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    VMware migration tool: we need your feedback!

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

      @planedrop great explanation planedrop, I may use it later 😃

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

        @brezlord the imported VM should have the network, all set to the networkId of the command line. I will look into this

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

          @brezlord : i pushed a fix for the network missing

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          • olivierlambertO Offline
            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 Offline
              brezlord @florent
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              @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
              āœ– 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 Offline
                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 Offline
                  brezlord @florent
                  last edited by

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

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                  • olivierlambertO Offline
                    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 Offline
                      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 Offline
                        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 Offline
                          brezlord @olivierlambert
                          last edited by

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

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                          • planedropP Offline
                            planedrop Top contributor
                            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 Offline
                              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 šŸ™‚

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                              • planedropP Offline
                                planedrop Top contributor @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 Offline
                                  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 Offline
                                    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 Offline
                                      florent Vates 🪐 XO Team @brezlord
                                      last edited by

                                      @brezlord mac address and uefi should works now

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                                      • brezlordB Offline
                                        brezlord @florent
                                        last edited by

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

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

                                          It's now available directly on master (from the sources) or on latest XOA release channel šŸ™‚ (I updated the first post accordingly)

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                                          • planedropP Offline
                                            planedrop Top contributor @olivierlambert
                                            last edited by

                                            @olivierlambert Awesome, super exciting stuff!

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