I have 2 proxmox clusters. I am trying to move a vm from one to the other. I am new at this. I am from a VMWare background. In Vmware, I would connect both servers to the same datastore, remove from inventory on one server, then browse to the VM and add it to inventory on the other. What is the best way to move VMs between clusters in Proxmox. Thanks!
Move VMs between Proxmox clusters
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Backup (to PBS for example) and restore could also be a way (especially if you already have backups, like running PBS as a container in both clusters that sync with each other).
qm remote-migrate but that's currently command-line only. There are some examples of that on this forum.Backup (to PBS for example) and restore could also be a way (especially if you already have backups, like running PBS as a container in both clusters that sync with each other).
Simple to do offline using pve backups:
- create a dataset on a NAS (or on one of your PVE clusters) and export it using nfs
- create a new PVE storage pool on each PVE cluster that both mount this nfs filesystem. Set this pve storage for dumps.
- do a backup of the vm you want to migrate using this new storage
- restore this backup on the other cluster.
- create a dataset on a NAS (or on one of your PVE clusters) and export it using nfs
- create a new PVE storage pool on each PVE cluster that both mount this nfs filesystem. Set this pve storage for dumps.
- do a backup of the vm you want to migrate using this new storage
- restore this backup on the other cluster.
Thank you, I have PBS that I just setup. I will see if I can connect it to both and do it that way.
How did you go with this? I have a similar requirement. Need to move a VM from a cluster to a standalone pve host. I have pbs setup and connected to the cluster so I'm thinking if I create a second datastore on pbs, connect that to the cluster, backup vm, disconnect it from the cluster, connect to host and then restore??
That'll work. If this is a one time migration, just create a vzdump backup on your cluster, copy the file over to the standalone host and import there.
