VMware migration tool: we need your feedback!

[florent]

@severhart that would really put the orchestra in xen orchestra , but it would be a huge workload

[olivierlambert]

We are potentially investigating if HyperV APIs are friendly to do a similar thing than we do with VMware.

However, we do not have the objective to have XO managing VMware or HyperV clusters (at least, not for the next 3 years)

[severhart]

@olivierlambert I understand that, just for the migration purposes is all.. some of these migrations take months, if not years to get complete, and having it all under a single hood while that migration work is being done would be nice... I know that it is a HUGE ask

[olivierlambert]

Yeah, each platform got its own logic, that's why having an universal one is very very hard, except if you are a very big company able to have dedicated people on it (while doing all the rest).

I mean, if we can do it, it means we had a huge success, so I won't be against that

[ismo-conguairta]

I have two different behaviour on two different XO instances. Each XO instance refers to a different pool (different hosts, same xcp-ng version). In both the instances I try to connect to the same Private Virtual Datacenter based on VMware/vSphere at OVH.

In the first one I get the following error message by using the web UI: "invalid parameters" (take a look at this logfile 2023-02-28T19_25_21.933Z - XO.txt )

In the second one, I get the following error message by using the web UI "404 Not Found https://<vsphere-ip>/folder/<vm-name>/<vm-name>.vmx?dsName=<datastore-name>"

By using the xo-cli I get the "404 Not Found" on both the instances.

Regarding the "404 Not Found", I want to point out that at OVH I have a VMware datacenter (with 2 hosts) and in order to access to the storage I need to specify the parameter dcPath=<datacenter-name>

So the right URL should be https://<vsphere-ip>/folder/<vm-name>/<vm-name>.vmx?dcPath=<datacenter-name>&dsName=<datastore-name>

Simply adding (in a static way) the dcPath specification on line :54 of esxi.mjs file makes it work.

[olivierlambert]

Interesting, that's probably a parameter we need to add (as optional) in the case it's needed. Would you mind test a dedicated branch when @florent will add it?

[ismo-conguairta]

@olivierlambert Yeah sure! No problem, it'll be a pleasure.

Do you have any idea about the issue related to the message "invalid parameters"? Do you have any suggestion in order to go deeper? Thanks.

[olivierlambert]

No but @florent will take a look ASAP

[Seclusion]

For what it's worth I'm seeing the same invalid parameters error when I attempt to perform a migration from an on prem ESXI 7.0U2 host.

Error message:

vm.importFromEsxi
{
 "host": "* obfuscated *",
 "network": "1fb3daf2-b27d-b7ef-48ce-b8986440247a",
 "password": "* obfuscated *",
 "sr": {
   "type": "SR",
   "content_type": "user",
   "physical_usage": 26223620096,
   "allocationStrategy": "thin",
   "current_operations": {},
   "inMaintenanceMode": false,
   "name_description": "",
   "name_label": "Local storage",
   "size": 964124073984,
   "shared": false,
   "SR_type": "ext",
   "tags": [],
   "usage": 79456894976,
   "VDIs": [
     "393e3767-07c2-4c23-bdca-b573e8ba5980",
     "16a72d41-a97d-4b8b-ae6e-3b043882ef8e",
     "59ae272b-00a8-483c-975b-48f55a15119b",
     "dcf1d26c-1f85-41f5-9045-cb931bf9ab3b"
   ],
   "other_config": {
     "i18n-original-value-name_label": "Local storage",
     "i18n-key": "local-storage"
   },
   "sm_config": {
     "devserial": ""
   },
   "$container": "5a58d8a6-0ed1-4825-b1fd-8d720832bf02",
   "$PBDs": [
     "26c0dc31-2cf6-15c5-8683-5c60e10382d0"
   ],
   "id": "3662768f-4a40-31ed-54b9-21eb26876205",
   "uuid": "3662768f-4a40-31ed-54b9-21eb26876205",
   "$pool": "20ec2c95-dbb7-f4a3-8bb6-a80ff9de4d00",
   "$poolId": "20ec2c95-dbb7-f4a3-8bb6-a80ff9de4d00",
   "_xapiRef": "OpaqueRef:e1b6c317-a854-449b-80e3-b69bbeb389fc"
 },
 "sslVerify": false,
 "stopSource": false,
 "thin": true,
 "user": "root",
 "vm": "16"
}
{
 "code": 10,
 "data": {
   "errors": [
     {
       "instancePath": "/sr",
       "schemaPath": "#/properties/sr/type",
       "keyword": "type",
       "params": {
         "type": "string"
       },
       "message": "must be string"
     }
   ]
 },
 "message": "invalid parameters",
 "name": "XoError",
 "stack": "XoError: invalid parameters
   at Module.invalidParameters (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302280214/packages/xo-common/api-errors.js:26:11)
   at Xo.call (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302280214/packages/xo-server/src/xo-mixins/api.mjs:65:20)
   at Api.#callApiMethod (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202302280214/packages/xo-server/src/xo-mixins/api.mjs:390:19)"
}

[olivierlambert]

@Seclusion are you doing it while the VM is running on VMware side? If yes, that's normal then, the delta mode (VM on) isn't supported yet on ESXi > 6.5

[Seclusion]

@olivierlambert No, I thought doing a live migration seemed too ambitions to try first, but I also didn't realize that it also wasn't supported, haha. Here are my settings:
and on on the esxi side:

XO-log.txt
I am currently on commit 25759

[olivierlambert]

@florent will take a look

[florent]

@ismo-conguairta said in VMware migration tool: we need your feedback!:

I have two different behaviour on two different XO instances. Each XO instance refers to a different pool (different hosts, same xcp-ng version). In both the instances I try to connect to the same Private Virtual Datacenter based on VMware/vSphere at OVH.

