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    • M Offline
      magicker @olivierlambert
      last edited by

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

      XO from the sources

      XO from github (2 days old)

      esxi .. 7.0.0 (Build 16324942)

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      • olivierlambertO Offline
        olivierlambert Vates šŸŖ Co-Founder CEO
        last edited by olivierlambert

        So the diff for warm migration isn't supported on ESXi 7.0 (yet!). So your VM must be halted first (on the VMware side I mean)

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        • florentF Offline
          florent Vates šŸŖ XO Team @magicker
          last edited by florent

          hi @magicker

          you should also have additionnal logs in your xo logs

          Thank you for testing it

          regards

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            magicker @olivierlambert
            last edited by

            @olivierlambert ah I see.. other than that!! it works.. Just like magic!! v cool

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              rochemike
              last edited by rochemike

              Executing the following command resulted in an error until I powered the VM off:

              ESXi host ==> VMware ESXi, 6.5.0, 19092475

              Any ideas?

              [11:02 10] xoa@xoa:~$ xo-cli vm.importFromEsxi host=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx user=root password=secret sslVerify=false vm=262 network=13d8ab8a-dfdc-1e5c-0e35-0028af26987a sr=e748751e-02fd-28ae-5fa9-d58f5f0dc50a stopSource=true thin=true
āœ– Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'stream')
JsonRpcError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'stream')
    at Peer._callee$ (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-cli/node_modules/json-rpc-peer/dist/index.js:139:44)
    at tryCatch (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-cli/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:44:17)
    at Generator.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-cli/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:125:22)
    at Generator.next (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-cli/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:69:21)
    at asyncGeneratorStep (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-cli/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:3:24)
    at _next (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-cli/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:22:9)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-cli/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:27:7
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at Peer.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-cli/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:19:12)
    at Peer.exec (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-cli/node_modules/json-rpc-peer/dist/index.js:182:20)
[11:02 10] xoa@xoa:~$
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              • olivierlambertO Offline
                olivierlambert Vates šŸŖ Co-Founder CEO
                last edited by

                Same answer than my previous post: since ESXi 6.5, there's a new diff algorithm šŸ™‚ @florent is working on it, but it's even more complicated than the "legacy" one šŸ˜‰

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                  rochemike @olivierlambert
                  last edited by

                  @olivierlambert oh ok, I saw that and thought your comment was specific to the ESXi 7 version.

                  Thanks for the speedy response. I'd love to know how you clone yourself to be so responsive 24/7. Or am I talking to a Vates instance of ChatGPT?

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                  • olivierlambertO Offline
                    olivierlambert Vates šŸŖ Co-Founder CEO
                    last edited by

                    Sometimes I wonder šŸ˜“ But mostly because community is always my priority, regardless the fact we are a company with more than 30 people nowadays (with everything included on what is means).

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                      magicker @olivierlambert
                      last edited by

                      new issue.. I am trying to pull a vm (powered off) from a server I have already pulled 3 vms from (no problems)

                      However, this time it takes a few seconds before the command ends.

                      I can see the vm however, no disk is pulled over at all.

                      no obvious errors in logs.

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                      • olivierlambertO Offline
                        olivierlambert Vates šŸŖ Co-Founder CEO
                        last edited by

                        Weird, you should have at least a reason why it stopped šŸ¤”

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                        • florentF Offline
                          florent Vates šŸŖ XO Team @magicker
                          last edited by

                          @magicker
                          that's a great start that 3 VM goes through without problems
                          is your esxi still responsive after ? did you retry later ? what are the disks size of the failed vm ?

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                            magicker @florent
                            last edited by

                            @florent Yes, esxi is just fine. All running VMs are happy. I have pulled one more off this server after the failed attempt. Have tried about 6 times .. same result.. VM appears.. process completes after a few seconds.. no disk appears

                            The disc config seems very boring and normal.

                            https://images.dx3webs.com/Zdiy2T.png

                            https://images.dx3webs.com/y4vMSZ.png

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                              markhewitt1978
                              last edited by

                              Interested in this. I currently have an entire dedicated server running ESXi solely for the purpose of running a licening server for load balancers. ie lowest of low impact.

