[one-users] suspend vm on esxi 5

[Carlo Bongiovanni]

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
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>
>
>
> 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
>>
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Carlo Bongiovanni

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