[ovirt-users] Manually moving disks from FC to iSCSI

[Gianluca Cecchi]

Hello,
I have a source oVirt environment with storage domain on FC
I have a destination oVirt environment with storage domain on iSCSI
The two environments can communicate only via the network of their
respective hypervisors.
The source environment, in particular, is almost isolated and I cannot
attach an export domain to it or something similar.
So I'm going to plan a direct move through dd of the disks of some VMs

The workflow would be
On destination create a new VM with same config and same number of disks of
the same size of corresponding source ones.
Also I think same allocation policy (thin provision vs preallocated)
Using lvs -o+lv_tags I can detect the names of my origin and destination
LVs, corresponding to the disks
When a VM is powered down, the LV that maps the disk will be not open, so I
have to force its activation (both on source and on destination)

lvchange --config 'global {use_lvmetad=0}' -ay vgname/lvname

copy source disk with dd through network (I use gzip to limit network usage
basically...)
on src_host:
dd if=/dev/src_vg/src_lv bs=1024k | gzip | ssh dest_host "gunzip | dd
bs=1024k of=/dev/dest_vg/dest_lv"

deactivate LVs on source and dest

lvchange --config 'global {use_lvmetad=0}' -an vgname/lvname

Try to power on the VM on destination

Some questions:
- about overall workflow
- about dd flags, in particular if source disks are thin vs preallocated

Thanks,
Gianluca
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