How to import/export a template through NFS.

XenServer - Export a template

• 1. Login to XenServer

  2. Mount an available NFS volume. In this example, we server02:/nfs/vm_templates

     1. 1. 1. mount server02:/nfs/vm_templates /mnt

  3. Get the uuid of the template we want to copy to nfs:

     1. 1. 1. [root@xen2010 ~]# xe template-list| grep base-as name-label ( RW): Copy of CentOS5.5-base name-label ( RW): CentOS5.5-base

  4. Go to the nfs /mnt volume and start the export:

     1. 1. 1. [root@xen2010 mnt]# xe template-export filename=CentOS55.xva template-uuid=1c26d2dc-8d28-4445-bf80-f1c7d2dfd884 Export succeeded [root@xen2010 mnt]# [root@xen2010 mnt]# umount /mnt

  5. Done. You can verify the CentOS55.xva file on the nfs volume.

XenServer - import a template from nfs:

• 1. Login to the XenServer

  2. Mount an available NFS volume. In this example, we server02:/nfs/vm_templates

     1. 1. 1. mount server02:/nfs/vm_templates /mnt

  3. List the files in the /mnt directory:

     1. 1. 1. [root@xen2009 mnt]# ls -la total 6864760 drwxr-xr-x 2 woot users 27 Mar 24 12:54 . drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Mar 3 10:41 .. -rw------- 1 root root 7028463616 Mar 24 13:11 CentOS55.xva

  4. Get the sr-uuid of the local volume where we want to store the template:

     1. 1. 1. [root@xen2009 mnt]# xe sr-list uuid ( RO) : 6b0c60bc-035a-2963-67e1-928a426efed8 name-label ( RW): Local storage name-description ( RW): host ( RO): xen2009.sl-netbase.com type ( RO): lvm content-type ( RO): user

  5. Import the template:

     1. 1. 1. [root@xen2009 mnt]# xe vm-import filename=CentOS55.xva sr-uuid=6b0c60bc-035a-2963-67e1-928a426efed8 Output: 7c176fa6-e16d-394f-33f9-812c4f8c17b4

  6. Done. You can now go to the XenCenter and deploy a VM OS using this template.