Help Center/ Server Migration Service/ API Reference/ Application Examples/ Pausing and Deleting a Migration Task
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Pausing and Deleting a Migration Task

Scenarios

This section describes how to pause and delete a migration task by calling APIs. For details, see Calling APIs.

Before deleting a migration task, you need to obtain a token and pause the migration task. After the migration task is paused, you need to query the task status. The migration task can be deleted only after it is paused.

Involved APIs

Procedure

  1. Obtain an IAM user token.

    • API

      URI format: POST /v3/auth/tokens

      For details, see Obtaining a User Token Through Password Authentication.

    • Example request
      POST: https://{iam_endpoint}/v3/auth/tokens

      Obtain {endpoint} from Regions and Endpoints.

      Body:
      {
          "auth": {
              "identity": {
                  "methods": [
                      "password"
                  ],
                  "password": {
                      "user": {
                          "name": "testname",
                          "domain": {
                              "name": "testname"
                          },
                          "password": "Password"
                      }
                  }
              },
              "scope": {
                  "project": {
                      "id": "0215ef11e49d4743be23dd97a1561xxx"
                  }
              }
          }
      }

    In the response header, the value of X-Subject-Token is the token.

    X-Subject-Token: MIIDkgYJKoZIhvcNAQcCoIIDgzCCA38CAQExDTALBglghkgBZQMEAgEwgXXXXX...

  2. Pause the desired migration task.

    • API

      URI format:

      POST /v3/tasks/{task_id}/action

      For details, see Managing Migration Tasks (Pause).

    • Example request
      POST  https://sms.myhuaweicloud.eu/v3/tasks/8abda8635e09d185015e09d188dd0001xx/action

      Header:

      Content-Type: application/json
      X-Auth-Token: "Token"

      Body:

      {
              "operation" : "stop"
      }

      If the response code is 200, the API is successfully called.

  3. View the migration task status.

    • API

      URI format:

      GET /v3/tasks/{task_id}

      For details, see Querying a Migration Task.

    • Example request
      GET  https://sms.myhuaweicloud.eu/v3/tasks/8abda8635e09d185015e09d188dd0001xx

      Header:

