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    • planedropP Offline
      planedrop Top contributor @olivierlambert
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      @olivierlambert I don't think there are tags for them, per-se but you can rename a VMDK file to whatever you want within vCenter. Maybe just looking at the name of the VMDK files and allowing someone to enter ones to exclude would work?

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      • olivierlambertO Offline
        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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        Sure, I just need to know what's the easiest way to do this in VMware, since I don't know it at all šŸ™‚

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        • planedropP Offline
          planedrop Top contributor @olivierlambert
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          @olivierlambert Totally understand.

          I think going based on the name of the disk would be the best option.

          For example, on a test VM I have, the disks all show up like this:
          b6cb6358-8dc2-4961-ba18-e6e3ecdd4eec-image.png

          And I can rename them if need be.

          Does the current V2V tool just look for .vmdk files and then migrate those?

          I guess what I'm thinking is like something that says "exclude the below disks" and then has a list system where you can enter the disk name as it shows up here in ESXi so that it ignores those disks?

          I'm not sure how complex this would be though so just throwing out suggestions haha!

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

            I would prefer something that's not configured in XO but a convention on the VMware side so it can scale during one import on tons of VMs

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            • planedropP Offline
              planedrop Top contributor @olivierlambert
              last edited by

              @olivierlambert I see, this makes sense.

              Maybe a naming convention can be used and then users can rename their VMDK files to something specific that is ignored?

              Like say you have Ubuntu1.vmdk, Ubuntu2.vmdk, Ubuntu3.vmdk and someone only wants Ubuntu1.vmdk, they could rename Ubuntu2 and 3 ones to ignore1.vmdk and ignore2.vmdk?

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

                Frankly IDK, and I'd like more input from VMware users to make a decision based on multiple opinions šŸ™‚

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                • planedropP Offline
                  planedrop Top contributor @olivierlambert
                  last edited by

                  @olivierlambert I agree, would be good to hear from more people. We only run a handful of VMs on VMware so I may not be the best person to give detailed feedback.

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                  • chrispro-21C Offline
                    chrispro-21 @brezlord
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                    @brezlord said in VMware migration tool: we need your feedback!:

                    TypeError

                    I got something similar on the latest build of XO.
                    System: ESXi 6.7.0 Update 3 (Build 15160138)

                    vm.importFromEsxi
                    {
                      "host": "10.20.0.105",
                      "network": "1816a2e5-562a-4559-531d-6b59f8ec1a5c",
                      "password": "* obfuscated *",
                      "sr": "eb23cb22-5b8c-9641-b801-c86397e05520",
                      "sslVerify": false,
                      "stopSource": true,
                      "thin": false,
                      "user": "root",
                      "vm": "9"
                    }
                    {
                      "message": "Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'stream')",
                      "name": "TypeError",
                      "stack": "TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'stream')
                        at file:///home/node/xen-orchestra/packages/xo-server/src/xo-mixins/migrate-vm.mjs:272:30
                        at Task.runInside (/home/node/xen-orchestra/@vates/task/index.js:158:22)
                        at Task.run (/home/node/xen-orchestra/@vates/task/index.js:137:20)"
                    }
                    
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                    • florentF Offline
                      florent Vates 🪐 XO Team @chrispro-21
                      last edited by

                      @chrispro-21 we're not able to import VM with snapshots from esxi 6.5+ , for now

                      At least the next release will be able to ignore them or give a meaningfull error, if we have not finished the implementation of sesparse reading ( the disk snapshot format for esxi 6.5+)

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                        alexredston @florent
                        last edited by olivierlambert

                        Hi @florent I'm getting the same on ESXi 6.7 - have tried migrating the disk storage within VMWare first to see if it updated. Looking forwards to testing this new feature as soon as disk format sorted - in the mean time will look for a workaround.

