question about migrate VMs from xenserver 6.1 to cloudstack 3.0.2/4.1

[William Jiang <Wi...@manwin.com>]

Hi,
We have a xenserver 6.1 pool with 6 hosts, there are total about 90 VMs. Some with one disk and others with 2 disk on NFS shared storage.
In the meanwhile, we have a cloudstack 3.0.2 with xenserver 6.0.2 hosts.(we had plan of upgrading to cloudstack 4.1&xenserver 6.1 soon) The storage is on iscsi.

My question is:
If I want move all the vms on xenserver pool to cloudstack, if there is a way for fast migration?
Or I have to migrate one by one?
For my understanding, I need export each vm in xenserver, then import it to cloudstack as template, and create instance from the imported template.
But in this process, it works only for one-disk vms, how about the vms with 2 disks?
Any comments or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
William
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RE: question about migrate VMs from xenserver 6.1 to cloudstack 3.0.2/4.1

[Brian Galura <Br...@citrix.com>]

The method you describe is the only way I know how to do it. We have done a similar migration with some scripts around xe on xenserver and cloudmonkey for importing to cloudstack.

I'm interested to know if anyone else has tried this. We have 1000's of vms still to migrate from legacy xenserver into cloudstack. Maybe we can publish a tool for this that the community can maintain?

-----Original Message-----
From: William Jiang [mailto:William.Jiang@manwin.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 7:30 AM
To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: question about migrate VMs from xenserver 6.1 to cloudstack 3.0.2/4.1

Hi,
We have a xenserver 6.1 pool with 6 hosts, there are total about 90 VMs. Some with one disk and others with 2 disk on NFS shared storage.
In the meanwhile, we have a cloudstack 3.0.2 with xenserver 6.0.2 hosts.(we had plan of upgrading to cloudstack 4.1&xenserver 6.1 soon) The storage is on iscsi.

My question is:
If I want move all the vms on xenserver pool to cloudstack, if there is a way for fast migration?
Or I have to migrate one by one?
For my understanding, I need export each vm in xenserver, then import it to cloudstack as template, and create instance from the imported template.
But in this process, it works only for one-disk vms, how about the vms with 2 disks?
Any comments or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
William
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