Xen Orchestra 5.110 V2V not working
-
@farokh said in Xen Orchestra 5.110 V2V not working:
@DustinB That's my point. The "Warm Migration" powers off the running machine.
Are you stating that it forcibly powers the VM off, or does it gracefully execute a shutdown, IE "Start > Shutdown"?
-
@DustinB It forcibly powers off the VM.
-
@farokh In case you need to ensure that the VM is powered off manually :
- do the first migration without "stop source"
- stop the VM properly
- launch the migration . It will only transfer the data from the snapshot
-
gracefully powering down a VM may need to go inside the VM ( through ssh/powershell) and that is something we try not to do, especially since we do not know anything on the os inside
It can be easily scripted if you know what is the type of VM running and how to authenticate inside them
-
@farokh said in Xen Orchestra 5.110 V2V not working:
@DustinB It forcibly powers off the VM.
You'd have to do what Florent is saying in this case. But I question why should it matter as long as the migration completes successfully and the VM boots on your new pool...
-
@DustinB Because I was led to believe that I could leave my VM running while the initial transfer is occurring and only have it shutdown for the final bit to be copied. I have VMs that I'd rather not shut down for some number of hours if I can avoid doing that.
-
@farokh said in Xen Orchestra 5.110 V2V not working:
@DustinB Because I was led to believe that I could leave my VM running while the initial transfer is occurring and only have it shutdown for the final bit to be copied. I have VMs that I'd rather not shut down for some number of hours if I can avoid doing that.
You would do what florent said, transfer the VM without shutting down the original VM on ESXi. Once the migration is completed you'd then power off the ESXi VM and power on the XCP-ng.
-
@DustinB When I tried to do that the first thing the migration process did was to power off the VM.
-
@florent I just looked at the new documentation, and it's much better as far as details go.
For example, I don't recall seeing the requirement that the snapshots on the ESXi side had to have specific names.
I'll give it a try with these new docs.
Thanks.
-
Keep us posted!