                        vm.importFromEsxi
                        {
                          "host": "172.29.49.11",
                          "network": "b4d861c9-a735-b21c-6f58-655911cf8fb2",
                          "password": "* obfuscated *",
                          "sr": "1216d3f2-a60d-e68b-ea93-0b1b594a53cb",
                          "sslVerify": true,
                          "stopSource": false,
                          "thin": false,
                          "user": "administrator@blue.local",
                          "vm": "vm-4292"
                        }
                        {
                          "message": "sesparse Vmdk reading is not functionnal yet gbr-stf-blue-dc/gbr-stf-blue-dc-000001-sesparse.vmdk",
                          "name": "Error",
                          "stack": "Error: sesparse Vmdk reading is not functionnal yet gbr-stf-blue-dc/gbr-stf-blue-dc-000001-sesparse.vmdk
                            at openDeltaVmdkasVhd (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202303171405/@xen-orchestra/vmware-explorer/openDeltaVmdkAsVhd.mjs:7:11)
                            at file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202303171405/packages/xo-server/src/xo-mixins/migrate-vm.mjs:267:27
                            at Task.runInside (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202303171405/@vates/task/index.js:158:22)
                            at Task.run (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202303171405/@vates/task/index.js:137:20)"
                        }
                        
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                        • olivierlambertO Offline
                          olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                          last edited by

                          @alexredston you can workaround it by stopping the VM and that will work šŸ™‚

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                            alexredston @olivierlambert
                            last edited by

                            @olivierlambert Thanks - already underway.

                            3 hours elapsed, 3 hours to go 80GB thick provisioned primary domain controller, unfortunately it was on a slow network card 1G, averaging about 42 MB per second during the transfer. Will try the next one on 10G and will see what the speed is like.

                            RAID 1 on old server to RAID10 ADM triple mirrored and striped.

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

                              Select thin on the XO V2V tool, that might be faster in the end. Patience is key šŸ™‚

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                                rochemike @alexredston
                                last edited by

                                @alexredston I don't know what "old server" means to you, but 42MB/se could be ~320Mbps which would be about the maximum on a SCSI bus. If I'm right and it's Ultra2 SCSI, there's little that you'll be able to speed up by increasing available network bandwidth.

                                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_SCSI#:~:text=At 10 MHz with a,rate of 640 MB%2Fs.

                                Mike

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                                  alexredston @rochemike
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                                  @rochemike SSD - so should go a little faster.

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                                    alexredston @olivierlambert
                                    last edited by

                                    @olivierlambert Trying another VM now - Linux this time, on ESXi it is 500GB thin provisioned with about 100GB in use - transfer died at around 20 hours + on thick, seemed to get nowhere on thin, but I'm not sure where to get error message to see what happened - just going to try again now after bringing XO up to date with master. Will try thin.

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                                      alexredston @alexredston
                                      last edited by

                                      @rochemike it did get there in the end - one down 28 to go

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

                                        \o/

                                        Next release will have multi-VM import šŸ™‚

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

                                          @olivierlambert yes
                                          and the multi import will runVM two by two

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                                            stmboyd
                                            last edited by

                                            Hello,

                                            I am not even able to connect. When I enter the credentials for my host and hit connect, I get an error when XO tries to iterate over the data:

                                            esxi.listVms
                                            {
                                              "host": "10.64.54.4",
                                              "user": "root",
                                              "password": "* obfuscated *",
                                              "sslVerify": false
                                            }
                                            {
                                              "message": "Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'perDatastoreUsage')",
                                              "name": "TypeError",
                                              "stack": "TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'perDatastoreUsage')
                                                at file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202303302257/@xen-orchestra/vmware-explorer/esxi.mjs:211:55
                                                at Array.map (<anonymous>)
                                                at Esxi.getAllVmMetadata (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202303302257/@xen-orchestra/vmware-explorer/esxi.mjs:209:31)
                                                at Api.#callApiMethod (file:///opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202303302257/packages/xo-server/src/xo-mixins/api.mjs:401:20)"
                                            }
                                            

                                            Using XO from sources a41037833c960078d8509fd95e01aa0bb5a3670e
                                            ESXi 6.5.0

                                            Regardless of what the issue ends up being, is there maybe a better way of handling the flow? As in, when I click connect, can there be a landing page that says "connected", and allows for partial loading of info? Might be helpful, and will certainly be a better user experience.

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