Yonder — Getting Started: Deploy, Configure, and Migrate
Deploy Yonder, connect VMware, and migrate your VMs to Proxmox, OpenStack, OpenShift, and Nutanix
Step-by-step guide to deploy Yonder, connect VMware ESXi or vCenter, configure Proxmox, OpenStack, OpenShift, and Nutanix targets, and migrate multi-disk VMs.
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About this document
This technical document covers the full deployment of the Yonder migration platform, from installation on a Linux host to running an end-to-end VM migration.
Yonder is a cold VM migration platform distributed as Docker images. It extracts disks from VMware vSphere/ESXi or OpenStack, converts them to qcow2, adapts the guest operating system, and imports them onto the target platform: Proxmox VE, OpenStack, KubeVirt/OpenShift Virtualization, or Nutanix AHV.
This guide accompanies the free Udemy course and can be used independently as reference documentation.
What you will learn
- Install Docker and deploy Yonder via Docker Compose on Ubuntu
- Configure the environment file, Django secrets, and the Fernet encryption key
- Set up dedicated LVM storage for migration temporary data
- Connect a VMware ESXi or vCenter source and discover VMs
- Create a Proxmox API token and configure a Proxmox VE cluster as a target
- Run a multi-disk Linux VM migration from VMware to Proxmox VE
- Configure per-NIC network overrides and static IP fixup (L3)
- Verify the migrated VM on Proxmox: boot, disks, network, connectivity
Table of contents
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- Installing Yonder
- Verify the host
- Install Docker Engine
- Create the deployment directory and stack files
- Configure the environment
- Deploy and verify
- Configuring Migration Storage
- Create the LVM logical volume
- Format, mount, and bind into the conversion worker
- Extending the volume
- Connecting to VMware
- Register the VMware credential
- Create the ESXi source
- Discover and explore virtual machines
- Understanding vCenter Server sources
- Configuring a Proxmox VE Target
- Create the Proxmox API token
- Enable the import content type
- Register the credential and create the target
- Test the connection
- Migrating Linux VMs to Proxmox VE
- Create a migration plan and VM mapping
- Configure per-NIC and static IP overrides
- Start the migration and follow the pipeline
- Verify the migrated VM on Proxmox
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