LXC Migration between nodes with different storage types (LVM and ZFS)

[yswery]

We have two node cluster (no HA of course)

Node 1 (older and has many guests VMs/CTs)
Storage: local, local-lvm

Node 2 (new and has no guests at all)
Storage: local, local-zfs

I understand that you can not do a migration between nodes since they dont have "match storage names" (as in local-lvm vs local-zfs) I was wondering what are the options for me to migrate between the two nodes

So far I know i can do a full backup of a CT/VM, scp the backup file to the other node and then restore the file as a VM/CT with the same VMID.

Is there a better way of being able to margate between these two nodes?

 

[yswery]

Does anyone know if there is a better of of migrating VMs/CTs between the nodes?

 

[dcsapak]

better, no. different, yes: on your source node you can add the same storage as you want to have on your target (e.g. local-zfs) move your volumes there, then you should be able to migrate normally to the target node

 

[yswery]

better, no. different, yes: on your source node you can add the same storage as you want to have on your target (e.g. local-zfs) move your volumes there, then you should be able to migrate normally to the target node

When I do to "Datacenter" on the WebUI and then go the existing `local-zfs` I added the source node (which is lvm set up disks) and even though the `local-zfs` did in fact come up on the source node, its not usable since the `local-zfs` is ZFS and the source node isnt on ZFS filesystem, its on LVM

could not activate storage 'local-zfs', zfs error: cannot import 'rpool': no such pool available (500)

Is there a way to achieve this, I would be super happy if I can use the "move disk" functionality and then do "migrate" all via the PVE interface (and API)