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    VMware migration tool: we need your feedback!

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

      Yes, as I explain, the first pass is just reading the whole VMware disk once. It's only doing the transfer on second pass.

      That's why there's no XCP-ng task in the first pass (since until now, we only have XCP-ng tasks, there's no XO tasks).

      But it's changing, we are about to release XO tasks, so it will be easier to track the job 🙂

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      • planedropP Offline
        planedrop Top contributor @olivierlambert
        last edited by

        @olivierlambert Totally makes sense, this is great news.

        Thanks again! I'll be testing the tool on some very large VMs in the coming weeks so I'll report back if anything weird happens with those.

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        • brezlordB Offline
          brezlord
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          @florent When I import a windows 10 VM from ESXi to XCP-ng the boot firmware was incorrectly set to bios when the source VM was uefi. I would also be advantageous to have the mac address(s) copied over by default or at least on option.

          Thanks,
          Simon

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          • florentF Offline
            florent Vates 🪐 XO Team @brezlord
            last edited by

            @brezlord nice catch, I will work on it today

            @planedrop : task progression is in the work with @julien-f , and I hope they'll reach maturity soon

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            • florentF Offline
              florent Vates 🪐 XO Team @brezlord
              last edited by

              @brezlord mac address and uefi should works now

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              • brezlordB Offline
                brezlord @florent
                last edited by

                @florent I will rebuild XO and re-import and give feedback. Thanks.

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

                  It's now available directly on master (from the sources) or on latest XOA release channel 🙂 (I updated the first post accordingly)

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                  • planedropP Offline
                    planedrop Top contributor @olivierlambert
                    last edited by

                    @olivierlambert Awesome, super exciting stuff!

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                    • brezlordB Offline
                      brezlord @florent
                      last edited by

                      @florent Everything is working now, Thanks. I have sucsefully migrated Windows and Linux VMs.

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

                        Perfect! Now expect all of this but in a simple wizard in the UI, that will be a great tool for everyone who want to make the migration (and we hope to get a decent share of those users with our new support bundle)

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                          severhart
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                            severhart
                            last edited by olivierlambert

                            After running for hours, get the following

                            ✖ sesparse Vmdk reading is not functionnal yet FP-FileServer/FP-FileServer-000001-sesparse.vmdk
                            JsonRpcError: sesparse Vmdk reading is not functionnal yet FP-FileServer/FP-FileServer-000001-sesparse.vmdk
                                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)
                            
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                            • florentF Offline
                              florent Vates 🪐 XO Team @severhart
                              last edited by florent

                              @severhart the sesparse format is used for disk greater than 2TB , and for all disks after esxi 6.5 , and it's not very documented
                              https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc/GUID-88E5A594-DEBC-4662-812F-EA421591C70F.html
                              we are working on implementing this reader to allow migration during Q1 2023

                              For now esxi 6.5+ vm are limited to migration of sopped vm without snasphots

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                                severhart @florent
                                last edited by

                                @florent thanks! for the fast reply, I will take the outage and rerun, and let you know outcome.

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

                                  Also, 2TiB+ disk can't be imported since it's limited to 2TiB tops on XCP-ng default storage stack.

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                                  • planedropP Offline
                                    planedrop Top contributor @olivierlambert
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                                    @olivierlambert Would love to see some way to have it import larger than 2TiB disks as multiple disks in XCP-ng, since most OSes just let you span drives anyway.

                                    Just realized I may not be able to leave VMWare with this method since one of the disks on a VM I'm trying to move is over 3TiB.

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

                                      We could detect 2TiB+ drives and create a raw disk on our side, but it won't support snap nor live storage migration.

                                      Only another format (used in SMAPIv3) will allow us to solve this.

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                                      • planedropP Offline
                                        planedrop Top contributor @olivierlambert
                                        last edited by

                                        @olivierlambert Gotcha, this makes sense.

                                        Is there any way to skip a specific drive with this migration script? I'm thinking I could skip the larger than 2TiB disk and then just create 2 x 2TiB disks after migration, span them in Windows, and then copy the data manually from the VMWare VM.

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

                                          I think we could probably skip it (since it's likely not a system disk) so you can then manually copy the rest the way you prefer. We should probably add an option like "just skip 2TiB+ disk without failing"

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                                          • planedropP Offline
                                            planedrop Top contributor @olivierlambert
                                            last edited by

                                            @olivierlambert Yes, I think that would be great, this would be a good workaround for people that have larger than 2TiB disks.

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