Re: Import instances from previous deployment

2014-08-13 Thread Nitin Mehta
UUID is just an external facing id to reference this volume with from CS APIs. It isn't used to reference the volume on the hypervisor. That¹s what path is used for. Thanks, -Nitin On 11/08/14 7:57 PM, Carlos Reátegui create...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 11, 2014, at 6:23 PM, Nitin Mehta

Import instances from previous deployment

2014-08-11 Thread Carlos Reategui
Hi All, Follow-up on my recovery process. After failing to upgrade to 4.4 I did a fresh install and decided to go ahead and also do fresh installs of XenServer to upgrade those to XS6.2. Instead of importing each of the vhd from all my instances as templates and creating instances from those, I

Re: Import instances from previous deployment

2014-08-11 Thread Nitin Mehta
Carlos - This looks fine to me. Have a couple of questions though So you reintroduced the old storage pool back on the new MS instance - make sure the old instances are shutdown and do not access the same storage else they can corrupt the volumes ? Did you mean that you changed the path in the

Re: Import instances from previous deployment

2014-08-11 Thread Carlos Reategui
Hi Nitin, I created a new primary store share in NFS for the new deployment and removed the old one from exports. The XS hosts where re-used and installed fresh so nothing was using the old primary store. The new CS deployment only knows about the new primary store. I used 'vhd-util scan -f -p

Re: Import instances from previous deployment

2014-08-11 Thread Nitin Mehta
This is superb Carlos. So you created dummy vms to create records in CS db and then changed the volume path to reflect the old vhds. Yes, I think it should be fine to delete the dummy vids created with the new instance. Thanks, -Nitin On 11/08/14 5:49 PM, Carlos Reategui car...@reategui.com

Re: Import instances from previous deployment

2014-08-11 Thread Carlos Reátegui
On Aug 11, 2014, at 6:23 PM, Nitin Mehta nitin.me...@citrix.com wrote: This is superb Carlos. thank you So you created dummy vms to create records in CS db and then changed the volume path to reflect the old vhds. Exactly. Yes, I think it should be fine to delete the dummy vids created with