I have seen the documentation saying to build an empty VM with slightly more space for each volume than was on the physical server, then use clonezilla to create an image of the server, then import it. That seems ok, but I’m hoping someone out there has more real-world experience in doing this and can share if they did it differently, or encountered any pitfalls.
As my environment matures, I am moving from “Hey I have 1 physical server with everything on it” to “Let’s use a hypervisor and spin off services onto their own.” When the base OS is P2V’d, I’ll be able to have 2 hypervisors and start implementing HA. I’ve been using this system as a scratchpad and dev box for 10 years and would love to just migrate it over.
never done p2v but v2v before, using the starwind converter. it’s a freeware and I just read it can also do p2v. proxmox itself is not available as a target, so you might have to convert your server to an esxi-vm, and then again from there to proxmox 🤔 that might be the slowest and one of the dirtiest ways to tackle this, but it might work
here’s the link to the converter software: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-v2v-converter
