Hi everyone!

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been trying to solve the issue of migrations from VMware to OpenStack since they are very downtime heavy at the moment with the existing toolset.  In addition, there seems to be no readily available open source projects that can handle the entire process from end to end.

After a ton of research and leveraging awesome other open source projects (libnbd, ndbkit, etc), I was able to build a project that allows users to migrate from VMware to OpenStack with almost no downtime.

https://github.com/vexxhost/migratekit

You can find the documentation on how to use it in the README.  I am hoping this is useful for others and that we start to have other people start contributing to the project and testing it in their environments.  In all transparency, this was built against an ESXi 8.0 environment (no vCenter) using an evaluation license.  We welcome those who have environments that they can test against and hope to increase the coverage for versions. 😊

Please try and give feedback and we hope to that folks find this useful and contribute back to have a fully open sourced way of migrating from VMware.   There’s a lot more work to do, but this is a solid start at this point. 😊

Thanks,

Mohammed