks for the feedback @yomeyo !

@Kajetan321 I looked into my server and I think I forget some points. First and foremost I have to say, modifying the systemd files can make you system unbootable! It should not happen, but there is chance since we are also modifying some "natively shipped files". So an update can break your working configuration again and that is not the fault of XCP-NG!!! That said I assume that after a reboot (prior to any of any input of yours) if you enter: systemctl status ups-driver.service nut-server.service nut-monitor.service you will see that "ups-driver.service" is loaded and active, but the 2 other services are not. If thats the case I think I can help you since it is related to a dependency problem during boot up. Please do the following: Remove "nut-driver.target" dependency from "nut-server.service" by calling nano /lib/systemd/system/nut-server.service and remove nut-driver.target from routine. I prefer to duplicate and comment the to be modified rows to keep the original code. It then should look like this. DO NOT COPY AND PASTE, read, compare and modify carefully! [Unit] Description=Network UPS Tools - power devices information server #After=local-fs.target network.target nut-driver.target After=local-fs.target network.target # We don't Require drivers to be successfully started! This would be # a change of behavior compared to init SysV, and could prevent from # accessing successfully started, at least to audit a system. #Wants=nut-driver.target Wants= # The `upsd` is a networked service (even if bound to a `localhost`) # so it requires that the OS has some notion of networking already. # Extending the unit does not require *this* file to be edited, you # can instead drop in an additional piece of configuration, e.g. add # a `/etc/systemd/system/nut-server.service.d/network.conf` with: # [Unit] # Requires=network-online.target # After=network-online.target Requires=network.target Before=nut-monitor.service PartOf=nut.target [Service] EnvironmentFile=-/etc/ups/nut.conf SyslogIdentifier=%N # Note: foreground mode by default skips writing a PID file (and # needs Type=simple); can use "-FF" here to create one anyway: ExecStart=/usr/sbin/upsd -F ExecReload=/usr/sbin/upsd -c reload -P $MAINPID [Install] WantedBy=nut.target Afterwards enable nut.target: systemctl enable nut.target Then call: systemctl daemon-reload systemctl start nut.target systemctl start nut-monitor.service Now it should work even after reboot

@poddingue Thanks for taking a look. Yes it is this part that tells me that it should start the VM automatically once the import has completed. "After the transfer, the VM on XCP-ng side is started:" Followed by, "This process is fully automated, without any human intervention after it starts on step 1." [image: image.jpeg] https://docs.xcp-ng.org/installation/migrate-to-xcp-ng/ But my findings/experience is that the VM does not start once the import/transfer has completed. So either the docs are wrong. Or the function is not behaving as intended. I'm acctually fine either way. As long as I know what to expect. However, I would like to have it auto-start the VMs after transfer completion. Which would make the procedure "Fully automated". Update: Am I assuming correctly that "the XO V2V guide says to start the VM yourself once the migration is complete " you're reffering to, is part of the "test migration"-procedure? Not the acctual production mgiration? Because: "Final migration Run the production migration When you're ready for the final migration: Shut down the source VM completely. Start the V2V migration in Xen Orchestra with the Stop source option enabled. This ensures the final sync happens while the VM is powered off, and prevents any inconsistencies." In my mind doesn't state that the VM should be started manually post-transfer. Great thanks in advance for discussing! Cheers!

@pierrebrunet Just wondering if you know how soon the "reclaimSpace" option should be available, and where exactly can you find it when it is ready? Thank you in advance for any information...

@poddingue Our HA-pool is a 3 host system, yes. I'll add a note about our plans to go paid in that feedback-item. Thanks for the tip. In the meantime, I'm testing and reporting as much as I can. In order to hopefully help the product be better for all. Cheers!