HPE OneView appliance migration from Hyper-V to VMware failure

[Ash-Kazdaghli5_]

Hi Everyone,

New here and happy to start a chat looking for help.

We have a Physical HP server on Windows, with Hyper-V handling 2 servers, one that is HPE OneView appliance(say mgmt OS 6.7 on boot), and the other one is for 3PAR.

I am trying to migrate both to VMWare on ESXI, to be able to manage them with vcenter and the end goal is to decommission the physical server which is EOL.

I used StarWind free software to do the below:

1- use it to detect the Hyper-V server, and handle the conversion and also virtualize it by allowing it to access my ESXI server. It says it crashed and stopped after finishing. I can start the new VM but OneView gives me errors which is the reason why I am here

2- I used it to convert the disk only to VMDK, so I can use the latter and build a VM, the same errors.

Of course I found some issues at the start which is to change to IDE, and what I found amazing is that the NIC was able to allow the OneView page to be accessible from a browser, so now I have the same errors on both the OneView new VM locally, and also on the web interface.

OneView says cannot start, asks me for login to show details, which are as below:

SummaryPercentage of system resources being used

1. 38% of CPU used
2. 1.193600Gb of 15.561596Gb Memory Used
3. 26% of 26G Used (/)

The last 5 actions are

1. localhost,SUCCESS,DELETE,INFO,SESSION,ca92fc7a-4972-4df3-9b9d-8973e186e8ba,The session for user "appliance" with [logID:LTYyNjQyMTE1Nzk1] timed out.
2. localhost,SUCCESS,DELETE,INFO,SESSION,ca92fc7a-4972-4df3-9b9d-8973e186e8ba,The session for user "appliance" with [logID:LTYyNjQyMTE1Nzk1] timed out.
3. localhost,SUCCESS,DELETE,INFO,SESSION,ca92fc7a-4972-4df3-9b9d-8973e186e8ba,The session for user "appliance" with [logID:Njk3MTQ1MDc3Mzg4] timed out.
4. localhost,SUCCESS,DELETE,INFO,SESSION,ca92fc7a-4972-4df3-9b9d-8973e186e8ba,The session for user "appliance" with [logID:Njk3MTQ1MDc3Mzg4] timed out.
5. localhost,SUCCESS,DELETE,INFO,SESSION,ca92fc7a-4972-4df3-9b9d-8973e186e8ba,The session for user "appliance" with [logID:LTY0MTQ3NzUxMDU4] timed out.

Probable cause

Root cause can not be determined, please refer to the detail section

Error in log file content

• =ERROR REPORT==== 10-Jul-2018::09:24:04 ===
• Error on AMQP connection <0.459.0> (127.0.0.1:46450 -> 127.0.0.1:5672, state: starting):
• PLAIN login refused: user 'scmbadmin' - invalid credentials
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• =ERROR REPORT==== 10-Jul-2018::09:24:04 ===
• Error on AMQP connection <0.459.0> (127.0.0.1:46450 -> 127.0.0.1:5672, state: starting):
• PLAIN login refused: user 'scmbadmin' - invalid credentials

Any help or guidance to make this work?

I ll open another thread once I fail doing the same for 3PAR, but for now, I ll appreciate immensly any guidance to make this resolve.

Regards

Ash Kazdaghli

[support_s]

System recommended content:

1. HPE OneView 7.1 Best Practices Guide for Deployment and Management

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[Mani_Np]

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[Ash-Kazdaghli5_]

@Mani_Np 

soooo..... this is basically saying I cannot, clearly.

can anyone tell me if there is a way for me to build a new one, but use the licensing of the old one?

also, how can I find that? I have no way to dig in my internal stuff, some people left the company and they did not leave that documented anywhere.

Is there away for oneview to show me that?

[ChrisLynch]

While the Customer Advisory points out that you cannot migrate directly the appliance from one type to another, you can use the Server Migration feature to migrate from one appliance to another.  The source and destination appliances must be the same version, but can be different hypervisor VM types.  You can read more about the Server Migration feature here.  There are many settings that we can migrate, so review the documentation help topic.