I am attempting to migrate VMs from an older VMWare environment, using an ESXi 5.5 host (build 1331820), using the vcenter converter standalone utility (version 5.5.3), to a new ESXi 5.5 U2 (build 2068190). The new environment has a vCenter 5.5 server running on it, and the new ESXi 5.5U2 server has been registered with it.
The data store sizes are exactly the same on the old and new ESXi servers, just using separate SANs (the new environment is meant to be a 100% clean restart for this environment).
However, when I attempt to migrate a VM (version 8) from the old environment to the new environment, and convert it to hardware version 10, I get an "Invalid fault" error from the standalone converter.
The only line I can find in the error log before the 'invalid fault' entry is:
2015-04-14T15:36:01.267-07:00 [08268 info 'wizardController'] FillPage()
2015-04-14T15:36:11.637-07:00 [00400 error 'wizardController'] Unable to submit job: vmodl.fault.SystemError
2015-04-14T15:36:11.637-07:00 [10620 error 'ConversionState'] Submit job failed: A general system error occurred: Invalid fault
2015-04-14T15:36:11.637-07:00 [10620 error 'ConverterWizardWindow'] Next/Finish failed: A general system error occurred: Invalid fault
2015-04-14T15:36:18.559-07:00 [09980 verbose 'HttpConnectionPool-000008'] [RemoveConnection] Connection removed; cnx: <SSL(<io_obj p:0x0390ff28, h:-1, <TCP '0.0.0.0:0'>, <TCP '192.168.0.10:443'>>)>; pooled: 0
I'm stumped as to what else I should be looking at, in regards to migrating and convering VMs from my old environment to the new environment.