With the EOL of PVEv7 and my need for more storage space, I’ve decided to migrate my VMs to a larger set of drives.
I have PVE installed baremetal on a dell r720 RAID1 SSDs. I’m a bit nervous about the migration.
I plan on swapping the SSDs, installing PVE8 from scratch, then restoring VMs from backup.
Should I encounter an issue, am I able to swap the old RAID1 SSDs back in, or once I configure the new ones are the old drives done for? I’m managing RAID on a dell RAID controller.
I also have my data hard drives passed directly into a TrueNAS VM which supplies other VMs via NFS. Is there anything I should be concerned about when I’ve migrated, such as errors re-passing the data drives to the TrueNAS VM. Or should everything just work again?
Is there a master PVE config file I can download before swapping drives that I can reference when configuring the new PVE install?
I replaced the drives, installed the newest version of PVE, then restored all of my VMs from local USB backup. I had to reconfigure a number of things such as HDD pass through and other network settings, but in the end the migration was a success.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters IP Internet Protocol NFS Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
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