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Anything larger than 300GiB may cause delay or even fail due to the overhead to the environment. In this case, we recommend following the process described below:
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If you have an OVA, you’d need to unzip/untar.
For nix users:
Code Block tar -xvf vm-1.ova
For windows users:
Update the extension from
ova
tozip
.Extract the contents and you will have an
ovf
file andvmdk
file(s).
Upload the VMDK files via either the
vss-cli
or https://vskey-stor.eis.utoronto.caCode Block # with the vss-cli vss-cli stor ul vm-disk-1.vmdk Upload vm-disk-1.vmdk to /vm-disk-1.vmdk in progress ⏫ Upload complete to vm-disk-1.vmdk, etag=e1a011438b19a919cea1bb5b632bfe7f-110, version-id=None ✅ # with scp and your vss credentials scp vm-disk-1.vmdk {username}@vskey-stor.eis.utoronto.ca:/ut-vss
Publish (sync) the
vmdk
files to the ITS Private Cloud either via the Portal or thevss-cli
:Follow steps listed
Run the following command:
Code Block vss-cli compute vmdk personal sync id : 66 status : SUBMITTED task_id : c8ac46c3-47b7-4c1b-9ed4-5069260f3242 message : Request has been accepted for processing
List available files:
Code Block id path name ---- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- 134 [vss-Users] vskey/josem/storage/ut-vss/vm-disk-1.vmdk vm-disk-1.vmdk
Deploy a shell (empty) vm:
Code Block vss-cli compute vm mk shell --folder group-v0000 \ --memory 4 --disk 1 --os windows9Server64Guest \ --net dvportgroup-1111 --description 'Super large server' \ --cpu 2 --client Client vm-imported
Delete the empty
1GiB
disk:Code Block vss-cli compute vm set vm-12345 disk rm 1
Create a new disk backed by the OVF
vmdk
aka, import disk from vskey-stor:Code Block vss-cli compute vm set vm-369270 disk mk \ --disk '{"capacity_gb": 800, "backing_mode": "persistent", "backing_vmdk":134}'
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