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    • florentF
      florent Vates 🪐 XO Team 🔭 @florent
      last edited by

      @brezlord : i pushed a fix for the network missing

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      • olivierlambertO
        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder🦸 CEO 🧑‍💼
        last edited by olivierlambert

        @planedrop If your SR is thick (local LVM, iSCSI), it doesn't matter, the disk will be always the total size of the disk, regardless thin=true in the VMware migration tool. This last option is relevant for thin SR (local ext, NFS etc.)

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        • brezlordB
          brezlord @florent
          last edited by

          @florent I get the following error now.

          root@xoa:~# xo-cli vm.importFromEsxi host=192.168.40.203 user='root' password='obfuscated ' sslVerify=false vm=30 sr=accb1cf1-92b7-5d47-e2c4-e7d8a282c448 network=83594c5b-8b5b-b45f-d3a7-7e5301468dc8 thin=true
          ✖ HANDLE_INVALID(network, OpaqueRef:478f9e9d-7592-40a2-ab07-10a0a6982e45)
          JsonRpcError: HANDLE_INVALID(network, OpaqueRef:478f9e9d-7592-40a2-ab07-10a0a6982e45)
              at Peer._callee$ (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/node_modules/json-rpc-peer/dist/index.js:139:44)
              at tryCatch (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:44:17)
              at Generator.<anonymous> (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:125:22)
              at Generator.next (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:69:21)
              at asyncGeneratorStep (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:3:24)
              at _next (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:22:9)
              at /opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:27:7
              at new Promise (<anonymous>)
              at Peer.<anonymous> (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:19:12)
              at Peer.exec (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/node_modules/json-rpc-peer/dist/index.js:182:20)
          
          vm.importFromEsxi
          {
            "host": "192.168.40.203",
            "user": "root",
            "password": "* obfuscated *",
            "sslVerify": false,
            "vm": "30",
            "sr": "accb1cf1-92b7-5d47-e2c4-e7d8a282c448",
            "network": "83594c5b-8b5b-b45f-d3a7-7e5301468dc8",
            "thin": true
          }
          {
            "code": "HANDLE_INVALID",
            "params": [
              "network",
              "OpaqueRef:478f9e9d-7592-40a2-ab07-10a0a6982e45"
            ],
            "call": {
              "method": "network.get_MTU",
              "params": [
                "OpaqueRef:478f9e9d-7592-40a2-ab07-10a0a6982e45"
              ]
            },
            "message": "HANDLE_INVALID(network, OpaqueRef:478f9e9d-7592-40a2-ab07-10a0a6982e45)",
            "name": "XapiError",
            "stack": "XapiError: HANDLE_INVALID(network, OpaqueRef:478f9e9d-7592-40a2-ab07-10a0a6982e45)
              at Function.wrap (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/packages/xen-api/src/_XapiError.js:16:12)
              at /opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/packages/xen-api/src/transports/json-rpc.js:37:27
              at AsyncResource.runInAsyncScope (node:async_hooks:204:9)
              at cb (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:355:42)
              at tryCatcher (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
              at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:547:31)
              at Promise._settlePromise (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:604:18)
              at Promise._settlePromise0 (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:649:10)
              at Promise._settlePromises (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:729:18)
              at _drainQueueStep (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:93:12)
              at _drainQueue (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:86:9)
              at Async._drainQueues (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:102:5)
              at Immediate.Async.drainQueues [as _onImmediate] (/opt/xo/xo-builds/xen-orchestra-202301251747/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:15:14)
              at processImmediate (node:internal/timers:471:21)
              at process.callbackTrampoline (node:internal/async_hooks:130:17)"
          }
          
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          • florentF
            florent Vates 🪐 XO Team 🔭 @brezlord
            last edited by

            @brezlord that looks lik an invlaid network id , are you sure it's ok ?
            (this was not visible before since the code was skipping VIFs creation)

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            • brezlordB
              brezlord @florent
              last edited by

              @florent It's copied direct from XO web UI.

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              • olivierlambertO
                olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder🦸 CEO 🧑‍💼
                last edited by

                Are you sure it's not a PIF? Can you do a xe network-param-list uuid=<UUID>?

                If it doesn't work, then do it for a PIF: xe pif-param-list uuid=<UUID>

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                • brezlordB
                  brezlord @olivierlambert
                  last edited by

                  @olivierlambert said in VMware migration tool: we need your feedback!:

                  xe network-param-list uuid=

                  yes you are right I had an error in the uuid. I copied it from the host and not the pool.

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                  • olivierlambertO
                    olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder🦸 CEO 🧑‍💼
                    last edited by

                    Does it work now? In XO6, we'll do everything to avoid the confusion between a PIF and a network, it should be more clear than it is today.

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                    • brezlordB
                      brezlord @olivierlambert
                      last edited by

                      @olivierlambert yes. I very excited to test out XO6.

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                      • planedropP
                        planedrop
                        last edited by

                        Just as some additional feedback about this, I tried with thin=true today on a small 20GB Ubuntu VM and it worked great!!

                        I do have a suggestion though, I'd love to see a task in XOA about reading the blocks from the ESXi VM. When I entered the command, I thought nothing was working because a task never started, but when I checked network stats on the host it was very clear it was reading from ESXi. Once it finished reading, it imported the disk (which created a task) and the actual VHD space used is only 7.5GB!

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                        • olivierlambertO
                          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
                            planedrop @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
                              brezlord
                              last edited by

                              @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
                                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
                                  florent Vates 🪐 XO Team 🔭 @brezlord
                                  last edited by

                                  @brezlord mac address and uefi should works now

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                                  • brezlordB
                                    brezlord @florent
                                    last edited by

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

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                                    • olivierlambertO
                                      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
                                        planedrop @olivierlambert
                                        last edited by

                                        @olivierlambert Awesome, super exciting stuff!

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                                        • brezlordB
                                          brezlord @florent
                                          last edited by

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

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                                          • olivierlambertO
                                            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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