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Proxmox VM migration failed – no local-zfs rpool

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Proxmox VM migration failed - no local-zfs rpool

When try to migrate VM from one node to another, following error encountered

Failed to sync data - could not activate storage 'local-zfs', zfs error: cannot import 'rpool': no such pool available

The reason is two nodes have different storage pool

Solution

Change source node storage pool local-zfs as below.

  • Select Datacenter -> Storage
  • Select storage pool local-zfs, and click Edit
  • Change Nodes from All (No restrictions) to the node the stroage belongs to
  • Click OK to save the option

References

Migration of VM between nodes failed - could not activate storage 'local-zfs', zfs error: cannot imp

Migrate TrueNAS VM to Proxmox VM

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Migrate TrueNAS VM to Proxmox VM

After Proxmox installed, I also migrate TrueNAS VM to Proxmox as VM for both Ubuntu VM and Windows 10 VM.

Copy zvol to a file and transfer to Proxmox server

The zpool volume device is located in /dev/zvol/<zpool_name>/<zvol_name>. Create disk image using following command.

dd if=/dev/zvol/pool0/server-xxxxxx of=/tmp/server.raw bs=8m
scp ...

Another way to transfer

dd if=/dev/zvol/.... bs=8192 status=progress | ssh root@proxmox 'dd of=....raw bs=8192'

or

dd if=/dev/zvol/.... bs=8192 status=progress | gzip -1 - | ssh root@proxmox 'dd of=....raw.gz bs=8192'

or

dd if=/dev/zvol/.... bs=8192 status=progress | gzip -1 - | ssh root@proxmox 'gunzip - | dd of=....raw.gz bs=8192'

Transfer raw file into Proxmox server

Create Proxmox VM

  • Create a VM with OVMF (UEFI) if TrueNAS VM is using UEFI

  • Remove VM disk

  • Use following command to import disk

qm importdisk <vm_id> <raw_file> <storage_id>

For example

qm importdisk 100 vm.raw ds1812-vm_nfs1

  • Go to VM hardware page

  • Select unused disk and click Add button to add disk into VM

    • For Linux, select SCSI as controller
    • For Windows, select SATA

  • Select Options => Boot Order to check the iscsi/sata controller

Boot TrueNAS VM

References

Export Virtual Machine from TrueNAS and Import VM to Proxmox
Migration of servers to Proxmox VE
Additional ways to migrate to Proxmox VE