[one-users] suspend vm on esxi 5

Mon Apr 2 09:40:49 PDT 2012

Hi Carlo,

Which version of OpenNebula are you using?

Regards,

-Tino

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Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc
Project Engineer
OpenNebula - The Open-Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
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On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Carlo Bongiovanni
<c.bongiovanni at liberologico.com> wrote:
> Hi Tino,
>
> I tried creating the image from esxi5, and then importing it into
> opennebula, and finally the suspend/resume functionality started
> working smoothly!
>
> I anyway had to change a few things as opennebula wasn't accepting the
> vm image I was getting from esxi 5.
> In fact the vmware configuration in opennebula works when you have
> vmname-s001.vmdk etc., but it doesn't when you have vmname-flat.vmdk.
>
> By looking into the scripts I found that opennebula tries to find the
> descriptor (the .vmdk renamed to disk.0), by looking at all the files
> with vmdk ending, and omitting the ones that have the "-s00n" in the
> name. I had to change that part so that it could omit also files
> having "-flat" in the name.
>
> Anyway now it is pretty slow as the vm it moves is around 16 GB. Is
> there a way to speed it up?
>
> thanks, best regards
> carlo
>
> Il 23 marzo 2012 13:53, Tino Vazquez <tinova at opennebula.org> ha scritto:
>> Hi Carlo,
>>
>> This may be an issue then with the version of the disk. You may want
>> to try converting it to a later format using VMware Converter.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -Tino
>>
>> --
>> Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc
>> Project Engineer
>> OpenNebula - The Open-Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
>> www.OpenNebula.org | @tinova79 | @OpenNebula
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Carlo Bongiovanni
>> <c.bongiovanni at liberologico.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Il 22 marzo 2012 17:38, Tino Vazquez <tinova at opennebula.org> ha scritto:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> The .vmx file is created by libvirt. OpenNebula can be tailored to add
>>>> the line in the file, but I think is better to identify the problem.
>>>>
>>>>  1) Are you using a .vmdk disk created in esx5, or are you importing
>>>> from previous versions?
>>>
>>> the .vmdk is created from a vmware server (don't know which version)
>>>
>>>>  2) If you add the line, can you create snapshots?
>>>
>>> I haven't tried this one
>>>
>>>>  3) If you create a new VM from scratch, and do a snapshot using the
>>>> VI client, does it work?
>>>
>>> I only tried such a command, by ssh connecting to esxi server, and it
>>> worked smoothly:
>>>
>>> vim-cmd vmsvc/power.suspend Vmid
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> -Tino
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> c.
>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc
>>>> Project Engineer
>>>> OpenNebula - The Open-Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
>>>> www.OpenNebula.org | @tinova79 | @OpenNebula
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Carlo Bongiovanni
>>>> <c.bongiovanni at liberologico.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I configured opennebula to use esxi 5 as hypervisor. The instantiate,
>>>>> shutdown, reboot commands work properly. I'm now testing the suspend
>>>>> function but I have such a problem:
>>>>>
>>>>> from sunstone I choose a RUNNING vm and suspend it, it goes in
>>>>> SAVE_SUSPEND state, then it goes in UNKNOWN one.
>>>>>
>>>>> first he tries to suspend
>>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:15:45 2012 [ReM][D]: VirtualMachineAction method invoked
>>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:15:45 2012 [DiM][D]: Suspending VM 36
>>>>>
>>>>> then I can see from vsphere that he cancels the operation because of a
>>>>> "full disk error"
>>>>>
>>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 Command
>>>>> execution fail: /srv/cloud/one/var/remotes/vmm/vmware/save one-36
>>>>> /srv/cloud/one/var//3
>>>>> 6/images/checkpoint vmware001 36 vmware001
>>>>>
>>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG E 36 save:
>>>>> Error executing: virsh -c 'esx://vmware001/?no_verify=1&auto_answer=1'
>>>>> suspend one-36 err
>>>>> : ExitCode: 1
>>>>>
>>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 out:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 error:
>>>>> Failed to suspend domain one-36
>>>>>
>>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 error:
>>>>> internal error Could not suspend domain: InvalidState - The operation
>>>>> cannot be allowed
>>>>> at the current time because the virtual machine has a question pending:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36
>>>>> 'msg.vmxaiomgr.retryabort.diskfull:The operation on the file
>>>>> "/vmfs/devices/multiextent/6979cbe4-disk-000001-s001.vmdk" failed (The
>>>>> file is too large).
>>>>>
>>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 The file
>>>>> system where disk
>>>>> "/vmfs/devices/multiextent/6979cbe4-disk-000001-s001.vmdk" resides is
>>>>> full.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 Select
>>>>> Retry to attempt the operation again.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 Select
>>>>> Cancel to end the session.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 '.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36
>>>>>
>>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 ExitCode: 1
>>>>>
>>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 Failed
>>>>> to execute virtualization driver operation: save.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:19 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: SAVE FAILURE 36 -
>>>>>
>>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:21 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: LOG I 36 ExitCode: 0
>>>>>
>>>>> Thu Mar 22 17:19:21 2012 [VMM][D]: Message received: POLL SUCCESS 36 STATE=a
>>>>>
>>>>> I googled and found a possible solution:
>>>>> http://stanis.net/2012/02/error-creating-snapshot-on-virtual-machine-cannot-write-to-multiextents/
>>>>>
>>>>> but it requires to append a line to the vmx file used by the vm:
>>>>> workingDir = “/vmfs/volumes/4f062853-20101bf0-21bf-d4bed9af57d2/Name
>>>>> of Virtual Machine Folder Here/”
>>>>>
>>>>> Such a file is created by opennebula.. how could I change it in order
>>>>> to make it work?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks for any help
>>>>> kind regards
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Carlo Bongiovanni
>>>>>
>>>>> Liberologico S.r.l.
>>>>> web: www.liberologico.com
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Carlo Bongiovanni
>>>
>>> Liberologico S.r.l.
>>> web: www.liberologico.com
>>> Address: Sardegna Ricerche, Edificio 2
>>> Località Piscinamanna
>>> 09010 Pula (CA) - Italia
>>> Tel. +39 070 9243.2647
>>> callto://pacman81
>>> gtalk: carlo.bongiovanni
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Carlo Bongiovanni
>
> Liberologico S.r.l.
> web: www.liberologico.com
> Address: Sardegna Ricerche, Edificio 2
> Località Piscinamanna
> 09010 Pula (CA) - Italia
> Tel. +39 070 9243.2647
> callto://pacman81
> gtalk: carlo.bongiovanni