migration

  1. D

    [SOLVED] Renaming of VG and LV

    Hi, yesterday I renamed a VG and a corresponding LV. While doing so I did not think about the linked VMs which are having their disks lying on the LV. Now they woun't boot up with the following message: kvm: -drive...
  2. J

    Migration of virtual machines

    Hi, Friends, I have a doubt I must migrate from my Cloud provider (gigas) about 20 virtual machines to a HA environment with Proxmox I do not know if there are any tools to clone the MV and bring them to my new environment or if Proxmox is possible to perform this task. it should be noted that...
  3. B

    VM live migration via the GUI (Local storage)

    After a few google searches, I found that live migration while on local storage is possible using the CLI. I was unable to do it using the GUI though. Is there some reason the GUI doesn't support shared nothing live migrations? Or have I missed a checkbox someplace?
  4. P

    Migrate Windows from Hyper-V to PVE

    Hi, I'm trying to migrate Windows Server 2016 from Hyper-V to Proxmox. I copy the vhdx disk file, convert it to qcow2/raw but when I try to boot it doesn't work. Guest can't find bootable hard disk. When I boot Win2k16 DVD and add virtio scsi driver I can see expected Windows partition scheme...
  5. N

    VM migration problems

    I recently added a new server to my rack and clustered it with my pre-existing Proxmox machine. I installed Proxmox on the new server onto a ZFSz1 pool. After adding the new node to the cluster and adding the ZFS pool to the new node under the data center tab I am able to make new VMs and CTs on...
  6. magicfab

    Hooks for pre/post-migration of VMs and containers?

    Is it possible to have hooks when migrating VMs and containers, like there are backup hooks? I need to change the gateway of VMs that are moving between 2 members of a cluster that have are on 2 separate networks. LANs are the same but there is a separate interface for the public Internet access.
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    [SOLVED] Migrating from LVM on hardware RAID to ZFS

    I run a pretty basic home setup. I have an HP Proliant ML350 G6: 24GB DDR3 ECC RAM 2x Intel Xeon X5650 2.6GHz hexacore processors 5-drive (500GB each) hardware RAID5 array with p410i controller chip I'm running about 11 full KVMs at once for my infrastructure. The setup has worked great over...
  8. K

    [SOLVED] TASK ERROR: migration aborted

    2018-09-07 16:53:51 ERROR: migration aborted (duration 00:00:00): volume 'local:iso/Win10_Pro_1511_English_x64_july_2016.iso' does not exist TASK ERROR: migration aborted The ISO exist on the target node. The VMs were moved from node that went offline. HA was set up to that is normal. But I want...
  9. P

    migration issues

    I'm preparing migration from Xen to Proxmox. Currently I'm testing Proxmox migration features - both live and offline. How does it actually work? In test environment I prepared 2 clustered Proxmox nodes with separate local storages LVM-thin configured. root@proxmox-nd1:~# pveversion...
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    [SOLVED] LXC Images

    So I have my cluster up and running then the other day one of my LXC container had an issue and crashed - I am not sure how but now the configuration file is on one node (node 2) and the raw container image is on another (node 3). I am unable to start the container on either node (presumably...
  11. N

    Migration fails everytime - found stale ....

    Receiving the below when performing: qm migrate 109 pve1 -with-local-disks -migration_type insecure Not sure what the deal is or if i am doing something wrong. Simple 3 node cluster. 15:37:19 43.5G pool/vm-109-disk-1@__migration__ 15:37:20 43.6G pool/vm-109-disk-1@__migration__...
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    Migration CT from V4 to V5

    Hello I have try to migrate my CT from my previous Proxmox server V4 to my new proxmox server V5 for do i I have make a backup from V4 version and restore on the V5 Restoration Finishing without issue but when I try to restart my CT on the V5 server I have this error Job for...
  13. L

    Aliases in Proxmox

    Hi, We are thinking about migrating from Postfix to Proxmox but we can't find a way to use Postfix-Aliases in Proxmox. Does Proxmox even support aliases? Regards
  14. M

    Migrate VM from Xen to Proxmox

    Hi All, I want some help to migrate a Debian/ubuntu VMs from Xenserver to proxmox. Does someone have an idea about this migration and give me the steps to run VMs under Proxmox.
  15. grin

    CRIU / LXC online migration status

    I would really appreciate a thread where there would be a continuous, complete status report about LXC online migration; I mean: what have you done to make it work; why it doesn't work now; who and what should be done to make it work; is there any timeframe for that; i$ there any way to $peed...
  16. L

    Live Migration Issues

    Hi, Whenever we try to Live Migrate a VM from one of our clustered servers to another, it usually works no problem. There is one VM in particular that does not migrate. It gives the following error message: 2018-03-29 06:34:42 starting migration of VM 113 to node 'proxbarw04'...
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    [SOLVED] Import VMWare Centos 7 machine

    I have tried the following: root@node01-sxb-pve01:/vz/template/ova# qm importovf 109 CentOS7.2_64_kusanagi7.8.3.ovf local Formatting '/var/lib/vz/images/109/vm-109-disk-1.raw', fmt=raw size=32212254720 (100.00/100%) root@node01-sxb-pve01:/vz/template/ova# less CentOS7.2_64_kusanagi7.8.3.mf...
  18. S

    container migration possible without shared storage?

    Hi, after reading cluster manager and container documentation I'm wondering if container migration would be possible between cluster nodes even if there is no shared storage available. I'm not looking for HA. Anybody knows? Thanks in advance.
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    [SOLVED] Formatting raw images in raw?

    2018-03-01 20:06:58 use dedicated network address for sending migration traffic (172.18.2.1) 2018-03-01 20:06:59 starting migration of VM 7113 to node 'node02-sxb-pve01' (172.18.2.1) 2018-03-01 20:06:59 found local disk 'local:7113/vm-7113-disk-1.raw' (in current VM config) 2018-03-01 20:06:59...
  20. gurubert

    Storage live migration and thin provisioning

    Hi, the storage live migration creates a thick provisioned target even if a format like qcow2 is selected. I only found the announcement for PVE 3.0 where someone mentioned to use qemu-img convert afterwards to create a sparse image file. But how would this be done on a running VM?

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