Disk Image Pipelines
Virt-v2v is a
project for lifting and shifting
workloads from VMware to open source management platforms like
oVirt/RHV, OpenStack and KubeVirt. To do this we have to copy vast
amounts of data quickly, modifying it in flight.
Nearly everything we have to copy is a virtual machine disk
image. There are techniques you can use to copy disk images very
efficiently: