Migrate Host ZFS Boot "rpool" from MBR to UEFI booting?

[mattlach]

Hey all,

I run a standalone Proxmox server which I have been upgrading in place for years. I am currently on 6.x, not having upgraded to 7 yet.

It was a clean install on Proxmox 4.2 I believe.

When i initially installed it, I set it up to boot from a ZFS mirror of two SATA SSD's using traditional BIOS (MBR?) booting.

Now I am considering migrating the the two mirrored boot drives to NVMe, which in turn requires an EFI boot.

Are there any suggestions how to best accomplish this transition?

I remember it being complicated when I did it on my Linux desktop years ago, and I imagine it only being trickier on this server.


-- OR --

Am I better off just doing a clean install on two new mirrored NVMe drives and migrating everything over?

Is there a good way to accomplish this, saving all of my VM and container settings, as well as all the host network settings? I really do not feel like setting everything up from scratch again, especially not with the way all of my separate VLAN's are configured.


I'd appreciate any suggestions!

Thanks,
Matt

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

I think I'd take the route of doing a fresh clean install on the new system with the NVMe's - after creating backups of all machines from the old system - afterwards you restore the machines from the backup to the new system.

The upside is that you have a fresh state - while debian systems can be upgraded across many versions without many issues - there's always something which gets deprecated and which you need to clean up

Additionally you'd have the old state on the SATA SSDs should something go wrong.

I hope this helps!