[PVE-User] Import and export of VM images to and fro to different proxmox instances

[PVE-User] Import and export of VM images to and fro to different proxmox instances

[Joseph John]

Dear All,
Good afternoon
I am reading the link
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/VM_Templates_and_Clones

My intention is to make a image (copy a image) and later scp to another
Proxmox instance and import it to the new proxmox

eg I have a proxmox server, I have few virtual OS, from command line or web
interface we need to create a image and then move to another machine where
the proxmox is running and import it back

Can we do it like this
 Your advice  requested
Thanks
Joseph John

Re: [PVE-User] Import and export of VM images to and fro to different proxmox instances

[Marco Gaiarin]

Mandi! Joseph John
  In chel di` si favelave...

> My intention is to make a image (copy a image) and later scp to another
> Proxmox instance and import it to the new proxmox

If you have a common networked storage for the two cluster, for example an
NFS server (and clearly you can also setup a temprary one...) you can simply
move disks to the NFS server, in 'live migration', then shut off the
machine on old cluster, move the .conf file from old to new cluster and
start them, then move the disk from NFS to the destination storage, again
with live migration.

In this way, you can keep the downtime to some seconds.


Clearly, NFS server performance have to be 'decent', or you have to do that
in low-workging hour...

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