Proxmox has 'New Import Wizard Available for Migrating VMware ESXi Based Virtual Machines' see https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/new-import-wizard-available-for-migrating-vmware-esxi-based-virtual-machines.144023/ .
Best Regards, Barnabas Toth | webmas...@speckz.com Bio, Portfolio, Resume, and Services @ https://speckz.com Pronouns: he/him/his <https://speckz.com> On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 5:10 PM Richard Laager via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > On 2024-04-15 15:40, Kevin A. McGrail via mailop wrote: > > We have four servers where we can't retrieve our free ESXi VMWare license > after Broadcom shut things down and they are in evaluation mode for about > 30 more days. > > Does any one have any advice? Is there a product we can buy? Is there an > alternative you've been switching over to using? Anyone have a spare > license we can use? > > > Install Linux on the bare metal. Then: > > Proxmox is popular. I believe it has a web interface. > > or > > libvirt + virt-manager (assuming your management computer runs Linux with > a GUI). I use this in production. > > The transition might be a bit tricky depending on where the data is > stored. Assuming it's local, you're going to need to copy the VM disk > images off in some fashion before you reformat. If you have the resources, > the safest would be to move VMs off one server to the other three to free > up one server, then reformat that server, then move VMs from one of the > other three to it, then repeat. Note that the emulated hardware will be > slightly different too, which will take some tweaking. If the guests are > Linux, that's probably pretty straightforward. If they are Windows, it > might be more unhappy (e.g. triggering a need for re-activation). > > -- > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop >
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