Comments on: New VMware ESXi to Proxmox VE Import Wizard Available

By: Unmesh

Unmesh — Mon, 20 May 2024 04:01:21 +0000

I’m going to go down this path and could use some advice.

I have a number of hard drives in my tower server that are RDM’ed over to VMs on ESXi7 and I don’t have another server large enough to run Proxmox and house those hard drives. I do have a TMM running Proxmox though and it has enough storage to house the VMs that use those hard drives.

Can I migrate the ESXi VMs to the TMM, never power them up, install Proxmox on the tower server, migrate the now Proxmox VMs back to the tower server, map the hard drives to these VMs and then power them up? Or am I too optimistic in assuming this will work?

By: JeremyB

JeremyB — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 03:29:55 +0000

Combine this with 45Drives’ Proxinator & you have a relatively easy migration path. Great to see the innovation happening.

By: Semaj

Semaj — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 09:11:11 +0000

“Perhaps the easiest way to think about this is ”

… sucking a big turd trough a rainbow-straw while humming Rick Astley – Never gonna give you up

If you aren’t going to finish the sentence, I have to assume that’s where you were going with it.

By: Dev_Mgr

Dev_Mgr — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 04:16:56 +0000

@Nisar.

Though it would be nice to have that info, it seems Proxmox already updated their online documentation and has a fairly decently documented process.

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Migrate_to_Proxmox_VE (scroll down to “Automatic ESXi Import: Step by Step”).

By: Nisar

Nisar — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:37:02 +0000

Thank you Cliff for your insight on new import feature offered by Promox for VMware workloads. It’d be great if you could add step by step process of importing it.

By: James

James — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:11:26 +0000

“Perhaps the easiest way to think about this is ”

… a fish swimming upstream during a red algae bloom wearing a hoop skirt.

If you aren’t going to finish the sentence, I have to assume that’s where you were going with it.