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michmoor0725

@olivierlambert Ok i see now. xcp-ng.org vs xcp-ng.com. Community vs Pro.

I will keep the existing community POC in place. How do i pivot to Pro? Do i reach out to your amazing team for the iso along with support contract?

olivierlambert

It's off topic but you have both Xen Orchestra and XCP-ng pro support (because they are done by 2 different teams). We can provide bundles with both so you are entirely covered in your infrastructure, not just when you have a problem, but even discussing before about migrating, best practices and having our feedback/advice directly to build the best of the entire stack Feel free to contact us if you want to know more

michmoor0725

@olivierlambert Yep i am escalating to sales here.
I think I started off things incorrectly. It was my assumption that XO being the hypervisor is the product that's free and the XOA is the licensed product.

olivierlambert

No worries, it's not trivial if you don't know anything about our stack, that's why we are working on creating a more unified identity through the Vates stack/Vates virtualization, with everything included (like vSphere includes ESXi+vCenter, Vates Virtualization will include XCP-ng+XO)

florent

@michmoor0725 patch is deployed
tell us if it solves the import

source VM should be stopped. Snapshots are only supported till esxi 6.3 for now

michmoor0725

@florent Thanks for your attention to this. I get a new error now.

vm.importMultipleFromEsxi
{
  "concurrency": 2,
  "host": "192.168.50.20",
  "network": "17519ece-8817-4e93-4afd-2a00f96927f0",
  "password": "* obfuscated *",
  "sr": "0b002e97-e812-8626-f4e0-2c6267c62296",
  "sslVerify": false,
  "stopOnError": true,
  "stopSource": true,
  "thin": false,
  "user": "admin",
  "vms": [
    "11"
  ]
}
{
  "generatedMessage": true,
  "code": "ERR_ASSERTION",
  "operator": "notStrictEqual",
  "succeeded": {},
  "message": "Expected \"actual\" to be strictly unequal to:

undefined",
  "name": "AssertionError",
  "stack": "AssertionError [ERR_ASSERTION]: Expected \"actual\" to be strictly unequal to:

undefined
    at Task.onProgress (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/combineEvents.js:48:16)
    at Task.#emit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:130:21)
    at Task.#emit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:124:17)
    at Task.run (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:137:17)
    at MigrateVm.migrationfromEsxi (file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/src/xo-mixins/migrate-vm.mjs:175:18)
    at file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/src/api/vm.mjs:1374:30
    at Task.runInside (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:149:22)
    at Task.run (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:134:20)
    at asyncEach.concurrency.concurrency (file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/src/api/vm.mjs:1372:11)"
}

Wolfraider

We are seeing the "Property description must be an object: undefined error also". VM has been powered off on the VMware host and no snapshots exist. We have updated to the latest release channel. ESX version 6.7. We have opened a support channel if you would like to look around.

vm.importMultipleFromEsxi
{
  "concurrency": 2,
  "host": "XXXX",
  "network": "97f6e5a8-ff82-cf56-44ef-fabe3c2217a2",
  "password": "* obfuscated *",
  "sr": "40a77962-46f6-e871-9751-0748ae322672",
  "sslVerify": false,
  "stopOnError": true,
  "stopSource": false,
  "thin": true,
  "user": "XXXX",
  "vms": [
    "vm-143"
  ]
}
{
  "succeeded": {},
  "message": "Property description must be an object: undefined",
  "name": "TypeError",
  "stack": "TypeError: Property description must be an object: undefined
    at Function.defineProperty (<anonymous>)
    at Task.onProgress (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/combineEvents.js:51:16)
    at Task.#emit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:130:21)
    at Task.#emit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:124:17)
    at Function.set (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:47:17)
    at file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/src/api/vm.mjs:1388:20
    at Task.runInside (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:149:22)
    at Task.run (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:134:20)
    at asyncEach.concurrency.concurrency (file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/src/api/vm.mjs:1372:11)"
}

julien-f

@Wolfraider This error was fixed a couple of days ago (https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/commit/5c436f3870e39776128369d154bcaa23a126ac59), please upgrade.

0

julien-f committed to vatesfr/xen-orchestra

fix(task/combineEvents): defineProperty → defineProperties

Fixes zammad#14566

michmoor0725

Has anyone seen this type of error before?

julien-f

@michmoor0725 If the detail is not the same as your previous message (vm.importMultipleFromEsxi), please copy/paste it to help us investigate

michmoor0725

@julien-f Here is the details from the log

vm.importMultipleFromEsxi
{
  "concurrency": 2,
  "host": "192.168.50.20",
  "network": "17519ece-8817-4e93-4afd-2a00f96927f0",
  "password": "* obfuscated *",
  "sr": "ea9202e0-dce9-244e-5983-69fea9aab6b8",
  "sslVerify": false,
  "stopOnError": true,
  "stopSource": false,
  "thin": false,
  "user": "admin",
  "vms": [
    "11"
  ]
}
{
  "generatedMessage": true,
  "code": "ERR_ASSERTION",
  "operator": "notStrictEqual",
  "succeeded": {},
  "message": "Expected \"actual\" to be strictly unequal to:

undefined",
  "name": "AssertionError",
  "stack": "AssertionError [ERR_ASSERTION]: Expected \"actual\" to be strictly unequal to:

undefined
    at Task.onProgress (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/combineEvents.js:48:16)
    at Task.#emit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:130:21)
    at Task.#emit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:124:17)
    at Task.run (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:137:17)
    at MigrateVm.migrationfromEsxi (file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/src/xo-mixins/migrate-vm.mjs:175:18)
    at file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/src/api/vm.mjs:1374:30
    at Task.runInside (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:149:22)
    at Task.run (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:134:20)
    at asyncEach.concurrency.concurrency (file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/src/api/vm.mjs:1372:11)"
}

julien-f

@michmoor0725 The same as the previous one then.

Which commit are you on?

michmoor0725

@julien-f Im new to this so not really sure how to answer that question.

xo-server 5.113.0
xo-web 5.116.1

I can PM my support ID if you need to poke around.

julien-f

@michmoor0725 If you are using an official XOA, I think the best would be to wait for the future patch release (very very soon) and re-test after having upgraded

michmoor0725

@julien-f No worries. I dont mind waiting a bit. I do know a patch was pushed by @florent a few days ago.
Im hoping the patches in the upcoming release fixes the imports. Right now i cant migrate anything. Not critical at this time.

julien-f

@michmoor0725 XO 5.82.1 has just been released in the latest channel with a few bug fixes, please let me know if that helps.

michmoor0725

@julien-f well well well....lol...
You are correct. There is an update and im able to import from VMware. No error messages so far.
Taking about 40 minutes or so but i dont know if thats good or not. I selected a NFS storage thats running on mechanical disks so i suspect thats the bottleneck.

I will keep everyone here up to date if i run into any issues.
Job well done you guys/gals. Job well done

michmoor0725

@julien-f VM has been imported but the problem now is networking.
The VM cannot pick up an IP regardless of what network i place it in. The eth0 interface is down. I bring it up no IP. VM is set for DHCP.
I know the vlans work as thats how ive been building test VMs which are configured with a dhcp scope.

For example, ive built a DMZ Host from XO. No issue.
Ive imported a VM from ESXi and placed it in the DMZ vlan. No IP

I took a pcap from the firewall and sure enough I dont see any DHCP Discover packets at all.

michmoor0725

disregard. I rebooted the VM a few times but the solution was to force a dhcp renew
$sudo dhclient

olivierlambert

Good news then