Scale 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.

Logging into Agent VMs

Agent VMs use the same login process as the primary vJailbreak VM:

• Username: ubuntu
• Default Password: password
• On first login, you will be prompted to change the password immediately.

Note

VDDK libraries are automatically synced from the primary vJailbreak VM to all agent nodes. You only need to upload VDDK to the primary vJailbreak VM.

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.