4:11 p.m.
Hi Boudewijn,
First of all, the wiki page you are referring to is a feature page that was never
implemented.
We are currently working on the same feature, this is the correct feature page:
http://www.ovirt.org/Features/ImportStorageDomain .
I will ask that the irrelevant page be removed to avoid any further confusion.
Second, currently, the only way to import a domain is to create an export domain and
import it.
Can you get the old setup-up and create an export domain?
If not, we'll try to help and work around this is issue, but this is going to be very
complex, since this is not supported.
Just to have a general understanding of your setup - your storage on the same machine as
ovirt engine?
I'm assuming you're using web-admin.
What exactly are you doing there? We don't have the import option there as you
mentioned, so I don't understand how you could import an SD that was not export.
Adding the entry to /etc/exports is meaningless.
Do you have the ovfs of the old VMs available?
In the meantime checking for an easier solution than the above, will get back to you on
that.
Regards,
Vered
----- Original Message -----
From: "Boudewijn Ector"
<boudewijn(a)boudewijnector.nl>
To: users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Sunday, March 9, 2014 3:48:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Users] Reimporting storage domains after reinstalling ovirt
On 09-03-14 02:12, Boudewijn Ector wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
>
> Currently I've got a Centos machine running the latest ovirt-release.
> This machine is using a local raid set containing a directory with
> ovirt-based VMs from my previous install. The ovirt install is a
> completely fresh install, no storage/VMs have been created yet.
>
> What's the best way to reimport those? I might try to create a new
> storage domain and copy all old VMs into it (if that works anyway...) ,
> or just reimport the old domain from the web-interface.
>
> Does either trick have any advantage, or is there a best practice I
> should adhere to?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Boudewijn
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I just tried reimporting my old storage domains but that doesn't seem to
work:
[root@server data]# pwd
/raid/ovirt-old/data
[root@server data]# ls
1979444d-b79a-494c-8c1a-bcc132e31a04 __DIRECT_IO_TEST__
This is the old data domain I used, and the
1979444d-b79a-494c-8c1a-bcc132e31a04 contains quite a lot of VMs.
When going to the webinterface and doing :
- Storage
- Import domain
- Type: NFS
- export path: $IP:/raid/ovirt-old/data (and
$IP:/raid/ovirt-old/data/1979444d-b79a-494c-8c1a-bcc132e31a04)
Of course I created an entry in /etc/exports in order to be able to
mount this domain by NFS:
[root@leiden data]# exportfs
/raid/ovirt 192.168.1.44/255.255.255.255
/raid/ovirt-old
192.168.1.44/255.255.255.255
And ownership is by user vdsm.
Despite of this it doesn't work. Unfortunately this page
(http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Import_an_existing_Storage_Domain) isn't
of much use either.
How should I do this?
Cheers,
Boudewijn
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