Subj : ESXi -> Proxmox
To   : All
From : Warpslide
Date : Fri May 02 2025 04:27 pm

I have ESXi running on my Intel NUC.  I'm running 8.0U3c & I believe the latest version is now 8.0U3e.

I check every couple of months to see if I'm up-to-date and generally follow the advice of this guy:

https://tinkertry.com/easy-update-to-latest-esxi

He provides what used to be "one-liners" but now they're more like "eight-liners".

Generally I would just copy-pasta these lines, wait a few minutes, reboot and go on my merry way.  When I tried this most recent time I was met with an error:

"Could not download [...] HTTP Error 403: Forbidden"

A quick google shows that one now needs an active subscription & an API key to download updates.  Which is fine, I've never paid for ESXi (at home) so they don't owe me anything.  I guess there are other ways to update this if I wanted to jump through some hoops, but if I'm going to do any jumping it might as well be to something else.

I remember awhile back Paulie singing the praises of Proxmox and the backup server it has, so that's the plan.  It seems do-able as I only have 4 Linux VMs (ttrss, homebridge, plex & a proxy) along with the Windows XP Telegard VM.

I haven't totally decided the gameplan as of yet.  ttrss, homebridge & the proxy are super simple to rebuild, so for those I can start with new VMs and restore the config files.

The media files for plex are all on a NAS so that one could also start off as a new VM and restore a backup.

The Windows XP VM sounds like it may be a little more work, but certainly possible.  Does anyone have experience moving VMs from VMware to Proxmox? What's the best method?  Export as an OVF?  Use Clonezilla?  Something else?

The only real "important" one is Plex.  If that's down for more than a day I'll "hear about it" and I'm married to one I'll be hearing about it from, so it's important that one stay up...  ;)


Jay

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