2 years ago (Pre-Broadcom), I was like "Why would I do this, VMware is pretty decent, cost wise it's not terrible" but I bookmarked this Thanks OP, this came in handy in 2024
I was a disappointed when I realized you were not migrating an entire VM and have it boot up successfully in proxmox. The scenario you presented can be achieved by copying the files over the network via SMB.
Hey Amos! That’s a really great point. While it may take a lot longer to transfer your files over SMB, it is absolutely possible to do that. The great news is the process that I show off in this guide actually does allow you to migrate an entire VM as well, but I definitely could have done a better job at clarifying and showing that off. What you would do to migrate an entire VM is to create an empty virtual machine in Proxmox with the same hardware allocation as your ESXi VM, and then migrate over your OS drive using the process I showed off in this video. If you are interested, we can absolutely put together a part-2 with a more detailed video going into how to achieve this and even show people around the Proxmox UI for any new users out there.
@@45Drives I would love a part 2. I am currently in the planning stage of moving from an R720 running ESXi with local vmfs datastores and I'm not sure how to go about moving all the vmdks to the proxmox host. My best guess would be remove one of the disks in my R720's RAID 1 with all the VMs on it and place it into the proxmox host, install vmfs tools and mount it, then move the vmdks to a different disk on the proxmox host?
@@Eschmacher Hey Eschmacher! I am sorry I didn't see this sooner. You have exactly the right idea, however. That would work great! I have a really cool video coming out this Tuesday about Benchmarking for your workload, and helping demystify different workloads and how they work to help you better build your ZFS array to your needs, but I would definitely love to re-visit this topic and create a part 2 with a more in-depth guide. In the mean-time, if you have any questions, fire away!
As other users have observed, the video has nothing to do with the title. You are not migrating a virtual machine there. You are just transferring some data through a very cumbersome way. You could very well mount a nfs share from proxmox directly into esxi and copy the vmdk.
Suggestion, make the terminal text much larger. Also, you can get to the shell of ESXi and SCP the VMDK to the proxmox in one step. Or from the shell of Proxmox copy from ESXi assuming SSH is enabled on ESXi. It is very good to show that Linux can mount VMFS I had a case where a replica wouldn't mount to ESXi. (yes I resigatured it) So I mounted it with Linux and copied the VMDK over to ESXi. Those VMFS utils have come in very handy many times.
Amazing. Thank you for sharing. I'd love to know about the best practices for creating a virtual machine that can be easily migrated in the future. Is it recommended to use VirtualBox and the VDI format?
Great video, can you do a video on oVirt as well? There really is not enough good content on it, although it's a really nice solution (at least for me), albeit pretty hard for new comers.
Don't watch this video if you actually want to migrate a VM. This is not what he is doing and the video is not named correctly. Now to go find a tutorial that actually does what his video claims to do.
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2 years ago (Pre-Broadcom), I was like "Why would I do this, VMware is pretty decent, cost wise it's not terrible" but I bookmarked this
Thanks OP, this came in handy in 2024
Video was ahead of its time for sure
I was a disappointed when I realized you were not migrating an entire VM and have it boot up successfully in proxmox. The scenario you presented can be achieved by copying the files over the network via SMB.
Hey Amos! That’s a really great point. While it may take a lot longer to transfer your files over SMB, it is absolutely possible to do that. The great news is the process that I show off in this guide actually does allow you to migrate an entire VM as well, but I definitely could have done a better job at clarifying and showing that off. What you would do to migrate an entire VM is to create an empty virtual machine in Proxmox with the same hardware allocation as your ESXi VM, and then migrate over your OS drive using the process I showed off in this video. If you are interested, we can absolutely put together a part-2 with a more detailed video going into how to achieve this and even show people around the Proxmox UI for any new users out there.
@@45Drives I would love a part 2. I am currently in the planning stage of moving from an R720 running ESXi with local vmfs datastores and I'm not sure how to go about moving all the vmdks to the proxmox host.
My best guess would be remove one of the disks in my R720's RAID 1 with all the VMs on it and place it into the proxmox host, install vmfs tools and mount it, then move the vmdks to a different disk on the proxmox host?
@@Eschmacher Hey Eschmacher! I am sorry I didn't see this sooner. You have exactly the right idea, however. That would work great! I have a really cool video coming out this Tuesday about Benchmarking for your workload, and helping demystify different workloads and how they work to help you better build your ZFS array to your needs, but I would definitely love to re-visit this topic and create a part 2 with a more in-depth guide.
In the mean-time, if you have any questions, fire away!
Great tutorial. I was hoping to learn how to migrate a primary disk (live machine on ESXi) to Proxmox.
Same here. Data drives are easy. OS drives not so much.
As other users have observed, the video has nothing to do with the title. You are not migrating a virtual machine there. You are just transferring some data through a very cumbersome way. You could very well mount a nfs share from proxmox directly into esxi and copy the vmdk.
complete waste of time indeed
Suggestion, make the terminal text much larger. Also, you can get to the shell of ESXi and SCP the VMDK to the proxmox in one step. Or from the shell of Proxmox copy from ESXi assuming SSH is enabled on ESXi. It is very good to show that Linux can mount VMFS I had a case where a replica wouldn't mount to ESXi. (yes I resigatured it) So I mounted it with Linux and copied the VMDK over to ESXi. Those VMFS utils have come in very handy many times.
Amazing. Thank you for sharing. I'd love to know about the best practices for creating a virtual machine that can be easily migrated in the future. Is it recommended to use VirtualBox and the VDI format?
Great tech tip...keep em coming
we are all here after Broadcom mess :)
It's only for Broadcom's VMWare to kvm. What about other migrations. This video isn't general in nature like the title suggests.
Great video, can you do a video on oVirt as well? There really is not enough good content on it, although it's a really nice solution (at least for me), albeit pretty hard for new comers.
So you moved a data disk over to an existing proxmox VM... That's not what the title suggested at all.
Still a very worthwhile video.
Esto no sirve cuando hay particiones, aparte esto no sirve para migrar aplicativos previamente instalados
"Только лежачий, не пнул поверженного короля.."
omg ,it's so complicated, small text in the shell, no scheme to understand better, sadness :(
Don't watch this video if you actually want to migrate a VM. This is not what he is doing and the video is not named correctly. Now to go find a tutorial that actually does what his video claims to do.
I am looking for that actually. Have you found a good one?
Bee 🐝 hive = bhyve. Couoje with BHCP. Good stuff. Extremely fast. Faster than proxymoxy.