P2v linux with software raid

So software raid 5, as ill advised as that is, should have any affect on the process. It is installed with 2 x sata disks without a sata raid controller, runs windows server 2003 and uses software raid 1 mirror over the two disks which are set as dynamic. Centralized management console allows users to queue up and monitor multiple simultaneous remote, as well as local, conversions. The physical to virtual p2v feature requires a red hat enterprise linux 6.

I was able to create an image of this server, convert to vhdx and fire up a vm in hyper v, however i am getting boot errors and kernel panic now because its referencing the raid, is there a way to remove it and proceed with boot. Creating a software raid array in operating system software is the easiest way to go. In this article i will share the steps to configure software raid 5 using three disks but you can use the same method to create software raid 5 array for more than 3 disks based on your requirement. 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 raid 056 on the other hand spreads the data over each disk in the set in chunks, theres no undoing it without destroying everything. May 26, 2017 ideally with raid 1, raid 5, etc once can easily do a hot hdd swap as they support mirroring at the hardware level but to do the same on a software raid 1 becomes tricky as ideally an os shutdown is needed to avoid any application impact during the hdd swap. Lvm was not supported for boot until grub2 which has its. The p2v utility then creates a virtual machine configuration file g and creates raw virtual disk images from the disks on the computer. In order to p2v a linux server to a xenserver host, you need to reboot the machine you want to convert and boot from the xenserver installation cd. I have tried to use vmwares standalone converter but that does not work on a running server with software raid. I want move the data over to my virtualbox host 64bit ubuntu 12.

Just as easily as sbadmin can move your production system from physical to virtual p2v, the same process of adaptable system recovery asr, can be used to migrate back to physical hardware v2p or to a different virtualization technology v2v. Im not sure if the following will help you because i dont know anything about the vmware p2v converter, but here goes. Three scenarios when its worth paying for thirdparty p2v tools. Im converting a suse linux enterprise server 11 sp1 i586 to a virtual machine in esxi 4. The method weve tried is by doing a fullimage restore via our acronis cloud software, which normally works great. Nov, 2018 starwind v2v converter is a great tool intended to speed the process of hypervisor switch faster with minimum interaction of an it administrator.

The first four virtual disk images are created as ide disks hda, hdb, hdc, and hdd on the guest, using the original disk names. Convert physical linux server to vmware p2v vmware starwind. Mastering p2v convert a pcserver to a virtual machine. I am able to to a bare metal recovery to dissimilar hardware, but this takes a. The softwareraid howto linux documentation project. Physical to virtual p2v using virtualbox some people may want to run their existing system on another. The default is to try to derive a name from the physical machines hostname if possible else use a randomly generated. Sep 29, 2009 a customer has a noncritical hp server that they would like to p2v. Vmware converter is very powerful tool to provide physical to virtual conversion. Converting physical machines to virtual machines red. Rescue disk this may be necessary for the recovery of. How to remove linux software raid1 md raid onthefly so that. How to remove linux software raid1 md raid onthefly so that vmware converter works. Its quite easy to make p2v of windows base servers.

Windows 8 comes with everything you need to use software raid, while the linux package. As time passes, the software on these systems becomes outdated or even unsupported by their developers for example, windows xp and server 2003 and the servers themselves will be discontinued by their manufacturer or lack support for new hardware. Linux software raid often called mdraid or md raid makes the use of raid possible without a hardware raid controller. How to create a software raid 5 in linux mint ubuntu. Converting red hat and centos linux physical server into vmware vsphere esx servers is not an easy task as compare to ms windows. Nov 19, 2014 raid 10 is a combine of raid 0 and raid 1 to form a raid 10.

