A few fun tips for Proxmox

How to migrate VM to new host not in cluster

  1. Create NFS share on a system

  2. Add NFS share as backup endpoint on new and old server

  3. Run a backup of the system you want to migrate, I shut the VM down, but it’s no needed

  4. On new host go to the NFS storage in the GUI and go to backups

  5. You will see the backed up data

  6. Hit Restore and put in the info (this could be done from the CLI, but by doing it in the GUI you have the options to change storage location since I’m assuming you new datastore is a different name


Awesome script to do a couple awesome things. I’m not the maker of the script. It can be found HERE