migration

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    Gedanken zu einer Migration von VMware

    Moin, ich habe mich schon umgeschaut und habe keinen Thread dieser Art gefunden, daher erstelle ich einen Neuen. Sollte das nicht passen, bitte löschen. :) Während meines Praktikums habe ich die Möglichkeit bekommen, verschiedene Migrationsmöglichkeit von VMWare zu Proxmox zu testen. Dies...
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    [SOLVED] "Target-Endpoint"-Auswahl funktioniert nicht obwohl auswählbar?

    Der im Titel genannte Fehler tritt auf, wenn ich bei der Migration auf einen Cluster (beide Nodes sind eingetragen in einem Remote) einen "Target Endpoint" auswählen möchte. (sprich einen spezifischen Node auf den migriert werden soll) Wenn ich allerdings keinen oder einen anderen der beiden...
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    HA, one nodte failure, vm reaction

    Hello, I have a Proxmox cluster built with 4 servers and HA configured. Now, a question that might sound silly: In the event of one server failing, all virtual machines are migrated to another server in line with the policy, which is obvious. However, will these virtual machines shouldbe...
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    Converting from ESXi to ProxMox - Complete Newbie Question

    Hello. Yesterday my home ESXi installation quit and I have been out of the loop for a while, so missed the demise of VMWare and it's free version of ESXi. As a result I have decided to migrate to Proxmox VE but there are some cross migration elements I don't fully understand and was hoping for...
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    cannot migrate containers from storage type 'lvmthin' to 'zfspool'

    I have a Proxmox with LVM thin (datathinpool), I want to migrate all the container to a new server using ZFS (vmdata) But when I try to do it I got: # pct migrate 120 lokol --restart --target-storage vmdata 2025-01-16 13:53:22 shutdown CT 120 2025-01-16 13:53:26 use dedicated network address...
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    Migrating Windows VM to new PVE cluster

    Is it safe to migrate a Windows server VM from one cluster to another? I am not sure if any licensing problems can occur.
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    ha-manager migrated too much load to same node

    Hi, Today we tried rebooting our nodes one per one. We used the ha-manager crm-command node-maintenance enable like we did several times before. However, this time it seemed to migrate too many vms to the same node which caused this node to crash due to it's memory usage. I just read some...
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    ERROR: online migrate failure - Failed to complete storage migration: block job (mirror) error: drive-efidisk0: Input/output error (io-status: ok)

    I've been giving "remote migration" a try for the first time today, moving machines live from a single host running ZFS to a new cluster running CePH. It worked tremendously well—without issues and on the first try—for all VM's but one, which always fails with the following errors. I tried...
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    Migrating from one Node Proxmox to clustered Proxmox

    Hello, i am planning to move my one node Proxmox server with VMs to a new 3 node Cluster with Ceph Pool. Now are my questions: 1. Whats the best way to move the VMs to the according Ceph Pools on the Cluster, with minimal downtime. 2. Is there a way for testing to just copy a VM from the...
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    Best practice for Proxmox networking?

    Specs: I have 2x SFP+ ports and 2x 2.5Gb on my Proxmox servers. What is the best practices to use it? Situation now: I now have the 2x SFP+ aggregated and several VLAN's connect via this to the network and I have 1x 2.5Gb management port with a dedicated ip address. The other 2.5Gb port is not...
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    [SOLVED] Live migration fails, but works after first offline migration

    Hello, I have a very strange problem. I have two PVE 8.3.0 nodes with AMD Ryzen CPU's, 64 GB RAM, 1 TB NVMe with ZFS and 2x 2,5 GBit NIC's on each node. All VM's replicate from node1 to node2 every 15 minutes. Node1 is the primary node, node2 was just added. When I try to live migrate a VM...
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    Migration von 4 HA Clustern mit je 4 Nodes auf 2 neue HA Cluster mit je 4 Nodes

    Hallo liebes Forum, wir sind hier mitten in der Planung unsere bestehende Infrastruktur mit proxmox kpl. neu aufzubauen. Ist Situation: 4 HA Cluster kvmpool1 bis 4 zzgl. ein Adminpool als Notfall System bestehend aus je 4 Nodes mit ZFS Ceph und Bacula als Backup System. Wir haben aus...
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    Fixing UEFI after migration

    Hi there friends! I'm attempting to move off ESXi on a server (surprise, surprise), and one of my VMs is being particularly petulant. It's a Debian 12 VM, running a pretty standard LAMP stack, set up to boot with UEFI. I tried moving it with the ESXi Import function, and when I did, it sends...
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    Live migration mac address release issue

    We are testing the live migration on 8.3.0 between both clusters and we're running into one issue we can't seem to find a good resolution to. Whenever we migrate a machine it can't pull networking because for some reason the arp table on the source is still holding on to the mac address. We've...
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    PVE limitations with encrypted ZFS datasets

    Hi all, I recently stumbled when trying to migrate a VM from a node with an encrypted ZFS dataset to a node without encryption: ``` cannot send nvmepool/vm-310-disk-0@__migration__: encrypted dataset nvmepool/vm-310-disk-0 may not be sent with properties without the raw flag ``` It's not a...
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    Unable to import Windows servers from ESXi

    I tested several ways to import a Windows Server 2019 VM from ESXi (version 7), here are the configs I was able to test: - processor: host / Disk : prepared for VirtIO / BIOS : SeaBIOS (my machine has no UEFI on Vmware )/ Machine : by default(i440fx) / SCSI controller : VirtIO =...
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    Device flags for `qm ovfimport`?

    Hi, I have a grip of ovf exports from a couple ESXi servers I need to import into Proxmox, and I was wondering if people have recommendations for flags to use during the import process I added devices manually on the first VM, which will be a pain if I have to do the next 10-12 of them that...
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    [SOLVED] Unexpected changes in /etc/pve/datacenter.cfg

    Hi all, I'm experiencing an issue where something keeps modifying my /etc/pve/datacenter.cfg file, specifically deleting the migration: entry I add. I add this line: migration: type=insecure,network=127.67.0.0/27 The configuration works for a while, but after some time, the entry disappears (no...
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    Migration from proxmox to AWS

    I'm devops intern at startup company, I'm new to proxmox things they hosted their production application in proxmox (spring boot and mysql) both run in different vm my task is to migrate that application to aws what are steps to do this migration?
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    Windows Licenses when migrating from Hyper-V

    Hello, I have a few Windows 10 machines with retail Licenses keys running on a Hyper-V Server. Consulting several migration guides, it appears that only the vhdx file is converted and transferred, which (I believe) means the hardware ID of the hyper-V vm is left behind - meaning the windows...