Manual transfer of VMs from DC to DC
Hi all, Is there any way of transferring VMs manually from DC to DC, without the DCs having connectivity with each other? I was thinking to backup all the export domain directory, and then later rsync this directory VMs to a new NFS share, then import this NFS share as an export domain on the other DC. What do you think? Thanx, Alex
Hi, You could import the storage domain from a DC to another DC with all the VMs and disks. See in [1], there is also a video explaining how to do it. Regards, Fred [1] https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/importstor... On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Abi Askushi <rightkicktech@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Is there any way of transferring VMs manually from DC to DC, without the DCs having connectivity with each other?
I was thinking to backup all the export domain directory, and then later rsync this directory VMs to a new NFS share, then import this NFS share as an export domain on the other DC.
What do you think?
Thanx, Alex
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Thanx, I can confirm that this way i may transfer VMs, but I was thinking a more dirty and perhaps portable way. Say I want to get to a external disk just one VM from DC A and copy/import it on DC B that has no access to the export domain of DC A. I've seen also articles converting the VM disk to qcow or raw then importing it with some perl script. I guess that the OVA import/export feature, still to be implemented, is what I need for this case. Thanx, Alex On Sep 17, 2017 10:13, "Fred Rolland" <frolland@redhat.com> wrote:
Hi,
You could import the storage domain from a DC to another DC with all the VMs and disks. See in [1], there is also a video explaining how to do it.
Regards, Fred
[1] https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/ storage/importstoragedomain/
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Abi Askushi <rightkicktech@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Is there any way of transferring VMs manually from DC to DC, without the DCs having connectivity with each other?
I was thinking to backup all the export domain directory, and then later rsync this directory VMs to a new NFS share, then import this NFS share as an export domain on the other DC.
What do you think?
Thanx, Alex
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Alex, porting VMs in oVirt is not very flexible as some may expect or commonly look for. Perhaps in future versions there will be things like Host to Host transfer and not need to run commands to convert VMs For now you need to use Exports (mount, umount, mount aigain) and so on. 2017-09-17 18:18 GMT-03:00 Alex K <rightkicktech@gmail.com>:
Thanx, I can confirm that this way i may transfer VMs, but I was thinking a more dirty and perhaps portable way.
Say I want to get to a external disk just one VM from DC A and copy/import it on DC B that has no access to the export domain of DC A.
I've seen also articles converting the VM disk to qcow or raw then importing it with some perl script.
I guess that the OVA import/export feature, still to be implemented, is what I need for this case.
Thanx, Alex
On Sep 17, 2017 10:13, "Fred Rolland" <frolland@redhat.com> wrote:
Hi,
You could import the storage domain from a DC to another DC with all the VMs and disks. See in [1], there is also a video explaining how to do it.
Regards, Fred
[1] https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/importstor...
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Abi Askushi <rightkicktech@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Is there any way of transferring VMs manually from DC to DC, without the DCs having connectivity with each other?
I was thinking to backup all the export domain directory, and then later rsync this directory VMs to a new NFS share, then import this NFS share as an export domain on the other DC.
What do you think?
Thanx, Alex
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