Hello, I'm hoping someone can help me.
I have a very long running, nightmare of a P2V. I had issues getting the P2V started, then getting it running quickly, then once it eventually finished the first pass after about 5 days, I had problems running the Synchronizations. I eventually found that was due to Shadow Copies on C:. Disabled those and I could then reliably perform periodic Synchronizations, until we were ready to switch over..
Then I went on holiday. Whilst I was away, my colleagues had issues with the Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus on the server. Various things happened, including reboots and removal and re-installation of Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam.
Unfortunately, the synchronization is now no longer working. The error in the GUI is Warning: Unable to delete the block-level tracking bitmap 'IncrementalConversion(job-5:42)-[52 83 d1 c0 4c 11 ae e3-cc 3c 8e 81 bf 68 6d 0c]'. This is being repeated for each subsequent Sync I'm trying to run. I think the main error in the worker log is WindowsBitmapDriverWrapper::StartBitmapDriver: Unable to start the bitmap driver, error=0, reason=Service manager error but 'BMDRVR' is showing as running.
There's also mention of ERROR 2338 opening disk ha-nfc://[SS2_NFS1] MVSERVER/MVSERVER_2-000001.vmdk@192.168.0.12:902!52 1e 31 f9 09 b9 0b 1f-66 ca a1 50 1d ab ec 3e. MVSERVER_2-000001.vmdk doesn't currently exist, but MVSERVER_2-000002.vmdk gets renamed to MVSERVER_2-000001.vmdk during the process. Out of interest, can these snapshots be deleted prior to a Sync or will that cause the P2V to just fail?
I'm using Converter 5.5.2 installed on the source server. I've rebooted the ESX server, and I've run all the usual connectivity tests between the source server and destination host. It's a flat, fairly basic network.
I'm desperately hoping I can get this Sync working so that I can finalize it tonight. There's a lot of Data and I really hope I don't have to start from scratch. I'm going to try rebooting the source server tonight (unless someone advises against it).
Thanks in advance!