I’ve been running PVE for about 4 years but never had a reason to try P2V migration at home or work. Kind of curious what about the host makes it worth the effort vs just rebuilding the services. I’ve become a big fan of LXC. The turnkey distros cover most use cases for home and a lot for professional needs too, at least small scale in-house stuff.
A looking time ago I got 2 r710s for cheap. One was a test server which had Ubuntu server with a desktop environment on it (I was used to windows server administration) and the other was a headless Minecraft server. Both have about 200 gigs of RAM, but similar CPU configs. Every self hosting thing I tried went on the main server…DHCP, DNS, jellyfin, NextCloud, Apache, vaultWarden…it got out of hand. Even then, I used the desktop over x2go as a stable environment when moving between clients. We replaced the Minecraft server, then I converted that to proxmox, then peeled off services into smaller VMs in learning to use Ansible. Now every “server” is moved off and I basically want the underlying VM as a remote desktop. It isn’t precious per se, and it is backed up, but starting over would be a headache so I wanna take a real shot at P2V.
VMware esxi 7, win10 sandbox. Debian hosts for docker. I also run some a couple of i7 Mac mini’s. I try to host on a balance of cheap, power efficient devices that I have spares of in case they blow up because I hate dealing with hardware compatibility issues. Since I decided this and shelved spares I haven’t had any failure’s.
While this seems like something that absolutely should not have happened, it’s also a good reminder that “it’s in the cloud” does not mitigate the need for a good backup strategy. Maybe not the same level of on-site tape library backup solution many of us used to have; but, dumping the data onto a cold storage location on a different cloud on a regular basis would be a reasonable precaution.
We did a gitlab upgrade last week to 16.1and it went fine, but I noticed they never put out a vanilla v16.1.0 tag for gitlab-runner. There exist images such as Ubuntu-v16.1.0 but we usually just use the vanilla one. Anyone know what’s up about that?
Hell yeah! Glad to see this be rebuilt in the fediverse, I’m also a Reddit refugee and while I’ll missy cranky sysadmin rants… I’m not going back to Reddit
There are some known issues with timezone handling resulting in posts appearing to be from the future. I think it usually happens when you post from kbin into lemmy.
Edit: I also found, at least in my case, Win11 had two Firefox processes running in efficiency mode which would kill my browsing at times. Verify that too if you can.
Did that before. First, ensure you aren’t running on any snapshots. If your VMs have any snapshots, delete them.
If the move function works then use that but I suspect it won’t. You can simply use the “move the vm’s storage” option to ensure the VHD is properly consolidated, then you can put it on the new host and start the VM there (shut it off before moving of course). If your host is running a newer hyper v version you might need to bump the hypervisor version for each VHD in PowerShell, that might take a while but it’s usually fast.
Thanks for the advice! I am pretty sure the move function won’t work since the OS and hardware are 10 years apart but I will try it anyway. If not I will try the storage move.
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