In the past people moved from Xen or VMware to KVM using libguestfs, but
I am unsure whether libguestfs supports moving _to_ Xen.
If that doesn't work you could always do it by hand, the following would
need to be accomplished:
1 - Make sure the source VM has xen drivers ready to load (ie add
xenblk, xennet etc etc to the ramdisk, not sure how to Windows this)
2 - Download the VMDK and convert it to .vhd or whatever file format you
are using.
3 - Create a new placeholder VM, maybe from iso, with a volume of the
correct size, then drop the converted volume from step 2 over it on your
storage.If the source VM has more than 1 volume, then just convert and
copy over accordingly.
4. Alternatively - if dealing with a single disk source VM - you could
always convert it to vhd, register it as a template and then deploy a VM
from this template - but this way is quite a bit slower.
HTH
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Nux
www.nux.ro
On 2022-06-09 09:05, Nikolaos Tsinganos wrote:
Hi Daan,
I guess I didn't give the appropriate description of the situation in
the first place.
VM ingestion is a great and useful feature, but what if the VMware VMs
are on a remote site that I cannot directly add as a cluster on ACS.
I mean, if there is a client that has on-prem VMware infrastructure
and wants to move the VMs to our IaaS infrastructure (ACS + Xen), what
would be the recommended way to proceed?
Of course, there are multiple criteria to make such a decision but I
wanted to ask if there are baseline guidelines.
-----Original Message-----
From: Daan Hoogland <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2022 10:08 AM
To: users <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: lift-and-shift tools/methods
Nikolaos,
There is an import feature for vmware vms. I think you need to have a
look at that.
On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 6:04 PM Nikolaos Tsinganos
<[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi everybody,
Are there any recommended “lilft-and-shift to cloudstack”
tools/methods?
… or maybe someone that wants to share his/her experience for an
on-premises VMware to Cloudstack migration? (Cloud migration).
Regards,
Nikolaos
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Daan
