Motty, Before you upgrade read Eric's gist on this first: https://gist.github.com/terbolous/102ae8edd1cda192561c
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:25 AM, motty cruz <motty.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Andrei, > I will do look that up, I am nervous about this operation. I wonder why did > you go to KVM hypervisor? we're having issues, our network is not stable. I > could not take snapshots of VMs. At this point we build a cluster with > XenServer hypervisor and we really like to go into production. > > Any advise? by the way our current version is CloudStack 4.2.1, I believe > snapshots are working in 4.3. I may try to upgrade to Cloudstack 4.4. Do > you know if we can upgrade from 4.2 to 4.4? (skip a version) > > Thanks, > > > On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Andrei Mikhailovsky <and...@arhont.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have migrated the other way without any issues. The fastest way for me >> to do it was to create identical vms on the other hypervisor (including >> same disk volume sizes, etc). Once the vms are created I would stop them. >> Using the qemu-img I would convert the disk image format, upload the >> converted image to the primary storage and replace the newly created disk >> volumes with the converted once. After that you should be okay to start. >> >> You might also want to try the citrix app for vm migration, it might >> support kvm format. Just google for it, I can't recall its name. >> >> Andrei >> >> -- >> Andrei Mikhailovsky >> Director >> Arhont Information Security >> >> Web: http://www.arhont.com >> http://www.wi-foo.com >> Tel: +44 (0)870 4431337 >> Fax: +44 (0)208 429 3111 >> PGP: Key ID - 0x2B3438DE >> PGP: Server - keyserver.pgp.com >> >> DISCLAIMER >> >> The information contained in this email is intended only for the use of >> the person(s) to whom it is addressed and may be confidential or contain >> legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you >> are hereby notified that any perusal, use, distribution, copying or >> disclosure is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error >> please immediately advise us by return email at and...@arhont.com and >> delete and purge the email and any attachments without making a copy. >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> From: "Soeren Malchow" <soeren.malc...@mcon.net> >> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org >> Sent: Friday, 1 August, 2014 8:01:05 PM >> Subject: RE: CS 4.2..1 hypervisor KVM migrate to CS 4.4 hyper-visor >> XenServer 6.2 >> >> Hi, >> >> i am running 4.3 right now with KVM and snapshots do work >> >> cheers >> soeren >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: motty cruz [mailto:motty.c...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Freitag, 1. August 2014 20:09 >> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org >> Subject: CS 4.2..1 hypervisor KVM migrate to CS 4.4 hyper-visor XenServer >> 6.2 >> >> All, >> I am figuring out best possible way to migrate from CS 4.2.1 hyper-visor >> KVM to CS 4.4 hyper-visor XenServer 6.2 >> >> any suggestions? We're having issues with KVM, snapshot don't work, I have >> a testing cluster for CS 4.4 with hyper-visor Xen and seem to be a lot >> better than KVM >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- Daan
