[How-To] A guide to migrate FreeBSD VM from ESXi to FreeNAS (bhyve)

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[How-To] A guide to migrate FreeBSD VM from ESXi to FreeNAS (bhyve) - esxi VM migration to freenas bhyve

I moved my FreeBSD VM (v7) from ESXi 5.5.0 to bhyve under FreeNAS-11-MASTER-201709210509. Below are short instructions with my example.

1. Prepare VM on ESXi. With your preferred method:
   - shutdown VM
   - remove all snapshots
   - remove from ESXi inventory to avoid problems. Do not delete data files
   
2. Copy ESXi VM virtual disk files. Mine had 5 virtual disks attached
   - ssh root@esxihost
   - scp -r /vmfs/volumes/datastore2/srv_10 root@freenas:/mnt/tank/vm...

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