Transferring several ZFS machines from Proxmox to VMware ESXi

[jan123]

Hello everyone!

I'm new to the forum, but I couldn't find any useful information regarding my problem. I have several machines on Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.2-4, and I need to move two of them to ESXi version: 7.0.3.

I tried the following approach:
zfs send rpool/data/vm-ID-disk-0 > name.zfs
qemu-img convert -f raw -O vmdk name.zfs name.vmdk

Then I copied the vmdk to ESXi and run:
vmkfstools -i name.vmdk name2.vmdk -d thin

I created a new machine with the name2.vmdk disk attached, but the system won't boot. Has anyone experienced a similar problem?

 

[jan123]

find vm with:
pvesm path ssdpool:vm-103-disk-0

go to the vm path
cd /localization/vm/

qemu-img convert -O vmdk -f raw vm-103-disk-0 /tmp/vm-name.vmdk

Then I copied the vmdk to ESXi and run:
vmkfstools -i name.vmdk name2.vmdk -d thin

I created a new machine with the name2.vmdk disk attached

Working good