VM import doesn't see VMs on storage
Hi, I have 2 independent oVirt datacenters. Need to move some of the VMs from DC1 to DC2. So far the strategy was as simple as this - 1) connect new storage domain (NFS) to DC1 2) move VM disks to that storage 3) shut down VMs 4) disconnect storage from DC1 5) import same storage into DC2 6) import VMs from that storage and optionally move VM disks to storage local to DC2. Works fine for a dozen VMs until last Friday when I tried to import another 13 VMs into DC2 and VM import shows only 6. I can see disks in Disk import tab, but not VMs. I guess this is related to the fact that some of the VMs to be moved are based on a template that is still on DC1. But how do I move these VMs then? I can't move the template as 1) I still need it in DC1 2) it doesn't have any disks attached, so I can't really do the same steps to move it. Any ideas are very welcome here. Thanks a lot. -- Dmitry Filonov Linux Administrator SBGrid Core | Harvard Medical School 250 Longwood Ave, SGM-114 Boston, MA 02115
Correction. At least one (might be more or even all) of the machines that don't show up under VM import tab was based on Blank template. So that shouldn't be an issue. Has to be something else that prevent machines from being "importable". At least two machines were pinned to a specific host in the DC1. Can that be the issue? Seems unlikely, but am running out of ideas here :( Fil -- Dmitry Filonov Linux Administrator SBGrid Core | Harvard Medical School 250 Longwood Ave, SGM-114 Boston, MA 02115 On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 10:46 AM Dmitry Filonov <filonov@hkl.hms.harvard.edu> wrote:
Hi, I have 2 independent oVirt datacenters. Need to move some of the VMs from DC1 to DC2. So far the strategy was as simple as this - 1) connect new storage domain (NFS) to DC1 2) move VM disks to that storage 3) shut down VMs 4) disconnect storage from DC1 5) import same storage into DC2 6) import VMs from that storage and optionally move VM disks to storage local to DC2.
Works fine for a dozen VMs until last Friday when I tried to import another 13 VMs into DC2 and VM import shows only 6. I can see disks in Disk import tab, but not VMs.
I guess this is related to the fact that some of the VMs to be moved are based on a template that is still on DC1. But how do I move these VMs then? I can't move the template as 1) I still need it in DC1 2) it doesn't have any disks attached, so I can't really do the same steps to move it.
Any ideas are very welcome here.
Thanks a lot.
-- Dmitry Filonov Linux Administrator SBGrid Core | Harvard Medical School 250 Longwood Ave, SGM-114 Boston, MA 02115
Hi Dmitry, Those VMs has more disks on different SD as well? Did you deactivated and detached the SD as needed? Try to run manually the OVF update for this specific storage domain. On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 12:23 AM Dmitry Filonov <filonov@hkl.hms.harvard.edu> wrote:
Correction. At least one (might be more or even all) of the machines that don't show up under VM import tab was based on Blank template. So that shouldn't be an issue. Has to be something else that prevent machines from being "importable".
At least two machines were pinned to a specific host in the DC1. Can that be the issue? Seems unlikely, but am running out of ideas here :(
Fil
-- Dmitry Filonov Linux Administrator SBGrid Core | Harvard Medical School 250 Longwood Ave, SGM-114 Boston, MA 02115
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 10:46 AM Dmitry Filonov < filonov@hkl.hms.harvard.edu> wrote:
Hi, I have 2 independent oVirt datacenters. Need to move some of the VMs from DC1 to DC2. So far the strategy was as simple as this - 1) connect new storage domain (NFS) to DC1 2) move VM disks to that storage 3) shut down VMs 4) disconnect storage from DC1 5) import same storage into DC2 6) import VMs from that storage and optionally move VM disks to storage local to DC2.
Works fine for a dozen VMs until last Friday when I tried to import another 13 VMs into DC2 and VM import shows only 6. I can see disks in Disk import tab, but not VMs.
I guess this is related to the fact that some of the VMs to be moved are based on a template that is still on DC1. But how do I move these VMs then? I can't move the template as 1) I still need it in DC1 2) it doesn't have any disks attached, so I can't really do the same steps to move it.
Any ideas are very welcome here.
Thanks a lot.
-- Dmitry Filonov Linux Administrator SBGrid Core | Harvard Medical School 250 Longwood Ave, SGM-114 Boston, MA 02115
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I did deactivated and detached storage domain form the DC1 first. Turned out the meta file for these disks had DISKTYPE=1 After changing it to DISKTYPE=DATA I was able to import disks. Not sure why was that, but changing that one line just solved my problem -- Dmitry Filonov Linux Administrator SBGrid Core | Harvard Medical School 250 Longwood Ave, SGM-114 Boston, MA 02115 On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 12:56 PM Eyal Shenitzky <eshenitz@redhat.com> wrote:
Hi Dmitry,
Those VMs has more disks on different SD as well? Did you deactivated and detached the SD as needed?
Try to run manually the OVF update for this specific storage domain.
On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 12:23 AM Dmitry Filonov < filonov@hkl.hms.harvard.edu> wrote:
Correction. At least one (might be more or even all) of the machines that don't show up under VM import tab was based on Blank template. So that shouldn't be an issue. Has to be something else that prevent machines from being "importable".
At least two machines were pinned to a specific host in the DC1. Can that be the issue? Seems unlikely, but am running out of ideas here :(
Fil
-- Dmitry Filonov Linux Administrator SBGrid Core | Harvard Medical School 250 Longwood Ave, SGM-114 Boston, MA 02115
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 10:46 AM Dmitry Filonov < filonov@hkl.hms.harvard.edu> wrote:
Hi, I have 2 independent oVirt datacenters. Need to move some of the VMs from DC1 to DC2. So far the strategy was as simple as this - 1) connect new storage domain (NFS) to DC1 2) move VM disks to that storage 3) shut down VMs 4) disconnect storage from DC1 5) import same storage into DC2 6) import VMs from that storage and optionally move VM disks to storage local to DC2.
Works fine for a dozen VMs until last Friday when I tried to import another 13 VMs into DC2 and VM import shows only 6. I can see disks in Disk import tab, but not VMs.
I guess this is related to the fact that some of the VMs to be moved are based on a template that is still on DC1. But how do I move these VMs then? I can't move the template as 1) I still need it in DC1 2) it doesn't have any disks attached, so I can't really do the same steps to move it.
Any ideas are very welcome here.
Thanks a lot.
-- Dmitry Filonov Linux Administrator SBGrid Core | Harvard Medical School 250 Longwood Ave, SGM-114 Boston, MA 02115
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