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    • pedroalvesbatistaP Offline
      pedroalvesbatista
      last edited by

      No tested yet, as soon some hosts are fine after our PXE enrollments, will test this out.
      Any scripts in the house to accelerate a little bit the process ?

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

        @pedroalvesbatista For now we're working on reliability and ease of use, performance won't be easy to improve. The main clue I have, would be to mount the dtastore of the esxi in XO, it may be faster than the HTTP API ( which does a surprising good job given the number of query we make )

        But if there are ideas, I would be happy to discuss them.

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          DangerKlaus
          last edited by

          Hi all,
          I've hit an issue testing import and not seen the answer anywhere else so here goes.
          Setup:
          ESX 6.0
          XO build from sources

          Issue, when importing from vmware I get the following error

          vm.importMultipleFromEsxi
          {
            "concurrency": 2,
            "host": "x.x.x.x",
            "network": "7286bb98-7207-610c-0519-44bb366d7b46",
            "password": "* obfuscated *",
            "sr": "22c0b692-4837-d527-ec8f-3e258baabbf2",
            "sslVerify": false,
            "stopOnError": true,
            "stopSource": false,
            "thin": true,
            "user": "administrator@vsphere.local",
            "vms": [
              "vm-13048",
              "vm-784"
            ]
          }
          {
            "succeeded": {},
            "message": "Property description must be an object: undefined",
            "name": "TypeError",
            "stack": "TypeError: Property description must be an object: undefined
              at Function.defineProperty (<anonymous>)
              at Task.onProgress (/opt/xen-orchestra/@vates/task/combineEvents.js:51:16)
              at Task.#emit (/opt/xen-orchestra/@vates/task/index.js:126:21)
              at Task.#maybeStart (/opt/xen-orchestra/@vates/task/index.js:133:17)
              at Task.runInside (/opt/xen-orchestra/@vates/task/index.js:152:21)
              at Task.run (/opt/xen-orchestra/@vates/task/index.js:138:31)
              at asyncEach.concurrency.concurrency (file:///opt/xen-orchestra/packages/xo-server/src/api/vm.mjs:1372:58)
              at next (/opt/xen-orchestra/@vates/async-each/index.js:90:37)"
          }
          

          I've tried via host and vCenter ip, via thin and thick, snapshot and no snapshot. Also tried via command line.

          Any ideas?

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

            Hello!

            Do you have the same issue with XOA on latest? Is your XO from sources is fully up to date on latest master commit?

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              DangerKlaus @olivierlambert
              last edited by DangerKlaus

              Hey @olivierlambert

              I'm using Jarli's install/update script and I ran an update and test before I posted so believe the answer is yes.

              This stack (XCP) was only built in the last 24hr so everything is pretty much up to date.

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

                Okay I would also try with a fully updated XOA on latest channel to compare with your source install. If the result is the same, then @florent will take a look 🙂

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

                  @DangerKlaus can you try importing only one VM , to see if we have another error message ?

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                    DangerKlaus @florent
                    last edited by

                    @florent It's the same error regardless. Currently testing official XO and will report back asap.

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

                      Don't forget to register/update and select "latest" on the release channel. Thanks for your feedback!

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                        DangerKlaus @olivierlambert
                        last edited by DangerKlaus

                        @olivierlambert Okay, there is definitely a difference. I've kicked off a migration and I'm getting a spinning wheel on the import button rather than a flat out error.

                        So I guess is the issue is with source??

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

                          Well, that's a possibility yes. And that's the point of XOA: we test it and we control the environment, so it's a LOT easier to provide pro support for it. Many things can be different on the sources (node version, libs or deps version breaking stuff and such).

                          At least, that's an interesting feedback that either something new since latest XOA broke on master, or the installation is broken.

                          Please let the migration happens and let us know 🙂

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                            DangerKlaus @olivierlambert
                            last edited by

                            @olivierlambert
                            Quick update. Import via XOA finished overnight with no error.

                            I can keep both XOA and source running in parallel for now if you need me to do any more testing

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

                              Great news then! The tool will stay free in XOA Free anyway, but as soon as we can, we'll see if we can reproduce the issue on master on our side. If not, maybe you need to wipe/re-clone/rebuild the XO source folder in case. Double check your node version too.

