New Import Wizard Available for Migrating VMware ESXi Based Virtual Machines

[aaron]

The preparation section of the wiki page should include checking for such policies.

done. Thanks for reporting this.

 

[dtom2444]

Has anyone tried importing a VM with active snapshots? I tried to import a VM with 2 active snapshots but the import wizard sat at 0% after 45 minutes. Is this scenario not supported?

 

[Falk R.]

Import with Snapshots over the vSphere API (used by this Wizard) are Not VMware Supported and very bugy. Please delete all Snapshots before importing.

 

[Grrmmll]

I have discovered the problem. The VM had a VM Storage Policy applying to it, the VM was encrypted using the VMware VM Encryption Provider. Removing the policy, and thus the encryption, allowed it to be imported. The preparation section of the wiki page should include checking for such policies.

Indeed.
We have some storage policies in place to limit IO on the VM disks and this was blocking the import process.
Once we remove them in VMware, no trouble with import.

 

[david.eberle_sts]

another question on importing VMware to Proxmox... can you do snapshots after you import a VMWare VM into Proxmox? if so how can you do that? I am trying to do this but i am getting an error saying that this VM is not configured to do snapshots, this is an issue as this is one of the things that should work "out of the box" when importing VM's.

 

[jlauro]

another question on importing VMware to Proxmox... can you do snapshots after you import a VMWare VM into Proxmox? if so how can you do that? I am trying to do this but i am getting an error saying that this VM is not configured to do snapshots, this is an issue as this is one of the things that should work "out of the box" when importing VM's.

That depends largely on what storage the imported vm is on. See https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage for which types of storage support and do not support snapshots.

 

[kellogs]

any faced this issue before? Windows has 1x 60G 3x 2TB and failed at the last drive 1.5TB mark. Did it hit some sort of limitation?

 

[jlauro]

I have seen similar issues, and retries fail at different spot each time. Basically decided not going to try for anything over 500gb and instead rebuild any transfer data vm to vm, preferably with something that can do an incremental sync. Might do some more testing in the future, but we only have have about a dozen large vms.

 

[kellogs]

i am using clonezilla now

 

[stoney777]

Using this to import my nested homelab from my Dell Poweredge but it looks like my ESXi VM's eat up all allocated RAM, even though ESXTOP shows majority of RAM is free. Any ideas on how to get past this issue?

 

[kellogs]

8.3 - removed esxi mount but still exist when df -ah

I have removed the esxi mounted storage - Datacenter -> Storage and confirmed from the GUI it is no longer shown.

When i access any of the hosts, i can see see it df -ah

/dev/fuse 0 0 0 - /run/pve/import/esxi/esxi88124/mnt
/dev/fuse 0 0 0 - /run/pve/import/esxi/esxi88117/mnt
/dev/fuse 0 0 0 - /run/pve/import/esxi/esxi88115/mnt
/dev/fuse 0 0 0 - /run/pve/import/esxi/esxi88116/mnt
/dev/fuse 0 0 0 - /run/pve/import/esxi/esxi88119/mnt
/dev/fuse 0 0 0 - /run/pve/import/esxi/esxi88120/mnt

 

[Marian.Veverka]

I converted physical PC using VMWare Converter Standalone and import to VMWare Esxi 6.7, from this ESXi storages connected to Proxmox 8.2.4, import VM and it worked great. THX.