This is the raid layer that is the standard in linux 2. Note that no other raid options such as entering a mount point are available until raid partitions, as well as raid devices, are created. If necessary, create four 0xfd linux raid partitions of equal size using a disk partitioner such as parted. I was looking at possibly using clonezilla and it doesnt support software raid in linux either. Converter is a pretty well made tool for being free. This allows linux to use various firmware or driverbased raid volumes, also known as fake raid.
The p2v utility is included on the oracle vm server iso image. Raid 10 is secure because mirroring duplicates all your data. I am able to to a bare metal recovery to dissimilar hardware, but this takes a very long time. When you see dev sda failing, just recreate the boot loader configuration after replacing it. You cant get the hba to see you existing data since the ondisk format is different, and even if you could magically do that, then youd be presenting a file system that esxi doesnt support. Aug 16, 2016 how to manage raid arrays with mdadm on ubuntu 16. In addition, with p2v functionality added, it is much easier to virtualize your physical environment. Log in to your red hat account red hat customer portal. Vmware converter is very powerful tool to provide physical to virtual conversion. 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. Configure hybrid software raid 10 in linux this level uses raid 0 and raid 1 for providing redundancy. Simply import the mergeide registry hack and power off, use dd and other tools to dump the fulldisk and youre done.
Apr 28, 2017 how to create a software raid 5 on linux. Raid stands for r edundant a rray of i nexpensive d isks. This vm is now an exact copy of the physical linux computer. Raid 0 was introduced by keeping only performance in mind. I discovered that vmware converter was not an option as the last release of converter for linux is quite old and simply does not work with ubuntu 10. Raid 10 is a combine of raid 0 and raid 1 to form a raid 10.
So software raid 5, as ill advised as that is, should have any affect on the process. Human interface infrastructure hii supported highlevel specifications. Physical to virtual p2v using virtualbox some people may want to run their existing system on another. My question is does mounting the old disks as a raw disk mess with linux software raid5 or lvm2. You can find more information about software raid in the oracle linux documentation at. I will explain this in more detail in the upcoming chapters. On linux, raid disks do not follow the usual devsdx naming, but will be represented as md multidisk files, such as md0, md1, md2, stc an important file you need to remember is procmdstat, which will provide information about any raid setups on your system. You have successfully done a p2v physical to virtual conversion of your linux system. Configure raid on loop devices and lvm over top of raid.
Windows 10 has made it simple to set up raid by building on the good work of windows 8 and storage spaces, a software application built into windows that takes care of configuring raid drives for you. In our earlier articles, weve seen how to setup a raid 0 and raid 1 with minimum 2 number of disks. There is no boot directory mounted on the source machine. As the name already tells disk2vhd is a tool to create a virtual hard disk vhd file of an existing windows. I have hdds and will configure raid10 according to our recommendations. I only have dozens of linux servers and have yet to attempt a linux p2v until now. The way that p2v work is that they read the data out from inside of the os, not by taking it offline and imaging that way. P2v dell raid 5 servers to hyper v solutions experts exchange. Feb 10, 2012 while vmware converter 5 does a good job livecloning the existing linux servers, sometimes you have to use the cold clone boot cd if the physical server uses software raid and then boot vm from the broken mirror side, or sometimes the resulting vm does not boot because of issues with bootloader. We can use full disks, or we can use same sized partitions on different sized drives. Is it talking about root the linux user, root the vmware user, or root the filesystem. So i was disappointed that ubuntu didnt have it as a option for my new file server. Unified extensible firmware interface uefi raid configuration utility.
Acronis says it is booting linux when it comes up so i believe it is possible to do with a linux live disk. I have used acronis 10 enterprise to successfully clonerestore a raid1 windows 7 volume from our machines supermicro with ich10 raid controller. The only purpose for this raid volume was media storage. The sas 6ir is not a true hardware raid controller. How to convert a physical server to a citrix xen virtual.
On top of this, the mirrored disks are split into two logical partitions, c. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with. Disk mirroring is a great way to gain some insurance against a single disk failure bringing down a critical system, as everything. There may be many reasons to move an existing environment from one machine to another, or even the same, under virtualbox.
Source volumes that reside on linux software raid configurations. P2v fedora linux box with a software raid disk vmware. It enables your system to continue running in the event of a disk failure. The ubuntu live cd installer doesnt support software raid, and the server and alternate cds only allow you to do raid levels 0, 1, and 5.
Administrators have great flexibility in coordinating their individual storage devices and creating logical storage devices that have greater performance or redundancy characteristics. P2v migration converting rhel5centos5 physical server. Introduction to the p2v utility converting hosts in interactive mode. How to set up raid 10 in windows 8 and linux pc gamer. Download disk2vhd 879 kb run now from sysinternals live introduction. Jan 23, 2019 disk2vhd is a practical free tool by sysinternals, since 2006 a subsidiary of microsoft corporation. 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. Its fakeraid, essentially propriatery software raid. If you want to have the lvm structure recreated, select the apply raid lvm option. 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. 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.
Once booted from acronis bootable media, restore the backup archive of your linux operating system to the virtual machine. 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. Sysinternals is well known of their wide range of free tools to manage, troubleshoot and diagnose windows systems and applications. Several discussion group participants recommend doing the following workaround for doing p2v for a raid array. Starwind p2v migrator free starwind deduplication analyzer free starwind tape.
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. Starwind virtual san for vsphere linux software raid configuration. How to set up software raid 1 on an existing linux distribution. A customer has a noncritical hp server that they would like to p2v. When you see the welcome to xenserver screen, select ok and the installer will do some hardware detection, etc. Besides its own formats for raid volumes metadata, linux software raid also supports external metadata formats, since version 2. 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. How to remove sw raid for vmware converter to work david hrbac.
