@Danp the source. this is a lab to learn this environment to eventually replace VMWare.. Comparing this and Proxmox.

You can use Clonezilla for example, it could do the trick 🙂 IIRC, Starwind also have some P2V tools.

@Danp DANP THANK YOU! You are the man. Just click on that interface and tried to find documentation. Thank you for your help - I am sure I will have a few more on this..

Yea, I dont think you'll have any luck im afraid.
But for testing those 15K drives will be enough 🙂

@bufanda @wtdrisco What I mean by suppression of "instruction sets" is different generations of CPUs, have different extensions to the standard 64bit ones.

As the generations change you can get sometimes some of the extensions, being dropped physically from the CPU, but also new ones being added.

Since pools are supposed to all be the same, in order to cope with this the hypervisor software stack suppresses (removes or hides), the extensions to instruction sets which aren't common across other pool members.

So for instance if the majority of the pool has this https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/237569/intel-xeon-gold-6544y-processor-45m-cache-3-60-ghz/specifications.html, while others of the same pool has https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/139940/intel-xeon-gold-6138p-processor-27-5m-cache-2-00-ghz/specifications.html.

If you look at the instruction set extensions see which ones are, on both (these will be preserved and usable). Then which ones are not, these will be suppressed.

@wtdrisco we are testing with alike A3 from Quadric software, it is a good solution as well, they have a lot of experience with xenserver and xcp as well, they also have builtin deduplication.