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                                Flying9167
                                last edited by

                                I'm getting the same error from sources and from a fresh XOA fully updated on Latest channel even started a trial of premium. Any ideas?

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

                                  @Flying9167 without providing more info on the error nor the VMware version you use, or if your VM is running or not, it's hard to help 😞

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                                    Flying9167 @olivierlambert
                                    last edited by Flying9167

                                    @olivierlambert

                                    I'm running ESXi 6.7 update 3, trying to transfer a Windows 2019 Server, running or halted I get the same error, I have tried several other vms with the same result. Tried different storage and network options too, all same result.

                                    Import
                                    Property description must be an object: undefined
                                    

                                    Running XOA on latest with trial enabled fully up to date, two hosts in pool fully up to date.

                                    vm.importMultipleFromEsxi
                                    {
                                      "concurrency": 2,
                                      "host": "192.168.150.39",
                                      "network": "d41468b9-53d8-63af-b474-d3062625ce10",
                                      "password": "* obfuscated *",
                                      "sr": "1477ad1f-0d29-ec1f-fa8e-7b8d3bb04ae4",
                                      "sslVerify": false,
                                      "stopOnError": true,
                                      "stopSource": false,
                                      "thin": false,
                                      "user": "root",
                                      "vms": [
                                        "21",
                                        "20"
                                      ]
                                    }
                                    {
                                      "succeeded": {},
                                      "message": "Property description must be an object: undefined",
                                      "name": "TypeError",
                                      "stack": "TypeError: Property description must be an object: undefined
                                        at Function.defineProperty (<anonymous>)
                                        at Task.onProgress (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/combineEvents.js:51:16)
                                        at Task.#emit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:130:21)
                                        at Task.#emit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:124:17)
                                        at Function.set (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:47:17)
                                        at file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/src/api/vm.mjs:1388:20
                                        at Task.runInside (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:149:22)
                                        at Task.run (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:134:20)
                                        at asyncEach.concurrency.concurrency (file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/src/api/vm.mjs:1372:11)"
                                    }
                                    
                                    

                                    Even selecting just 1 vm at a time produces the same error

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

                                      Are you sure the halted VM doesn't have any snapshot?

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                                        michmoor0725
                                        last edited by michmoor0725

                                        New user to XCP-NG.
                                        Testing the migration from ESXi and i am getting the following message in log.
                                        Property description must be an object: undefined

                                        ESXi client is version 8.0.0

                                        I am able to connect from XCP-NG and see my VMs but cant import any of them. Is there another workaround than using XOA?

                                        edit: I have tried suspending and shutdown my VM on ESXi and still get the same error.

                                        vm.importMultipleFromEsxi
                                        {
                                          "concurrency": 2,
                                          "host": "192.168.50.20",
                                          "network": "61289739-1df5-c88d-770c-78287d9d72a5",
                                          "password": "* obfuscated *",
                                          "sr": "0b002e97-e812-8626-f4e0-2c6267c62296",
                                          "sslVerify": false,
                                          "stopOnError": true,
                                          "stopSource": false,
                                          "thin": false,
                                          "user": "admin",
                                          "vms": [
                                            "1"
                                          ]
                                        }
                                        {
                                          "succeeded": {},
                                          "message": "Property description must be an object: undefined",
                                          "name": "TypeError",
                                          "stack": "TypeError: Property description must be an object: undefined
                                            at Function.defineProperty (<anonymous>)
                                            at Task.onProgress (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/combineEvents.js:51:16)
                                            at Task.#emit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:130:21)
                                            at Task.#emit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:124:17)
                                            at Function.set (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:47:17)
                                            at file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/src/api/vm.mjs:1388:20
                                            at Task.runInside (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:149:22)
                                            at Task.run (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/node_modules/@vates/task/index.js:134:20)
                                            at asyncEach.concurrency.concurrency (file:///usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-server/src/api/vm.mjs:1372:11)"
                                        }
                                        
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                                        • olivierlambertO Offline
                                          olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                                          last edited by

                                          You need to be sure the VM is halted and doesn't have any snapshot 🙂

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                                            michmoor0725 @olivierlambert
                                            last edited by

                                            @olivierlambert to be clear as i mentioned in my post, the VMs are shut down.

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