Starwind virtual san for vsphere linux software raid. Some disk partitions dont have a filesystem at all, such as those used for swap, lvm or software raid md. However, discussion group participants have noted mixed success with using disk2vhd for doing p2v on a hardware raid. Log in to your red hat account red hat customer portal. It addresses a specific version of the software raid layer, namely the 0. The best way to create a raid array on linux is to use the mdadm tool. I only have dozens of linux servers and have yet to attempt a linux p2v until now. Adding an old software raid array to a software raid installation boot problems. Id like to image my software raid5 configuration 3 drives, then move it to a new set of hard drives.

We cover how to start, stop, or remove raid arrays, how to find information about both the raid device and the underlying storage components, and how to adjust the. To use the p2v utility, you boot from the oracle vm server iso on the physical computer you want to convert to a hardware virtualized guest. Breaking a linux software raid 1 for import using vmware. You can run the p2v utility interactively or as an automated process using a kickstart configuration file. P2v on nas convert a pcserver to a virtual machine qnap. Over the last four days, ive been exploring how to convert physical linux boxes into virtual machines. Ubuntu server p2v that is running software raid5 server fault. How to convert a physical server to a citrix xen virtual. By default, converter standalone has a 20 minute timeout when waiting for the helper virtual machine to start up during linux p2v conversion this might cause a linux p2v conversion task to fail due to connection timeout. I have a physical linux server with two sata drives using software raid. A customer has a noncritical hp server that they would like to p2v. 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.

Create an image of each device using clonezilla on an external hdd from devsda to sda. It is tricky verifying as the machine is remote, and the users dont have a clue. I was looking at possibly using clonezilla and it doesnt support software raid in linux either. How to make a physical linux box into a virtual machine. A running p2v conversion job fails if you create a new conversion job for the. It is even harder is you have older version of red hat such as 7. How to set up software raid 0 for windows and linux pc gamer. P2v conversion fail of a win2k8 r2 server with a software. The sas 6ir is not a true hardware raid controller. Ideally with raid 1, raid 5, etc once can easily do a hot hdd swap as they support mirroring at the hardware level but to do the same on a software raid 1 becomes tricky as ideally an os shutdown is needed to avoid any application impact during the hdd swap. P2v dell raid 5 servers to hyper v solutions experts.

P2v fedora linux box with a software raid disk vmware. With this program, users can create a software raid array in a matter of minutes. P2v fedora linux box with a software raid disk rcrcrc apr 11, 2012 10. Centos semimanual p2v vmware esxi software raid to non software raid, boots to kernel panic.

In addition, with p2v functionality added, it is much easier to virtualize your physical environment. How to set up a software raid on linux addictivetips. P2v dell raid 5 servers to hyper v solutions experts exchange. I agree with your statement in regards to the perc controllers. Three scenarios when its worth paying for thirdparty p2v. Unified extensible firmware interface uefi raid configuration utility.

Auch schwierige konfigurationen wie softwareraid, lvmsysteme. This is only even plausible because it is in a mirror raid 1 so in theory the partitions should be fine after the operation and the filesystem will still know where the data is. I have a physical production webserver running ubuntu 10. P2v migration fails for system which uses software raid. Disk2vhd for doing p2v peter asked what is the best way to go virtual physical to virtualp2v with a raid 1 hard drive array. If you really want it really gone, you have to destroy the md super block, so mdadm will no longer be able recognize it as a array member. There is note in virtv2v guide saying red hat enterprise linux 4 and red hat enterprise linux 5 physical machines with their filesystem root on a software raid md device cannot be converted to virtual machines. This physical server had a dell perc raid controller with two raid 1 volumes.

Discussion in servers started by seedubya, jun 2, 2016. I have written another article with comparison and difference between various raid types using figures including pros and cons of individual raid types so that you can make an informed decision before choosing a raid type for your system. First, many windows disk imaging p2v physical to virtual programs i came across simply would not work on windows server 2003 or required insane licensing fees. I have used disk2vhd, easeus p2v, paragon server backup p2v, so i think it is something with raid drivers but i am not sure. It is used to improve disk io performance and reliability of your server or workstation. Secondly, fabian was using a perc raid card, which complicated the issue greatly because most virtual machine software runs off either ide or sata, with limited support for scsi or. A raid can be deployed using both software and hardware. For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. Resolving linux boot issues after p2v with vmware converter. It also supports conversion of thirdparty virtual machines like hyperv and kvm.

