[ovirt-users] VM migrations via san replication?

[Yaniv Dary]

You will need at least 3.5 to import the storage and you should also handle
the consistency if any VMs on the storage are up.

Yaniv Dary
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On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:32 PM, At Work <workingindustriously at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have a question regarding migration of VMs.  It's my hope that someone
> can tell me if my migration idea can work or if it is not possible
>
> I want to migrate about 100-200 VMs from one oVirt deployment to a new
> oVirt deployment.  Some of the VMs are over 3TB in size.  Exporting and
> importing these via NFS would involve downtime and probably be a very
> lengthy process.  I'm wondering if there's a way to get around this by
> using san replication.
>
> I have an equallogic san group currently in use by an oVirt
> installation 3.4.0-1.el6.  I have a different equallogic group set up as
> storage for a different oVirt installation on another network.  The new
> oVirt installation is version 3.6.4.1-1.el7.centos.
>
> My idea is to avoid the downtime and lengthy export/import process by
> telling my current production san to do volume replication to the new san
> that's been allocated for use as storage for our new oVirt installation.
> Once replication is in sync, I'll have exact copies of the original iSCSI
> volumes, VM's, metadata, etc.  I am hoping I can then break replication,
> tell my new oVirt installation to log into the freshly-copied volumes, and
> use the VMs that were previously in use on the other installation.
>
> Due to the differences in oVirt versions and not knowing how oVirt
> internally handles metadata, I am not sure if this is possible.  Can anyone
> confirm if this will work or not?
>
> Thank you all!
>
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