Migration from VMWare

[alevene]

I have found that migration servers running under ESXi to be a tedious procedure. Unfortunately, neither VMware or Proxmox at the host level supports external USB drives.

It would be trivial to copy closed files from VMware to Proxmox and run a conversion utility, but I haven't found a way yet. Is there one?

Can anyone answer these specific questions -

What is the easiest method to move and convert closed Linux servers operating under ESXi? Moving Windows Servers is easy; just use an image copier CD to boot under the OS and make a image copy, NFS it out of VMWare and restore under Proxmox. I've yet to find a version that works properly with a Linux server.

Is there a way to actually connect a USB or eSATA drive that is usable for copying files to and from?

Finally, is there a single utility that will convert the VMWare files to Proxmox configuration?

Thanks,

 

[udo]

Hi,
to convert linux-server should be easy:
shut down linux-vm
scp the flatfile to proxmox (e.g. /vmfs/volumes/4a127bd2-722e2425-810f-00144f9e8e9b/fileserver1/fileserver1-flat.vmdk)
On Proxmox create a new node with same (or little bit greater) disk (raw).
cp the flat-file (the raw disk image) to the diskfile (with dd if you use lvm).
Start the vm.
Correct inside the vm the network-settings (module/udev-rule)...

It's depends on your distribution how painless it's run.

Look before at the wiki http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE
there is all discribed!

Udo

 

[alevene]

Thanks for the quick answer. Is there an instruction missing, to convert the VMware .vmdk file to the .raw format?

I used Fast SCP to move the single file to the Proxmox box as I could get the correct syntax for scp or cp. Can you let me know what it is?

Thanks again,