@olivierlambert I was able to sort out the issue, it has to do with licensing and the fact that we aren't licensed to with "Live Migration" for this ESXi host.
Essentially this inquiry is solved.
@olivierlambert I was able to sort out the issue, it has to do with licensing and the fact that we aren't licensed to with "Live Migration" for this ESXi host.
Essentially this inquiry is solved.
The reason you wouldn't want to look at XO for this from a technical standpoint is because XO works at the hardware level of the hypervisor, dolling out resources to different VMs and creating backups.
You need to look at the content within a given VM and compare the file system difference from points A and B.
Only something that is operating within the file system would be able to readily tell you "Something has changed".
Odds are you have a user or several who are dumping files onto a share that they shouldn't be, or are replicating some cloud service to keep a copy on your server etc.
A question
You can disable all of the boot devices in the Advanced section of the VM, try disabling the HDD
Disable the Boot options if your system is making it past POST to quickly so you can get into the Guests BIOS.
@jasonnix said in A question for the creators of XO:
Hi @olivierlambert,
No, I'm not a bot. I asked it because I need your experiences. I want to make a panel for Xen.
So you know how to program with PHP and Ruby and not with Javascript, so the question is really "Why can't this be rewritten so I can help?"
For laughs I am testing with a VM that is powered off and its going, albeit slowly (likely due to a 10FDx port on the ESXi host).
@Danp said in Run a script inside guest OS from host:
@ajpri1998 What about using something like
psexec
or
the powershell commandInvoke-Command
?
Exactly what I was going to recommend, but the request is to be sent from XCP-ng (the hypervisor) rather than some management server..
What would the Windows PowerShell command be doing within the VM, that resides on XCP-ng?
and
Why does the hypervisor need to issue the command to the VM?
@lawrencesystems said in Delta backup questions:
If you choose 2 storage destinations it will copy to each of them at the same time.
As a discrete backup that is saved to each location individually.
@emiltmx said in Restoring from backup failing:
@DustinB even if the old installation is an older version of XO?
We were running 5.74 on the old one, 5.91 on the new one (I think? Xen Orchestra, commit 838f9).
I can't say for certain that the config hasn't undergone any major changes, but you should at least test it.
While not a direct correlation to XCP-ng, it certainly will have some impact l, @olivierlambert any comment?
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/11/xen_project_colo_closes_warning/
@icompit Are you trying to pass this card through to the VM so there is a physical card assigned to this VM?
Good question.
When you put a host into maintenance mode, that host then refuses any new VM workloads (either migrated or a new VM build).
If you don't put a host in maintenance mode, that host can then accept VM's to be migrated back to it, or to allow new VMs to be created on it.
As to why all VM's aren't migrated en masse I'm not sure, maybe someone from the Vates team can explain in more depth.
@gudge25 Why are you using TOP instead of Xen Orchestra to check the status of your pool?
Seeing a nice decrease in space used.
I'm keeping the snapshot around in case I need it, thought I doubt that I would.
@BGDev I'm not certain you're encountering a bug or a network issue (or something else).
Given that you have a working production workload on ESXi and a Production XCP-ng environment, what I personally would suggest is to replication the data from the old to the new, schedule a final cut over day and perform a final replication.
If this was a database drive or something that help system files then I'd dig further into why its not exporting successfully, but since it seems like its just a file share, replicating the individual files would be the simplest approach.
@BGDev Sorry just had a thought. Is this 1.8TB drive for a fileshare etc?
If so, why not create a new drive on XCP-ng and simply use a copy operation to move the individual files and permissions over?
@BGDev As a thought, you can export the 1.8TB drive and manually import it to your environment using Xen Orchestra (rather than attempting to export the VM as a whole)?
Once imported you would simply attach it to the VM.
@BGDev Okay, so you have 3 disks that you're importing from VMWare, and the largest is 1.8TB (thick provisioned).
In the logs above there is the error message Error: already finalized or destroyed
. Does this 1.8TB disk already exist on your XCP-ng pool?
@BGDev What I'm trying to determine is if there is already an amount of space consumed on your xcp-ng pool's SR that would correlate with the disk in question.
You mentioned a 3TB disk (and above you mentioned the 2TB limit) was this a typo?