Hi guys.

I have a cent os 6.4 with a webserver and mysql on it, it's a web guie for customer management.

now this server is on a vm on a server that must be replaced.

I want to copy this to another server is this possible ?

1. I dont have the posibility to copy vm image.
2. I dont know all services etc.. on this server so I'm afraid if I just install LAMP on another server and copy the db it might not work, because i didnot install this system it was made by previous admin.
3. I have root acces to it
4. I have another empty vm where I can make same hardware config.
5. I dont have phisical acces to this server, and also no phisical acces to the new. only ssh with root rights.

so the question is, is it possible to somehow copy this server to another one ?

any idea's / advise is much much aprisciated.

thanks in advance.

If that was my task, i'd insist that the VM-admin migrate it, clone it, or export an OVA, then re-establish it on the new server. That's part of the VM-Admin's job.

I'm the VM admin of the new server, it's VMware EsXi, the Old server is Proxmox. so as far as I know there is no easy or 100% way of doing that,
I have searched over the internet and didnot find anybody who could make a vm image from proxmox to vmware. from vmware to proxmox yes, but not another way around.

so thats why I'm looking to see if there is a way of just make some kind of copy of the server.

i see. that will be a hell of a task. i personally do not know of a direct copy solution, i'm sure some gurus around here could maybe inform you on some kind of dd copying or maybe you could just do some kind of duplicity or other backup / restore. if you end up having to recreate the OS, then maybe you could start with some of these tips:

list package groups (will list installed and available groups seperately):
list all individual installed packages
chkconfig to show services startup-config:
show services current status:
you'll probably need to find all your config & data files and their respective chmod & chown rights.

is it KVM? if so, this looks pretty ugly but may lead you along. (vbox & vmware both can use vmdk/ovf)
http://virtuallyhyper.com/2013/06/mi...to-virtualbox/

OOH OOH, an epiphany just went off in my head!!!! Use "VmWare converter" to do a live migration into the new VMWare environment!!!!! just tell VmWare converter that it's a physical machine, it won't know the difference

this one is very interesting, I just found few other commands as wel, a friend told me that I could try this with NC netcat... I'm looking to it now, if that wont work then this solution is the only one I gues...

I dont have acces to the old Proxmox server as admin, there was a problem with that so that's why that server has to go, we have acces to all machines, but not to server manager gui. so I cannot get the vm images from it.

that's the point i'm trying to make; if you run VMWare Converter from a windows machine, you can do a "p2v" by giving root credentials and it should convert the OS (not the image).

http://arunnsblog.com/2014/01/18/convert-linux-physical-server-to-vmware-virtual-machine/

this one looks very good, but I dont have the normal admin acces to proxmox management interface.


I have started the procces of moving all step by step, have it for 40-50% working...

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With VMWare Converter you would not need any access other than SSH and root credentials to/for your CentOS server.

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thanks thanks thanks allot !!! this works 1000%

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