[Users] Move disk to new AIO?

[Itamar Heim]

On 01/19/2014 08:10 AM, Blaster wrote:
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> On Jan 17, 2014, at 4:59 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com> wrote:
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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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Instead of waiting hours and hours for 2TB of data to be copied, I moved my 4 VMs in a few minutes.
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> A way to attach an existing on-disk VM image is really needed.
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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.