Easier migration process

[chrisalavoine]

Hi there,

I currently have 5 hosts. 3 are running Proxmox 1.9 and 2 are running 2.0

I am planning to migrate all VM's (~30) over to Proxmox 2.0.

So far I have been doing this by restoring from backup using qmrestore to a new LUN on our SAN backend.

Would it be possible to connect an existing iSCSI LUN to Proxmox 2.0 and start the VM's using the raw image files on the LVM volume, or is that asking for trouble? Obviously, making sure the original VM is shutdown on 1.9.

Regards,
Chris.

 

[chrisalavoine]

Well, I took the plunge and it works nicely.

I just copied the /etc/pve/storage.cnf iSCSI target and LVM entries for my LUN's on the 1.9 servers and copied them to both 2.0 servers, then created an empty KVM VM, edited the conf file manually adding a disk entry referencing the correct LV on the LUN and all seems well. Have done this with a couple of guests now and it's much quicker than vzdump/qmrestore process.

c