[PVE-User] moving a vmware machine into proxmox

Leandro Roggerone leandro at tecnetmza.com.ar
Mon Nov 30 12:13:57 CET 2020


Dear Alex: Thanks for your words.
Let me clarify some points:
a VM uses two disks , I moved and converted both.
b Hardware changed ?... yes it has, (I wanted to share a picture but my
mail is dismissed with a "no content allowed" message).
Both platforms offer different hardware to guests so hardware, naturally
will change when moving between platforms.
c Regarding relevant services ...
First I noticed , is that XAMP platform was not running.
After cheking I confirmed that new guest didnt recognized network card, I
think it was due to drivers difference. (I had to install new driver).
Since some services are attached to listen to some interfaces / ips , those
services did not start at startup.
So....
After looking at network drive options I can confirm that can not set
exactly same driver.
Conclusion:
hard disk and network card are some of the devices should be same in order
to have a transparent migration.
Since (I think) it is not possible , it will be hard to smoothly complete
this migration.
Hope to hear your comments about this.
Leandro.

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El jue, 26 nov 2020 a las 13:27, Alex Chekholko via pve-user (<
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> From the Windows point of view, the hardware changed, check in device
> manager that all devices are there?  In the service manager, make sure the
> relevant services started up?
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> Also, just to double-check, did the original VM have only one disk? If it
> had more than one, you just need to copy the vmdk and import it the same
> way and attach it to the new VM.
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> On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 8:19 AM Leandro Roggerone <
> leandro at tecnetmza.com.ar>
> wrote:
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> > Hi guys , I successfully moved a vm from my ESXi server to my proxmox.
> > This is what I did:
> > I created a backup with guettoVCB tool.
> > SCP the vmdk disk images into my proxmox local partition.
> > Created a VM
> > convert those images into qcow2 doing:
> >  qm importdisk 117 ESXi_1-000003-flat.vmdk  local-lvm -format qcow2
> >  Then I added this new disk image into my vm 117.
> >
> > After turning this machine on wich contains a windows server , following
> > happened.
> > Machine is ok, I can login and so.
> > but
> > There is sql server wich is not running.
> > After trying to open sql server configuration manager, im getting the
> "sql
> > server can not connect to wmi provider" error message.
> >
> > I know Im providing not enough information but this is perhaps some well
> > know issue.
> > I already confirmed that after rebooting original machine on ESXi server
> ,
> > there is no manual action required to have all process running.
> > So , this can be perhaps something related with licence.
> > Any feedback / feelling about this ?
> > I need to move this machine without outage nor customer action.
> > Regards.
> > Leandro.
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