Re: An error occurred while opening a virtual disk. Verify that the converter...
We had a similar problem (same message) with doing some conversions - it turned out that the system being converted was unable to resolve DNS queries because we were doing system maintenance on other...
View ArticlevCenter Converter Standalone 5.5.3 INCREDIBLY slow even after correcting the...
So I corrected the 'usessl' setting in the converter-worker file, and conversion is still INCREDIBLY slow. Transfer rate was 3.7meg before, and was 3.7 after (and now down to 3.26). If I open task...
View ArticleRe: Error converting on 5% with
Thanks all!The problem has been fixed. The source machine had mount as /dev/xxx/root to /mnt/. After umount /mnt the problem was disappeared.
View ArticleRe: Converter standalone stalls at 1% due to username/password
Thanks Plamen, This worked for me . I have followed steps given in http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=1036746
View ArticleEffort estimation for P2V Project
Has anyone done P2V efforts estimation per machine ?This includes Pre Migration, Migration and Post-Migration activities.Thanks in advanceavindia at gmail
View ArticleClik here to view.
After V2V new disk size is not reflecting
Dear team, To set a new size for vHDD2 I have done the v2v . Before v2v vhdd2 (d drive) size was 50GB , in v2v set the new size as 60GB , after v2v if I check vHDD2 size it show 50GB in my computer and...
View ArticleRe: After V2V new disk size is not reflecting
You did a V2V to increase the virtual disk size ? Did you know that you can increase the size of a virtual disk without need do a V2V ? Anyway, try run a chkdsk d: on the affected disk.
View ArticleRe: After V2V new disk size is not reflecting
thanks richardon, ran the chkdsk on vhDD2 still same problem
View ArticleRe: After V2V new disk size is not reflecting
Ok... if possible, try using the /f switch like: chkdsk d: /f e reboot the virtual machine.
View ArticleRe: After V2V new disk size is not reflecting
ran the chkdsk /f and after checkdisk reboot the VM still it shows 50GB instead of 60GB
View ArticleRe: After V2V new disk size is not reflecting
Try open a command prompt and run the commands: c:\>diskpartdiskpart> select vol d:diskpart> extenddiskpart> exit
View ArticleVmWare converters disk content was old data
Hello, I am using ESXi 5.5.0 and want to copy a virtual machine from ESX to Vm workstation.For this I have used VM-converter standalone.When I started the VM after conversion on my desktop I was...
View ArticleRe: VmWare converters disk content was old data
Hello Not sure what you mean, please be more specific - what kind of conversion did you perform? V2V (i.e. converting the powered off VM) or P2V (powered on)? Is it Windows or Linux source? By not...
View ArticleRe: VmWare converters disk content was old data
Hi,I started vmWare converter and selected "convert machine" with source type "vmware infrastructure virtual machine"(VM on ESX is powered off)As destination type I have choosen "vmware workstation or...
View ArticleConverting Linux P2V to ESXi 5.5 with Vmware Converter 5.5 fails on 1% almost...
Hi, When trying to convert a physical Linux host to the Vmware ESXi 5.5 server I get an error almost immediately after the start of the conversion, when trying to convert a windows physical machine to...
View ArticleRe: VmWare converters disk content was old data
Well, Converter transfers the content of vmdks as it is using disklib. You mentioned there are no snapshots on the source, but can you double check it? Pardon me if that sounds stupid, but that's the...
View ArticleRe: VmWare converters disk content was old data
Hi,I had a look onto the fils on ESX and was surprised: There are several disk files even though there is only one HD configured.Maybe this comes as the VM was transferred from a workstation to ESX...
View ArticleRe: VmWare converters disk content was old data
That's very strange. Seems some mess has occurred when copying it from WS. Probably the 'old' WS machine has been named WIN7_64B. There is only 1 .vmx file - TIA.vmx, but there are 2 .vmsd files -...
View ArticleCloneZilla to EXi 5.5
We have CloneZilla images of Windows 2008 Server and would like to restore them to ESXi 5.5. The converter release notes do not list ClonZilla as one of the supported images like Ghost, Aconis,, Are...
View ArticleP2V cluster server
I want to convert only the active server of a clustered server. May I know the steps or any other advice on how to What will happen to the disk, will converted to VMDK or RDM or what? Thanks for the...
View Article