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All;

I apologize if this is hitting the list again; we were having email issues, and I didn’t see it come back.

I've been successful at the tasks listed below, but the resulting volumes don't boot.  They stop early in the boot process indicating the root partition cannot be found.

I suspect the issue is with either the disk UUID links, or with partition detection.

When running the VMs under XenServer, we have /dev/disk/by-uuid/<UUID> --> /dev/xvda#

Are these created dynamically by the kernel, or are they static soft-links?

Can I get away with adjusting fstab to use what the partitions are likely to be after transition to OpenStac?  Are these of this form: /dev/vda#?

Thank you, 

Dominic L. Hilsbos, MBA 
Vice President – Information Technology 
Perform Air International Inc.
DHilsbos at PerformAir.com 
www.PerformAir.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean McGinnis [mailto:sean.mcginnis at gmx.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2021 10:03 AM
To: Eugen Block
Cc: Dominic Hilsbos; openstack-discuss at lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [ops][victoria][cinder] Import volume?

On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 04:30:45PM +0000, Eugen Block wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there’s a ‚cinder manage‘ command to import an rbd image into openstack.
> But be aware that if you delete it in openstack it will be removed from
> ceph, too (like a regular cinder volume).
> I don’t have the exact command syntax at hand right now, but try ‚cinder
> help manage‘
>
> Regards
> Eugen
>

Here is the documentation for that command:

https://docs.openstack.org/python-cinderclient/latest/cli/details.html#cinder-manage

Also note, if you no longer need to manage the volume in Cinder, but you do not
want it to be deleted from your storage backend, there is also the inverse
command of `cinder unmanage`. Details for that command can be found here:

https://docs.openstack.org/python-cinderclient/latest/cli/details.html#cinder-unmanage


>
> Zitat von DHilsbos at performair.com:
>
> > All;
> >
> > I'm looking to transfer several VMs from XenServer to an OpenStack
> > Victoria cloud.  Finding explanations for importing Glance images is
> > easy, but I haven't been able to find a tutorial on importing Cinder
> > volumes.
> >
> > Since they are currently independent servers / volumes it seems somewhat
> > wasteful and messy to import each VMs disk as an image just to spawn a
> > volume from it.
> >
> > We're using Ceph as the storage provider for Glance and Cinder.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Dominic L. Hilsbos, MBA
> > Director - Information Technology
> > Perform Air International Inc.
> > DHilsbos at PerformAir.com
> > www.PerformAir.com
>
>
>
>