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Moving your Virtual Machines to oVirt with ease Arik Hadas Senior Software Engineer Red Hat FOSDEM, 31/1/15 FOSDEM, Jan 2015

How do you run Virtual Machines? ● T h e r e a r e m a n y w a y s t o r u n a V M ● D i fg e r e n t m a n a g e m e n t s y s t e m s – v i r t - m a n a g e r , V M w a r e v S p h e r e , G a n e t i , . . . ● D i fg e r e n t h y p e r v i s o r s – K V M , E S X / E S X i , X e n , V i r t u a l B o x , . . . FOSDEM, Jan 2015

Our goal ● o V i r t i s a g r e a t – O p e n s o u r c e – F e a t u r e - r i c h m a n a g e m e n t ● L i v e V M & S t o r a g e M i g r a t i o n ● A d v a n c e d S L A & S c h e d u l i n g ● M u c h m o r e . . . ● We w a n t o t h e r s t o k n o w t h a t ! FOSDEM, Jan 2015

“I don't want to loose my VMs” ● V i r t u a l i z a t i o n t e c h n o l o g i e s a r e u s e d f o r a l o n g t i m e ● N o s t a n d a r d c o n v e r s i o n p r o c e s s e x i s t s ● P e o p l e a r e t i e d u p t o t h e i r c u r r e n t l y u s e d t e c h n o l o g i e s ● B e t t e r c o n v e r s i o n p r o c e s s i s n e e d e d ! FOSDEM, Jan 2015

What VM conversion process does? ● V i r t u a l M a c h i n e i s c o m p o s e d o f : – C o n fj g u r a t i o n – V i r t u a l D i s k s – M e m o r y ● M e m o r y s h o u l d n o t b e c o n v e r t e d ● N e e d t o c o n v e r t c o n fj g u r a t i o n & d i s k s FOSDEM, Jan 2015

Open Virtualization Format ● R e p r e s e n t i n g V M c o n fj g u r a t i o n – M e m o r y , C p u – D i s k s – M a n y m o r e . . . ● X M L f o r m a t ● V a r i e s a m o n g d i fg e r e n t p r o v i d e r s FOSDEM, Jan 2015

Virtual Disks ● S t o r e s p e r s i s t e d d a t a – O p e r a t i n g s y s t e m – D r i v e r s – O t h e r d a t a ● F o r m a t v a r i e s a m o n g d i fg e r e n t p r o v i d e r s FOSDEM, Jan 2015

How conversion to oVirt is made today? ● C u r r e n t l y d o n e u s i n g v i r t - v 2 v ● v i r t - v 2 v – S t a n d a l o n e c o m m a n d - l i n e t o o l – F o r e i g n h y p e r v i s o r - > K V M – C r e a t e s a V M o V i r t c a n c o n s u m e FOSDEM, Jan 2015

virt-v2v capabilities ● C o n v e r t s d i s k f o r m a t s ● E n a b l e s V i r t I O d r i v e r s – I f p o s s i b l e . . – D i s p l a y , N e t w o r k , S t o r a g e ● P r o d u c e s f u l l o V i r t - c o m p a t i b l e O V F – E x p l o r e s d i s k s f o r O S , d r i v e r s , . . . ● O u t p u t s t h e V M i n o V i r t ' s e x p o r t d o m a i n FOSDEM, Jan 2015

What's wrong with the current process? ● S l o w ● N o G r a p h i c a l U s e r I n t e r f a c e – T o c o n fj g u r e – T o m o n i t o r ● E r r o r - p r o n e ● N o t r o b u s t FOSDEM, Jan 2015

Integrate virt-v2v with oVirt ● I m p r o v e c o n v e r s i o n p r o c e s s – U s e v i r t - v 2 v c a p a b i l i t i e s – M a n a g e t h e p r o c e s s i n o V i r t ● G e n e r a l i z e t h e i m p o r t p r o c e s s i n o V i r t ● S p e c i a l i z e v i r t - v 2 v t o o V i r t FOSDEM, Jan 2015

Very high-level oVirt architecture view Servers Engine Client Storage FOSDEM, Jan 2015

Deeper oVirt architecture view FOSDEM, Jan 2015

How virt-v2v is integrated in oVirt? FOSDEM, Jan 2015

How virt-v2v will be integrated in oVirt? FOSDEM, Jan 2015

List VMs from external provider E x t e r n a l s y s t e m FOSDEM, Jan 2015

List VMs from external provider E x t e r n a l s y s t e m FOSDEM, Jan 2015

List VMs from external provider FOSDEM, Jan 2015

Convert VM from external provider FOSDEM, Jan 2015

Convert VM from external provider FOSDEM, Jan 2015

Convert VM from external provider E x t e r n a l s y s t e m FOSDEM, Jan 2015

Convert VM from external provider O V F E x t e r n a l s y s t e m FOSDEM, Jan 2015

How do we make the conversion faster? Data Domain External Storage Export Domain Data Domain External Storage Export Domain FOSDEM, Jan 2015

How do we make the conversion faster? Data Domain External Storage Export Domain Data Domain External Storage Export Domain Data Domain External Storage Data Domain External Storage FOSDEM, Jan 2015

Using a proxy E x t e r n a l s y s t e m FOSDEM, Jan 2015

Using a proxy FOSDEM, Jan 2015

Robustness E x t e r n a l s y s t e m FOSDEM, Jan 2015

Robustness E x t e r n a l s y s t e m FOSDEM, Jan 2015

Robustness E x t e r n a l s y s t e m FOSDEM, Jan 2015

THANK YOU! http://www.ovirt.org ahadas@redhat.com ahadas@irc.oftc.net#ovirt FOSDEM, Jan 2015