Esxi itself doesnt support any software raid implementation in any way, shape or form. Resolving linux boot issues after p2v with vmware converter. 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. Vmware converter standalone can convert offline virtual machines from the. Dd is common unix linux command that is commonly used for capturing disk images to a file. In this post we will be going through the steps to configure software raid level 0 on linux. Ldap linux mdadm multidomain openldap p2v puppet raid sap. I have used disk2vhd, easeus p2v, paragon server backup p2v, so i think it is something with raid drivers but i am not sure.
Adding an old software raid array to a software raid installation boot problems. I mentioned to my buddy alexander lash my partner in crime at teched 2008 where we presented a great session on hyperv scripting all the challenges of linux p2v migrations, and he mentioned an easy way to do it using dd and vhdtool. As for converter supporting software raid, that is a very complex problem that not a lot of conversion tools dont support. P2v migration converting rhel5centos5 physical server into hyperv vm published on 20170420 author admin as there is no direct vm conversion tool from physical linux server to hyperv vm, to perform p2v migration of rhel5centos5 physical server into microsoft hyperv virtual machine you should use vmware platform as an intermediate point. The mdadm utility can be used to create and manage storage arrays using linux s software raid capabilities. To setup raid 10, we need at least 4 number of disks. So after some research and a few attempts i managed to successfully. The softwareraid howto linux documentation project. If you need hardwarelevel protection for your data and faster storage performance, raid 10 is a simple, relatively inexpensive fix.
Other than that, no, its not possible to do what you want. Once the node is up make sure your software raid 0 array is mounted on your mount point i. This howto describes how to use software raid under linux. Others may want to test an existing environment with specific apps or even updates. Now reboot in systemrescuecd and your virtual machine should now boot into the same linux setup that is on your physical machine. Device boot start end blocks id system devsda1 1 32 256000 fd linux raid autodetect partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
I tried a cold p2v with the converter cd but got a bsod instead my physical box is too new for that cd. Migrating windows physical to virtual on linux kvm for most windows systems, since windows 2000 the migration from physical to virtual is a snap. Personally, i would install the os first, then setup software raid for data partitions, but thats just my preference. Has any progress been made in seeing ich10 raid with clonezilla.
Breaking a linux software raid 1 for import using vmware. Use the rescue media cd of acronis true image 10 or acronis true image 11 to convert the raid array to a single. Extend the timeout period in seconds by modifying the linuxp2vboottimeout flag in the converterworker. Raid allows you to turn multiple physical hard drives into a single logical hard drive. Converting backup archive of a linux system to a virtual. 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. Linux has supported the idea of software raid, particularly raid 1 or disk mirroring for a long time. Mar 26, 2020 in this tutorial, well be talking about raid, specifically we will set up software raid 1 on a running linux distribution. May, 2010 i mentioned to my buddy alexander lash my partner in crime at teched 2008 where we presented a great session on hyperv scripting all the challenges of linux p2v migrations, and he mentioned an easy way to do it using dd and vhdtool. Starwind v2v converter newest update starwind blog. Choose create a software raid partition to create a raid partition as shown in figure 10.
Creating software raid 10 devices storage administration guide. Lastly i hope the steps from the article to configure software raid 0 array on linux was helpful. Combining these two storage levels makes raid 10 fast and resilient at the same time. Im not sure if the following will help you because i dont know anything about the vmware p2v converter, but here goes. This physical server had a dell perc raid controller with two raid1 volumes. Boot the virtual machine from an iso containing acronis bootable rescue media. Here we will use both raid 0 and raid 1 to perform a raid 10 setup with minimum of 4 drives.
I agree with your statement in regards to the perc controllers. On the old system, i had a raid volume set up to hold all my media for my network, tv shows, movies, software, etc. You can use software raid devices for storage repositories or virtual disks. To start of you need to know the prerequisites of raid 1 i. It addresses a specific version of the software raid layer, namely the 0. Io controller intel c621 c620 series chipset ptr prepare to remove for nvme non raid drives. New converting windows 10 or windows server 2016 source machine with. There are many raid levels such as raid 0, raid 1, raid 5, raid 10 etc. Step by step guide to configurecreate software raid 1. P2v fedora linux box with a software raid disk rcrcrc apr 11, 2012 10. 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.
How to create a software raid 5 in linux mint ubuntu. Hyperv create and use vhd of windows 10 with disk2vhd. Disk2vhd is a utility that creates vhd virtual hard disk microsofts virtual machine disk format versions of physical disks for use in microsoft virtual pc or microsoft hyperv. 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. Notes from an investigation and repair of a degraded disk involving software raid on linux md. It also supports conversion of thirdparty virtual machines like hyperv and kvm. I want move the data over to my virtualbox host 64bit ubuntu 12. Any other thoughts on what might be going wrong here. Raid 10 is the fastest raid level that also has good redundancy too. Centralized management console allows users to queue up and monitor multiple simultaneous remote, as well as local, conversions. P2v migration converting rhel5centos5 physical server into.
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. Create two software raid 1 devices, using two different. Lvm was not supported for boot until grub2 which has its own issues. By default, converter standalone has a 20 minute timeout when waiting for the helper virtual machine to start up during linux p2v conversion. 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. Virtualizing a linux system creating a linux vm p2v. Raid 10 is an example of nested raid, where two or more arrays are integrated into another raid that is then visible to the system. Solved how to convert linux box with software raid5 to.
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