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
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.
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.
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 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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