[SOLVED] ESXi New Storage Import API

[ScottA]

Saw others with a similar error in the announcement thread.
ESXi 7
Proxmox 8.1.8
Fast stable 10G local network between them.

Rounding up size to full physical extent 4.00 MiB
Logical volume "vm-100-disk-0" created.
transferred 0.0 B of 128.0 KiB (0.00%)
transferred 128.0 KiB of 128.0 KiB (100.00%)
transferred 128.0 KiB of 128.0 KiB (100.00%)
efidisk0: successfully created disk 'Prod_Data:vm-100-disk-0,size=4M'
create full clone of drive (esxi1:ha-datacenter/VM_Transfer01/vDADC02/vDADC02.vmdk)
Wiping gpt signature on /dev/Prod_Data/vm-100-disk-1.
Wiping PMBR signature on /dev/Prod_Data/vm-100-disk-1.
Logical volume "vm-100-disk-1" created.
transferred 0.0 B of 120.0 GiB (0.00%)
transferred 1.2 GiB of 120.0 GiB (1.00%)
transferred 2.4 GiB of 120.0 GiB (2.00%)
transferred 3.6 GiB of 120.0 GiB (3.00%)
transferred 4.8 GiB of 120.0 GiB (4.00%)
transferred 6.0 GiB of 120.0 GiB (5.00%)
transferred 7.2 GiB of 120.0 GiB (6.01%)
transferred 8.4 GiB of 120.0 GiB (7.01%)
transferred 9.6 GiB of 120.0 GiB (8.01%)
transferred 10.8 GiB of 120.0 GiB (9.01%)
transferred 12.0 GiB of 120.0 GiB (10.01%)
transferred 13.2 GiB of 120.0 GiB (11.01%)
transferred 14.4 GiB of 120.0 GiB (12.01%)
qemu-img: error while reading at byte 16542331392: Function not implemented
Logical volume "vm-100-disk-0" successfully removed.
Logical volume "vm-100-disk-1" successfully removed.
TASK ERROR: unable to create VM 100 - cannot import from 'esxi1:ha-datacenter/VM_Transfer01/vDADC02/vDADC02.vmdk' - copy failed: command '/usr/bin/qemu-img convert -p -n -f vmdk -O raw /run/pve/import/esxi/esxi1/mnt/ha-datacenter/VM_Transfer01/vDADC02/vDADC02.vmdk /dev/Prod_Data/vm-100-disk-1' failed: exit code 1

 

[Falk R.]

Are you doing a live migration?
Did you wait a few seconds after shutting down vSphere before starting the migration? I often see IO on the VMDK for 2-3 seconds after shutdown.

 

[ScottA]

No not a live migration.

When I initially tried it errored out without copying anything with function not implemented - unable to determine size. I realized I had a snapshot so shut the VM down and deleted the snapshot. Waited a while after snapshot deletion and then tried and this time it copied 12GB and then errored above.

Server 2022 VM and storage is thick provisioned, lazy zeroed.

 

[ScottA]

So I tried a few things today to no avail, still get the error after around 14G of data copied. Pretty sure it is hitting an ESXi rate limit but don't know how to fix.

I made sure ESXi was patched and rebooted: VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 23307199
Kept all the other VM's on other hosts and only migrated the one I wanted to import onto this host.
Made sure the VM was shut down and had been off for at least a min or two.

Out of ideas other than connect to vCenter and see if that will work albeit slowly.

 

[ScottA]

Solved. See here:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/n...sxi-based-virtual-machines.144023/post-648236