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Re: VMware converter 5.5 failed with error Unable to partition the destination disks

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Hello

 

Unfortunately there is a bug in Converter with Linux P2V when the destination disk is larger than 2TB (it is not it being GPT, it is the size). Sorry for the inconvenience.

The workaround would be to shrink the volumes at the destination and/or split them across several disk. Another workaround would be to leave unchecked large volumes and clone them manually after conversion.

Another bad luck is that these workarounds don't seem not possible in your case - the root volume occupies about 4.3 TB, and both 'boot' and '\' are needed to perform a conversion with reconfiguration.

 

The options I can think of are:

  - do a manual P2V, i.e. create the destination machine (with partitions, logical and basic volumes created and formatted), clone the data (e.g. Converter uses tar over ssh), and manually configure the VM. The last step involves, fixing /etc/fstab, installing GRUB, and remaking initrd image

  - install anew and copy the data

  - eventually split the root volume on the source machine if possible and then convert it. E.g. add a new disk temporarily and move some of the data so that all volumes become smaller than 2TB.

 

Regards,

Plamen


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