Hi,
I'm being stuck in a project and desperate help needed after long time of searching here and on Google... 
The Scenario
There are VMs on 2 x ESX 3.5 servers and 2 x Hyper-V servers to be migrated to 5 x new ESXi 5.5 servers. But now the new servers are installed with ESXi 5.0 as I found that VMs from ESX3.5 probably cannot migrate to ESXi5.5 directly. I installed vCenter Server 5.5 on a physical Windows 2012 server, and on the same machine I installed vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0 for the VM migration. All ESX, ESXi and Hyper-V hosts are on the same network, with old hosts having storage on a Dell MD3000 and new ESXi hosts having storage on NetApp. And plan to do in-place upgrade of ESXi 5.0 to ESXi 5.5 by Update Manager after all VM migrations successful.
Source - Hyper-V (Win 08 Server R2), ESX 3.5 Update 2
Destination - ESXi 5.0 cluster
vCenter Server - 5.5
Guest OSs : Windows 2003, Windows 2008
Requirements:
- move VMs from the source hosts to the destination cluster
- VMs preferred to be migrated online (but offline still OK if it's the only option)
- shutdown source
- bring up VMs on new hosts
The Issue
Using vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0, I can connect to the Hyper-V servers and the ESX 3.5 hosts and see the VM inventory. However when try to choose the VM to convert, an error occured :
Error : Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine
(as shown in attached Pic 1.jpg)
And the conversion cannot proceed further. I exported the diagnostics logs too and also attached in this thread. There is an error of "Cannot query source HW info: vmodl.fault.SystemError" in the log.
- Anyone hitted this same issue before?
- Any idea on how to solve it?
- If not, then are there any other alternatives to migrate the VMs from Hyper-V/ ESX 3.5 to ESXi 5.5?
Thanks everyone!
Calvin