VMware migration tool: we need your feedback!

alexredston

Hi, very excited by this migration tool, as after much faffing about with Vmware converter I found that my VMs were quite impractical to import do to the size fo the OVA files, so I have built XO with the vmware branch but the xo-cli command does not give me the vm.importFomEsxi / vm.importFromEsxi command.

Perhaps I am being a muppet? My xo-cli is v0.14.2

I have also tried checking out the the vmware PR #6595 which is 18 commits ahead.

Running xo-cli system.getServerVersion I seem to be way ahead on 5.107.5

Keen to test this important feature out, but a little confused as to how to get the correct version of xo-cli and XO to test it.

olivierlambert

Are you using the xo-cli binary built from XO folder?

florent

@alexredston nice catch, the methods weren't listed in list-command, it's fixed on the vmware branch

Regards

Florent

alexredston

Hi guys, thank you both for your helpful and very prompt responses. I am just running a build with the latest vmware source and will report back.

Had hoped to do it over Christmas but it was really busy for us with many colleagues away.

alexredston

@florent Excellent!

ysageev

@alexredston How do we get the "vmware branch" so that we can execute importFomEsxi? I also just used 0.14.2 and have the same problem.

olivierlambert

@ysageev if you are using XO from the sources, you should know how to change a branch on Git
If you are on XOA, it's just typing vmware in the custom release channel.

brezlord

I'm running the latest build form source and from the vmware branch but I cant get the import from ESXi to XCP-ng working, below is the error.

root@xoa:~# xo-cli vm.importFromEsxi host=192.168.40.203 user='root' password='password' sslVerify=false vm=11 sr=648548b5-a789-6c72-2518-407a12717fad network=b71bcce1-0d59-0c13-7ca9-f28e24982355
✖ no server to connect to!
Error: no server to connect to!
    at connect (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301220427/packages/xo-cli/index.mjs:35:11)
    at async Object.call (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301220427/packages/xo-cli/index.mjs:425:14)
    at async main (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301220427/packages/xo-cli/index.mjs:268:12)

Any help would be appreciated.

florent

@brezlord said in VMware migration tool: we need your feedback!:

192.168.40.203

hi,

are you sure the XO server can access this ip ? is there an esxi 6 / 7 running there ?

regards

brezlord

@florent it's esxi 7 and yes XO is in the same sub net and can ping the esxi server

florent

@brezlord before using xo-cli to connect to the esxi, you must connect xo-cli to your installation

with xo-cli --register <url of your xo> <login> and it will sk for the password

brezlord

@florent said in VMware migration tool: we need your feedback!:

xo-cli --register

I get the following error when regisering.

root@xoa:~# xo-cli --register xoa.corp.com 'admin@corp.com'
Password: ************
✖ unable to verify the first certificate
Error: unable to verify the first certificate
    at TLSSocket.onConnectSecure (node:_tls_wrap:1545:34)
    at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:513:28)
    at TLSSocket._finishInit (node:_tls_wrap:959:8)
    at ssl.onhandshakedone (node:_tls_wrap:743:12)

florent

@brezlord is your xo in http or https ?

brezlord

@florent https

olivierlambert

If you don't have valid certificates, you need to add --allowUnauthorized in the registration command.

brezlord

@olivierlambert said in VMware migration tool: we need your feedback!:

--allowUnauthorized

thanks that did it.

olivierlambert

Okay, keep us posted on the VMware migration tool then

brezlord

@olivierlambert what i the esxi vm ID that xo is looking for. I get the below error now.

root@xoa:~# xo-cli vm.importFromEsxi host=192.168.40.203 user='root' password='password' sslVerify=false vm=11 sr=648548b5-a789-6c72-2518-407a12717fad network=b71bcce1-0d59-0c13-7ca9-f28e24982355
✖ method not found: vm.importFromEsxi
JsonRpcError: method not found: vm.importFromEsxi
    at Peer._callee$ (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301220427/node_modules/json-rpc-peer/dist/index.js:139:44)
    at tryCatch (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301220427/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:44:17)
    at Generator.<anonymous> (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301220427/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:125:22)
    at Generator.next (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301220427/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:69:21)
    at asyncGeneratorStep (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301220427/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:3:24)
    at _next (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301220427/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:22:9)
    at /opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301220427/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:27:7
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at Peer.<anonymous> (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301220427/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:19:12)
    at Peer.exec (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301220427/node_modules/json-rpc-peer/dist/index.js:182:20)

olivierlambert

Have you switched to the right branch, as explained in the first post?

brezlord

@olivierlambert yes vmware