[Users] Move disk to new AIO?
I have my current ovirt 3.3.2 AIO setup running on old hardware that I wish to move to new hardware. All my VMs and associated virtual disks are on a single physical disk. I can’t seem to find a nice way to “export” that disk and VMs, remove it, and re-import the whole mess into a new hypervisor. (at least w/o not having to bounce it all off of another NFS datastore…) I don’t want to cluster them as they are significantly different hardware, and I want to keep them as separate environments anyways…
On 01/03/2014 06:45 AM, Blaster wrote:
I have my current ovirt 3.3.2 AIO setup running on old hardware that I wish to move to new hardware. All my VMs and associated virtual disks are on a single physical disk. I can’t seem to find a nice way to “export” that disk and VMs, remove it, and re-import the whole mess into a new hypervisor. (at least w/o not having to bounce it all off of another NFS datastore…)
I don’t want to cluster them as they are significantly different hardware, and I want to keep them as separate environments anyways…
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well, you can put two clusters of different hardware in the same DC, then simply 'edit vm' and move it to the other cluster?
On Jan 17, 2014, at 4:59 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim@redhat.com> wrote:
well, you can put two clusters of different hardware in the same DC, then simply 'edit vm' and move it to the other cluster?
Well, I actually wanted to move the physical disk. There was 2TB of data on it, and I didn’t want to move it via a GB network connection. I ended up doing it using basically the method I posted yesterday…I shutdown the old oVirt system, moved the disk to the new system. Created a new data domain on the disk, then created new VMs and disks in the new data domain, after the new disk was created, I just moved it from the directory of the old data domain/VM into the new one and fired up the VM. Instead of waiting hours and hours for 2TB of data to be copied, I moved my 4 VMs in a few minutes. A way to attach an existing on-disk VM image is really needed.
On 01/19/2014 08:10 AM, Blaster wrote:
On Jan 17, 2014, at 4:59 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim@redhat.com> wrote:
well, you can put two clusters of different hardware in the same DC, then simply 'edit vm' and move it to the other cluster?
Well, I actually wanted to move the physical disk. There was 2TB of data on it, and I didn’t want to move it via a GB network connection.
I ended up doing it using basically the method I posted yesterday…I shutdown the old oVirt system, moved the disk to the new system. Created a new data domain on the disk, then created new VMs and disks in the new data domain, after the new disk was created, I just moved it from the directory of the old data domain/VM into the new one and fired up the VM.
Instead of waiting hours and hours for 2TB of data to be copied, I moved my 4 VMs in a few minutes.
A way to attach an existing on-disk VM image is really needed.
if there is a disk you "injected" to an already attached storage domain, you can detect and register it today via the REST API (register disk iirc). still missing the UI for this one.
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