Yaniv wrote:
And indeed, we won't deprecate it without a suitable replacement. While you can already upload disks, we are working towards upload/download of VMs. See http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/virt/enhance-import...
My concern with this (if I've understood it correctly) is it's going to be slow and require considerable extra storage on the conversion server. At the moment -- using NFS -- we can stream from VMware to oVirt, requiring almost no local storage on the conversion server. On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 03:30:12PM +0300, Arik Hadas wrote:
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:
Although virt-v2v can still work via the GUI, this isn't really suitable for bulk, scripted upload of hundreds or thousands of VMs.
We now enable triggering that process also via REST-API (this is mostly intended for importing from VMware using ManageIQ, which is expected to be available soon).
That requires virt-v2v to be installed on the oVirt nodes so it's not quite a replacement for what you can do with ‘virt-v2v -o rhv’ today. Can we have a REST API so that we can upload the disk images and OVF metadata to some directory on the NFS server (eg. an ‘/import’ directory), and then the call the REST API which would complete the import -- ie. update the database, and move the images to their final places (bonus points if it can handle chown-ing the images too).
Other than that, there is a rumor about introucing a backup-data-domain. Hopefully, that plan will also be shared publicly and we'll know more details about it. If it will be close in concept to the export domain, we may be able to replace the export domain with that domain in virt-v2v.
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