[one-users] suspend vm on esxi 5

Tue Apr 3 08:35:28 PDT 2012

You are very right Carlos. Thanks for pointing that out! I've opened a
ticket [1], hopefully the fix will make it for 3.4 final.

Regards,

-Tino

[1] http://dev.opennebula.org/issues/1204

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Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc
Project Engineer
OpenNebula - The Open-Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
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On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Carlo Bongiovanni
<c.bongiovanni at liberologico.com> wrote:
> 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
>>>>>>> 09010 Pula (CA) - Italia
>>>>>>> Tel. +39 070 9243.2647
>>>>>>> callto://pacman81
>>>>>>> gtalk: carlo.bongiovanni
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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
>>
>
>
>
> --
> 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