Re: P 2 V
Hi, Please refer the below article from Vmware for more details and best practices about P2V. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004588
View ArticleRe: Cold Migration Question
It depends on the operating system and the type/use of the system (e.g. domain controller, Exchange server, ...).Basically you should never hot convert a DC, as this will usually corrupt the AD. For...
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vCenter Converter - migrate P2V without dedicated boot partition
Hi there, I'm looking to migrate a physical machine to my ESXi cluster with vCenter Converter but actually I got this following error :There is no '/boot' directory mounted on the source machine. It is...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Converter - migrate P2V without dedicated boot partition
Yes, in theory you can. /boot directory under / is OK, however this error message is a bit misleading - I would say that Converter could not recognize your *disks* and thus no mounted partitions, so it...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Converter - migrate P2V without dedicated boot partition
Thanks for your answer. Yea indeed, Im using mdam for my raid software, no chance to get any support with mdam partition ? All my servers are using it.
View ArticleRe: vCenter Converter - migrate P2V without dedicated boot partition
Unfortunately Converter cannot handle such configurations :-(
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Re: vCenter Converter - migrate P2V without dedicated boot partition
Too bad Thanks anyway
View ArticleRe: How to migrate Oracle VM with RHEL 5.8 guest OS to Vmware Esx using P2V
Hi Plamen, Apologies for the delay in answering, but I've been busy with other things in my office. The conversion I did was : - installed the standard kernel- edit the file /boot/grub/grub.conf to...
View Article'Recommended controller is full' message after conversion
I have recently converted a Windows XP PC and imported it into our ESXi environment. I am now trying to add a CD/DVD drive to the guest, but I am receiving the following error: "Recommended controller...
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Have you tried changing to IDE with powered off VM?
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VmWare Workstation Image Upload
Hello, Today is my second test day with VmWare vSphere (Free Version) Our idea is to use vSphere for our training room, means 8 virtual system (Windows 8.1) and our NVR Video management on each...
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Do you have another, smaller datastore (e.g. less than 2TB) which you can use as the conversion target? And can you confirm that the target ESXi host is running on v5.5 (for HW version 10 support)....
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Hi André, i have two datastores: Datastore1 = SSD Boot Disk about 120 GBDatastore0 = ARECA Raid 6 about 22 TB I try also to upload the image to datastore 1 but the same error message.And it is...
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>>> Can it be a certification issue ?It could be a communication issue. I found some older discussions where issues with the same error message were solved by rebooting the ESXi host. If this...
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Hi, Yes i found this discussion and see that some user recommend a restart of the hypervisor server. But i try this also without success.... I will try again the restart and upload today with a connect...
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Hello Converter connect on port 443 for inventory and management, and on port 902 for data transfer.Though I don't think this is your problem. The log reads:2014-10-24T12:11:46.841+02:00 [06548 error...
View ArticleRe: Server 2012 R2 Customization Specification not working
I had this issue too. I do scripted deployments and I solved this by doing the following (simplified): 1) Deploy the VM using New-VM2) Power it on using Start-VM3) Immediately after set the network...
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Thank you sastre I will definitely try that out.
View ArticleForce synchronization
Good afternoon, I have to migrate a machine that takes 16 hours to complete the task, I wanted to make a first migration weekend and test several days, if the tests are correct I would like to force a...
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