In the first one I get the following error message by using the web UI: "invalid parameters" (take a look at this logfile 2023-02-28T19_25_21.933Z - XO.txt )

In the second one, I get the following error message by using the web UI "404 Not Found https://<vsphere-ip>/folder/<vm-name>/<vm-name>.vmx?dsName=<datastore-name>"

By using the xo-cli I get the "404 Not Found" on both the instances.

Regarding the "404 Not Found", I want to point out that at OVH I have a VMware datacenter (with 2 hosts) and in order to access to the storage I need to specify the parameter dcPath=<datacenter-name>

So the right URL should be https://<vsphere-ip>/folder/<vm-name>/<vm-name>.vmx?dcPath=<datacenter-name>&dsName=<datastore-name>

Simply adding (in a static way) the dcPath specification on line :54 of esxi.mjs file makes it work.

I thought it was constant. I will look into the api to get it, and if not possible expose it in the UI

@Seclusion : noted I will look into theis error message, this one is a first for me

[ismo-conguairta]

@Seclusion @florent In my case the ESXi version is 7.0.3 (build 20842708) and the vCSA version is 7.0 (build 20845200). The VM I try to migrate is not running on VMware side.
The only difference between the 2 XO instances is that the first one is installed on a PV machine while the second one on a PVHVM machine.

[florent]

@ismo-conguairta @rajaa-b can you check it, I think the full SR object is sent to the backend when changing the sr from the default one to another , instead of the id

[florent]

@ismo-conguairta
Can you try this branch : https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/pull/6694/files ?

Edit : I can get the dcPath from the esxi api, you can test from the frontend, no need to use the command line

For now you can't change the SR ( changing it will lead to a parameter error)

fbeauchamp opened this pull request in vatesfr/xen-orchestra

closed feat(xo-server): use dcpath in Esxi import #6694

[ismo-conguairta]

@florent I just checked the branch and I get this error message "404 Not Found https://<vsphere-host>/folder/<vm-name>/<vm-name>.vmx?dcPath=datacenter-61&dsName=<ds-name>"

where datacenter-61 is not the right reference to my datacenter. Please take a look at the following screenshot.

From documentation

dcPath is the inventory path to the Datacenter containing the Datastore.

[florent]

@ismo-conguairta said in VMware migration tool: we need your feedback!:

inventory path to the Datacenter

I updated to use another property (from https://developer.vmware.com/apis/196/vsphere/doc/vim.Datacenter.html ) is it better ? on our lab, theses properties have the same value

[ismo-conguairta]

@florent I have just checked and your last update works like a charm. Great!

[Touille]

Hi folks,

I have an error when importing from VMware

I'm using XO from sources :

commit number : ea2c6
Hypervisor : Xcp-ng 8.2.1
node : 18.14.2

When I go on import and "from VMware", I put my ESX credentials, check "skip SSL", I do see the list of my VMs from my ESX. I select everything that needed and when I import, I have an error, doesn't matter which option I select or if the VM is running Windows or Linux. Also my ESX are running vmware 5.5.0

Here is the log and screenshot :

vm.importFromEsxi
{
  "host": "IP MASKED",
  "network": "6277d50c-5d2e-e896-864a-5afcc009ad51",
  "password": "* obfuscated *",
  "sr": {
    "type": "SR",
    "content_type": "user",
    "physical_usage": 33929035776,
    "allocationStrategy": "thin",
    "current_operations": {},
    "inMaintenanceMode": false,
    "name_description": "VM",
    "name_label": "NFS",
    "size": 12884899659776,
    "shared": true,
    "SR_type": "nfs",
    "tags": [],
    "usage": 289910292480,
    "VDIs": [
      "afef80db-c923-4248-b731-4d1712f02db1",
      "42fc30c3-4d8f-4126-bb78-fd4a8285b03a",
      "b286ad66-3d19-4984-aa80-840d93c72cf0",
      "03869f0c-1a02-4e32-9932-4e221e534eb0",
      "d17a4e5e-7276-4ef2-84f4-4766c4ad471e"
    ],
    "other_config": {
      "auto-scan": "true"
    },
    "sm_config": {},
    "$container": "3eb75cbb-0cc2-3c90-e63e-ae6da1ef9417",
    "$PBDs": [
      "90204213-cbec-5194-439d-ab795a0fe4b8",
      "2c8adf39-d2a9-8dd5-568d-872fcc04de54"
    ],
    "id": "cecb563f-f745-3ed6-1f64-85de34dfbbd5",
    "uuid": "cecb563f-f745-3ed6-1f64-85de34dfbbd5",
    "$pool": "3eb75cbb-0cc2-3c90-e63e-ae6da1ef9417",
    "$poolId": "3eb75cbb-0cc2-3c90-e63e-ae6da1ef9417",
    "_xapiRef": "OpaqueRef:04f1c17c-357e-428c-bbbe-2a558cd7238a"
  },
  "sslVerify": false,
  "stopSource": false,
  "thin": false,
  "user": "root",
  "vm": "109"
}
{
  "code": 10,
  "data": {
    "errors": [
      {
        "instancePath": "/sr",
        "schemaPath": "#/properties/sr/type",
        "keyword": "type",
        "params": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "message": "must be string"
      }
    ]
  },
  "message": "invalid parameters",
  "name": "XoError",
  "stack": "XoError: invalid parameters
    at Module.invalidParameters (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202303011617/packages/xo-common/api-errors.js:26:11)
    at Xo.call (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202303011617/packages/xo-server/src/xo-mixins/api.mjs:65:20)
    at Api.#callApiMethod (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202303011617/packages/xo-server/src/xo-mixins/api.mjs:390:19)"
}