Hi, just our of intrest:
Why do you want to go away from vmware ? And why do you prefere xen and not kvm ( which is as you already experienced much more tricky compared to kvm ) ? -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards Oliver Dzombic IP-Interactive mailto:i...@ip-interactive.de Anschrift: IP Interactive UG ( haftungsbeschraenkt ) Zum Sonnenberg 1-3 63571 Gelnhausen HRB 93402 beim Amtsgericht Hanau Geschäftsführung: Oliver Dzombic Steuer Nr.: 35 236 3622 1 UST ID: DE274086107 Am 04.07.2017 um 13:22 schrieb Shreya Nair: > Hello, > > My team is working on a Vmware to Cloudstack migration task. The CloudStack > environment is set up on the Xenserver hypervisor. > > We are able to export a VM on vsphere to OVF template which also provides > the OVF, VMDK disk image(s) and MF file for the particular VM. > In order to create a CloudStack Template from these files, it can be done > by 2 methods, namely, template creation from VHD(as the underlying > hypervisor is XenServer) or template creation from ISO. > > VHD Template creation: > - The VMDK file (Obtained after export OVF operation of the VM) is > converted to VHD format with VBoxManage.exe tool that is available with > VirtualBox. > - The VHD file can be used to create a CloudStack template and > instantiate a VM. > > > ISO Template creation: > - The OVF file (Obtained after export OVF operation of the VM) is imported > to Citrix XenCenter. > - XenCenter runs Operating system Fixup on the imported OVF file and > creates a modified ISO file. > - The modified ISO file can be used for creating a template and > instantiate a VM > > However, the newly created VM has booting issues as it requires "You might > have to change the root from /dev/hd[a-d] to /dev/xvd[a-d]" > Is there an alternate way or support to migrate a vSphere VM to CloudStack? > Or a method to change the partitioning on the hard disk from sd[a-d] to > xvd[a-d] > > > > Thanks & Regards, > > Shreya >
