Adding a XenServer cluster with existing VMs

[David Ortiz <dp...@outlook.com>]

Hello,
      If I have a XenServer cluster with VMs that already exist and I add it to Cloudstack, what happens?  I saw in the documentation that it should not have VMs running, but does this mean they should not exist or they should be stopped?  If the former, will the Cloudstack addition fail, will the VMs be deleted, or will they exist in a seedy shadow vm world where xenserver manages them but cloudstack does not?
Thanks,      Dave 		 	   		  

Re: Adding a XenServer cluster with existing VMs

[France <ma...@isg.si>]

You should add only fresh install XenServers to CS.
Any other would mean that CS would not be aware of them and it would 
calculate resources wrong and bunch of other things would not work as 
expected. I would suggest backing them up, doing a fresh install and 
then import them via CS GUI using .vhd import.

On 8/10/13 3:21 PM, David Ortiz wrote:
> Hello,
>        If I have a XenServer cluster with VMs that already exist and I add it to Cloudstack, what happens?  I saw in the documentation that it should not have VMs running, but does this mean they should not exist or they should be stopped?  If the former, will the Cloudstack addition fail, will the VMs be deleted, or will they exist in a seedy shadow vm world where xenserver manages them but cloudstack does not?
> Thanks,      Dave