Migration software tool

[Leo David]

Hello Proxmox Team,
For first thank you very much for all of your work in developing and maintaining this software, also for quick and prompt support over the community section.
My question is that are there any future plans for releasing a tool like vmware converter, which i think it would make syadmins's life much more easier.
I am in the process of migrating a reasonablly number of bare metal and vms servers to a proxmox cluster environment, and a tool that could concurently do these jobs would be very handy.
Thank you very much,

Have a nice day !

 

[mbaldini]

I usually use vmware converter to create the vmdk file from the bare metal server, then I import in Proxmox with the new qm importdisk command. After that, the only operation left to do, if it's a windows system, is to install virtio drivers. But it's a fast and easy process. Just boot first time with the windows virtual disk configured as SATA and a small 1gb new virtual disk configured as virtio or scsi, install all virtio drivers, then power off windows and change the virtual disk to virtio or scsi.

 

[Leo David]

Thank you !
Yes, i've seen some docs regarding vmware converter usage as a workaround.
I wonder though about an official proxmox software to do p2v and v2v more straighforward and the whole job once, like vmware converter does. I agree upon additional drivers to install to win machines for virtio, being a necesarly step..

 

[aderumier]

proxmox 5.1 will have to "qm importovf", to import vmc onfig + vmdk disk files.