How to do server virtualization for a quick move?

Question

System administration

Good afternoon, I have a vds server, everything is set up on it, it does its job, it takes a long time to set it up and it will probably be moving to a dedicated server. I want to do virtualization on the dedicator. I need to make sure that all virtualization is in a couple of files (virt. system disk and configs) so that I can move to another machine at any time without wasting time on configuration. In which direction should I dig to get a quick setup and transfer?

Answer 1

KVM has a command to unload all virtual machines, settings in XML.
If you then do not change the "addresses" of the folders of the work of the vir machines, then on another dedik it remains only to load the XMLs with the command
Or use Proxmox

Answer 2

Depends on the choice of hypervisor on the new server.
In general, for example:
1. Veeam Backup - make a full backup of the machine and restore it on another hypervisor.
The only thing is that you will need an intermediate server to install Veeam.
But since you will already have a dedicated server, you make a Windows virtual machine on it under Veeam, and that's it.
Next, deploy your server from the backup, check that everything works and simply delete this temporary virtual machine.
2. VMWare has its own tool for migrating physical machines to a virtual environment https://www.nakivo.com/blog/vmware-p2v-linux-conve...