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Re: [Xen-API] XCP 1.6 Storage XenMotion cannot move virtual disks between local SRs


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  • From: George Shuklin <george.shuklin@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 07:19:23 +0400
  • Delivery-date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 03:19:42 +0000
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On 03.01.2013 00:35, Alexandre Kouznetsov wrote:
Hello.

I have made more tests and got a successful migration using Storage XenMotion. It happened only after I have removed the destination XCP host from the actual pool, and moved it to a new one.

It seems like "destination-sr-uuid=" option is recognized correctly only when a "remote-master=" and other connection details are specified. The neighbor thread http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-api/2012-12/msg00162.html was helpful. Yes, they fly between pools like magic. The option "live=<false|true>" does not make any visible difference: a Debian VM with default 8GB hdd and no activity pauses for around 2 seconds and my shell connection to it is not lost, in both cases, "live=false" and "live=true".

live migration performs set of iterations over VM memory (you can see details in /tmp/xenguest.log on source host), live=false performs 'pause and copy' mode. They are almost the same for idle machines, but make a huge difference for heavy-loaded servers, which change lot of memory every second. (F.e. heavy loaded erlang application with work heap about 10GiB: it live migration performs all 32 iterations and still forced to make 'pause and copy' at final round with large memory delta).

Still not clear how to migrate VM's in the following cases:
- When VM is not online (vm-migrate insists it should be "running").
- When origin and destination hosts are within the same pool.

offline croos-pool migration is not supported, AFAIK. Sad, yep.

For in-pool migration there is xe vdi-pool-migration command.


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