Vmware converter installation on ubuntu linux johnhowto. I need to install a software raid 0 array on a ubuntu 12. Keep pressing next until you see finishand then click finish. How to remove sw raid for vmware converter to work david.
I am going to install two hosts with vmware esx version 4. Installationsoftwareraid community help wiki ubuntu. Vmware vcenter converter standalone provides an easytouse solution that automates the process of creating vmware virtual machines from physical machines running windows and linux and other virtual machine formats. Aug 12, 2014 5 comments on breaking a linux software raid 1 for import using vmware converter i rarely post supergeeky stuff on here, but since i couldnt find any good instructions to do this important and critical activity on the internet, and my coworkers had to piece together a set of steps that worked for us, i wanted to share what we learned. A guide to converting hyperv vms to vmware by nakivo. Starting the installation begin the installation by booting up the ubuntu server dvd or usb and then following the wizard through to the partition disks screen. Centos, oracle linux, sles 12, opensuse, and ubuntu. If your question has been resolved please mark the answers as helpful or correct. I have a hosted virtual private ubuntu server that i have no physical access to. Nov 19, 2014 only thing i had to do with the ssd is tell the host to id the raid 0 drive for the ssd which is a simple thing to do in an esxi host and reboot after that i installed the lsi providers vib so i can remote into the hosts and control the raid without rebooting the host all the time. The reconfiguration took less then 2 minutes and when it was completed my vm booted fine. Starwind virtual san for vsphere linux software raid. What theyre talking about are raided windows volumes i.
I was looking at possibly using clonezilla and it doesnt support software raid in linux either. Software raid underneath esxi datastore server fault. Learn what are p2v, benefits of it and how to migrate ubuntu p2v using vmware vcenter converter standalone 6. How to setup fake raid for vmware virtual machines. The admin knew how to set up software raid arrays on linux, but not on. Linux software raid is far more cost effective and flexible than hardware raid, though it is more complex and requires manual intervention when replacing drives. With vmware vcenter converter, you can automate the process of creating vmware virtual machines from physical machines running windows or linux, virtual machine formats that are not specific to vmware, other thirdparty image formats, and vmware virtual machines.
Breaking my existing software raid in such a way that then vmware converter will be able to see it and create the image from it. Adding a boot partition to an external usb thumbdrive as youve described that will allow converter to see the installation and image it. Ubuntu software raid server and vmware conversion tool. Convert physical linux server to vmware p2v vmware starwind. I have a vmware esxi 5 running on a server with ssd and two hard drives. I had to go on a purchase a storage controller to setup a raid for the hypervisor to install on. Manufacturer licensed software may not be a smart decision in this case. There is a new version of this tutorial available that uses gdisk instead of sfdisk to support gpt partitions. Vmware vcenter converter standalone provides an easytouse solution that.
Resolving linux boot issues after p2v with vmware converter. The issues are from using a single device the real raid array and then making a bunch of fake drives on top of it and then using software raid to make those fake drives look like one large drive again. The last versions of vmware converter claim to support p2v of linux based servers. Would someone be able to tell me the best process for converting the already running linux machine to a virtual machine to be used in esxi. Now that both drive are ready, it is time to select configure software raid.
From data centers to end users, virtual machine platforms such as virtual box, vmware. Converting a powered on physical machine using vcenter converter. Vmware vconverter p2v for windows servers experts exchange. Dynamic disks that also have a windows raid 10 or raid5 array ontop of them. Follow the clonezilla tm wizard to convert the desired disk or partitions into an image a folder containing some files.
Once you have installed vmware vcenter converter standalone, run the converter by default, a shortcut is automatically created on your desktop. Ubuntu raid 1 step 7 repeat steps for second drive. Feb 10, 2012 while vmware converter 5 does a good job livecloning the existing linux servers, sometimes you have to use the cold clone boot cd if the physical server uses software raid and then boot vm from the broken mirror side, or sometimes the resulting vm does not boot because of issues with bootloader. You will be asked to partition disks at this point. Converting an ubuntu tm physical machine to a virtual machine vmware step 1. You can convert powered on physical machines, vmware virtual machines, and hyperv server virtual machines into vmware standalone virtual machines or virtual machines that vcenter server manages. This guide shows how to remove a failed hard drive from a linux raid1 array software raid, and how to add a new hard disk to the raid1 array without losing data. Vmware vcenter converter standalone provides an easytouse solution to automate the process of creating vmware virtual machines from physical machines running windows and linux, other virtual machine formats, and thirdparty image formats. I have a physical production webserver running ubuntu 10. It also supports conversion of thirdparty virtual machines like hyperv and kvm. Solved how to convert linux box with software raid5 to. Converter is a pretty well made tool for being free. Breaking a linux software raid 1 for import using vmware.
