I am one of the (possible) flood of former ESXi users, who will not doubt be asking questions here during their migration attempts. I have my PVE setup, zfs, working zpools and most of my virtual machines imported from ESXi, I have one VM that is particularly large, and it is on its way to my PVE during this week.
Whilst setting up the import, I did not get a chance to choose what format the new disks on the PVE would be (greyed out), so they are all heading into what I presume is the right place, a zpool I called rust02 and in the "rust02 (pve)" pool i see the disks (slowly) arriving - they are listed as "raw" in their format collumn, so i believe are "fat" disks - they are showing up in /dev/zvol/rust02 as their names, each one is showing up as two parts, one i guess the device and one the partition with hard links ../../zd224 and ../../zd224p1.
I am unwilling to try and modify anything at the moment, as the largest disk is still on its way, however, once the VM has finished its import, I would like to convert the disks with their content intact to a format that is "thin", perhaps Qcow2?
I have enough spare pool capacity in another zpool, but I have been unable so far to work out what I need to do to convert/migrate the raw /dev/zd224 or more probably /dev/zd224p1 disk into a Qcow2 disk in my rust01 zpool. Should I just be treating them as "real" disks to convert?
I would welcome any pointers at this point as I do not want to take a wrong direction at this early point in my PVE induction/journey; on a related note, as a long time Deb Linux user, I am SO impressed with what i can do already with PVE, I just wish I had been pushed off the VSphere cliff a little earlier.
Whilst setting up the import, I did not get a chance to choose what format the new disks on the PVE would be (greyed out), so they are all heading into what I presume is the right place, a zpool I called rust02 and in the "rust02 (pve)" pool i see the disks (slowly) arriving - they are listed as "raw" in their format collumn, so i believe are "fat" disks - they are showing up in /dev/zvol/rust02 as their names, each one is showing up as two parts, one i guess the device and one the partition with hard links ../../zd224 and ../../zd224p1.
I am unwilling to try and modify anything at the moment, as the largest disk is still on its way, however, once the VM has finished its import, I would like to convert the disks with their content intact to a format that is "thin", perhaps Qcow2?
I have enough spare pool capacity in another zpool, but I have been unable so far to work out what I need to do to convert/migrate the raw /dev/zd224 or more probably /dev/zd224p1 disk into a Qcow2 disk in my rust01 zpool. Should I just be treating them as "real" disks to convert?
I would welcome any pointers at this point as I do not want to take a wrong direction at this early point in my PVE induction/journey; on a related note, as a long time Deb Linux user, I am SO impressed with what i can do already with PVE, I just wish I had been pushed off the VSphere cliff a little earlier.
