Thanks for the links. It worked like a charm.
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Re: New P2V not responding to Ctrl Alt Del.
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Virtualize a Windows Server 2003 R2. It's possible?
A salute to the forum, a very simple question. I need to virtualize a Windows Server 2003 R2 and want to know if there are particular problems or incompatibilities. Thank you.
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Re: Virtualize a Windows Server 2003 R2. It's possible?
Shouldn't be issues. We still have several hanging out. Just patch as much as possible. I know people will tell you to convert and if you can I agree. However there are applications and instances where you just can't. Just try to mitigate the security issues due to no more patches. Isolate what can talk to it etc.
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VMware vCenter Converter 4.0
Hi everyone,
Wierd question, but does anyone have the installer for VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0? If so, could you send me a link for it? Or maybe upload to https://filedump.zitcom.dk and post the link.
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Re: Virtualize a Windows Server 2003 R2. It's possible?
should not be an issue, I've just done a few servers last week. even windows 2000 advanced server.
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converter 6.1.1 P2V CentOS 6.6 64bit network storm
I converta physical machinen OS version CentOS 6.664bit , Converter Standalone 6.1.1 ,In the process physical switch all uplink ports OutUti very more.
The normal state:
Abnormal state:
I will wait for your reply.
Thank you.
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Re: Solaris 10 VM Converted goes into a Boot Loop
Followup..
We confirmed that the Solaris images were made using the DD command.
I have had an exchange with Oracle Support as well.
They have pointed me to a solution that would require the physical Solaris server to be imaged using the old "Coldclone" from VMware, that is a bootable ISO image.
If I recall, this was something that was available back in vSphere 4.1 and may not be available.
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Convert Physical Machine to VM Image on USB drive
Hi guys and gals,
We have a physical machine that runs some software the company needs 24/7 and we need to make a backup from. It is on dated hardware and if it ever dies we'll need the ability to run it as a VM temporarily until a replacement box arrives and be set up.
I need to make a VMWare ESXi 5.5 compatible image of the physical machine, but save it direct onto a network share or USB drive for storage. I don't see a way of doing this without involving the ESXi server which I've been asked to avoid by superiors. This is essentially a short term disaster recovery scenario for when we need the image, just in case.
Can this be done?
Cheers.
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Errors trying to covert VM?
I'm trying to use Vmware Converter Standalone 6.0.0 build 2716716 to convert a VM on an ESX6 server. it worked perfectly fine in the past. All of a sudden I'm getting an error at the very end of the conversion:
FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion:
'The session does not have the required permissions'
and in the log highlights:
Error: Unable to clone disk [DATASTORENAME] path/vmname.vmdk on the virtual machine 'Vm Name'.
Any idea? I did recently install Veeam backup & replication on the same client machine Converter is running on. Veeam runs fine.
Thanks for any help.
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Re: Errors trying to covert VM?
You may run into this error if the Disk is a RAW LUN. You need to detach the RAW LUN before the conversion and add it back after you done.
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Re: Errors trying to covert VM?
But I've never added a RAW LUN? Where did this come from? Did Veeam do it? Do I detach this RAW LUN like is covered here:
Switching a raw data mapping between physical and virtual compatibility modes in ESX/ESXi (1006599) | VMware KB ?
And when I do this command:
find /vmfs/volumes/ -type f -name '*.vmdk' -size -1024k -exec grep -l '^createType=.*RawDeviceMap' {} \;
found here: Identifying virtual disks pointing to Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) (1005937) | VMware KB
it shows I have no Raw Devices Mappings?
[root@local:/vmfs/volumes] find /vmfs/volumes/ -type f -name '*.vmdk' -size -1024k -exec grep -l '^createType=.*RawDeviceMap' {} \;
[root@local:/vmfs/volumes]
So this means I my disks are not raw lun's correct? So it can't be the problem..
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Re: Errors trying to covert VM?
Yes, you're right. And if you go to summary of the VM, look for RAW LUN - as show below in the image.
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Re: Errors trying to covert VM?
Yes, I only have one Hard disk 1 = Virtual disk, no Mapped Raw LUN.
But this still leaves me confused, why can't Converter back it up? Why my error?
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Re: Errors trying to covert VM?
Based on your error report, I can say try to resolve this issue, ensure that the destination datastore is formatted with a block size that is large enough to support the VMDK file of the source machine.
Refere this KB: Cloning or migrating virtual machine files fail with the error: Error caused by file (2009097) | VMware KB
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Re: Errors trying to covert VM?
Also, best practice for Veeam Backup server SSO is to keep it on a different server.
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Re: Convert Physical Machine to VM Image on USB drive
Hi,
The answer is almost. If it is a Windows machine, you can convert it to hosted (i.e. Workstation/Player/Fusion) which simply requires some data volume as destination (what you want). The 'almost' part is that if you want to run it on ESX, you'll need to convert again because the vmdk formats slightly differ. If it is a Linux box though, then you are out of luck.
HTH,
Plamen
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Re: Errors trying to covert VM?
Can you upload the log bundle?
It may be something relate to vSphere permissions. The required permissions for conversion are not immediately obvious; you may have a look in the user guide, p.26.
Regards,
Plamen
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Re: Solaris 10 VM Converted goes into a Boot Loop
This is correct, cold clone is no more available. However the cold clone mode is still conversion. Conversion involves moving data and reconfiguration. The dd usage Ulli has described is good enough for moving data. If that and the steps for reconfiguration don't help, the boot iso wouldn't either.
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Re: VMWare Converter: (A file I/O error occurred while accesssing ". )
disconnect the NIC and proceed to converting , you can add NIC later on,it will not affect your migrated system.
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Re: Errors trying to covert VM?
I temporarily made the log files available here:
http://sites.extremehosting.ca/temp/ConverterDiagnostics20161028144919.zip
If you can find something wrong please let me know, I'm lost. I was trying to convert the VM called "Mail Crescent - mailserver1", thats what fails. actually all my VMs fail, but thats what fails in these logs.
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