VM Migration Tool

Introduction

VM Migration Tool is a stand alone utility provided by Trilio for effective migration of VMs from VMWare to OpenStack. This will assist users in planning the migration, creating any missing artifacts, and providing a holistic view of the migration process at an organizational level.

Current document provides the steps to be followed for deploying respective tool.

1] Pre-requisites

A Linux VM (CentOS OR Ubuntu will do) with docker installed on it.

2] Prepare working dir and contents

2.1] Clone public repository triliovault-cfg-scripts on the standalone VM (at any convenient location) created for deploying the VM Migration tool.

git clone -b {{ trilio_branch }} https://github.com/trilioData/triliovault-cfg-scripts.git

For actual value {{ trilio_branch }}, please refer resources page against respective release.

2.2] On the VM, copy nginx, env, docker-compose.yml & vmosmapping.conf from triliovault-cfg-scripts to /opt directory.

cp -r triliovault-cfg-scripts/migration-vm2os/nginx /opt
cp triliovault-cfg-scripts/migration-vm2os/env /opt
cp triliovault-cfg-scripts/migration-vm2os/docker-compose.yml /opt
cp triliovault-cfg-scripts/migration-vm2os/vmosmapping.conf /opt

2.3] Set values against params in /opt/env file.

Parameter
Description
Sample/Default Value

TRILIO_IMAGE_TAG

Tag of the image as provided by Trilio. Refer resources page against respective release.

trilio/trilio-migration-vm2os:5.2.4

NGINX_PORT

Port on which nginx should run. Please ensure that the port is free.

Default : 5085

REDIS_PORT

Port on which redis should run. Please ensure that the port is free.

Default : 6379

2.4] Set values against params in /opt/vmosmapping.conf file.

Parameter
Description

host

vCenter host address from where VMs have to be migration into OpenStack.

admin

Admin user login name for vCenter

password

Admin user password for vCenter

ssl_verify

To be set to True or False as needed

keystone_url

Keystoner URL of the OpenStack where VMs from vCenter have to be migrated

admin_user

Admin user login name for OpenStack

admin_password

Admin user password for OpenStack

admin_project

Project/Tenant of OpenStack

admin_domain

Domain of OpenStack

region_name

Region of OpenStack

ssl_verify

To be set to True or False as needed

hypervisor

To be set as "RHEL 9"

username

OpenStack user which is having same role as the user (having trustee role) mentioned in wlm.conf file. This will be used to log into VM Migration Tool Dashboard.

email

Email of the VM Migration Tol user

password

password for logging into VM Migration Tool Dashboard

3] Deploy VM Migration Tool

3.1] To deploy the VM Migration Tool on standalone VM, please execute below command in background mode.

docker compose -f /opt/docker-compose.yml --env-file /opt/env up &

3.2] Deployment checks

  • Run docker ps -a ; 4 containers should be running, viz redis, nginx, trilio_vm2os & opt-worker-1.

  • Sample output below (Forwarded port number can be different as per the value provided in /opt/env file)

CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                              COMMAND                  CREATED         STATUS         PORTS                                               NAMES
1ed651c084d4   nginx:latest                                       "/docker-entrypoint.…"   5 seconds ago   Up 3 seconds   80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:5085->5085/tcp, :::5085->5085/tcp   nginx
8ff9f81b9913   trilio/trilio-migration-vm2os:5.2.3-dev-maint3-3   "gunicorn --config g…"   5 seconds ago   Up 4 seconds                                                       trilio_vm2os
1f91f14ad011   trilio/trilio-migration-vm2os:5.2.3-dev-maint3-3   "celery -A run.celer…"   5 seconds ago   Up 4 seconds                                                       opt-worker-1
0bb5574ad56b   redis:latest                                       "docker-entrypoint.s…"   5 seconds ago   Up 4 seconds   0.0.0.0:6379->6379/tcp, :::6379->6379/tcp           redis

4] Access Tool Dashboard

Respective Migration tool can be accessed with URL : <VM_IP>:<NGINX_PORT> Example

http://192.168.6.25:5085/

For logging into dashboard, use the credentials provided under [user] section in /opt/vmosmapping.conf file

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