From s.knohsalla at netbiscuits.com Thu Aug 23 10:49:57 2012 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4350703548961181701==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Sven Knohsalla To: users at ovirt.org Subject: [Users] How to resize physical disk size with virt-p2v Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:48:45 -0400 Message-ID: --===============4350703548961181701== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable --_005_DC9ABD90CB55EC448B1F682D5731AF745EA2F9A5IAD2MBX17mex02m_ Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=3D"_000_DC9ABD90CB55EC448B1F682D5731AF745EA2F9A5IAD2MBX17mex02m_" --_000_DC9ABD90CB55EC448B1F682D5731AF745EA2F9A5IAD2MBX17mex02m_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, we're currently using oVirt engine3.0 and have about 50 VMs successfully ru= =3D nning ( thanks for your great work!!) At the moment we do migrate ESX/KVM VMs and baremetal servers to oVirt. For p2v migration we're using virt-p2v 0.87 (iso created from rpm virt-p2v-= =3D image-builder) Migration is working fine, but the vdisk size is accordingly to original ph= =3D ysical hdd size. For example: Server with 500 GB HDD size, partitions (swap,/,boot) shrinked to ~50 GB. (df -h will show only 50 GB for / ) First I thought, shrinking partitions of the server will help out, But unfortunately, the tool is using the whole hard disk space to convert (= =3D using dd ?) ...and so we have a successfully migrated VM in oVirt with 500GB vHDD size. Is there any way or alternative software we can use for P2V migration? Thanks in advance, Sven. Sven Knohsalla | Systems Administration Netbiscuits - Enabling the mobile experience. Update: Netbiscuits is hiring mobile specialists in sales, marketing and de= =3D velopment Recent awards & accolades Mobile Entertainment Award Winner 2011 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2011, ranked #28 Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award 2011 [cid:image001.jpg(a)01CD814D.69B18940][= ci=3D d:image002.jpg(a)01CD814D.69B18940] Register Court: Local Court Kaiserslautern | Commercial Register ID: HR B 3= =3D 604 Management Board: Guido Moggert, Michael Neidhoefer, Christian Reitz, Marti= =3D n Suess --_000_DC9ABD90CB55EC448B1F682D5731AF745EA2F9A5IAD2MBX17mex02m_ Content-Type: text/html; charset=3D"us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi,

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For p2v migration we’re using virt-p2v 0.87 (iso creat= =3D ed from rpm virt-p2v-image-builder)

Migration is working fine, but the vdisk size is ac= co=3D rdingly to original physical hdd size.

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Server with 500 GB HDD size, partitions (swap,/,b= oo=3D t) shrinked to ~50 GB.

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First I thought, shrinking partitions of the ser= ve=3D r will help out,

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Register Court: Local Court Kaiserslautern | Commercia= =3D l Register ID: HR B 3604
Management Board: Guido Moggert, Michael Neidho= =3D efer, Christian Reitz, Martin Suess