Tuesday Tech Tip - Migrating Virtual Machines from VMWare to Proxmox

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?

It's only for Broadcom's VMWare to kvm. What about other migrations. This video isn't general in nature like the title suggests.

Bee 🐝 hive = bhyve. Couoje with BHCP. Good stuff. Extremely fast. Faster than proxymoxy.

Great tutorial. I was hoping to learn how to migrate a primary disk (live machine on ESXi) to Proxmox.

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.

Esto no sirve cuando hay particiones, aparte esto no sirve para migrar aplicativos previamente instalados

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.

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.

omg ,it's so complicated, small text in the shell, no scheme to understand better, sadness :(

Great tech tip...keep em coming

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.

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.