how P2V in Proxmox ?

Mehrdad.x

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Hello

explain first:

There is an small company, they have an HP Z440 Workstaion, thair Servers are on PCs and i want to move them on Z440

I prefer to use Proxmox but i have no idea how to p2v with proxmox as there is no official tool for that but in other hand i can use esxi with vmware p2v converter that is a reliable tool.

so i can use Proxmox ?
 
Any tool that allows booting a live system on the physical host and the target VM to transfer disk contents.

That can be just a regular Linux live system and dd + ssh on both sides. Or something more guided like Clonezilla. There are surely also other more commercial tools out there that can do the same thing.

Afterward, you most likely have to go through a few post migration steps, for example adapting the network config, install guest tools and so forth. On Windows, switching to the VirtIO Drivers can be a bit more complicated. See the "Post Migration" section here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migrate_to_Proxmox_VE
 
filezilla and then cli commands is not fast and reliable enough
No software is probably going to be either faster or more reliable than an image of the physical disks together with CLI commands.

One other probable rule; if someone does not know how to achieve P2V manually - he probably won't manage with software either.