      Content-Type: application/json
      X-Auth-Token: "Token"
    • Example response
      {
       "id": "8abda8635e09d185015e09d188dd0001xx",
       "name": "MigrationTask",
       "type": "MIGRATE_FILE",
       "os_type": "LINUX",
       "state": "ABORT",
       "estimate_complete_time": 1600391014000,
       "create_date": 1600159831000,
       "start_date": 1600159831000,
       "finish_date": 1600343128000,
       "priority": 1,
       "speed_limit": 0,
       "migrate_speed": 0,
       "start_target_server": true,
       "error_json": "",
       "total_time": 935000,
       "float_ip": "192.168.0.xxx",
       "migration_ip": "192.168.0.xxx",
       "vm_template_id": null,
       "region_name": "region_name",
       "region_id": "region_id",
       "project_name": ""project_name",
       "project_id": "05825205120026802ff0c01721bc1xxx",
       "sub_tasks": [
        {
         "id": 3514,
         "name": "SSL_CONFIG",
         "progress": 100,
         "start_date": 1600159847000,
         "end_date": 1600159851000,
         "user_op": "REPLICATE"
        },
        {
         "id": 3515,
         "name": "ATTACH_AGENT_IMAGE",
         "progress": 100,
         "start_date": 1600159851000,
         "end_date": 1600160027000,
         "user_op": "REPLICATE"
        },
        {
         "id": 3516,
         "name": "FORMAT_DISK_LINUX_FILE",
         "progress": 100,
         "start_date": 1600160027000,
         "end_date": 1600160030000,
         "user_op": "REPLICATE"
        },
        {
         "id": 3517,
         "name": "MIGRATE_LINUX_FILE",
         "progress": 100,
         "start_date": 1600160080000,
         "end_date": 1600160088000,
         "user_op": "REPLICATE"
        },
        {
         "id": 3582,
         "name": "CONFIGURE_LINUX_FILE",
         "progress": 100,
         "start_date": 1600333914000,
         "end_date": 1600334025000,
         "user_op": "CUTOVER0"
        },
        {
         "id": 3583,
         "name": "DETTACH_AGENT_IMAGE",
         "progress": 100,
         "start_date": 1600334029000,
         "end_date": 1600334103000,
         "user_op": "CUTOVER0"
        },
        {
         "id": 3584,
         "name": "SSL_CONFIG",
         "progress": 100,
         "start_date": 1600334185000,
         "end_date": 1600334188000,
         "user_op": "RESYNC0"
        },
        {
         "id": 3585,
         "name": "ATTACH_AGENT_IMAGE",
         "progress": 100,
         "start_date": 1600334189000,
         "end_date": 1600334375000,
         "user_op": "RESYNC0"
        },
        {
         "id": 3586,
         "name": "SYNC_LINUX_FILE",
         "progress": 100,
         "start_date": 1600334375000,
         "end_date": 1600334376000,
         "user_op": "RESYNC0"
        },
        {
         "id": 3587,
         "name": "CONFIGURE_LINUX_FILE",
         "progress": 100,
         "start_date": 1600342952000,
         "end_date": 1600343052000,
         "user_op": "CUTOVER1"
        },
        {
         "id": 3588,
         "name": "DETTACH_AGENT_IMAGE",
         "progress": 100,
         "start_date": 1600343056000,
         "end_date": 1600343128000,
         "user_op": "CUTOVER1"
        },
        {
         "id": 3589,
         "name": "SSL_CONFIG",
         "progress": 100,
         "start_date": 1600390756000,
         "end_date": 1600390760000,
         "user_op": "RESYNC1"
        },
        {
         "id": 3590,
         "name": "ATTACH_AGENT_IMAGE",
         "progress": 100,
         "start_date": 1600390760000,
         "end_date": 1600390953000,
         "user_op": "RESYNC1"
        },
        {
         "id": 3591,
         "name": "SYNC_LINUX_FILE",
         "progress": 100,
         "start_date": 1600390954000,
         "end_date": 1600390954000,
         "user_op": "RESYNC1"
        }
       ],
       "source_server": {
        "id": "621f2cb5-ba4f-4819-b00d-ee48ca2c35ea",
        "ip": "192.168.0.176",
        "name": "ecs-4bb4",
        "os_type": "LINUX",
        "os_version": "CENTOS_7_6_64BIT",
        "oem_system": false,
        "state": "syncing",
        "migration_cycle": "syncing"
       },
       "target_server": {
        "id": "de35f45d-b6d5-4769-9148-984c8fab4xxx",
        "vm_id": "6d51477f-0a02-4917-8d7d-b13969f4axxx",
        "name": "ecs-4bb4",
        "ip": null,
        "os_type": "LINUX",
        "os_version": null,
        "system_dir": null,
        "disks": [
         {
          "id": 86364,
          "name": "/dev/sda",
          "relation_name": "/dev/vda",
          "disk_id": "ed3c78d0-3166-48d1-bee0-d29e7d834xxx",
          "partition_style": "MBR",
          "size": 42949672960,
          "used_size": 42948624384,
          "device_use": "BOOT",
          "os_disk": false,
          "physical_volumes": [
           {
            "id": 132594,
            "uuid": null,
            "index": 0,
            "name": "/dev/sda1",
            "relation_name": "/dev/vda1",
            "device_use": "OS",
            "file_system": "ext4",
            "mount_point": "/",
            "size": 42948624384,
            "used_size": 2467393536,
            "free_size": 40481230848
           }
          ],
          "disk_index": "z"
         }
        ],
        "volume_groups": [],
        "image_disk_id": "9700f5ce-02ae-4a71-a057-deffe9b69xxx",
        "rollback_snapshot_ids": null
       },
       "clone_server": null,
       "target_snapshot_id": null,
       "remain_seconds": 60000
      }

      state indicates the task execution status. ABORT indicates that the task has been paused.

  4. Delete the migration task.

    • API

      URI format:

      DELETE /v3/tasks/{task_id}

      For details, see Deleting a Migration Task.

    • Example request
      https://sms.myhuaweicloud.eu/v3/tasks/8abda8635e09d185015e09d188dd0001xx

      Header:

      Content-Type: application/json
      X-Auth-Token: "Token"

      If the response code is 200, the migration task has been deleted successfully.