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victorstanescu
Level 3
8 years ago

Migrating back from Vcloud Director

Hello,

I am testing the VRP platform. The scenario is:

- main site: VMware Vcenter

- standby site: Vcloud Director

The migration from Vcenter to VCD works fine. After the migration, the VRP data movers are connected/consistent/active with lag 0. Unfortunately I cannot migrate back because there is an error "Host is not added to the IMS on the recovery data center.". And indeed, the host remains on the source data mover, where it is shown as disconnected (it is not moved by the Migrate action to the standby data mover).

I am completely stuck and out of ideas. Am I doing something wrong?

  • holzi's avatar
    holzi
    Level 3
    8 years ago

    Hi,

    is this a Linux VM?

    check 

    /var/opt/VRTSsfmh/logs/

    and there look through 

    dr_sites.log

    My guess is either the VM can't reacht the IMS in Vcloud. or the IMS in the vCloud can't reach the Vm.

    either routing or dns? Did you change the network? Did you update your dns then?

     

     

    • victorstanescu's avatar
      victorstanescu
      Level 3
      8 years ago

      In my test lab networking is very simple. All hosts (Resiliency manager, IMS on main, IMS on standby, Data mover on main, data mover on standby and even the migrated VM (the "host" as it is called in data mover terminology) are in the same LAN.

      Yes, it is a Linux VM. The indicated log contains something pretty strange:

      2017-10-26 16:41:17 [debug] 3527 local_ims_attach: Executing command [/opt/VRTSsfmh/bin/xprtlc -l https://ims.lab.gts.ro:5634/world/getvitals]
      2017-10-26 16:41:17 [debug] 3527 local_ims_attach: Command output [{
      "XPRTLD_VERSION" :  "7.0.125.0",
      "LOCAL_NAME" : "ims.lab.gts.ro",
      "LOCAL_ADDR" : "193.226.171.251",
      "PEER_NAME" : "ave-01.lab.gts.ro",
      "PEER_ADDR" : "193.226.171.242",
      "LOCAL_TIME" : "1509023403",
      "LOCALE" : "en_US.UTF-8",
      "DOMAIN_MODE" : "TRUE",
      "QUIESCE_MODE" : "RUNNING",
      "OSNAME" : "Linux",
      "OSRELEASE" : "2.6.32-642.15.1.el6.x86_64",
      "CPUTYPE" : "x86_64",
      "OSUUID" : "{00010050-5601-000b-0000-000000000000}",
      "DOMAINS" : {
          "sfm://ims.lab.gts.ro:5634/" : {
              "admin_url" : "vxss://ims.lab.gts.ro:14545/sfm_admin/sfm_domain/vx",
              "primary_broker" : "vxss://ims.lab.gts.ro:14545/sfm_agent/sfm_domain/vx"
              }
          }
      }
      ]
      2017-10-26 16:41:17 [debug] 3527 local_ims_attach: IMS [ims.lab.gts.ro] is reachable from host.
      2017-10-26 16:41:17 [debug] 3527 local_ims_attach: Network is up
      2017-10-26 16:41:17 [debug] 3527 local_ims_attach: Hostname to use in reverse getvitals = ave-01
      2017-10-26 16:41:17 [debug] 3527 local_ims_attach: Executing command [/opt/VRTSsfmh/bin/xprtlc -u nobody -l https://ims.lab.gts.ro/https://ave-01:5634/world/getvitals]
      2017-10-26 16:41:17 [debug] 3527 local_ims_attach: Command output [HTTP/1.1 500 Error in proxy

      500 Error in proxy]
      2017-10-26 16:41:17 [debug] 3527 local_ims_attach: not reachable by hostname: ave-01
      2017-10-26 16:41:17 [debug] 3527 local_ims_attach: this system's IPs: 193.226.171.242/28
      2017-10-26 16:41:17 [debug] 3527 local_ims_attach: Trying reverse getvitals by hostname= ave-01
      2017-10-26 16:41:17 [debug] 3527 local_ims_attach: Executing command: /opt/VRTSsfmh/bin/xprtlc -u nobody -l https://ims.lab.gts.ro/https://ave-01.lab.gts.ro:5634/world/getvitals
      2017-10-26 16:41:17 [debug] 3527 local_ims_attach: Command output: HTTP/1.1 500 Error in proxy

      500 Error in proxy
      2017-10-26 16:41:17 [error] 3527 local_ims_attach: Cannot contact host from Central server [ims.lab.gts.ro]
      2017-10-26 16:41:17 [debug] 3527 local_ims_attach: Modifying script execution retry time to one min. Exiting.
      2017-10-26 16:42:19 [debug] 3516 local_ims_attach: Start local IMS attachment
      2017-10-26 16:42:19 [debug] 3516 local_ims_attach: exec_cmd: executing [/usr/sbin/dmidecode -s system-product-name]
      2017-10-26 16:42:19 [debug] 3516 local_ims_attach: exec_cmd: exit code [0]
      2017-10-26 16:42:19 [debug] 3516 local_ims_attach: exec_cmd: output [VMware Virtual Platform

      The hostname should be ave-01.lab.gts.ro and it resolves in all directions.