Zero-Downtime VMware to Proxmox VE Live Migration Playbook

Migrating enterprise virtual machines from legacy VMware vSphere ESXi environments to open-source Proxmox VE clusters requires careful planning around storage drivers, virtual disk conversions (VMDK to QCOW2), and network interface mapping.

Key Architectural Steps:

1. Install virtio drivers on Windows VMs prior to cutover.
2. Export VMDK images or use qm importdisk directly over SSH.
3. Configure Ceph distributed storage for HA failover quorum.