VMware migration tool: we need your feedback!

[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

[olivierlambert]

Ah, there's a typo in the command name, I fixed it in our doc, thinking it was just a typo from the example

vm.importFomEsxi is the "right" command. @florent will fix this

FYI: xo-cli list-commands will display all the commands, that's how I found out.