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[How-To] A guide to migrate FreeBSD VM from ESXi to FreeNAS (bhyve) - esxi VM migration to freenas bhyve
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[How-To] A guide to migrate FreeBSD VM from ESXi to FreeNAS (bhyve) - esxi VM migration to freenas bhyve
I moved my FreeBSD VM (v7) from ESXi 5.5.0 to bhyve under FreeNAS-11-MASTER-201709210509. Below are short instructions with my example.
- Prepare VM on ESXi. With your preferred method:
- shutdown VM
- remove all snapshots
- remove from ESXi inventory to avoid problems. Do not delete data files
- Copy ESXi VM virtual disk files. Mine had 5 virtual disks attached
-ssh root@esxihost
-scp -r /vmfs/volumes/datastore2/srv_10 root@freenas:/mnt/tank/vm
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