Migration from non Proxmox Server.

[benphelps]

I have a server with about 25 VPS's running on it, I would really love to migrate to Proxmox.

Is there an easy way to do this ?

I have a external HD that can be used to temporally store the VM's to make the process easier.

Any insight would be great.

 

[chronos]

Basicly you shoud read this: http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE

You can also tell us what VPS platform are you using now and which os is used inside VPS.

As OpenVZ is pretty nice, effective and flexible container virtualization you can use it instead of KVM virtualization. If you want to use OpenVZ then maybe its better to do migration VPS by VPS by reinstaling system and tranfering data through network using samba, rsync, sshfs, scp or another network sharing service.

 

[benphelps]

Its a CentOS 5 with 2x Intell Core2Quad Q9300 (I think they can do KVM, not 100% sure)


The VPS's we have now are all OpenVZ containers.

 

[fortechitsolutions]

Hi,

I think bringing OpenVZ containers into control of proxve should be pretty simple (especially if you don't mind some downtime for the migrations). There is a thread on this topic I had posted in the last week or two.. maybe take a look at that first.

Tim

 

[benphelps]

We moved them over with only about 2 hours of downtime total.

Backing up, copying, installing, copying, restoring and fixing the configs for them all.

I just vzdumped all the containers then vzdumped restore.