Can You Move Production vSphere VMs To KubeVirt? Yes. Here's How

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A real migration pipeline that moves a 4 vCPU, 2 GB RAM Debian VM from vSphere to KubeVirt using Forklift, streaming disk conversion with virt-v2v and creating KubeVirt VirtualMachine and DataVolume objects is demonstrated; target cluster needs port 443 to vCenter and 902 to ESXi. With VMware’s VDDK available conversion would take ~10–15 minutes, but that component is gated so this demo uses cold HTTPS transfer and is slow; result boots on KubeVirt and preserves files.

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1. 0:00Introduction and speaker background
2. 1:14What is KubeVirt and its popularity
3. 3:23Can production VMs move to KubeVirt
4. 4:07Disclaimer and VMware WDDK issue
5. 6:36Cold migration limitations and workarounds
6. 7:19Forklift migration CRs and process
7. 9:29Demo migration details and timings
8. 10:11High-level migration architecture
9. 12:23Pre-flight networking and access requirements
10. 13:48Creating credentials and provider CRs
11. 14:55Network and storage mapping
12. 15:37Migration plan and execution
13. 17:23Network map configuration
14. 18:06Storage map and migration plan
15. 19:13Starting and monitoring migration
16. 20:17Migration pipeline breakdown
17. 20:58Post-migration VM verification
18. 22:03KubeVirt networking and cluster setup
19. 22:47Guest OS changes after migration
20. 24:12Dynamic resource allocation and HA
21. 25:35Independent disks and shared disks
22. 26:38Summary and future improvements
23. 26:59Q&A session begins
24. 27:20ESXi host port 902 requirement
25. 28:01Live migration availability in KubeVirt
26. 28:42Multiple VM networks handling
27. 29:24Kubernetes gateway for IT departments
28. 30:07UEFI and BIOS support
29. 30:28Migration performance without VDDK
30. 31:35Error handling for insufficient resources
31. 32:17Final remarks and dashboard mention

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