Now in this article i will show you steps to addremove partitions from your raid partition. Vmware has a tool for doing p2v conversions, as theyre called, but as far as i can tell it only works for windows physical machines and for converting various flavors of virtual machines into others ive had a linux machine that ive used in my cs462 large distributed systems class for. Extend the timeout period in seconds by modifying the linuxp2vboottimeout flag in the converterworker. This physical server had a dell perc raid controller with two raid1 volumes. Converter is a pretty well made tool for being free. 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. The last versions of vmware converter claim to support p2v of linux based servers. My question is does mounting the old disks as a raw disk mess with linux software raid5 or lvm2.

Its fakeraid, essentially propriatery software raid. Here we will use both raid 0 and raid 1 to perform a raid 10 setup with minimum of 4 drives. We just need to remember that the smallest of the hdds or partitions dictates the arrays capacity. P2v conversion fail of a win2k8 r2 server with a software raid. Virt p2v is comprised of both virt p2v server, included in the virtv2v package, and the p2v client, available from the red hat customer portal as rhel6. I have written another article with comparison and difference between various raid types using figures including pros and cons of. On top of this, the mirrored disks are split into two logical partitions, c. Starwind v2v converter newest update starwind blog. But the real question is whether you should use a hardware raid solution or a software raid solution. Aug 16, 2016 how to manage raid arrays with mdadm on ubuntu 16.

Unfortunately, this software doesnt come with most distributions by default. How to remove sw raid for vmware converter to work david hrbac. Software raid 5 always missing 1 disk after reboot. The only purpose for this raid volume was media storage. On the old system, i had a raid volume set up to hold all my media for my network, tv shows, movies, software, etc. How to resize software raid partition in linux golinuxhub. To setup raid 10, we need at least 4 number of disks. Lvm was not supported for boot until grub2 which has its own issues.

How to virtualize red hat and centos linux physical server. A redundant array of inexpensive disks raid allows high levels of storage reliability. By default, converter standalone has a 20 minute timeout when waiting for the helper virtual machine to start up during linux p2v conversion. I am able to to a bare metal recovery to dissimilar hardware, but this takes a very long time. This howto describes how to use software raid under linux.

This is the raid layer that is the standard in linux 2. In our earlier articles, weve seen how to setup a raid 0 and raid 1 with minimum 2 number of disks. Each major hypervisor provides the p2v tools you need to take a beige box running your favorite version of windows or linux and add it to the many virtual workloads running in your virtualization cluster. No clear answer, every p2v software has its own strengths and weaknesses. Others may want to test an existing environment with specific apps or even updates. Io controller intel c621 c620 series chipset ptr prepare to remove for nvme non raid drives. When you see the welcome to xenserver screen, select ok and the installer will do some hardware detection, etc. While configuring raid it is always advised to add a spare partition to your raid device so that in case of any hard disk failure the spare partition can be utilized. Once im sure the restore process is working correctly i think i should set the bios to uefi, reconfig the raid as 5x1tb raid 5 with spare or even 4x1 with 2 spare. How to perform disk replacement software raid 1 in linux.

This guide was created as an overview of the linux operating system, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter. 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. Since clonezilla doesnt support software raid, i was hoping to do the following. Apr 28, 2017 how to create a software raid 5 on linux. Solved how to convert linux box with software raid5 to. We can use full disks, or we can use same sized partitions on different sized drives. Mdadm is a commandline utility that allows for quick and easy manipulation of raid devices. Human interface infrastructure hii supported highlevel specifications. Support some hardware raid chips by kernel smart copying for supported filesystem.