<div dir="ltr"><div><br>Thanks Eneko, thats pretty much my plan, its the initial transfer of the disks to other media that is the problem. In the past this vSphere server has been amazingly slow at migrating disks to NFS storage, as in 8-12 hours for a 20GB drive. I gather this is a common problem with vSphere storage migrations.<br><br></div>Fortunately there is no great urgency on this, so I have time to experiment.<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 June 2015 at 17:29, Eneko Lacunza <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elacunza@binovo.es" target="_blank">elacunza@binovo.es</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Lindsay,<br>
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El 18/06/15 a las 02:24, Lindsay Mathieson escribió:<div><div class="h5"><br>
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We have vSphere server which we are looking to repurpose as a Proxmox Server, but we have to transfer and convert the VM's on it first.<br>
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The Admin for it wants to just backup all the VM's using Veam (much easier) and then convert the backups to KVM/qcow2.<br>
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Now I realise that obviously that can't be done directly as Veam doesn't support KVM :) There's only about 15 VM's so I'm happy to run the qemu-umg convert myself.<br>
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What I don't know is whether Veam can just restore the vSphere disk image to a directory that I can access, or does it only restore to a vSphere Store?<br>
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Anyone have experience with this?<br>
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What I did in such a situation was the following:<br>
- Stop al VMWare VMs<br>
- Download VM disks to another media (optionally check that you can run successfully them on another proxmox server)<br>
- Format vSphere server to Proxmox<br>
- copy and qemu-img the disk images<br>
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I suggest you uninstall vmware tools before stopping the VMs.<br>
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Eneko<br>
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