Moving My Server to Proxmox

[Danielc1234]

I am very excited that someone had mentioned this software to me, however I am trying to wrap my head on how to move my current server to this software environment.
We are buying 2 machines with Intel I-7 chips all beefed up, one to run sql and other to run all websites and related softwares...which is apache, mail, webserver...currently running Centos 5.
The system we have is a stand alone server, actually a Mac Pro dual core running everything in the centos environment.
So my question is. How would I go about making the transition from our current setup and moving to the new systems without much download time. We are running 10 websites for our ecommerce business and cannot afford to be down at all.
Could someone recommend the course of action I should be taking?

 

[tom]

I am very excited that someone had mentioned this software to me, however I am trying to wrap my head on how to move my current server to this software environment.
We are buying 2 machines with Intel I-7 chips all beefed up, one to run sql and other to run all websites and related softwares...which is apache, mail, webserver...currently running Centos 5.
The system we have is a stand alone server, actually a Mac Pro dual core running everything in the centos environment.
So my question is. How would I go about making the transition from our current setup and moving to the new systems without much download time. We are running 10 websites for our ecommerce business and cannot afford to be down at all.
Could someone recommend the course of action I should be taking?

to start, see this page:
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migration_of_servers_to_Proxmox_VE

just to understand: you are currently running centos on a mac pro hardware? or do you use already virtualization on the mac?

 

[Danielc1234]

Yes we are currently running centos on a mac pro hardware and NO Virtualization.

The thread does not talk about centos, will this work in my case?

 

[tom]

Yes we are currently running centos on a mac pro hardware and NO Virtualization.

The thread does not talk about centos, will this work in my case?

the wiki page describes several methods, I would try booting from a live cd and use dd to copy the data over the network.

depending on your data and network speed this will take some time, so I highly recommend you test the procedure on a test equipment to minimize downtime.

another question: do you run a full backup? if yes, just restore everything on Promxox VE KVM guest. (you need a bare-metal restore)

 

[Danielc1234]

Thanks Tom, We have not made a full backup yet, but I guess that would not be a problem.
A problem doing that way is, I want to have the sql on another machine and right now it is on the Mac.
Hopefully you will be around when I actually start the process which will be in the next few days.

 

[martin]

Thanks Tom, We have not made a full backup yet, but I guess that would not be a problem.
A problem doing that way is, I want to have the sql on another machine and right now it is on the Mac.
Hopefully you will be around when I actually start the process which will be in the next few days.

test to procedure on a test environment before you touch the productive system.