Re: VCenter Standalone 5.5 requires domain administrator account to P2V a...
I'm getting a VSS error on the DC. The first time I tried it I was not in DSRM, I had just shut down the services. I saw a VSS error saying to reboot into DSRM. I rebooted into DSRM and still received...
View ArticleRe: Issues P2V with 2003 SQL Server
Yes sir the partitions on the source volumes are fine and active as they hold the databases for my SQL production environmentThe drives themselves are not encrypted infact I had performed a P2V on this...
View ArticleRe: Issues P2V with 2003 SQL Server
Hello Let me check if I understand correctly - 2 partitions on the destination machine are empty, the corresponding source volumes are fine, correct?Is it possible the source volumes are encrypted? If...
View ArticleRe: VSS error - Windows 2003 conversion
Hi Julien , Thanks for the quick reply Followed the above KB article still no luck . Even cold migration is failing at 1 %.with general error. Regards,Shashi
View ArticleRe: Issues P2V with 2003 SQL Server
In the meanwhile here are some wild guesses: - Check the disk for corruption (e.g. 'chkdsk /f /r /b'). Fragmentation is not known to cause issues with P2V, while corruption does. Perhaps you have...
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Error : Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine -- Log...
Hi, I'm being stuck in a project and desperate help needed after long time of searching here and on Google... The Scenario There are VMs on 2 x ESX 3.5 servers and 2 x Hyper-V servers to be migrated...
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Your problem is:2013-11-12T11:45:33.788+08:00 [10280 warning 'Default'] [,0] [NFC ERROR] NfcNewAuthdConnectionEx: Failed to connect to peer. Error: Host address lookup for server...
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Hi POCEH, Actually Converter can read the VM inventory from the ESX host (thus I guess no access issue for it). But then when I chose a VM from the inventory and try to convert, then the error of...
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This is exact error, Converter tries to open VMDK files to inspect OS etc but fails to open...
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Hi POCEH, I see... so do you have any suggestions or work-around in how to solve this issue? The Converter host can ping and remote access to those ESX and Hyper-V hosts but just failed in this...
View ArticleRe: Issues P2V with 2003 SQL Server
really appreciate the suggestions I am about to go through your tasks now, I also did some reading at home last night and thought it would not be a bad idea to perform vmdk integrityThe server utilizes...
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Re: Error : Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine --...
Check in manual the required ports, probably 902 will be enough
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Hi POCEH, But I have tried to install the Converter on the Hyper-V host itself (the source) but still failed with the same error...
View ArticleP2V 98% ERROR "Unable to reconfigure the destination virtual machine"
I used converter to convert windows 2003 , but failed at 98%. It is "Unable to reconfigure the destination virtual machine.".I had tried to convert the windows 2003 server for 5 days at some...
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If you convert powered off virtual machines you need an adninistrative access to their disks, if you try to convert powered on virtual machines you need to treat them as physical running machines and...
View ArticleRe: P2V 98% ERROR "Unable to reconfigure the destination virtual machine"
Please upload the whole log-bundle to check your problem.
View ArticleRe: converter error "Host key can't be retrieved.
Happened to me exactly, the server is within same network and the sshd settings are ok. Any idea what else can be checked?
View ArticleRe: converter error "Host key can't be retrieved.
The main point is the destination VM to be able to ssh to the source machine. An easy way to check would be to try ssh from another VM in the same VM network.That said, the potential problems that I...
View ArticleP2V to ESXI on same box
I have a Windows server box that I need to P2V. I need to save that image to a disk cause that same box is where I will be putting ESXI 5. I am have tried the P2V converter and it works great to a...
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Note: Discussion successfully moved from VMware ESXi 5 to VMware Converter Standalone You can select the destination to be a VMware Workstation image. This will allow you to save the converted server...
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