Starwind hyperconverged appliance is a turnkey, entirely softwaredefined hyperconverged platform purposebuilt for intensive virtualization. Sep 03, 2012 i then selected the vmware converter option configure machine, selected the vm that it created, made no changes in the configuration and selected next. It professionals, developers and businesses who build, test or demo software for any device, platform or cloud rely on workstation pro. Disk2vhd how to convert a physical server to a hyperv virtual. P2v fedora linux box with a software raid disk vmware. On the old system, i had a raid volume set up to hold all my media for my network, tv shows, movies, software, etc. The sas 6ir is not a true hardware raid controller. With vmware vcenter converter, you can automate the process of creating vmware virtual machines from physical machines running windows or linux, virtual machine formats that are not specific to vmware, other third. Convert a physical or virtual machine vmware docs home.
Apr 07, 2015 vmware vcenter converter standalone 6. In most situations, software raid performance is as good and often better than an equivalent hardware raid solution, all at a lower cost and with greater flexibility. Vmware converter is very powerful tool to provide physical to virtual conversion. The company supplying the software raid controller and the dedicated controller were the same adaptec. Vmware converter will work, however any options such as resizing the disks and. Microsoft offers a free tool called disk2vhd that enables you to convert. Learn how to use mdadm to configure raid on linux in azure. Configure software raid on a linux vm azure linux virtual. As mentioned earlier, the vmware hypervisor does not recognize the raid arrays built by the software raid controller also called fake raid. Linux has supported the idea of software raid, particularly raid 1 or disk mirroring for a long time. Double click on the vmware software application and run it. Build and test for any platform with vmware workstation.
Zfs, lvm or any device mapper based solution, md, btrfs. The main advantage of such a thing is cost, as this dedicated card is an added premium to the base configuration of the system. Its quite easy to make p2v of windows base servers. After a few experiment, i notice, the problem only exist in my linux that uses software raid. Sep 12, 2015 once you have completed your partitioning in the main partition disks page select configure software raid select yes select create new md drive select raid type. Replacing a failed hard drive in a software raid1 array. As the name implies, this is a raid redundant array of inexpensive disks setup that is done completely in software instead of using a dedicated hardware card. Are raid disks really universally unsupported for vmware converter. In this tutorial, youll learn how to install ubuntu server 16. In most situations, software raid performance is as good and often better than an equivalent hardware raid solution, all at. Converter standalone does not recognize source volumes that reside on linux software raid configurations during cloning of powered on linux machines, converter standalone does not recognize source volumes that are part of a software raid configuration also referred to as multiple disk, or. Boot the physical machine from the clonezilla tm live cd or usb. Lets explore how to convert a hyperv vm to a vmware esxi vm with a detailed walkthrough.
I need to somehow setup a fakeraid inside virtual machine to keep a copy data on each drive raid0. Introduction to vmware vcenter converter standalone 4. How to install and use the vmware software manager youtube. How to remove sw raid for vmware converter to work david hrbac. Gptmbr hybrid disks guid partition tablemaster boot record. I need to install a software raid0 array on a ubuntu 12. As for converter supporting software raid, that is a very complex problem that not a lot of conversion tools dont support. I downloaded vmwares vcenter converter standalone version 6. And you can revert this all very easily by restoring the backups of fstab and menu. You can create a conversion job to convert a physical or virtual machine to a variety of destinations. What i mean is that not all software supports converting software raid 5 machines. Breaking a linux software raid 1 for import using vmware converter.
Software raid in a guest vm, on top of a vmware host hardware. The only purpose for this raid volume was media storage. Converting an ubuntu tm physical machine to a virtual machine. Its a common scenario to use software raid on linux virtual machines in azure to present multiple. In my previous entry, i wrote about the problem i faced with vmware using scsi as the virtual disk emulation. Physicalraid 1 to virtual using vmware standalone converter. I agree with your statement in regards to the perc controllers. May 23, 2012 software raid not windows but other software raid can be just fine. All of my 3 machines that hosts vmware are using software raid mirror. Search through a range of vmware product documentation, kb articles, technical papers, release notes, vmware validated designs, and videos.
If the host doesnt support software raid, you can use software raid from the guest os. How to setup software raid for a simple file server on ubuntu. And when i say unofficialdangerous workarounds i meant that some people found a way sometimes to get it to work with vmware converter unofficially by breaking their raid mirror in raid 1 and changing partition type, etc which i dont want to do in my production. Using starwind vsan, the process of deploying vms, providing faulttolerant storage, connecting it to hypervisor, and creating highly available vms becomes a piece o cake. Its fakeraid, essentially propriatery software raid.
I have tried to use vmware s standalone converter but that does not work on a running server with software raid. Vmware workstation pro is the industry standard for running multiple operating systems as virtual machines vms on a single linux or windows pc. Converter standalone does not recognize source volumes that reside on linux software raid configurations during cloning of powered on linux machines, converter standalone does not recognize source volumes that are part of a software raid configuration also referred to as multiple disk, or md, configurations. Converting a physical linux machine to use in vmware ask ubuntu. Learn how to convert your hyperv vms to vmware vms in the detailed. Vmware vcenter converter standalone provides an easytouse solution to automate the process of creating vmware virtual machines from physical machines running windows and linux, other virtual machine formats, and.
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