Hi Oliver, We are trying to migrate the vSphere environment to cloudstack (based on XenServer) due to some internal product dependency which can be addressed by the CloudStack environment.
Thanks & Regards, Shreya On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 10:27 PM, Oliver Dzombic <i...@ip-interactive.de> wrote: > 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 > > >
