[PVE-User] Moving virtual machine from CE 6.X to latest enterprise edition, advice requested

[Aaron Lauterer]

That sounds like a reasonable plan.

If you have a network share that you want to utilize for the backups later on 
(never store them on the same machine, 3-2-1 backup strategy and such ;) ) you 
could already configure it on the old Proxmox VE server. That way, you don't 
have to manually move the backup files over. Since you are decommissioning the 
old server, there is no risk of running into issues of two different Proxmox VE 
clusters (or separate single nodes), accessing the exact same storage.

Under normal situations, you don't want to give two Proxmox VE clusters access 
to the same storage, as you might run into VMID conflicts.

Cheers,
Aaron

On 8/2/23 09:31, Joseph John wrote:
> Dear All,
> Good morning
> We are going to have ProxMox 8 enterprise edition setup, installation is
> going on.
> 
> Earlier we were using ProxMox 6.X Community Edition, this is a  separate
> unit which we were using . Now once the enterprise edition is up, we plan
> to move all the VM instance which were on the old 6.X  CE to the  separate
> ProxMox 8 enterprise edition
> 
> I am planning to move the old vm form the CE (6.X) to ProxMox 8 (Enterprise
> Edition)  in the following way
> 
>     - Take  backup of the VM at CE using the backup option
>     - scp/rsync  the  backup files to the Prox Mox 8 Enterprise version
>     - Use the restore option from the new server to restore the image
> 
> 
> Like to get advice, if the above mentioned steps is apt when you are going
> to move from one of the older CE edition [6.X] to the latest enterprise
> edition
> 
> Thanks
> Joseph John
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