Move VM with ZFS disk to another Proxmox Server

[taich]

How can I move a VM from a ZFS disk to another Proxmox server?

Is it possible to copy the disk-file and the <VMID>.conf file to the other server?

 

[mira]

Are they in a cluster? If so, you can simply migrate them.
If they are not in the same cluster, it is recommended to create a backup, copy it to the other server and restore it there.

 

[aaron]

The simplest way using PVE tools would be to create a backup and restore that on the target server.

If you want to go down a more manual road, there are plenty of approaches that can work:

• zfs send & recv
• create the target VM, boot both (source & target) with
  • Clonezilla or something similar
  • a Linux live ISO and use dd if=/dev/sdX | ssh ... and pipe it via SSH to the target where dd will receive the data and write it out to the disk
• ...

 

[jaceqp]

Afaik ZFS does not have VD's as a regular "files" to copy.
How about just simple backup/restore?
Using that your backgroud filesystem doesn't matter. You can backup/restore to different storage easily and restore process will match output VD's format accordingly.

 

[taich]

Afaik ZFS does not have VD's as a regular "files" to copy.
How about just simple backup/restore?
Using that your backgroud filesystem doesn't matter. You can backup/restore to different storage easily and restore process will match output VD's format accordingly.

The VM I am talking about has 8 TB of data. Backup/Restore would take about 50 hours.
But thanks for your help.

 

[AlexLup]

"Managed" this to apply Gluster on it to give me the HA option, but please be aware that speeds will go down quite a bit.