I've been reading through the boards and have the error with converter that. An error occured while opening the virtual disks. Verify that the converter servera nd the running source machines have a network access to the source and destination esx hosts.
I've verified there is ping connectity between the source and the destination. The source that converter is on can browse the vcenter information to select the destination and the datastores.
I've changed the client.xml SSL settings to false and have looked in vcenter for administrative settings > advanced settings > ssl.version is set to all.
I will upload the logs I've collected when I've attempted to convert this machine with converter 5.1 and 5.5. Any advice on how to resolve this would be appreciated.
In addition the message appears as soon as the task starts, I see where vCenter creates the VM then the error happens then it deletes the machine so I don't get very far along in the process before the error occurs.