migration

If I were to set VM CPU type to host and then migrated an activated Windows 2019 VM between a node using XEON Gold 6152's and XEON Silver 4114's - would this cause a re-activation event ?? If so whats the best CPU type to use - I see posts for both Qemu and KVM64. TIA Dave

Howdy all! I'm moderately confident this is a solved problem.... I've a 6 node cluster of dell r720xd's. each with 24 SSD OSDs (pve 7.3 upping to kernel 6.1 now..... ceph pacific.. (will go to quincy after living with 6.1 for a little bit) What's the optimal way to evacuate vms/offline...

Hello everybody, After tinkering a little big with PBS, I have uninstalled it and installed PVE too in my second node. Then I have tried to set up replication between both of my nodes. Everthing worked well at the end. Then I tried migrating a CT and a VM to my new node. After that, in the web...

We have a running PBS with an almost full storage (5 Tb), so we purchased a new dedicated server with bigger storage size. We are facing difficulties to understand how to move (migrate) data from the old to the new PBS server We would like to migrate backup data for sure, best would be to...

I currently have Proxmox installed on a zfs single disk, and want to move it to a zfs mirror. The tricky part is that the disk it is on now will be one of the disks in the mirror. How would I move the install to a temporary location, create the mirror with the two disks, and then move the...

When I migrate a machine, the backups for that machine is left on the local storage of the source node. How can one migrate the backups to the target node also?

Hi, Got a OPNsense VM on TrueNAS Core 13.0-U3 that I want to migrate to PVE 7.2. PVE also uses ZFS, so I shutdown the VM on TrueNAS, created a snapshot "migate" of the two zvols the VM is using (one zvol for root filesystem, one zvol for swap partition) and then used replication over ssh to...

I would like to migrate from Provider A to Provider B (I think this could be Hetzner, checking some possibilities/ alternatives but should start soon, maybe even today) Currently the following setup is used on Provider A - Dedicated Server 1: Proxmox - Dedicated Server 2: Proxmox Backup Server...

I am new to Proxmox and this is my first time posting, but I will do my best to provide as much information as I can. I have been running a plain Debian server for a number of years now but decided that I wanted to give Proxmox a try for it's additional features and ease of management...

Hello, Is there a procedure to transfer promox backup PMB data to a new server? I have 34T to transfer... Thanks very much!

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...

Do not have a default value for Target Node on VM migration. It's way too easy to forget to select a node and end up migrating to the wrong host. Maybe I'm just old and forgetful and should pay closer attention, but I will be interested to see if this gets any attention from the community. Side...

Hello, we are using Proxmox with several different hard drives. Proxmox runs locally via ZFS on a storage, there are no problems here either. We have created additional NVMe hard drives as additional storage and are also recognized by Proxmox and are functional. However, there is now a problem...

Hello! I'm about to move a lot of VMs off of an old server and on to a band new cluster. Old server has a big lump of local storage and the VMs have mostly qcow2 disks. New cluster has almost no local storage, with LVM on iSCSI being home for disk images. Most VMs I can move easily enough by...

Hello, some time ago I had a server die suddenly, I restored a backup into a temporary server and decided to go with shared storage, now im moving to a NAS with iSCSI and LVM, and need to move those VMs from the temporary Proxmox into the new one, of course with minimal downtime but can not...

Hello Community, i am struggling with a fairly "easy" task which is described pretty often but unfortunately does not seem to work with my setup I am having a Standalone esxi host running a linux ubuntu VM, i would like to migrate the VM to my proxmox Server. I am able to export the ovf & vmdk...

Hello All, anyone has already done a VM migration between two Proxmox Cluster that using Ceph as storage?. I explain better, two proxmox cluster: one proxmox cluster with ceph inside as storage second proxmox cluster with ceph inside as storage Networking speaking, the cluster ceph is on...

Thanks in advance for any help - a few hours of searching in and no luck so far... I'm migrating my home lab from VmWare to Proxmox. I have a single PVE node set up and working (7.1-8) and have successfully migrated linux vms with no problems. I have a Win10 VM which I have migrated using...

Hi Warriors, I was migrating my Xen Guest to newly setup proxmox 7 environment. Here are the setps which i have used: From Proxmox Node: wget --http-user=USERNAME --http-password=PASSWORD http://X.X.X.X/export?uuid=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -O - | tar --to-command=/tmp/xen-to-pve/xva-conv.sh -xf -...

Good night people. I'm looking for a way to migrate 400vm+ from one cluster to another and unfortunately proxmox doesn't have a native tool for that. (cluster 01 for cluster02). I found this tool, has anyone used it? https://pypi.org/project/proxmove/ Could I for example move the disk image of...