VMware to XCP-ng Migrate Only Specific Disks
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It's been a minute since I migrated anything from ESXi to XCP-ng, but I'm going to be doing this in a production setup again fairly soon.
This one has been rather challenging since the VM in ESXi is 16TB, but we only need to migrate the C drive which is 100GB.
Is the best route to do this just to export the VMDK and import that into XCP-ng? Wasn't sure if the newer migration tools had options to select which disks to import and things like that.
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@planedrop why dont you just disconnect the VMDK at source VM ?
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@Pilow Yeah this is also an option, and then just export it and copy it over to XCP-ng. I was just wondering if there was a more proper way to go about this that Vates recommended.
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Ping @florent
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@planedrop Pretty sure the official and recommended way is to use the V2V (VMWare to Vates) tool that is baked into Xen Orchestra.
I used that tool back when I migrated from our old VMWare Cluster to the new XCP-ng environment. It worked without any issues.
Best approach IMO would be to disconnect the unneeded virtual disks on the source VM on VMWare side and then use V2V tool to migrate over the VM.
I did it this way for a VM with disk bigger than 2TB aswell. After migrating the VM I created an LVM volume on the XCP-ng VM with the required size and rsync-ed the remaining data from VMDK > 2TB to target XCP-ng LVM volume.Documentation: https://docs.xen-orchestra.com/v2v-migration-guide
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