Unable to obtain hardware information for selected machine
Hello VMware Community, I need help with P2V Conversion. I am running VCenter Converter Standalone 6.0 on My admin Windows 7 64 bit PC which is aVirtual machine. I am trying to convert a Physical...
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hi guys, i have a Production ESXi3.5 VM in a standalone host, we plan to convert this VM to a ESXi4.1 standalone host. This VM has a RDM(physical mode) disk. Can vconverter 4.01 convert this VM RDM...
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Unfortunately log bundle doesn't contain most important logs: worker and agent. Try to obtain them manually for location %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Agent\logs from...
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There is no reason to use old version of Converter, the latest one is recommended.All volumes and disks seen from Converter, including RDM, are transferred as VMDKs disks, see User's Manual.HTH
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The file R:\Restore\Backup\Core VMs\europa\europa-ctk.vmdk is missing, error 3 means: "The system cannot find the path specified."Try to recover your VMDK files with workstation or vdiskmanager. Btw...
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We plan to do a hot cloning as our license has expired so we cannot power off the production VMKeep in mind that hot cloning does not imply the destination VM will be running after the conversion, i.e....
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Pooch, Here are the client and server logs you requested.
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Hmmm and where the converter-worker and converter-agent logs are?
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Thanks for the help POCEH. Why does E go successfully and not F? They are both spanned dynamic volumes in windows. F is actually a bit smaller than E too.
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luckily the F: starts with GPT disk - as result destination is GPT partition/volume which has no limitations for size.
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I checked in the location you suggested and found these logs. Admin PC where Standalone is installed I looked at the following path to find logs. C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\VMware\VMware...
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Got it, Thanks for explaining.
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Re: Converter Job failing trying to copy live system.
From those pages I see I need 22 and 443 open. These ports are open on the source machine, I can't tell about the destination machine as it doesn't exist until the process starts. They are open on the...
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It's in 'all users' profile, i.e. "C:\Users\All Users\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone\logs". If you are looking in the source machine, on which you have installed Converter and tried to...
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So you've got the source info, the helper deployed, and the worker connecting to it, It remains only the helper connecting to the source. The relevant logs in this case are the helper's ones. However...
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All the systems are in the same subnet. 192.168.140.x. The live machine is 12, the ESX host is 14, and the help VM is 16 (all are static not DHCP addresses). Our firewall doesn't not block traffic...
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Check list for conversion of Linux machine 1. Vmware Vcenter Converter Standalone Client version 6.0.0 build=27167162. Ports open 22 and 4433. check if u are able SSH from destination. user should be...
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You can export the logs from the failed task. The helper log will be in the bundle. Please attach the log bundle as a file, don't paste the content - it make the thread hard to read.
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Plamen I don't see and "all user" folder even after enable show hidden folders. I see each users folder and the Administrator users folder. The admin user has the VMware folder only. The source...
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What about to use %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone...... ?
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