I did deactivated and detached storage domain form the DC1 first.
Turned out the meta file for these disks had
DISKTYPE=1
After changing it to
DISKTYPE=DATA
I was able to import disks.

Not sure why was that, but changing that one line just solved my problem


--
Dmitry Filonov
Linux Administrator
SBGrid Core | Harvard Medical School
250 Longwood Ave, SGM-114
Boston, MA 02115


On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 12:56 PM Eyal Shenitzky <eshen...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Dmitry,
>
> Those VMs has more disks on different SD as well?
> Did you deactivated and detached the SD as needed?
>
> Try to run manually the OVF update for this specific storage domain.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 12:23 AM Dmitry Filonov <
> filo...@hkl.hms.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
>> Correction. At least one (might be more or even all) of the machines that
>> don't show up under VM import tab was based on Blank template.
>> So that shouldn't be an issue. Has to be something else that prevent
>> machines from being "importable".
>>
>> At least two machines were pinned to a specific host in the DC1. Can that
>> be the issue? Seems unlikely, but am running out of ideas here :(
>>
>> Fil
>>
>> --
>> Dmitry Filonov
>> Linux Administrator
>> SBGrid Core | Harvard Medical School
>> 250 Longwood Ave, SGM-114
>> Boston, MA 02115
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 10:46 AM Dmitry Filonov <
>> filo...@hkl.hms.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>  I have 2 independent oVirt datacenters. Need to move some of the VMs
>>> from DC1 to DC2.
>>> So far the strategy was as simple as this -
>>> 1) connect new storage domain (NFS) to DC1
>>> 2) move VM disks to that storage
>>> 3) shut down VMs
>>> 4) disconnect storage from DC1
>>> 5) import same storage into DC2
>>> 6) import VMs from that storage and optionally move VM disks to storage
>>> local to DC2.
>>>
>>> Works fine for a dozen VMs until last Friday when I tried to import
>>> another 13 VMs into DC2 and VM import shows only 6. I can see disks in Disk
>>> import tab, but not VMs.
>>>
>>> I guess this is related to the fact that some of the VMs to be moved are
>>> based on a template that is still on DC1. But how do I move these VMs then?
>>> I can't move the template as
>>> 1) I still need it in DC1
>>> 2) it doesn't have any disks attached, so I can't really do the same
>>> steps to move it.
>>>
>>> Any ideas are very welcome here.
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dmitry Filonov
>>> Linux Administrator
>>> SBGrid Core | Harvard Medical School
>>> 250 Longwood Ave, SGM-114
>>> Boston, MA 02115
>>>
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