Hi

Will you please suggest 3rd party sync tools.

Thanks,
Venkatesh

On Sun 11 Nov, 2018, 3:34 AM Andrija Panic <andrija.pa...@gmail.com wrote:

> ok, so this rules our any CloudStack way to migrate things... clear.
>
> If possible, you should probably look into XenMotion between 2
> clusters/pools, in case there is good/fast IP connectivity here, that might
> do the work, without downtime - at least for single VM.
> In case you need to migrate whole environment at a time (dozens of VM) then
> not sure if this is good strategy.
>
> Offline way, I assume you can just move images from one pool to another
> (export / import) while VMs are stopped. This can be done with default
> tools, or even some external migration tools (from other vendors)
>
> Other way is also from INSIDE the VMs - i.e. use block-level replication
> tools, if you have some kind of VM-to-VM IP connectivity (i.e. site 2 site
> connections between source and destination VMs) - these kind of software
> are made for DR purposes, and after initial sync of source to destination
> VMs - you can just execute the switch-over of complete environments (I'm
> trying to remember the specific tool that my colleagues used...but no luck
> so far...)
>
> Anyway, make sure xs-tools are up to date (not sure about compatibility
> between different versions xe-tools vs guest-tools, etc) - anyway, first
> prepare/update the source VM and then migrate to new cluster.
>
> Other ways you could pull it out is also to stop VM(s), and then download
> volumes from CloudStack (will generate download ULR) - then simply download
> VM image (root or data disks) from this URL into new hosts/SR and use it to
> start a brand new VM with existing disks. Or create snapshots, and then
> download this snapshots to destination hosts/pool, etc...
>
> There are many ways to do it, depending on the needed scenario and allowed
> downtime.
>
> Perhaps look into xcp-ng project (fork of XenServer) without all these
> limitations that Citrix imposed lately...
>
> Hope this helps
> Andrija
>
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 at 22:28, kotipalli venkatesh <
> venkateshcloudt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Andrija,
> >
> > Saparate regions.
> >
> > Currently customer instances sitting on CloudStack. Now we are migrating
> > instances to hypervisor i.e. xenserver 7.2.
> >
> > No more cloudstack. He having own hypervisors.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Venkatesh
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun 11 Nov, 2018, 2:39 AM Andrija Panic <andrija.pa...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Venkatesh,
> > >
> > > is this 2 separate regions / installations - i.e. not 2 zones inside
> same
> > > Region ?
> > >
> > > On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 at 21:35, kotipalli venkatesh <
> > > venkateshcloudt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > We are using cloudstack older version 4.3.1 and hypervisor is
> xenserver
> > > > 6.2.
> > > >
> > > > Now, we are migrating VMs one Data enter to another Datcenter. In
> > > > destination Datcenter hypervisor is xenserver 7.1. all VMs are
> windows
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
>
> --
>
> Andrija Panić
>

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