Re: [Users] Making v2v easier?

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPartTM-000-ccd9a7a9-9ae2-40a0-a795-247b884365d5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable on "Itamar Heim [iheim(a)redhat.com]=0A= =0A= Hello,=0A= =0A= for me virt-v2v will be a one-timer until everything is migrated=0A= into OVirt. If you had hard times to arrange everything and know=0A= how to deal with it, the tool works quite well. Nevertheless for=0A= for new users this can be very frustrating. =0A= =0A= The two most annoying things are for me:=0A= =0A= - Migration is sequential and slow. We have a lot of big SAP systems=0A= with 250GB++. The infrastructure is backed by a 10G IPoIB network =0A= that can easily copy files between NFS server at sustained speed of =0A= 500MB/s. virt-v2v cannot go beyond 40MB/s and thus about 2 hours=0A= to migrate a machine. I understand that the process involves a "long" =0A= chain ESXNFS->ESX->virt-v2v->OVirtNFS. Maybe one should think =0A= of providing a parametrization to copy multiple disk images at the =0A= same time. =0A= =0A= - Even worse is to wait 2 hours for the migration to finish and getting=0A= afterwards errors about missing entries in virt-v2v.db or problems=0A= during mount of the VM filesystems. Maybe the step or at least a check=0A= could be issued after the migration of the (small) OS/boot disk.=0A= =0A= Markus=0A= =0A= ------=_NextPartTM-000-ccd9a7a9-9ae2-40a0-a795-247b884365d5 Content-Type: text/plain; name="InterScan_Disclaimer.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="InterScan_Disclaimer.txt" **************************************************************************** Diese E-Mail enthält vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschützte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. Über das Internet versandte E-Mails können unter fremden Namen erstellt oder manipuliert werden. Deshalb ist diese als E-Mail verschickte Nachricht keine rechtsverbindliche Willenserklärung. Collogia Unternehmensberatung AG Ubierring 11 D-50678 Köln Vorstand: Kadir Akin Dr. Michael Höhnerbach Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Hans Kristian Langva Registergericht: Amtsgericht Köln Registernummer: HRB 52 497 This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. e-mails sent over the internet may have been written under a wrong name or been manipulated. That is why this message sent as an e-mail is not a legally binding declaration of intention. Collogia Unternehmensberatung AG Ubierring 11 D-50678 Köln executive board: Kadir Akin Dr. Michael Höhnerbach President of the supervisory board: Hans Kristian Langva Registry office: district court Cologne Register number: HRB 52 497 **************************************************************************** ------=_NextPartTM-000-ccd9a7a9-9ae2-40a0-a795-247b884365d5--