Migration of VM with Passed through disks to new Hardware.

[DavidKahl]

Hi All,

I hope you're all well and healthy.

I have a questions which I cant seem to answer from existing posts and the proxmox documentation. So maybe you guys have some advice.

I'm about to transition one node to a new hardware and setup and will migrate all VM/CT to the new Hardware and consequently replace the node in the cluster. The CT's arent the issue but the VM has 2 4TB passed though disks to the VM. When i seem to want to migrate these it wants to migrate those disks too, however i'll be hotswapping them to the new device which is why i only need the migration on the actual local-LVM which hosts the OS.

Any advice on what would be the best way to deal with this? I was thinking of restoring from a Backup but that's offsite in the cluster so may take longer on the setup. Swapping the Main SSD isnt an option as its beyond its life already (one of several reasons to transition).

Appreciate you thoughts.

Best,

David

 

[mira]

So all you need is to copy the VM config, as the data is on the 2 disks and will be moved to the new host?

If so, you can copy the config in /etc/pve/qemu-server/<VMID>.conf to the new host.
First shut down the VM though. And you should be able to start it again once the disks are in the new host.

 

[DavidKahl]

Thanks Mira, I'll try this later and revert!

 

[DavidKahl]

Hi Mira,

The config wouldnt be enough as there is a VM local disk on the SDD. Thats the one id like to move.

 

[mira]

You could shut down the VM, comment out the disk passthrough lines with '#' and then move the VM.
Then when on the other node and the disks are available, simply uncomment them again.

I assume you used /dev/disk/by-id for the disks?