Scaling vJailbreak

vJailbreak can be scaled to perform multiple migrations in parallel by deploying additional agents, enabling greater efficiency and workload distribution.

Additional agents can be created in the Agents tab of the vJailbreak dashboard using the “Scale Up” button. You will need to choose the destination OpenStack credentials, the size of the agent VM(s), and the number of agent nodes up to a maximum of 5 per scale up. Additional agent nodes can be scaled up in batches of 5, providing the flexibility to change agent VM sizes to help with throttling network traffic.

Caution

It is entirely possible to fully saturate a 10Gb network with many parallel migrations!

Agent nodes can be scaled down by selecting the agent and using the “Scale Down” button.

To retrieve the ubuntu user’s password for SSH’ing into an agent, follow these steps:

• SSH into the primary vJailbreak VM and run:

cat /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/token | cut -c 1-12

The first 12 characters of this token is the password for the agent VMs.

Note

The following instructions apply to versions of vJailbreak older than v0.1.7

Each agent must also have a copy of the VMware VDDK libraries in their /home/ubuntu directories.

• Copy the latest version of the VDDK libraries for Linux into /home/ubuntu of the new agents. Untar it to a folder name vmware-vix-disklib-distrib in /home/ubuntu directory.