[SOLVED] Migrate ESXI VM to Proxmox server

[lakmalv]

Hi,

We have 2 Vmware ESXI servers and 1 proxmox server. I am new to proxmox and I need to move my VMs in the esxi server to proxmox server. Vms storage are mounted on a NFS server. I went through the proxmox documentation but it's not clear to me. Can someone please help me with this. I really need this.

Best Regards
Lakmal

 

[Moayad]

Hi,

Have you read our wiki page?

Where are you stuck exactly on which step and which section that not clear for you?

 

[dilantha01]

Hi Moayad,

We also have the same setup, Proxmox 7.0.8.

We have migrated the VM image (.vmdk) from the NFS server to proxmox and converted it using the qm importdisk 100 dnsserver.vmdk zfs1 --format raw command. We followed this video tutorial.

After the above step, the network/internet is not working on the newly converted Proxmox host. I tried the following methods but still no luck.
- Removed current network adapter and added a new one
- added static IP manually
- added two nic adapters
- ifconfig -a < I can see ens18 mac address only, no IP address. ens18 is up.

I'm getting the following error message with Network Status:
failed to open statefile /run/network/ifstate

This image is backup from our live VM host. It's working on VM EXSi without any network issues.

We uploaded ubuntu os to Proxmox, created a Ubuntu host on proxmox and the internet is working for that host.

What could be the issue?

Thanks,

 

[Moayad]

Hi,

Could you please post the network configuration of your PVE host?

cat /etc/network/interfaces

and the VM config as well

qm config 102

 

[dilantha01]

Hi Moayad,

Please find the required files in the attachment.

Thanks

 

[Moayad]

I mean the network configuration for the Proxmox node.

 

[lakmalv]

Hi,

Thank you so much for the help. We were able to get the network interface up by editing the /etc/netplan/00-installer-config.yaml file. Only needed to change the interface name to the new adapter name.

Thanks
Lakmal

 

[khampol]

Only needed to change the interface name to the new adapter name.

Ohh! Soooo good Thx