Migration of Debian with UEFI from ESX

​@Spider I think it is not supported, look at this URL https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Move-v5_5:top-migration-considerations-ahv-ahv-c.html

as a workaroound you could try to backup the VM from ESXi and restore it on AHV.

Thanks a lot AndrePulia1

I tried also with VBR but strange: it changed EFI to BIOS and… never find the disk, of course!

​@Spider on which moment the EFI is changed to BIOS, did you notice that.

​@AndrePulia1 I see in PE rigth in the moment as Instant Recovery created the machine and just before to pass to production; is there any configuration to order to do not change anything from the source machine? I do not know why it is changed!

Did you try to use Veeam Agent instead of VBR, using Veeam Agent you can create an ISO, after taht you can upload the ISO using images services on AHV, with the ISO on the image service you can create the VM on AHV and use the ISO to boot it.
 

Hi ​@AndrePulia1 

I do not know exactly the steps you mentioned.

Right now I am trying to create my first recovery media (ISO) but always get the same error “no space left on device”.

How much space is it needed?

I tried adding the line

temporarydirectory=/home

 in /etc/veeam/veeam.ini

but it likes to work every time in /tmp

The VM in vcenter has a disk of 30GB

df -h in the machine shows

I hope to get this ISO anytime, but which steps will follow after that? boot the new vm within AHV with that ISO and restore from where?

from terminal

I do not know if I can boot from the standard recovery iso changing anything in xml file of so

Why dont you do the following:

1. install the virtio drivers in the source vm
2. create ova package from the source vm
3. upload the ova package into nutanix via prism central
4. create a vm from the uploaded ova. 

I am very grateful for these two possibilities!

First, Veeam agent, I have opened a ticket because issue is “no free space”.

Second, OVA within PC, I have to upgrade PC and PE as I can not connect my expired lab G5 custer to PC.

I’ll really get in practice both and leave an asnwer here.

Thanks!

Then install the working pc version on your lab g5 cluster. 
 

But you dont really need pc. 
 

1. install the virtio drivers in the vm;
2. Create the ova in vmware;
3. Download the ova;
4. Extract the vmdk from the ova;
5. Upload the vmdk as disk image in the nutanix cluster;
6. Create a vm with the disk you have uploaded. 

Sorry for my delayed answer.

​@JeroenTielen how to check/install virtio drivers in my Debian machine?

If I run grep -i virtio /boot/config-$(uname -r) this is the output

I’m not a linux dude ;). But this tutorial has some nice information about checking and installing the virtio drivers in different linux distributions: https://endocs.ksyun.com/documents/5425?type=3