Move to new hardware

[drnicolas]

I recently started experimenting with PVE. The first attempts were disappoiting, using very old hardware with only 4GB RAM

Now, I gave it another try using a Ryzen CPU with 16GB RAM.
This seems to work far better now.

The future should be moving to new even more powerful hardware. I am thinking of at least 64GB RAM

In the meantime I would like to first upgrade my storage:
I am dreaming of using 2 Samsung PMA3 with 960 or 1,8TB as a ZFS mirror and 2 small consumer SSDs for proxmox itself.

Is there a detailed how-to move an existing proxmox system to new hardware without using backups on a NAS or so?
I think, I will not have additional hardware to simply build another node and then transfer

 

[LnxBil]

Is there a detailed how-to move an existing proxmox system to new hardware without using backups on a NAS or so?

If you have two running machines with their dedicated hardware both with ZFS, I can recommend ZFS replication directly with PVE and active on the other node.

If that's NOT the case, backup & restore is the simplest and easiest solution for most of the people, especially if you cannot unplug/replug your disks in a new computer.

and 2 small consumer SSDs for proxmox itself.

Please don't. Just install PVE on the ones your already use. The only upside is that you may want to reinstall without recreating your pool, but has only downsides.