Proxmox Host Migration

[tzzz90]

Hello,

i think i have a simple question. I have an old PVE Host with local Storage as local-lvm (lvm-thin) and want to migrate my VMs to a new Host with a local-zfs. My planned method is to install the new Host and create a Cluster between the new and the old host. After that i migrate the VMs to the new Host and uncluster the nodes. Is this correct or is there a trouble because the different storage types? Im not that familiar yet with this kind of migration.

Best regards

 

[Moayad]

Hi,

The simplest way is to do a backup and restore [0].


[0] https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-vzdump.html

 

[tzzz90]

Hello,

sorry for late answer. Yeah, thats a good idea. But there is a other question now. We have a PBS installed on the old PVE Node. The datastore is a litte QNAP mounted via NFS. So i installed PBS on the other node and tried to mount this NFS Datastore. Its mounting and with ssh i see the old PBS Stuff. But in the gui from PBS i dont see the old backups. And generally the store is smaller then the "other" in the old PBS. How can i do this? Now i imagine my Node is crashing, i install the new PVE and PBS and then i dont see the old backups? I tried to copy the datastore.cfg but it doesnt help.

Best regards,
Tzzz

 

[Moayad]

Hi,

Instead, you can use the Remote & Sync [0]

[0] https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/managing-remotes.html

 

[tzzz90]

I tried again to mount the backup and it works. So i could restore the VMs on the new Host. Thank you!

Best Regards,
Tzzz