[ovirt-users] Q: Copying VMs between Export domains of different data centres

[Eyal Shenitzky]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 4:26 PM, Eyal Shenitzky <eshenitz at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrei,
>
> I think you miss understand the concept of export domain.
>
> Export domain allows you to pass entities from one data center to another.
>
> The flow is:
>
> 1) Create an export domain in DC-A
> 2) Export required entities to the export domain
> 3) Deactivate (enter the storage domain to maintenance mode) and detach
> the export domain
> 4)  Attach the export domain to DC-B and import the entities to it.
>
> You can see more information here:
> -  https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/admin-guide/chap-Storage/
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 4:04 PM, Andrei Verovski <andreil1 at starlett.lv>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have 2 data centers (with 1 node each because 1 have local data domain)
>>
>> Copied exported from DC #1, exports -> 1d7208ce-d3a1-4406-9638-fe7051562994
>> -> images -> 12f48f07-7e93-4c66-b0e9-00efc1fec418, with 2 files inside
>> fc469474-94fd-416b-b921-58604f46411c - 171 GB (seems like disk image)
>> fc469474-94fd-416b-b921-58604f46411c.meta
>>
>> to DC #2, export -> 36bc8d5d-30e9-4df5-94cd-c837483c5e41 -> images
>> -> 12f48f07-7e93-4c66-b0e9-00efc1fec418, with these above listed files
>> inside.
>> (screenshot attached)
>>
>> However, in “Import Virtual machine(s)” dialog this VM is not visible
>> even after running “Load” command inside import dialog.
>> Looks like for whatever reason oVirt don’t refresh content of this
>> directory.
>>
>> How to instruct oVirt to refresh and index these files?
>>
>> Or this method won’t work at all, and one have to import/export OVA
>> images, or use lengthy procedure described by Fred Roland here ?
>> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2018-February/087304.html
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Andrei
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Eyal Shenitzky
>



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Regards,
Eyal Shenitzky
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