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    Continuous Replication fails with VDI_IO_ERROR(Device I/O errors) on fresh XOA install after XenServer 7.2 -> XCP-ng 8.0 upgrade

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    • olivierlambertO Online
      olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
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      Keep us posted after few runs (to be sure it's not due to a first full that it worked). You shouldn't have any downside using it, it's a setting we didn't put by default until we are 100% sure of the outcome (especially on retrocompatibility for older hosts)

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        1am3r
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        It looks good for now. I'll monitor it for a while and report back. Thanks!

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        • olivierlambertO Online
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          You are welcome πŸ™‚

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            nyash
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            Hi,

            I had noticed a similar problem. I have upgraded from XCP-NG 7.4 to 8.0 via the ISO. Upgrade was painless. Only issue was with a single VM not starting that was resolved with "xe vm-cd-eject --multiple".

            I have also upgraded to the latest Xen Orchestra from sources:
            :xo-server 5.46.0
            :xo-web 5.46.0

            I have 2 xenservers with local storage defined like this:
            https://i.imgur.com/XCCyzS2.png

            I have defined a simple Continous Replication task like this to backup a very small VM from xenserver1 to xenserver2:
            https://i.imgur.com/d8nuDAN.png

            And started the task manually, however it eventually fails like this:
            https://i.imgur.com/B5IS5lB.png

            Attached log:
            https://pastebin.com/raw/gS9SYXgg

            Changing the setting in config.toml of xo-server to: 'guessVhdSizeOnImport: true' seems to have fixed the problem (the backup task completes succesfully).

            Thanks.

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            • rizaemet 0R Offline
              rizaemet 0
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              Same problem here after upgrade xcp-ng 7.6 to 8.0

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              • olivierlambertO Online
                olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
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                And same solution worked?

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                • rizaemet 0R Offline
                  rizaemet 0 @olivierlambert
                  last edited by

                  @olivierlambert I've just tried and yes, 'guessVhdSizeOnImport: true' solved the problem.

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                  • olivierlambertO Online
                    olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
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                    Okay I'm pinging @julien-f so we can include this as default (because it seems to not break for older XS)

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                      1am3r
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                      We run this config now for a week and didn't have any problems. So it looks good from our site.

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                      • txsastreT Offline
                        txsastre
                        last edited by

                        same problem, same solution. works fine πŸ˜‰

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                        • rizaemet 0R Offline
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                          'guessVhdSizeOnImport: true' looks like solved the problem 9 day ago. But I'm getting same error sometimes and randomly since that day.
                          Daily CR job have 31 VMs. Some day successful 31/31. But some days one or two VM replication fail with tis message: VDI_IO_ERROR(Device I/O errors).
                          I think my problem still related with this topic.

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                            nyash @rizaemet 0
                            last edited by nyash

                            @rizaemet-0
                            Ever since I have changed to guessVhdSizeOnImport: true I have not had any problems. However I only backup 5 VMs which is not much.

                            In the past I noticed that if I didn't change the default "Concurrency" setting to 1 in the Backup NGs advanced settings (I assume that it tries to parallelize backups by default) then my tasks would fail randomly once in a while with VDI_IO_ERROR(Device I/O errors). I figured that perhaps my servers are not fast enough; they have about 40MB/s write speed to the disks only. Setting to 1 solved it, but I can imagine this may not be desirable if there is lots of VMs to backup since it would slow down the process considerably.

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                            • julien-fJ Offline
                              julien-f Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder XO Team @olivierlambert
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                              @olivierlambert Yep, I think it's safe enough to turn on by default in the next release πŸ™‚

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                              • olivierlambertO Online
                                olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
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                                Great, so let's do that!

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                                  @olivierlambert said in Continuous Replication fails with VDI_IO_ERROR(Device I/O errors) on fresh XOA install after XenServer 7.2 -> XCP-ng 8.0 upgrade:

                                  Xen Orchestra configuration

                                  should I add "guessVhdSizeOnImport: true" to /opt/xen-orchestra/packages/xo-server/config.toml

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                                  • olivierlambertO Online
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                                    last edited by olivierlambert

                                    To your config file, yes. Where this config file is depends on where do you installed Xen Orchestra (I suppose from the sources, so I can't guess where do you installed, could be anyware πŸ˜‰ )

                                    edit: I think it's fixed now and integrated by default in the config

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                                      onur @olivierlambert
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                                      @olivierlambert said in Continuous Replication fails with VDI_IO_ERROR(Device I/O errors) on fresh XOA install after XenServer 7.2 -> XCP-ng 8.0 upgrade:

                                      To your config file, yes. Where this config file is depends on where do you installed Xen Orchestra (I suppose from the sources, so I can't guess where do you installed, could be anyware πŸ˜‰ )

                                      edit: I think it's fixed now and integrated by default in the config

                                      Great, this fix already is in the new version.
                                      I was having this problem (Error: VDI_IO_ERROR(Device I/O errors)) and was not be able to do CR of my VMs but now CR works.
                                      Thank you

                                      PS: BTW that was my config file πŸ˜‰

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