VM Migration between two Proxmox Clusters

kiranch97

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Hi Everyone,

Can anyone help with some procedure on how to migrate VMs from Proxmox cluster to another promox cluster, looking forward for some support.
 
Hi,

if your clusters are new enough you could use the experimental remote migration feature [1].

The most stable and well tested approach is probably creating a backup and restoring it on the other cluster [2]. All you need for that is basically some storage that you can either transfer between the two clusters or that they share anyway. For example, storage server that has two NFS shares one each for a cluster, create the backups on cluster A, configure cluster A's backup storage on cluster B, restore the VM on cluster B.

[1]: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/api-viewer/index.html#/nodes/{node}/qemu/{vmid}/remote_migrate
[2]: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-vzdump.html
 
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Hi,

if your clusters are new enough you could use the experimental remote migration feature [1].

The most stable and well tested approach is probably creating a backup and restoring it on the other cluster [2]. All you need for that is basically some storage that you can either transfer between the two clusters or that they share anyway. For example, storage server that has two NFS shares one each for a cluster, create the backups on cluster A, configure cluster A's backup storage on cluster B, restore the VM on cluster B.

[1]: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/api-viewer/index.html#/nodes/{node}/qemu/{vmid}/remote_migrate
[2]: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-vzdump.html

I'm just starting to investigate Proxmox. One of my coworkers and I installed it on a single server and created a couple servers on it. Just the other day I took 3 machines and built a cluster. For learning purposes and practice, I'd like to move a BSD server I created on the single server over to the cluster. I tried the backup/restore method but I can't get the cluster to bring up the backed up server files. When I open restore, there's nothing there.

Since this is all new and experimental, I'd like to try the remote migration feature. Where do I find that? Would you have a link to instructions on how to use it?
 
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