[pve-devel] Storage migration: online design solution

[Michael Rasmussen]

Hi all,

Doing online storage migration will involve the following phases:
Phase 1) Create remote block device
Phase 2) Connect this block device to NBD (nbd_server_add [-w] device)
Phase 3) Start nbd_server (nbd_server_start [-a] [-w] host:port)
Phase 4) "drive-mirror", "arguments": {"device": "ide-hd0",
                                       "target": "nbd:host:port",
                                       "sync": "full",
                                       "format": "(qcow2|raw)" }
Phase 5) "drive-reopen", "data": {"device": "ide-hd0",
                                  "new-image-file": "new block device",
                                  "format": "(qcow2|raw)"}
Phase 6) Stop nbd_server (nbd_server_stop)
Phase 7) Remove old block device

Have I missed something?

PS. I am struggling with this '"device": "ide-hd0"'. What is the
correct way of specifying a block device in proxmox given the following
configuration: virtio2: pve-storage1_lvm:vm-102-disk-1,size=2G

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