[one-users] suspend vm on esxi 5

Tue Apr 3 00:01:06 PDT 2012

Hi Tino,

I'm using the opennebula-3.3.0.tar.gz , downloaded on 2012-03-13.

c.

Il 02 aprile 2012 18:40, Tino Vazquez <tinova at opennebula.org> ha scritto:
> Hi Carlo,
>
> Which version of OpenNebula are you using?
>
> Regards,
>
> -Tino
>
> --
> Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc
> Project Engineer
> OpenNebula - The Open-Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
> www.OpenNebula.org | @tinova79 | @OpenNebula
>
>
>
> 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
>>>>>> Address: Sardegna Ricerche, Edificio 2
>>>>>> Località Piscinamanna
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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
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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.
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