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    • brezlord
      brezlord @florent last edited by

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

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      • olivierlambert
        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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        • brezlord
          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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          • olivierlambert
            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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            • brezlord
              brezlord @olivierlambert last edited by

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

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              • planedrop
                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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                • olivierlambert
                  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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                  • planedrop
                    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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                    • brezlord
                      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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                      • florent
                        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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                        • florent
                          florent Vates 🪐 XO Team 🔭 @brezlord last edited by

                          @brezlord mac address and uefi should works now

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                          • brezlord
                            brezlord @florent last edited by

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

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                            • olivierlambert
                              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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                              • planedrop
                                planedrop @olivierlambert last edited by

                                @olivierlambert Awesome, super exciting stuff!

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                                • brezlord
                                  brezlord @florent last edited by

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

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                                  • olivierlambert
                                    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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                                      severhart last edited by

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                                        severhart last edited by olivierlambert

                                        After running for hours, get the following

                                        ✖ sesparse Vmdk reading is not functionnal yet FP-FileServer/FP-FileServer-000001-sesparse.vmdk
                                        JsonRpcError: sesparse Vmdk reading is not functionnal yet FP-FileServer/FP-FileServer-000001-sesparse.vmdk
                                            at Peer._callee$ (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-cli/node_modules/json-rpc-peer/dist/index.js:139:44)
                                            at tryCatch (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-cli/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:44:17)
                                            at Generator.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-cli/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:125:22)
                                            at Generator.next (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-cli/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/regeneratorRuntime.js:69:21)
                                            at asyncGeneratorStep (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-cli/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:3:24)
                                            at _next (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-cli/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:22:9)
                                            at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-cli/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:27:7
                                            at new Promise (<anonymous>)
                                            at Peer.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-cli/node_modules/@babel/runtime/helpers/asyncToGenerator.js:19:12)
                                            at Peer.exec (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/xo-cli/node_modules/json-rpc-peer/dist/index.js:182:20)
                                        
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                                        • florent
                                          florent Vates 🪐 XO Team 🔭 @severhart last edited by florent

                                          @severhart the sesparse format is used for disk greater than 2TB , and for all disks after esxi 6.5 , and it's not very documented
                                          https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc/GUID-88E5A594-DEBC-4662-812F-EA421591C70F.html
                                          we are working on implementing this reader to allow migration during Q1 2023

                                          For now esxi 6.5+ vm are limited to migration of sopped vm without snasphots

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                                            severhart @florent last edited by

                                            @florent thanks! for the fast reply, I will take the outage and rerun, and let you know outcome.

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