migrate

Hi All, I'm migrating my proxmox server to a new bigger server (more storage and compute power). As a precaution I've setup cluster and added a third 'temporary' server to help migrating if things go south! The migration was performed from old -> temp -> new, all within the cluster. When...

Is it possible to add another node to an existing cluster, but with already running VMs on this node. I want to transfer a node from cluster A to cluster B with all VMs running on it

Hi, I'm new to Proxmox. I've been using TrueNAS scale to run my dockers, VMS, and as a NAS. I wanted to move to Proxmox due to limitations and a few issues. However, I have several dockers that I really really don't want to have to rebuild. I wanted to know if there is a way I can Virtualize...

I have a VM with one quite big data disk. I want to move that VM to another Proxmox host in my cluster. The target system has enough space. Unfortunately the source system has not enough space anymore to create a snapshot. I can power down the VM and do any operation and it is not time...

Hi, Today, we have a power failure in one of the nodes and went shutdown, but none of the VMs in the node migrated to another node, may I know if anyone can advise on this? Thank you

I am having an unusual problem where, when I migrate a container from node 1 to node 2, it breaks. I migrate the container, the container shows up in node 2's VM list just fine, but when I try to start the container, it doesn't boot. It comes up with this errer "TASK ERROR: unable to open file...

6.4.14 while trying to move qcow2 from NFS storage to local storage. drive-scsi1: transferred 44.5 GiB of 300.0 GiB (14.82%) in 31m 21s drive-scsi1: transferred 44.5 GiB of 300.0 GiB (14.83%) in 31m 22s drive-scsi1: transferred 44.5 GiB of 300.0 GiB (14.84%) in 31m 24s drive-scsi1: Cancelling...

Hallo, wir betreiben einen Proxmox Backup Server in einer VM auf einem Proxmox Virtualisierer. Nach einer Migation der VM auf einen anderen Virtualisierer kam folgende Fehlermeldung: TASK ERROR: could not activate storage 'pbs1-datastore1': pbs1-datastore1: error fetching datastores - 500...

Hi, I've created a video which demonstrates how to migrate VM from ESXi/vSphere to Proxmox in few steps, without any special scripts. (I hope it's OK to publish the link to the video).

Hi, How to perform migration from OLVM (kvm based) to promox without using command 'qm importdisk'? Is the another way to import using gui?

I was doing some server maintenance today and migrating some containers/VMs and twice I ran into issues with migration due to the following error: TASK ERROR: can't lock file '/var/lock/pve-manager/pve-migrate-xxx' - got timeout This happened with 2 different servers and 2 different...

Hello, we had evaluated proxmox in development for a while. We have proxmox 5.4 on server, which we would like to "delete". We have obtained new HW and installed clean proxmox 7.1. We would like to migrate some VM machines from former hw to new one. Is there any easy/stright-forward solution...

I'm trying to migrate VM storage to Linstor SDS and have some odd troubles. All nodes are running PVE 7.1: pve-manager/7.1-5/6fe299a0 (running kernel: 5.13.19-1-pve) Linstor storage is, for now, on one host. When I create new VM on linstor it works. When I try to migrate VM from another host...

Hello, We have automatic VM migration configured, VM automatic migration works but after migration VM not starting at all it keeps starting all time. Manual migration stop start works but auto no. All info in attached file, Thank you

What’s the expected behavior here? I have a 3-node cluster with dedicated physical corosync network, and a 2nd faster network for storage and networking. The corosync network is configured to failover to the fast network if interrupted. High availability is configured on guests with shared...

Hey all, I run a standalone Proxmox server which I have been upgrading in place for years. I am currently on 6.x, not having upgraded to 7 yet. It was a clean install on Proxmox 4.2 I believe. When i initially installed it, I set it up to boot from a ZFS mirror of two SATA SSD's using...

Since I needed to document the process anyway I thought I share my experience of migrating a domain controller from a hyper-v cluster to a proxmox cluster with ceph storage. I wrote this with these 2 wiki articles as background information...

The usual failure looks like: ... 2021-08-03 15:24:47 migration active, transferred 32.6 GiB of 32.0 GiB VM-state, 120.2 MiB/s 2021-08-03 15:24:48 migration active, transferred 32.7 GiB of 32.0 GiB VM-state, 117.0 MiB/s 2021-08-03 15:24:49 migration active, transferred 32.8 GiB of 32.0 GiB...

I did a fresh proxmox install on a new ssd. On installation it recognizes that there was a vg "pve" on an old hard disc and asked me to rename it to "pve--OLD..." , so I did. The new Proxmox Server comes up, and I see that it somehow recognizes both hard disks. But it doesn't show any of my...

Hi So you need to move to the last version and you get the chills because it is such a huge jump in versions. Worry no more it is quite simple!!!!!! Just make regular backup of you VMs Using ssh for instance with Filezilla, copy the backup files (just need the last backup of each) to your...