migration

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    Proxmox Migration via Proxmox Backup Server?

    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...
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    Issue moving containers from LXC to Proxmox

    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...
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    TRansfer Proxmox backup server to a new server

    Hello, Is there a procedure to transfer promox backup PMB data to a new server? I have 34T to transfer... Thanks very much!
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    [SOLVED] LXC Containers not Migrating Properly in Proxmox VE 7.0

    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...
  5. J

    Feature Request: Do not have a default value for Target Node on VM migration

    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...
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    Migration - storage is not available on target-node

    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...
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    Best way to migrate between clusters?

    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...
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    [SOLVED] move to iSCSI shared storage without cluster

    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...
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    esxi ubuntu migration VM wont boot

    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...
  10. N

    Migration image between two ceph cluster

    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...
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    Migrating vmware Win10 vm fails to boot past the UEFI shell

    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...
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    Xen to Proxmox 7 migration

    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 -...
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    Move image

    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...
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    Expected behavior from watchdog-mux with a networking outage? (HA, Corosync, and Softdog fencing)

    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...
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    Migrating thin provisioned disks results in the transfer as if it's thick provisioned.

    If you have a thin provisioned disk (say 128GB), but the actual size of the disk is only 6GB after install, why does proxmox need to physically move 128GB of data when migrating a disk to another network storage location (even though the file is 6GB)? What is the limitation here? It does not...
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    Proxmox lxc migration to Nutanix AHV

    Hello Everyone, I have inherited a Proxmox environment where there are some lxc. Are there any possibilities to export lxc or is there a procedure to prepare the lxc for a infrastructure migration? I would like to avoid rebuilding and porting the application inside. Thanks a lot!!
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    Problems migrating from OpenVZ to LXC Proxmox

    I have a problem by converting OpenVZ container to LXC. It don't starts. Attach a history of commands and logs root@vps2:~# pct restore 102 vzdump-130.tar --storage=local-lvm --ostype=centos --unprivileged recovering backed-up configuration from 'vzdump-130.tar' Logical volume "vm-102-disk-0"...
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    Migration from ganeti

    Hi everyone, I'm currently running a 3-node ganeti cluster (CentOS, KVM) and I'm considering to move to proxmox. But before I setup a proxmox host I wantedto ask if somebody has already managed to successfully migrate VMs from ganeti to proxmox? Or is there some other documentation on how to...
  19. mattlach

    Additional Questions Re: "ZFS: Switch Legacy-Boot to Proxmox Boot Tool"

    Hi Everyone, I have a few questions regarding the need to switch to Proxmox Boot Tool for booting from ZFS. I found the need to do this in reading the release notes for PVE 7.x in preparing for my upgrade from 6.4.9. Question 1.) It says the boot will break if I run zpool upgrade on the...
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    Help: Recover proxmox VE environment?

    Hello everyone! Thanks in advance for the help. I’m in the middle of trying to help a friend who’s husband recently passed away. His service is a week from Saturday. He was quite a tinkerer and had many/most of the lights around their house configured with various IOT devices. This whole...