Move VM to New Server

[matthew]

I need to move a large VM from one server to a newer one in different location. Is there a way to stop the VM and move it to new server and restart on new server? The backup process seems to take a very long time so I was looking for a faster method.

 

[fireon]

Yes, one way is to use NFS. What storagemodel do you use?

 

[matthew]

Each server has 4 sata drives in simple ZFS RAID 6 style array. I do have 1gbps connectivity on both of them.

 

[fireon]

2 Methods

With ZFS it is very easy. If you able to make an cluster with this both machines (only for migration), so it is very, very easy.

1. Create an Replication job in the Webinterface
2. Wait that the VM was migrated.
3. Stop it and move it in a few seconds to the targethost

So you can move the machine between the hosts. You can also set the migrationspeed.

Other Method:

1. Rightclick the VM an move it to the targethost, also available @running VM now in latest PVE 6.1
2. Ready

Without making a Cluster you can do this with pve-zsync, also easy