RAID0 to Proxmox VE Transfer

[Vito Reiter]

We have a server here in my office running Windows Server 2008 R2 (Windows 7 not 8) the drive is in RAID0, I copied the whole drive (2 500GBs in RAID0) and I took a live image with SelfImage and transferred it through an open port to our Proxmox VE while the server itself was still running. After doing so and attempting to boot through the console it just says "Booting from Hard Disk" infinitely. However, the server was running but there was no functions being performed on it as it was after hours. The drives are connected to the original server via SATA ports if that helps.

here the error I recieve:
https://puu.sh/s5ajd/aa5b2a9224.png

This is what my settings look like:
https://puu.sh/s5amF/d4c790d859.png
https://puu.sh/s5ao7/c24dd7e24d.png

If anyone can help in a hasty fashion, that would be awesome. Thanks.

 

[LnxBil]

Could be a thousand things. One thing that stood out is: why did you transfer (and how could it be) from 2x 500 GB -> 128 GB? Then it cannot be a 1:1 copy and therefore a lot of things can go wrong.

 

[Vito Reiter]

There was only about 57GB of space used on that 2TB system. I was confident that it would just copy all that I needed and not just the hole of blank data that was the first 128GB?

SelfImage: https://puu.sh/s5bVF/d53c31e86f.png

 

[Vito Reiter]

Also to add this is the screenshot of my config file for the VM in ProxMox as well:
https://puu.sh/s5c02/e421f5920a.png

 

[LnxBil]

Data, sure but a working OS ... not so much. You need a correct boot sector or boot manager, partition layout etc. If that does not work correctly, you'll end up with a non-booting system as you did.

The best way to achieve this would be 1:1 migration on a thin provisioned storage.

 

[Vito Reiter]

I consulted a 3rd party and you were right, it looks like it only copied the first 128GB of the drive. Also, the data was scattered so it couldn't get a correct boot. I appreciate the help it really sped things up here.

 

[LnxBil]

For migration on windows systems is always the best solution to keep as close to the original system as possible. Windows is not that customizable with respect to boot layout and changes therefore as Linux it. Most of the time it also has not to be that "flexible", so that's not a real fault of windows.

I hope you can migrate the data with other methods described in the wiki, but normally it can be straight forward.