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Re: Can I rerun a V2V Job in Converter ?
Event when you filter for jobs in "all history"?A job can be deleted from history but in this case the tasks also get deleted.Occasionally there can be some error reading the job from the database and...
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Unable to find supported boot loader
or boot loader configuration file. Error: Windows VM Converter Standalone 6 trying to p2v powered on remote linux machine. Here is my grub.conf. ## GRUB configuration file## General...
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The error means Converter could not find the path to grub.conf.Give some more info - distro and version, grub version. Best - post the logs. Regards
View ArticleConverter Standard - vmk
Hi,We are in the process of identifying our networking troughtput and firewall requirements for a V2V / P2V conversion between two vSphere clusters.The clusters belongs to two different companies in...
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Re: Converter Standard - vmk
The ports required are pretty standard for a VMware environment. I prefer to use a centralized location (such as a jump server) which an talk to both the source server and the destination vCenter....
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Hi For Windows P2V you are correct.In case of Linux P2V, the destination machine connect to the source, the destination machine's virtual network (not the management one) needs to have connectivity to...
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Re: Converter Standard - vmk
Good point on the Linux VM's. I haven't done one in so long, I forgot about the whole "helper IP" piece of the conversion. Thanks for pointing that out.
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FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: Cannot format volume
Searching I couldn't find anything related to "Cannot format volume" Tried converting Windows 2008R2 server from one vSphere 5.1 server to a new vSphere 6.0 using vCenter Converter Standalone 6.The...
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You're trying make the P2V and resize the disk at the same time ? If yes, why not just make the P2V first to move the virtual machine to the new host and then resize the disk ? Not 100% sure, but I...
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What Windows version is Converter running on? It needs to recognize the NTFS version of the source machine.Also ReFS cannot be resized but shouldn't be available on Win 2008R2.
View Article98% FAILED: A general system error occurred: Unknown exception. Win Svr 2003 SP2
We are trying to convert a Windows Server 2003 x64 SP2 machine and get this error at 98 percentFAILED: A general system error occurred: Unknown exception. The only reference I see in the log file is,...
View ArticleRe: FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: Cannot format volume
Correction, ReFS can be resized with Converter 6.0.OTOH if the datastore is VMFS-3 formatted, it wouldn't support 2TB+ vmdks, even if accessed by ESXi 6.0.
View Articlenot enough space on the source volumes... Error code: 2147754783 (0x8004231F).
VMWare team, please instead of showing the error and cancelling conversion of the physical machine, offer "Do you want to continue conversion anyway?" option. I'm trying to converta physical desktop to...
View ArticleRe: not enough space on the source volumes... Error code: 2147754783...
Hello Phoenicyan, Please don't be so trigger-happy :-)0x8004231F (VSS_E_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE) is an error you get when VSS on the source machine has failed to create a snapshot. There is probably not...
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Thank you for the quick answer! I'm in AZ, and it is normal to be "trigger happy" here The Desktop has 300GB drive C with 63GB free. I do not select drive D for conversion. Is 63GB of free space not...
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63GB should be enough (usually about 15% are enough)You may check whether there are no current snapshots that take the space (run "vssadmin list shadows" in command prompt)You may eventually restart...
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Refer below link http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/254411-vss-error-when-trying-to-p2v-server-using-vmware-converter
View ArticleRe: 98% FAILED: A general system error occurred: Unknown exception. Win Svr...
Should be network problem, I hope temporary, the NFC errors begins with the following message:2015-09-25T18:06:06.172+08:00 error vmware-converter-worker[04840] [Originator@6876 sub=task-1]...
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Finally, it worked! I went to the Services Panel and stopped instances of SQL Server, MySQL, and the "Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider". And after that the conversion to the network NAS worked!
View ArticleError 1935 when converting Windows Server 2008 R2
Dear All I am having following error when trying to convert a Windows server 2008 machine. I was able to move other machines with same OS without issues but got stuck on 1 machine in particular. "The...
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