Moving local vms to other data centers
Using RHEV 3.1 is it possible to migrate vms from a local defined storage to iSCSI/NFS/FC data centers managed by different hosts or vice versa?
Thank you
Marcello
Responses
Hi Marcelo,
While you can definitely request a feature, I don't think it's very feasible. Consider this - a Datacenter is a separate container of logical networks, clusters, hosts, storage and of course VMs and disks. Moving a VM between datacenters means the two datacenters must be interconnected in some way, and a single RHEV-M managing both can only mean they share a management network, which doesn't really need to be good enough for heavy storage transactions.
Dan
Absolutely, but it will have to be a pretty serious feature, we'd need to establish a storage link between different DC's hypervisors, OOB from the manager, and that's not a trivial task. RHEV's paradigm was always to try and make things simple and straightforward, making the admin set out OOB networks is kind of beyond that, so it needs to be thought out thoroughly, it's not just a "I wanna push image X to destination Y" kind of flow.
Please do file a feature request, but be aware that it's not so trivial and will definitely not happen in 3.1
As a side note, we really appreciate feature requests coming from customers who use RHEV in real world scenarios, so if you think of functionality that you really need, don;t hesitate to request it via a support ticket.
Thanks,
Dan
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