Unable to MIgrate VDI when host is low on free memory
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You say you're trying to migrate a vdi, where are you trying to migrate it?
To a SR attached to your current host or to another host/pool?If you're trying to migrate it to another host/pool this is something that i've seen as well when dom0 is not assigned enough RAM, we usually gave them 16Gg which seemed to resolved these kind of issues back when we were running 8.2.0.
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@olivierlambert I do not.
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@nikade I am trying to move the VDI from one storage SR to another on the same host. This is not in a cluster. This is a standalone host.
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@hitechhillbilly said in Unable to MIgrate VDI when host is low on free memory:
@nikade I am trying to move the VDI from one storage SR to another on the same host. This is not in a cluster. This is a standalone host.
Alright, check the /var/log/SMlog as well as /var/log/xensource to see whats going on, you'll find an error there.
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@hitechhillbilly I'd say this is normal if you are low on RAM and you are doing a live VDI migration. XCP-ng requires some amount of free RAM on the host to be able to live migrate the VDI. The larger the VDI, the more RAM is needed but exact sizing is unknown to me. I've encountered this error numerous times so I consider it common.
The way around this is to shutdown the VM and then migrate the VDI. RAM requirements in that case are much much lower.
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@bvitnik said in Unable to MIgrate VDI when host is low on free memory:
@hitechhillbilly I'd say this is normal if you are low on RAM and you are doing a live VDI migration. XCP-ng requires some amount of free RAM on the host to be able to live migrate the VDI. The larger the VDI, the more RAM is needed but exact sizing is unknown to me. I've encountered this error numerous times so I consider it common.
The way around this is to shutdown the VM and then migrate the VDI. RAM requirements in that case are much much lower.
Yea, I suggested giving dom0 16Gb. That was our standard sizing back in the days and it worked pretty well.
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@nikade This is not related to Dom0 RAM. It's related to the host RAM.
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@bvitnik said in Unable to MIgrate VDI when host is low on free memory:
@nikade This is not related to Dom0 RAM. It's related to the host RAM.
Could you please explain the difference between the term dom0 and host?
I havent been using xcp-ng professionaly for a while, but back when we were using it dom0 actually represented the "host" and it was also running all the management tools and services, hence why it some times needed a bit more ram.Not really sure if there's some kind of caching involved when it is handling the VHD, but we went from a 50/50 chance of succeeding with a vdi migration to something near 90% after giving dom0 16Gb ram. The only exception was bigger VDI's, those kept on failing.
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@nikade said in Unable to MIgrate VDI when host is low on free memory:
Could you please explain the difference between the term dom0 and host?
This is what I mean:
Dom0 is not "the host". It contains a management layer for the host but in reality it is just another VM, highly specialized one but stil just a VM. It does not see host's RAM as it's own.
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@bvitnik Thanks for explaining, I was always under the impression that dom0 was the "host" so to say.
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@nikade You can even see that Dom0 VM has 16 vCPUs and host has 40 CPUs, in my case anyway. So Dom0 sees just some chunk of host resources.
