Migrating Virtual Machines
Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition provides a special utility - pmigrate - allowing you to perform different types of migration.
Migrating a physical server to a virtual machine
The pmigrate utility allows you to migrate physical servers to virtual machines on the physical server running Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition. For example, to move a physical server to the MyVM virtual machine, you can execute the following command:
# pmigrate h 192.168.1.130 v localhost/MyVM
where
h denotes that you are migrating a physical server.192.168.1.130 is the IP address of the physical server to be migrated.v indicates that the physical server is to be moved to a virtual machine.localhost/MyVM denotes that the physical server must be migrated to the MyVM virtual machine on the local server.
Migrating virtual machines between physical servers
The pmigrate utility supports migrating virtual machines between physical servers running Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition. For example, to migrate a virtual machine with the name of MyVM from the server having the IP address of 192.168.1.130 to the local server, run this command:
# pmigrate v 192.168.1.130/MyVM v localhost/MyVM
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