Vcenter for the purpose of migrations

[turtle0x1]

I currently manage a set of vsphere/vmware based servers on which the hardware has finally gone EOL.

I've seen it speculated on the forums there is a methodology by which we can convert VMwares VM's to LXD/Incus VM's via API.

Supporting vCenter / vsphere hosts would solely be for the purpose of offering simple VM migrations. The sheer complexity of what the VMware ecosystem offers is far beyond the means I have to test or offer (networking, failover, storage, ETC) .

There is a few PHP libraries that might help for general UI display;

• https://github.com/MartinMulder/vmware-php (either the php-lxd library was inspired by this, this was inspired by php-lxd, or its a common pattern I dont know about but it feels very similar)
• https://github.com/vadimcomanescu/vmwarephp (9 years since last commit)

But I suspect we'll need some "node code" to handle the migrations nicely, PHP has its limits.