How To Migrate VMware Vsphere To Oracle Linux KVM
Oracle News, Monday, February 12th, 2024
The goal of this document it to offer a solution to automate the migration from other hypevisor solutions to Oracle Linux KVM managed by Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM). This version of the document covers the automated migration from VMware vSphere.
Migration from VMware vSphere / ESXi
The semi-automated migration procedure relies on the following components:
- libvirt, qemu and virt-v2v correctly installed and configured on an Oracle Linux KVM host
- Network access (ssh or https) to VMware vSphere
Requirements and Assumptions
- VMware hosts and manager (source) and Oracle Linux KVM/OLVM (destination) hosts are network reachable to each other
- OLVM/VDSM releases are >= 4.5
- ovirt-engine-4.5.4-1.el8 RPM or higher is installed on the Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager host
- vdsm-4.50.3.4-1 RPM or higher is installed on the Oracle Linux KVM Server virt-v2v-1.42.0-22 or higher is installed on the Oracle Linux KVM Server
- At least one Oracle Linux KVM host and a Storage Domain have already been configured on OLVM and are up and running
Setup...