How to Migrate VMware ESXi VMs to Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift (RHOSO)

Описание: Learn how to migrate your VMware ESXi virtual machines to Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift (RHOSO) in this comprehensive step-by-step tutorial!

In this video, I'll walk you through the complete process of migrating Ubuntu VMs from VMware ESXi to RHOSO using VMDK to QCOW2 conversion.

🔧 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
✅ How to prepare VMware ESXi VMs for migration
✅ Converting VMDK files to QCOW2 format using qemu-img
✅ Uploading VM images to OpenStack Glance
✅ Creating flavors and launching migrated instances
✅ Troubleshooting common migration issues
✅ Verifying successful migration and network connectivity

⚙️ TECHNOLOGIES COVERED:
Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift (RHOSO) 18.0
VMware ESXi 8.0
OpenShift 4.18
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS VMs
Ceph Storage backend
qemu-img conversion tools

📋 TIMELINE:
00:00 - Introduction and Overview
02:30 - Prerequisites and Environment Setup
05:15 - VMware ESXi VM Preparation
08:40 - Downloading VMDK files from ESXi
12:20 - Converting VMDK to QCOW2 format
15:45 - Creating OpenStack images and flavors
19:30 - Launching migrated VMs
23:10 - Testing connectivity and validation
26:00 - Best practices and tips

🔗 USEFUL COMMANDS:
Download VMDK files
scp root@esxi-host:/vmfs/volumes/datastore/vm/vm.vmdk ./

Convert VMDK to QCOW2
qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 vm.vmdk vm.qcow2

Create OpenStack image
openstack image create --file vm.qcow2 --disk-format qcow2 vm-migrated

📚 RELATED TOPICS:
#RedHat #OpenStack #RHOSO #VMware #ESXi #Migration #CloudComputing #Virtualization #OpenShift #Tutorial

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⚠️ DISCLAIMER: This tutorial is for educational purposes. Always test migrations in a non-production environment first.