[one-users] OpenNebula 3.4 and Esxi 5.0- image cloning task throws error

Thu May 10 10:52:36 PDT 2012

There is a cleaner workaround described in http://dev.opennebula.org/issues/1260

hope it helps,

-Tino

--
Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc
Project Engineer
OpenNebula - The Open-Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
www.OpenNebula.org | @tinova79 | @OpenNebula


On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Tino Vazquez <tinova at opennebula.org> wrote:
> Thanks a lot Anil, this kind of feedback is really valuable for us.
> The Shared transfer driver makes sense to be slower in 3.4, but the
> front-end gains in stability and lower load, which I think is a good
> trade-off. Other, more customized, deployments can be fine tuned if
> you also want fast VM deployment time.
>
> Best regards,
>
> -Tino
>
> --
> Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc
> Project Engineer
> OpenNebula - The Open-Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
> www.OpenNebula.org | @tinova79 | @OpenNebula
>
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:32 PM, cloud.b.lab <cloud.b.lab at zoho.com> wrote:
>> Tino,
>> Thanks for the reply.
>> I compared with only the Shared Transfer driver in both. Currently I am on
>> travel and I will post some more details like  "Time taken"  on both
>> versions etc once I am back to work.
>> Regards,
>> Anil
>>
>> ---- On Mon, 07 May 2012 10:16:52 -0700 Tino Vazquez <tinova at opennebula.org>
>> wrote ----
>>
>> Hi Anil,
>>
>> So which drivers are you comparing exactly? I mean, are you comparing
>> SSH drivers in ONE 3.2 vs ONE3.4? Or are you trying all the
>> combinations?
>>
>> Operations in ONE3.4 regarding cloning of files are done in the ESX
>> host, whereas it was done in the front-end in ONE3.2. It may be that
>> performance is a tad worst in the low load scenario in ONE 3.4 vs ONE
>> 3.2 in SHARED drivers (SSH should pretty much be the same), but on the
>> other hand the scalability is much better (in terms of responsiveness
>> of the front-end). Please let me know if your findings indicates
>> otherwise.
>>
>> 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 30, 2012 at 7:03 PM, cloud.b.lab <cloud.b.lab at zoho.com> wrote:
>>> Tino,
>>> Thanks.
>>>  In the mean time I tested OpenNebula 3.4 with ESX 4.1 using all threse
>>> TMs
>>> (SSH, SHARED and VMWARE). All are working fine. But I see a little bit of
>>> performance issue.
>>> I am  comparing the time ,
>>> OpenNebula 3.4  takes to clone/ transfer Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop VMDK files
>>> to
>>> ESX 4.1
>>> versus
>>> OpenNebula 3.2.1  transferring  Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop VMDK files to
>>> ESXi5.0.
>>>
>>> According to me, OpenNebula 3.2.1  with ESXi5.0 was much faster with same
>>> Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop VMDK files.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Anil Kumar.
>>>
>>> ---- On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:44:49 -0700 Tino Vazquez
>>> <tinova at opennebula.org>
>>> wrote ----
>>>
>>> The link to the ticket: http://dev.opennebula.org/issues/1260
>>> --
>>> Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc
>>> Project Engineer
>>> OpenNebula - The Open-Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
>>> www.OpenNebula.org | @tinova79 | @OpenNebula
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Tino Vazquez <tinova at opennebula.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Dear Anil,
>>>>
>>>> You are very right, this is a bug since it is true that "sudo" doesn't
