How to migrate an Esxi windows VM with 2 disks ?

[JMg06]

Hello everybody,
I have an old VM with Win srv 2008 r2 with two disks on an Esxi 5.5.
I want to migrate to my Proxmox system. But I have a little problem with the vmdk files :

-rw------- 1 root root 3932672 Apr 18 21:01 antivirusb-000004-ctk.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 64424509440 Apr 20 07:27 antivirusb-000004-flat.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 597 Apr 18 21:00 antivirusb-000004.vmdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13 Apr 10 14:38 antivirusb-aux.xml
-rw------- 1 root root 4294967296 Apr 17 17:11 antivirusb-cb40a204.vswp
-rw------- 1 root root 8684 Apr 20 06:33 antivirusb.nvram
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45 Apr 18 21:00 antivirusb.vmsd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3699 Apr 20 07:11 antivirusb.vmx
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Mar 23 10:57 antivirusb.vmx.lck
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 265 Dec 21 2018 antivirusb.vmxf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3698 Apr 20 07:11 antivirusb.vmx~
-rw------- 1 root root 2621952 Apr 18 21:01 antivirusb_1-000002-ctk.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 42949672960 Apr 20 06:55 antivirusb_1-000002-flat.vmdk
-rw------- 1 root root 575 Apr 20 06:30 antivirusb_1-000002.vmdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13270028 Sep 10 2019 vmware-1.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13954007 Mar 23 10:46 vmware-2.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2606095 Apr 20 07:12 vmware.log
-rw------- 1 root root 133169152 Mar 23 10:57 vmx-antivirusb-3410010628-1.vswp

What file to copy to my proxmox before qemu conversion ?

Thanks and take care of you

 

[Dominic]

Hi!

How did you get those files? There should be an .ovf file somewhere (but maybe this depends on the ESXi version?). Please check out the migration guide in our wiki if you have not yet done so. The part about VMware got updated quite recently.

Best
Dominic

 

[JMg06]

Thanks Dominic for your reply,
my Esxi system is an old 5.5 and the export button does'nt exists.
I have migrated all my Debian VM with csp and qemu-img convert and all oh them work.
The difficulty here is in the fact I have created a second hdd for my windows vm. And I don't know, in the 6 files vmdk, what choose to copy to my proxmox and convert after.

 

[Dominic]

As far as I know

• only .vmdk is a description
• ctk.vmdk contains changes
• flat.vmdk is the "real" data

Thus, I'd try to import antivirusb-000004-flat.vmdk and antivirusb_1-000002-flat.vmdk. However, I'm not sure about how ESXi handles these files exactly => I cannot guarantee that this is sufficient.