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    • R Offline
      rochemike @olivierlambert
      last edited by

      @olivierlambert oh ok, I saw that and thought your comment was specific to the ESXi 7 version.

      Thanks for the speedy response. I'd love to know how you clone yourself to be so responsive 24/7. Or am I talking to a Vates instance of ChatGPT?

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      • olivierlambertO Online
        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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        Sometimes I wonder šŸ˜“ But mostly because community is always my priority, regardless the fact we are a company with more than 30 people nowadays (with everything included on what is means).

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          magicker @olivierlambert
          last edited by

          new issue.. I am trying to pull a vm (powered off) from a server I have already pulled 3 vms from (no problems)

          However, this time it takes a few seconds before the command ends.

          I can see the vm however, no disk is pulled over at all.

          no obvious errors in logs.

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

            Weird, you should have at least a reason why it stopped šŸ¤”

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              florent Vates 🪐 XO Team @magicker
              last edited by

              @magicker
              that's a great start that 3 VM goes through without problems
              is your esxi still responsive after ? did you retry later ? what are the disks size of the failed vm ?

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                magicker @florent
                last edited by

                @florent Yes, esxi is just fine. All running VMs are happy. I have pulled one more off this server after the failed attempt. Have tried about 6 times .. same result.. VM appears.. process completes after a few seconds.. no disk appears

                The disc config seems very boring and normal.

                https://images.dx3webs.com/Zdiy2T.png

                https://images.dx3webs.com/y4vMSZ.png

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                  markhewitt1978
                  last edited by

                  Interested in this. I currently have an entire dedicated server running ESXi solely for the purpose of running a licening server for load balancers. ie lowest of low impact.

                  Would love to get that into xcp-ng so the server can be used for something else.

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

                    @magicker is there any logs on xo-sevrer side ? If you use a xoa, can you open a ticket and a support tunnel ?

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                    • florentF Offline
                      florent Vates 🪐 XO Team @markhewitt1978
                      last edited by

                      @markhewitt1978 that is exaclty the goal of this tool allow users to migrate to xcp/xo stack easily

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                        magicker @florent
                        last edited by

                        @florent What is the location of the logs?

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

                          @magicker
                          it depends hos you installled xo-server, but in general it's in journalctl -u xo-server

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                            ulasdem
                            last edited by ulasdem

                            Hi,

                            I have 2 succesfull migrate (Windows and Linux). Windows migrate was successfull but i have to configure network interface after vm opened (as i know this is known issue and about Windows). On the Linux vm (Centos 7) i have regenerate initram and LVM structure, and it is working good now. But today i am trying with different vm's and i am gettin the error below:

                            xoa@xo-from-source:~$ xo-cli vm.importFromEsxi host=xxxxx user=xxxxxpassword=xxxxx sslVerify=false vm=3133 network=f6c27xxxxxxxx2e5 sr=61e7d4xxxxxxxd8ec3
                            āœ– Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'footer')
                            JsonRpcError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'footer')
                                 at Peer._callee$ (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/json-rpc-peer/dist/index.js:139:44)
                                 at tryCatch (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:44:17)
                                 at Generator.<anonymous> (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:125:22)
                                 at Generator.next (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:69:21)
                                 at asyncGeneratorStep (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:3:24)
                                 at _next (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:22:9)
                                 at /opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:27:7
                                 at new Promise (<anonymous>)
                                 at Peer.<anonymous> (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:19:12)
                                 at Peer.exec (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/json-rpc-peer/dist/index.js:182:20)
                            

                            And I am getting this error below. I am sure, My Vm id is correct. I tried clone this vm for change id. But it doesn't changed.

                            xoa@xo-from-source:~$ xo-cli vm.importFromEsxi host=xxxxx user=xxxxx password=xxxxxx sslVerify=false vm=3161 network=f6c27exxxxxxxxa2e5 sr=61exxxxxxd8ec3
                            āœ– VM 3161 not found
                            JsonRpcError: VM 3161 not found
                                 at Peer._callee$ (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/json-rpc-peer/dist/index.js:139:44)
                                 at tryCatch (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:44:17)
                                 at Generator.<anonymous> (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:125:22)
                                 at Generator.next (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:69:21)
                                 at asyncGeneratorStep (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:3:24)
                                 at _next (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:22:9)
                                 at /opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:27:7
                                 at new Promise (<anonymous>)
                                 at Peer.<anonymous> (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:19:12)
                                 at Peer.exec (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302101204/node_modules/json-rpc-peer/dist/index.js:182:20)
                            

                            You can see my vm's id in this ss : https://prnt.sc/l29WdT8JVaYy

                            And my third problem is I have a windows vm around 500 GB and migration continues for 40 hour. There is no status indicator or error message and i can't understand if is there a problem or another thing. I have tried with Xoa before 5.79 update, there was a status indicator on tasks tab. Now I am using XO from source and 5.79 update. I can't see any indicator

                            I am using:

                            xo server 5.109.0
                            xo-web 5.111.0
                            VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 15160138

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                              florent Vates 🪐 XO Team @ulasdem
                              last edited by

                              @ulasdem I will look into the error message, at least I will make it more informative. How many VM have you in this esxi ? is it more than 100 ?

                              For the long running import : there is a visible Task only when we reached the importing phase. The first step (when using thin=true) will read the whole disks to detect empty blocks. For now it's visible only in the logs, but we're working on it.

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                                ulasdem @florent
                                last edited by

                                @florent Thank you for your message. I have 122 Vm on my one ESXI Host and i am planning to distribute this vms to xcp hosts in our other DC. Does it affecting migration tool how many vms are in ESXI?

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                                  florent Vates 🪐 XO Team @ulasdem
                                  last edited by

                                  @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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                                    KPS Top contributor @magicker
                                    last edited by

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

                                      That will be "solved" with the next release: you'll have a VM selector directly in the web UI šŸ™‚

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                                        florent Vates 🪐 XO Team @ulasdem
                                        last edited by

                                        @ulasdem can you try this branch ? https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/pull/6662
                                        there is a new command esxi.connect that should show all the VM of an ESXI ( even after the first 100 ones)

                                        @KPS thank you, I note the command

                                        fbeauchamp opened this pull request in vatesfr/xen-orchestra

                                        closed Feat(xo-server): implement Api for esxi migration UX #6662

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                                          severhart
                                          last edited by

                                          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 )

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                                            ulasdem @florent
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                                            @florent I will try this branch and inform you in next week

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