Migration failure from esxi Datastore to New Proxmox Cluster

santicn4n

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Hello,

I am having an issue with the live migration option in Proxmox.

I am getting ready to migrate off of ESXi 8 and move over to Proxmox. We are currently in the testing phase and have a few test VMs in the ESXi environment and a lab PVE cluster setup to emulate what we want our production PVE cluster to look like.

Below are the logs when attempting to do a live migration (with the source VM in ESXi powered off).

From the Task in the GUI

Code:
scsi0: successfully created disk 'cpec25mm1:vm-103-disk-1,size=20G'

kvm: -blockdev {"detect-zeroes":"on","discard":"ignore","driver":"throttle","file":{"auto-remove":true,"backing":{"detect-zeroes":"on","discard":"ignore","driver":"throttle","file":{"cache":{"direct":true,"no-flush":false},"detect-zeroes":"on","discard":"ignore","driver":"vmdk","file":{"aio":"io_uring","cache":{"direct":true,"no-flush":false},"detect-zeroes":"on","discard":"ignore","driver":"file","filename":"/run/pve/import/esxi/vmware2/mnt/ha-datacenter/MEISAN02/NTP/NTP.vmdk","node-name":"e8090f24385f70792b1098cb4ea28ed","read-only":false},"node-name":"f8090f24385f70792b1098cb4ea28ed","read-only":false},"node-name":"drive-scsi0","read-only":false,"throttle-group":"throttle-drive-scsi0"},"driver":"alloc-track","file":{"cache":{"direct":true,"no-flush":false},"detect-zeroes":"on","discard":"ignore","driver":"raw","file":{"cache":{"direct":true,"no-flush":false},"conf":"/etc/pve/ceph.conf","detect-zeroes":"on","discard":"ignore","driver":"rbd","image":"vm-103-disk-1","node-name":"e970c9c0ba05df37b74e902a498f57f","pool":"cpec25mm1-metadata","read-only":false,"user":"admin"},"node-name":"f970c9c0ba05df37b74e902a498f57f","read-only":false},"node-name":"a970c9c0ba05df37b74e902a498f57f"},"node-name":"drive-scsi0","read-only":false,"throttle-group":"throttle-drive-scsi0"}: Duplicate nodes with node-name='drive-scsi0'

An error occurred during live-restore: start failed: QEMU exited with code 1



TASK ERROR: live-restore failed

Output from journalctl

Code:
Aug 14 13:24:34 pve25mm3 pvedaemon[3085559]: <root@pam> end task UPID:pve25mm3:002F285F:030BA19F:689E1BD0:qmcreate:103:root@pam: live-restore failed

Aug 14 13:24:34 pve25mm3 pvedaemon[3090527]: live-restore failed

Aug 14 13:24:34 pve25mm3 pvedaemon[3090527]: An error occurred during live-restore: start failed: QEMU exited with code 1

Aug 14 13:24:34 pve25mm3 systemd[1]: 103.scope: Deactivated successfully.

Aug 14 13:24:32 pve25mm3 systemd[1]: Started 103.scope.

Aug 14 13:24:32 pve25mm3 pvedaemon[3085559]: <root@pam> starting task UPID:pve25mm3:002F285F:030BA19F:689E1BD0:qmcreate:103:root@pam:

Can someone help by pointing me to more verbose logs? I am having issues trying to find more information on the <Duplicate nodes with node-name='drive-scsi0'> part.

For reference - non live migration tasks work successfully.

Environment:

PVE- 9.0.5
Kernel- Linux 6.14.8-2-pve
Ceph- 19.2.3

Any help i appreciated.
 
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