SOLVED Move Ubuntu VM to SSD Volume

[Patrik Hansson]

Hi
Just installed a ssd mirror for my VMs and would like to move my existing Ubuntu VM to it.
Searching i'm only finding steps for jails, but not VMs.

Anyone done this ? Using Freenas 11.0-U2.

 

[Stux]

Since it'll be a zvol. You'll need to replicate the zvol

 

[Ericloewe]

The process should really be analogous, except that instead of pointing the GUI to a new Jails dataset, you point it to the new zvol.

 

[Patrik Hansson]

Edit: sure i can, my bad


But if i move the zvol, how do i tell the VM where the data disk is ? Can't edit the ZVol path from what i can see.
Remove / add disk ?

 

[Patrik Hansson]

Using this: https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...to-move-my-plugin-jail-to-another-pool.32906/
What does this do?
zfs get -rH -o name -s received mountpoint ssd_pool/jails | xargs -I {} sh -c "zfs set mountpoint=/{} {}; zfs mount {};"

 

[Patrik Hansson]

Ok, so i did this for solution:

1. Turn off VM
2. zfs snapshot -r main_pool/VMName@relocate
3. zfs send -R main_pool/VMName@relocate | zfs receive -v ssd_pool/VMName
4. Change disk ZVol for the VM.
5. Start the VM.