VMware migration tool: we need your feedback!
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@ulasdem yes, I think I saw that there is limitation to the api, but didn't reach the limit on our test pools
I will try to work around this
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Hi!
I did my first migration: Everything looks good!
The only thing, that should be noted:
You need to provide the VM-ID in your script. The ID that is shown through vSphere was not valid for your script. I had to login the the current ESXi-host and to get the ID with:vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | grep NAME -
That will be "solved" with the next release: you'll have a VM selector directly in the web UI
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@ulasdem can you try this branch ? https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/pull/6662
there is a new commandesxi.connectthat should show all the VM of an ESXI ( even after the first 100 ones)@KPS thank you, I note the command
closed Feat(xo-server): implement Api for esxi migration UX #6662
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Have successfully migrated 2 VMs from ESXI, doing MANY Hyper-v migrations, and have a suggestion / feature..
THIS is likely not the forum for this, but I know you guys are in a similar situation...Is it possible to add within XOA or the XCP-ng Center to allow attaching to a hyper-v cluster and do drag and drop style of migrations from hyper-v to XCP?
I had something similar setup for a past company that allowed me to attach to any type of cluster and manage all from within a single pane of glass ( Until all migrations were complete ) -
@florent I will try this branch and inform you in next week
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@severhart that would really put the orchestra in xen orchestra , but it would be a huge workload
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We are potentially investigating if HyperV APIs are friendly to do a similar thing than we do with VMware.
However, we do not have the objective to have XO managing VMware or HyperV clusters
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@olivierlambert I understand that, just for the migration purposes is all.. some of these migrations take months, if not years to get complete, and having it all under a single hood while that migration work is being done would be nice... I know that it is a HUGE ask
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Yeah, each platform got its own logic, that's why having an universal one is very very hard, except if you are a very big company able to have dedicated people on it (while doing all the rest).
I mean, if we can do it, it means we had a huge success, so I won't be against that
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I have two different behaviour on two different XO instances. Each XO instance refers to a different pool (different hosts, same xcp-ng version). In both the instances I try to connect to the same Private Virtual Datacenter based on VMware/vSphere at OVH.
In the first one I get the following error message by using the web UI: "invalid parameters" (take a look at this logfile 2023-02-28T19_25_21.933Z - XO.txt )
In the second one, I get the following error message by using the web UI "404 Not Found https://<vsphere-ip>/folder/<vm-name>/<vm-name>.vmx?dsName=<datastore-name>"
By using the xo-cli I get the "404 Not Found" on both the instances.
Regarding the "404 Not Found", I want to point out that at OVH I have a VMware datacenter (with 2 hosts) and in order to access to the storage I need to specify the parameter
dcPath=<datacenter-name>So the right URL should be https://<vsphere-ip>/folder/<vm-name>/<vm-name>.vmx?dcPath=<datacenter-name>&dsName=<datastore-name>
Simply adding (in a static way) the dcPath specification on line :54 of esxi.mjs file makes it work.
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Interesting, that's probably a parameter we need to add (as optional) in the case it's needed. Would you mind test a dedicated branch when @florent will add it?
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@olivierlambert Yeah sure! No problem, it'll be a pleasure.
Do you have any idea about the issue related to the message "invalid parameters"? Do you have any suggestion in order to go deeper? Thanks.
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No but @florent will take a look ASAP
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For what it's worth I'm seeing the same invalid parameters error when I attempt to perform a migration from an on prem ESXI 7.0U2 host.
Error message:
vm.importFromEsxi { "host": "* obfuscated *", "network": "1fb3daf2-b27d-b7ef-48ce-b8986440247a", "password": "* obfuscated *", "sr": { "type": "SR", "content_type": "user", "physical_usage": 26223620096, "allocationStrategy": "thin", "current_operations": {}, "inMaintenanceMode": false, "name_description": "", "name_label": "Local storage", "size": 964124073984, "shared": false, "SR_type": "ext", "tags": [], "usage": 79456894976, "VDIs": [ "393e3767-07c2-4c23-bdca-b573e8ba5980", "16a72d41-a97d-4b8b-ae6e-3b043882ef8e", "59ae272b-00a8-483c-975b-48f55a15119b", "dcf1d26c-1f85-41f5-9045-cb931bf9ab3b" ], "other_config": { "i18n-original-value-name_label": "Local storage", "i18n-key": "local-storage" }, "sm_config": { "devserial": "" }, "$container": "5a58d8a6-0ed1-4825-b1fd-8d720832bf02", "$PBDs": [ "26c0dc31-2cf6-15c5-8683-5c60e10382d0" ], "id": "3662768f-4a40-31ed-54b9-21eb26876205", "uuid": "3662768f-4a40-31ed-54b9-21eb26876205", "$pool": "20ec2c95-dbb7-f4a3-8bb6-a80ff9de4d00", "$poolId": "20ec2c95-dbb7-f4a3-8bb6-a80ff9de4d00", "_xapiRef": "OpaqueRef:e1b6c317-a854-449b-80e3-b69bbeb389fc" }, "sslVerify": false, "stopSource": false, "thin": true, "user": "root", "vm": "16" } { "code": 10, "data": { "errors": [ { "instancePath": "/sr", "schemaPath": "#/properties/sr/type", "keyword": "type", "params": { "type": "string" }, "message": "must be string" } ] }, "message": "invalid parameters", "name": "XoError", "stack": "XoError: invalid parameters at Module.invalidParameters (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302280214/packages/xo-common/api-errors.js:26:11) at Xo.call (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302280214/packages/xo-server/src/xo-mixins/api.mjs:65:20) at Api.#callApiMethod (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302280214/packages/xo-server/src/xo-mixins/api.mjs:390:19)" } -
@Seclusion are you doing it while the VM is running on VMware side? If yes, that's normal then, the delta mode (VM on) isn't supported yet on ESXi > 6.5
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@olivierlambert No, I thought doing a live migration seemed too ambitions to try first, but I also didn't realize that it also wasn't supported, haha. Here are my settings:
and on on the esxi side:
XO-log.txt
I am currently on commit 25759 -
@florent will take a look
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@ismo-conguairta said in VMware migration tool: we need your feedback!:
I have two different behaviour on two different XO instances. Each XO instance refers to a different pool (different hosts, same xcp-ng version). In both the instances I try to connect to the same Private Virtual Datacenter based on VMware/vSphere at OVH.
In the first one I get the following error message by using the web UI: "invalid parameters" (take a look at this logfile 2023-02-28T19_25_21.933Z - XO.txt )
In the second one, I get the following error message by using the web UI "404 Not Found https://<vsphere-ip>/folder/<vm-name>/<vm-name>.vmx?dsName=<datastore-name>"
By using the xo-cli I get the "404 Not Found" on both the instances.
Regarding the "404 Not Found", I want to point out that at OVH I have a VMware datacenter (with 2 hosts) and in order to access to the storage I need to specify the parameter
dcPath=<datacenter-name>So the right URL should be https://<vsphere-ip>/folder/<vm-name>/<vm-name>.vmx?dcPath=<datacenter-name>&dsName=<datastore-name>
Simply adding (in a static way) the dcPath specification on line :54 of esxi.mjs file makes it work.
I thought it was constant. I will look into the api to get it, and if not possible expose it in the UI
@Seclusion : noted I will look into theis error message, this one is a first for me
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@Seclusion @florent In my case the ESXi version is 7.0.3 (build 20842708) and the vCSA version is 7.0 (build 20845200). The VM I try to migrate is not running on VMware side.
The only difference between the 2 XO instances is that the first one is installed on a PV machine while the second one on a PVHVM machine.
