New Import Wizard Available for Migrating VMware ESXi Based Virtual Machines

Hi i m having trouble migrating windows vm from vmware to proxmox . as i saw few post i uninstall vmwaretool from windows vm prior migrating to proxmox then after migration install virtio drivers for win and change disk to sata and i was able to migrate and access windows vm in proxmox . only thing i didnt get is networking ( ip configs on any of the attached Nic ) do i have to re do my networking on windows vm after migration or is there is any steps i can follow along to bring vm along with networking. ?
 
Tmanok said:
Shared to several places, let's hope the word gets out and we can support VMWare ESXi users looking for a welcoming community to migrate towards. Thanks Tom and the rest of the Proxmox team for putting in some hard work into making this community and product more welcoming to new users!
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I am also a jilted VMWare user and just discovered Proxmax. Still reading through best practices for installing and migration (we have very small footprint, our lab <10 win & linux RHEL nodes plus 4 VM hosted via VMWare 6.6 on one DELL R720 (40 core, 512GB RAM). Could you suggest a good source to get info on same server hosting VMWare to host Proxmax and migration? Do we need an additional bare metal server, or in essence, where I could readup on different straregies. Thank you in advance!
 
tayyab.shah said:
Hi i m having trouble migrating windows vm from vmware to proxmox . as i saw few post i uninstall vmwaretool from windows vm prior migrating to proxmox then after migration install virtio drivers for win and change disk to sata and i was able to migrate and access windows vm in proxmox . only thing i didnt get is networking ( ip configs on any of the attached Nic ) do i have to re do my networking on windows vm after migration or is there is any steps i can follow along to bring vm along with networking. ?
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Just reconfigure IP of your NIC in Windows. Note the reminder pop up when you save the IP.
 
tayyab.shah said:
Hi i m having trouble migrating windows vm from vmware to proxmox . as i saw few post i uninstall vmwaretool from windows vm prior migrating to proxmox then after migration install virtio drivers for win and change disk to sata and i was able to migrate and access windows vm in proxmox . only thing i didnt get is networking ( ip configs on any of the attached Nic ) do i have to re do my networking on windows vm after migration or is there is any steps i can follow along to bring vm along with networking. ?
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Have a look at the scripts in this thread: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/n...ion-von-windows-vms-zu-pve-übernehmen.175997/
 
Does this work with vSAN storage? I tried a few times, checked storage polices for encryption, etc but fails if i create a new VM on the hosts local storage it works.
 
mgformula1 said:
Does this work with vSAN storage? I tried a few times, checked storage polices for encryption, etc but fails if i create a new VM on the hosts local storage it works.
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No, the VM to be imported needs to be on a storage where the virtual disks will be stored as files (vmdk).
 
mgformula1 said:
vSAN is stored as .vmdk's that's a function of esxi not vSAN. Maybe its shared storage issue
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It is about how VSAN stores the data, not as files it seems.
This is taken from Broadcom's knowledge base:
Traditional VMFS Storage:-
Descriptor VM-NAME.vmdk
flat.vmdk

vSAN Storage:-
Descriptor VM-NAME.vmdk
vSAN object UUID

In VSAN's object-based storage, -flat.vmdk and -delta.vmdk files are not directly addressable as datastore paths.
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