[PVE-User] moving a vmware machine into proxmox

[PVE-User] moving a vmware machine into proxmox

[Leandro Roggerone]

Hi guys , I successfully moved a vm from my ESXi server to my proxmox.
This is what I did:
I created a backup with guettoVCB tool.
SCP the vmdk disk images into my proxmox local partition.
Created a VM
convert those images into qcow2 doing:
 qm importdisk 117 ESXi_1-000003-flat.vmdk  local-lvm -format qcow2
 Then I added this new disk image into my vm 117.

After turning this machine on wich contains a windows server , following
happened.
Machine is ok, I can login and so.
but
There is sql server wich is not running.
After trying to open sql server configuration manager, im getting the "sql
server can not connect to wmi provider" error message.

I know Im providing not enough information but this is perhaps some well
know issue.
I already confirmed that after rebooting original machine on ESXi server ,
there is no manual action required to have all process running.
So , this can be perhaps something related with licence.
Any feedback / feelling about this ?
I need to move this machine without outage nor customer action.
Regards.
Leandro.



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Re: [PVE-User] moving a vmware machine into proxmox

[Leandro Roggerone]

Dear Alex: Thanks for your words.
Let me clarify some points:
a VM uses two disks , I moved and converted both.
b Hardware changed ?... yes it has, (I wanted to share a picture but my
mail is dismissed with a "no content allowed" message).
Both platforms offer different hardware to guests so hardware, naturally
will change when moving between platforms.
c Regarding relevant services ...
First I noticed , is that XAMP platform was not running.
After cheking I confirmed that new guest didnt recognized network card, I
think it was due to drivers difference. (I had to install new driver).
Since some services are attached to listen to some interfaces / ips , those
services did not start at startup.
So....
After looking at network drive options I can confirm that can not set
exactly same driver.
Conclusion:
hard disk and network card are some of the devices should be same in order
to have a transparent migration.
Since (I think) it is not possible , it will be hard to smoothly complete
this migration.
Hope to hear your comments about this.
Leandro.

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El jue, 26 nov 2020 a las 13:27, Alex Chekholko via pve-user (<
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> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 08:26:19 -0800
> Subject: Re: [PVE-User] moving a vmware machine into proxmox
> From the Windows point of view, the hardware changed, check in device
> manager that all devices are there?  In the service manager, make sure the
> relevant services started up?
>
> Also, just to double-check, did the original VM have only one disk? If it
> had more than one, you just need to copy the vmdk and import it the same
> way and attach it to the new VM.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 8:19 AM Leandro Roggerone <
> leandro@tecnetmza.com.ar>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi guys , I successfully moved a vm from my ESXi server to my proxmox.
> > This is what I did:
> > I created a backup with guettoVCB tool.
> > SCP the vmdk disk images into my proxmox local partition.
> > Created a VM
> > convert those images into qcow2 doing:
> >  qm importdisk 117 ESXi_1-000003-flat.vmdk  local-lvm -format qcow2
> >  Then I added this new disk image into my vm 117.
> >
> > After turning this machine on wich contains a windows server , following
> > happened.
> > Machine is ok, I can login and so.
> > but
> > There is sql server wich is not running.
> > After trying to open sql server configuration manager, im getting the
> "sql
> > server can not connect to wmi provider" error message.
> >
> > I know Im providing not enough information but this is perhaps some well
> > know issue.
> > I already confirmed that after rebooting original machine on ESXi server
> ,
> > there is no manual action required to have all process running.
> > So , this can be perhaps something related with licence.
> > Any feedback / feelling about this ?
> > I need to move this machine without outage nor customer action.
> > Regards.
> > Leandro.
> >
> >
> >
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