Just a followup - I experimented with veam and found it very awkward to backup disks and then extract to a external medium for conversion.
In the end I just exported all the VM's to OVF (Dir format) using the vSphere client. It was able to batch them so not to painful. That gave me a single vmdk for conversion. We actually had no physical Windows PC's to do this with, so I passed a USB disk trhough to a Windows VM on the vSphere box and ran the client from inside that :) On 19 June 2015 at 08:20, Lindsay Mathieson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > Fortunately there is no great urgency on this, so I have time to > experiment. > > On 18 June 2015 at 17:29, Eneko Lacunza <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Lindsay, >> >> El 18/06/15 a las 02:24, Lindsay Mathieson escribió: >> >> 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. >>> >>> The Admin for it wants to just backup all the VM's using Veam (much >>> easier) and then convert the backups to KVM/qcow2. >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> 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? >>> >>> Anyone have experience with this? >>> >> What I did in such a situation was the following: >> - Stop al VMWare VMs >> - Download VM disks to another media (optionally check that you can run >> successfully them on another proxmox server) >> - Format vSphere server to Proxmox >> - copy and qemu-img the disk images >> >> I suggest you uninstall vmware tools before stopping the VMs. >> >> Cheers >> Eneko >> >> -- >> Zuzendari Teknikoa / Director Técnico >> Binovo IT Human Project, S.L. >> Telf. 943575997 >> 943493611 >> Astigarraga bidea 2, planta 6 dcha., ofi. 3-2; 20180 Oiartzun (Gipuzkoa) >> www.binovo.es >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pve-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://pve.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-user >> > > > > -- > Lindsay > -- Lindsay
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