Many are thinking about migrating from VMware ESXi over to Proxmox and there are starting to be many solutions and ways to migrate with many new tools including Proxmox migration, including the built-in migration wizard that is native to Proxmox as of 8.x. However, Veeam Community Edition provides a free way to migrate your VMware virtual machines over to Proxmox. It is freely available and makes the process super simple. I guide you through the process of adding your Proxmox VE server to Veeam, backing up your VMs, and restoring your VMware backups over on Proxmox. You will be up and running on Proxmox in no time.
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See the written write up of the walkthrough to migrate from VMware to Proxmox using Veeam here:
https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2025/02/migrate-vmware-to-proxmox-using-veeam-for-free/
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Introduction to Migrating from VMware to Proxmox – 0:00
Veeam Community Edition Overview – 0:34
Why Veeam instead of other tools and methods? 1:49
There are a few limitations with the new import wizard – 2:15
Downtime is required for the duration of the migration – 2:33
You can manually copy over disks and convert them – 2:46
Is Proxmox Backup Server an option? 3:00
How Veeam simplifies everything – 4:05
Veeam 12.2 added Proxmox support – 4:35
1st Step – Dealing with VMware Tools – 4:50
2nd Step – Run a full VMware Backup – 5:42
3rd Step – Make sure your Proxmox host is ready – 6:16
4th Step – Add your Proxmox VE Server host to Veeam – 6:46
5th Step – Restore your VMware VM backup over to Proxmox – 9:20
Walkthrough of restoring VMware backups on Proxmox – 9:42
How to build a Proxmox Home Lab Server in 2025 and my project – 17:05
Wrapping up migrating from VMware to Proxmox with Veeam – 17:31
