tomerleib wrote:
tomerleib wrote:
Hi,
I have several VM's on 2 locations, one datacenter that is managed by us on our site and several VM's hosted on external hosting company datacenter.
Our own platform runs for now version 4.3 and the remote location run 5.1
I need to import few VM's from the remote location to our own location and trying to do that using Converter 5.1 hot-cloning.
The converter is installed on dedicated VM with external NIC that is reachable from the remote location and internal NIC that is connected to the vcenter and the ESXi hosts.
The converter is able to connect to the remote VM and get all settings done, but when I'm trying to run it, it fails at 1% with the error "Platform specific error 2338"
I checked the logs and so far was able to find out only those errors:
warning 'Default'] Disk number 1 has been skipped because of errors while reading partition table
warning 'Default'] Disk number 1 has been skipped because of errors while reading dynamic disks header or LDM database is corrupted
warning 'Default'] [MoveActiveDiskIfNeeded] GetFirstBootDisk failed, mntapi error: 176
warning 'Default'] Partition:Invalid sector magic number
warning 'Default'] [PopulateCapabilities] Volume-based cloning was disabled due to: <no volumes are recognized>
Any idea what can be the problem here and how it can be resolved?
I saw that those errors are mentioned with Converter 4.3, but I'm using Converter 5.1
The source VM is Windows 7SP1
Attaching the log for more information.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Hi,
Look above the error "warning 'Default'] Disk number 1 has been skipped because of errors while reading partition table"
Do you see something like this?
GetManagedDiskName: Get disklib file name as vpxa-nfcssl://[STORAGE_NAME] machinename/machinename.vmdk@ESXHOSTNAME.domain.com.au:902!52 e6 48 9e 56 79 78 ed-5f cd 39 28 d9 e1 11 27
This error is the machine that you are trying to convert attempting to reach the ESX host you have targeted not finding it. To fix this you can edit the host file on machine you want to virtualise.
This is from another thread, credit to leonhardtla
leonhardtla wrote:
Checks this KB: VMware KB: vCenter Converter fails to import machine at 1%
Resolution
To resolve this issue, add the IP address and hostname in the hosts file.
Notes:
- If the source machine is Linux , the hosts files is located in:
/etc/hosts - If the source machine is Windows, the hosts file is located in:
\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Example: A hosts file might look similar to:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
10.16.23.89 target-esx