Re: [Xen-API] Live mirgration w/ XCP

[Bastian Mäuser <mephisto@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ryan,

there are two types of Livemigration, XM and SXM.

XM is XenMotion - and means that you can migrate a VM while it's running from one XCP host to another, utilising a shared Storage that both Hosts can access.

SXM is StorageXenMotion and was introduced with XCP 1.6. It in fact can completely move a VM while it's running on one Host to another and also move the VDI to the Host where it will run locally. And yes, you can also move from a local SR to a shared SR and vice Versa.

I don't think that XM and SXM can be used together from the XenCenter. AFAIK XenCenter only does XenMotion, and SXM in the Pool Shell. But it's easy, eg "xe vdi-pool-migrate uuid=<vdi-uuid> sr-uuid=<target-sr-uuid>". The performance is really impressive from what I have experienced...

so long,
-Bastian

Am 11.03.2013 16:20, schrieb Ryan Miller:

Hey Bastian,

I’ll be testing this week. We are purchasing equipment soon and after reading on a forum that it didn’t work I just wanted to make sure it wasn’t true. Do you just use the XenCenter… Right click on the VM and click migrate to server? Also, Will I able to transfer a VM to physically separated storage repository?  

 

Example:

Migrate VMs from an XCP host connected to a dell equal logic to an XCP host that is using local storage.

 

Thanks for the reply, Bastian.

 

-Ryan

 

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Hi Ryan..

sure.. olivemigration works like Charme for me. What's your error?

-Bastian



Am 11.03.2013 15:58, schrieb Ryan Miller:

I read on a forum that this feature was removed from XCP 1.6. Has anyone successfully done a live migration with XCP 1.6? If so, is there a good resource out there to guide a smooth migration?

 

-Ryan

 

 

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