>>>> come installed by default in ESX 5.0.
>>>>
>>>> A possible workaround is to use the root account in the ESX 5.0 host,
>>>> since root permissions is needed by the vmkfstools command.
>>>>
>>>> I've attached in the ticket a replacement for clone that uses a "ssh
>>>> root@<esx>" connection, and removes the use of sudo. For that you will
>>>> need to:
>>>>
>>>>  * enable root access via ssh to ESX 5.0
>>>>  * replace the clone script
>>>>
>>>> We will start working on a proper solution for this, it would be
>>>> trackable from dev.opennebula.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> -Tino
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc
>>>> Project Engineer
>>>> OpenNebula - The Open-Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
>>>> www.OpenNebula.org | @tinova79 | @OpenNebula
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:59 AM, cloud.b.lab <cloud.b.lab at zoho.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I am facing some issues while using VMWare Esxi5.0 with OpenNebula 3.4,
>>>>> especially while creating a VM.  [Esxi5.0 was working fine until
>>>>> OpenNebula
>>>>> 3.2]
>>>>>
>>>>> As you know Esxi 5.0 does not have "sudo" it in but OpenNebula "Clone"
>>>>> program has "sudo" written in it, which suspends the cloning process.
>>>>>
>>>>> Pasting the contents of vm.log for your  reference.
>>>>>
>>>>> oneadmin at OneHost:~/templates$ tail -n 100 ~/var/4/vm.log
>>>>> Sun Apr 29 13:29:48 2012 [DiM][I]: New VM state is ACTIVE.
>>>>> Sun Apr 29 13:29:48 2012 [LCM][I]: New VM state is PROLOG.
>>>>> Sun Apr 29 13:29:48 2012 [VM][I]: Virtual Machine has no context
>>>>> Sun Apr 29 13:29:48 2012 [TM][I]: Command execution fail:
>>>>> /var/lib/one/var/remotes/tm/vmware/clone
>>>>> OneHost:/var/lib/one/var/datastores/100/69da5878a2234300762a784b2ad8d85c
>>>>> esxi01:/var/lib/one/var/datastores/0/4/disk.0
>>>>> Sun Apr 29 13:29:48 2012 [TM][I]: clone: Cloning
>>>>> ../../100/69da5878a2234300762a784b2ad8d85c in
>>>>> esxi01:/var/lib/one/var/datastores/0/4/disk.0
>>>>> Sun Apr 29 13:29:48 2012 [TM][E]: clone: Command "cd
>>>>> /var/lib/one/var/datastores/0/4
>>>>> Sun Apr 29 13:29:48 2012 [TM][I]: sudo /usr/sbin/vmkfstools -U
>>>>> /var/lib/one/var/datastores/0/4/disk.0/disk.vmdk
>>>>> Sun Apr 29 13:29:48 2012 [TM][I]: sudo /usr/sbin/vmkfstools -i
>>>>> ../../100/69da5878a2234300762a784b2ad8d85c/disk.vmdk -d thin
>>>>> /var/lib/one/var/datastores/0/4/disk.0/disk.vmdk" failed: sh: cd: line
>>>>> 1:
>>>>> can't cd to /var/lib/one/var/datastores/0/4
>>>>> Sun Apr 29 13:29:48 2012 [TM][I]: sh: sudo: not found
>>>>> Sun Apr 29 13:29:48 2012 [TM][I]: sh: sudo: not found
>>>>> Sun Apr 29 13:29:48 2012 [TM][E]: Error cloning
>>>>> OneHost:/var/lib/one/var/datastores/100/69da5878a2234300762a784b2ad8d85c
>>>>> to
>>>>> esxi01:/var/lib/one/var/datastores/0/4/disk.0
>>>>> Sun Apr 29 13:29:48 2012 [TM][I]: ExitCode: 127
>>>>> Sun Apr 29 13:29:48 2012 [TM][E]: Error executing image transfer script:
>>>>> Error cloning
>>>>> OneHost:/var/lib/one/var/datastores/100/69da5878a2234300762a784b2ad8d85c
>>>>> to
>>>>> esxi01:/var/lib/one/var/datastores/0/4/disk.0
>>>>> Sun Apr 29 13:29:48 2012 [DiM][I]: New VM state is FAILED
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> =============================================================================================================================
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Kindly help to resolve this issue.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Anil Kumar A.N.
>>>>> [cloud-b-lab]
>>>>>
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