                              Would love to get that into xcp-ng so the server can be used for something else.

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                              • florentF Offline
                                florent Vates šŸŖ XO Team @magicker
                                last edited by

                                @magicker is there any logs on xo-sevrer side ? If you use a xoa, can you open a ticket and a support tunnel ?

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                                • florentF Offline
                                  florent Vates šŸŖ XO Team @markhewitt1978
                                  last edited by

                                  @markhewitt1978 that is exaclty the goal of this tool allow users to migrate to xcp/xo stack easily

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                                    magicker @florent
                                    last edited by

                                    @florent What is the location of the logs?

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                                    • florentF Offline
                                      florent Vates šŸŖ XO Team @magicker
                                      last edited by

                                      @magicker
                                      it depends hos you installled xo-server, but in general it's in journalctl -u xo-server

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                                        ulasdem
                                        last edited by ulasdem

                                        Hi,

                                        I have 2 succesfull migrate (Windows and Linux). Windows migrate was successfull but i have to configure network interface after vm opened (as i know this is known issue and about Windows). On the Linux vm (Centos 7) i have regenerate initram and LVM structure, and it is working good now. But today i am trying with different vm's and i am gettin the error below:

                                        xoa@xo-from-source:~$ xo-cli vm.importFromEsxi host=xxxxx user=xxxxxpassword=xxxxx sslVerify=false vm=3133 network=f6c27xxxxxxxx2e5 sr=61e7d4xxxxxxxd8ec3
āœ– Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'footer')
JsonRpcError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'footer')
     at Peer._callee$ (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/json-rpc-peer/dist/index.js:139:44)
     at tryCatch (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:44:17)
     at Generator.<anonymous> (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:125:22)
     at Generator.next (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:69:21)
     at asyncGeneratorStep (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:3:24)
     at _next (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:22:9)
     at /opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:27:7
     at new Promise (<anonymous>)
     at Peer.<anonymous> (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:19:12)
     at Peer.exec (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/json-rpc-peer/dist/index.js:182:20)

                                        And I am getting this error below. I am sure, My Vm id is correct. I tried clone this vm for change id. But it doesn't changed.

                                        xoa@xo-from-source:~$ xo-cli vm.importFromEsxi host=xxxxx user=xxxxx password=xxxxxx sslVerify=false vm=3161 network=f6c27exxxxxxxxa2e5 sr=61exxxxxxd8ec3
āœ– VM 3161 not found
JsonRpcError: VM 3161 not found
     at Peer._callee$ (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/json-rpc-peer/dist/index.js:139:44)
     at tryCatch (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:44:17)
     at Generator.<anonymous> (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:125:22)
     at Generator.next (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:69:21)
     at asyncGeneratorStep (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:3:24)
     at _next (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:22:9)
     at /opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:27:7
     at new Promise (<anonymous>)
     at Peer.<anonymous> (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:19:12)
     at Peer.exec (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/json-rpc-peer/dist/index.js:182:20)

                                        You can see my vm's id in this ss : https://prnt.sc/l29WdT8JVaYy

                                        And my third problem is I have a windows vm around 500 GB and migration continues for 40 hour. There is no status indicator or error message and i can't understand if is there a problem or another thing. I have tried with Xoa before 5.79 update, there was a status indicator on tasks tab. Now I am using XO from source and 5.79 update. I can't see any indicator

                                        I am using:

                                        xo server 5.109.0
                                        xo-web 5.111.0
                                        VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 15160138

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                                        • florentF Offline
                                          florent Vates šŸŖ XO Team @ulasdem
                                          last edited by

                                          @ulasdem I will look into the error message, at least I will make it more informative. How many VM have you in this esxi ? is it more than 100 ?

                                          For the long running import : there is a visible Task only when we reached the importing phase. The first step (when using thin=true) will read the whole disks to detect empty blocks. For now it's visible only in the logs, but we're working on it.

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                                            ulasdem @florent
                                            last edited by

                                            @florent Thank you for your message. I have 122 Vm on my one ESXI Host and i am planning to distribute this vms to xcp hosts in our other DC. Does it affecting migration tool how many vms are in ESXI?

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