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Hi,
Thanks for response and sharing script.

Can i use this script with devstack based cloud platform.?

Actually Live Migration is available between inter-cluster. so that why i
was talking about the suspend/pause the VM before migration.




Regards



On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Diego Parrilla Santamaría <
diego.parrilla.santamaria at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Naveed,
>
> I don't think it's a good idea to suspend/pause. If you want to keep the
> state of the VM then have a look at the live migration capabilities of KVM.
> Our script is very simple and works for any VM without attached block
> storage.
>
> Here goes the little script. Keep in mind it's something very simple.
>
> https://gist.github.com/diegoparrilla/6288e1521bffe741f71a
>
> Regards
> Diego
>
>
>
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> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Naveed Ahmad <12msccsnahmad at seecs.edu.pk>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Diego ,
>>
>> Thanks for sharing steps for VM migration from customer end to your
>> cloud. Well! i am not going to propose new idea for VM migration. I am
>> using VM migration  for POC of my research idea.
>>
>> I have few question for you!
>>
>>
>> 1. Can we use suspend/pause feature instead of snapshot for saving VM
>> states. ?
>> 2. How you are managing VM metadata (such as instance detail from
>> nova,cinder database)
>>
>>
>>
>> Is it possible for you to share script? I need this VM migration feature
>> in Openstack for POC only.
>> Thanks again for your reply.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Naveed
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Diego Parrilla Santamaría <
>> diego.parrilla.santamaria at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Naveed,
>>>
>>> we have customers running VMs in their own Private Cloud that are
>>> migrating to our new Public Cloud offering. To be honest I would love to
>>> have a better way to do it, but this is how we do. We have developed a tiny
>>> script that basically performs the following actions:
>>>
>>> 1) Take a snapshot of the VM from the source Private Cloud
>>> 2) Halts the source VM (optional, but good for state consistency)
>>>  3) Download the snapshot from source Private Cloud
>>> 4) Upload the snapshot to target Public Cloud
>>> 5) Start a new VM using the uploaded image in the target public cloud
>>> 6) Allocate a floating IP and attach it to the VM
>>> 7) Change DNS to point to the new floating IP
>>> 8) Perform some cleanup processes (delete source VM, deallocate its
>>> floating IP, delete snapshot from source...)
>>>
>>> A bit rudimentary, but it works if your VM does not have attached
>>> volumes right away.
>>>
>>> Still, I would love to hear some sexy and direct way to do it.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Diego
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Naveed Ahmad <
>>> 12msccsnahmad at seecs.edu.pk> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi community,
>>>>
>>>> I need some help from you people. Openstack provides Hot (Live) and
>>>> Cold (Offline) migration between clusters/compute. However i am interested
>>>> to migrate Virtual Machine from one OpenStack Cloud to another.  is it
>>>> possible ?  It is inter cloud VM migration not inter cluster or compute.
>>>>
>>>> I need help and suggestion regarding VM migration. I tried to manually
>>>> migrate VM from one OpenStack Cloud to another but no success yet.
>>>>
>>>> Please guide me!
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
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