[graylog2] hyper-v virtual appliance

[Gabor.Technology]

Hi guys,

Few questions please:

1. With version 1.1.2 out, what is the recommended way to run Graylog in
production under Hyper-V? Convert Workstation image to vhdx? Chef / Puppet
/ Ansible?
2. What is the best way to upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1.2 or is it just better
to create new VMs by using converted virtual appliances? Can data from
existing elastic cluster be imported?

Cheers,
Gabor

[David Gerdeman]

I've been running the virtual appliance in hyper-v for a while now. Use
some extraction program to open the OVA file. Take the vmdk file out and
use virtualbox or some other application to convert it to a VHD. You can
either use that VHD directly with Hyper-V or you can use Hyper-V to convert
it again to a VHDX file and use that. Either way works great.

I don't know about your other question. I would like to know how to upgrade
the virtual appliances as well.

Post by Gabor.Technology
Hi guys,
1. With version 1.1.2 out, what is the recommended way to run Graylog in
production under Hyper-V? Convert Workstation image to vhdx? Chef / Puppet
/ Ansible?
2. What is the best way to upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1.2 or is it just better
to create new VMs by using converted virtual appliances? Can data from
existing elastic cluster be imported?
Cheers,
Gabor

[Marius Sturm]

You can follow these instructions in order to perfom an update on the
appliance:
https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-images/tree/master/ova#upgrade-graylog

Hyper-V images produce some costs on our side because we dont have Windows
build servers at the moment. You can add that request to the ideas portal,
if there is a significant amount of people voting for it we can provide it
natively: https://www.graylog.org/product-ideas/

Post by David Gerdeman
I've been running the virtual appliance in hyper-v for a while now. Use
some extraction program to open the OVA file. Take the vmdk file out and
use virtualbox or some other application to convert it to a VHD. You can
either use that VHD directly with Hyper-V or you can use Hyper-V to convert
it again to a VHDX file and use that. Either way works great.
I don't know about your other question. I would like to know how to
upgrade the virtual appliances as well.

Post by Gabor.Technology
Hi guys,
1. With version 1.1.2 out, what is the recommended way to run Graylog in
production under Hyper-V? Convert Workstation image to vhdx? Chef / Puppet
/ Ansible?
2. What is the best way to upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1.2 or is it just better
to create new VMs by using converted virtual appliances? Can data from
existing elastic cluster be imported?
Cheers,
Gabor
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[Gabor.Technology]

Thanks guys for the tips. I have submitted a request to the ideas portal.

Post by Marius Sturm
You can follow these instructions in order to perfom an update on the
https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-images/tree/master/ova#upgrade-graylog
Hyper-V images produce some costs on our side because we dont have Windows
build servers at the moment. You can add that request to the ideas portal,
if there is a significant amount of people voting for it we can provide it
natively: https://www.graylog.org/product-ideas/

Post by David Gerdeman
I've been running the virtual appliance in hyper-v for a while now. Use
some extraction program to open the OVA file. Take the vmdk file out and
use virtualbox or some other application to convert it to a VHD. You can
either use that VHD directly with Hyper-V or you can use Hyper-V to convert
it again to a VHDX file and use that. Either way works great.
I don't know about your other question. I would like to know how to
upgrade the virtual appliances as well.

Post by Gabor.Technology
Hi guys,
1. With version 1.1.2 out, what is the recommended way to run Graylog in
production under Hyper-V? Convert Workstation image to vhdx? Chef / Puppet
/ Ansible?
2. What is the best way to upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1.2 or is it just
better to create new VMs by using converted virtual appliances? Can data
from existing elastic cluster be imported?
Cheers,
Gabor
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[Gareth Davies]

I see that this is marked as will not fix. Which is understandable

however if we could get some instructions on how to convert the OVA
successfully to a Hyper-V machine that would be very very helpful.
I have attempted this twice with two different methods with failed results.

The OS would not boot.

Post by Gabor.Technology
Thanks guys for the tips. I have submitted a request to the ideas portal.

Post by Marius Sturm
You can follow these instructions in order to perfom an update on the
https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-images/tree/master/ova#upgrade-graylog
Hyper-V images produce some costs on our side because we dont have
Windows build servers at the moment. You can add that request to the ideas
portal, if there is a significant amount of people voting for it we can
provide it natively: https://www.graylog.org/product-ideas/

Post by David Gerdeman
I've been running the virtual appliance in hyper-v for a while now. Use
some extraction program to open the OVA file. Take the vmdk file out and
use virtualbox or some other application to convert it to a VHD. You can
either use that VHD directly with Hyper-V or you can use Hyper-V to convert
it again to a VHDX file and use that. Either way works great.
I don't know about your other question. I would like to know how to
upgrade the virtual appliances as well.

Post by Gabor.Technology
Hi guys,
1. With version 1.1.2 out, what is the recommended way to run Graylog
in production under Hyper-V? Convert Workstation image to vhdx? Chef /
Puppet / Ansible?
2. What is the best way to upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1.2 or is it just
better to create new VMs by using converted virtual appliances? Can data
from existing elastic cluster be imported?
Cheers,
Gabor
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[Jochen Schalanda]

Hi Gareth,

I don't have a Windows machine here to test this, but there's an article
about converting OVF/OVA images for the use with Hyper-V at Microsoft
Technet: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj158932.aspx

Additionally, this blog article seems to describe the process very
well: https://www.rootusers.com/how-to-convert-an-ova-virtual-machine-to-vhd/


Cheers,
Jochen

Post by Gareth Davies
I see that this is marked as will not fix. Which is understandable
however if we could get some instructions on how to convert the OVA
successfully to a Hyper-V machine that would be very very helpful.
I have attempted this twice with two different methods with failed results.
The OS would not boot.

Post by Gabor.Technology
Thanks guys for the tips. I have submitted a request to the ideas portal.

Post by Marius Sturm
You can follow these instructions in order to perfom an update on the
https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-images/tree/master/ova#upgrade-graylog
Hyper-V images produce some costs on our side because we dont have
Windows build servers at the moment. You can add that request to the ideas
portal, if there is a significant amount of people voting for it we can
provide it natively: https://www.graylog.org/product-ideas/

Post by David Gerdeman
I've been running the virtual appliance in hyper-v for a while now.
Use some extraction program to open the OVA file. Take the vmdk file out
and use virtualbox or some other application to convert it to a VHD. You
can either use that VHD directly with Hyper-V or you can use Hyper-V to
convert it again to a VHDX file and use that. Either way works great.
I don't know about your other question. I would like to know how to
upgrade the virtual appliances as well.

Post by Gabor.Technology
Hi guys,
1. With version 1.1.2 out, what is the recommended way to run Graylog
in production under Hyper-V? Convert Workstation image to vhdx? Chef /
Puppet / Ansible?
2. What is the best way to upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1.2 or is it just
better to create new VMs by using converted virtual appliances? Can data
from existing elastic cluster be imported?
Cheers,
Gabor
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[Daniel Kamiński]

It is possible to convert VDI/VMDK disk image to Microsoft's VHD with
virtuabox' tools (`vboxmanage clonehd input output --format vhd`), no need
to convert whole OVA as it's only a disk image with configuration file,
i've done this before to test how graylog would work on hyper-v, i
encountered no problems

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Post by Gabor.Technology
Hi guys,
1. With version 1.1.2 out, what is the recommended way to run Graylog in
production under Hyper-V? Convert Workstation image to vhdx? Chef / Puppet
/ Ansible?
2. What is the best way to upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1.2 or is it just better
to create new VMs by using converted virtual appliances? Can data from
existing elastic cluster be imported?
Cheers,
Gabor