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Re: Error: Unable to clone volume 'D'
Hi Welcome to the communities. Please let us know if you have taken below steps & you are trying to convert local system or remote...
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Re: Converter - Warning The destination guest OS cannot be reconfigured. It...
Hi Welcome to the communities. We can ignore this warning , Please convert & try to boot if dose not post error message. "You must not lose faith in humanity".
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Re: P2V windows 2000 fails
Can you give me more details on the os you are using and version of software and some hardware info as well to help you out more ? Best regardsYour Oscar
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After installing vSphere Client and connection to the host it worked....Problem was a question about the vmdk file, if it's was copied or moved. But in vim-cmd there was no way to get noticed about...
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Re: Property vim.UserSession,ipAddress not found
Its probably a DNS issue , the machine you are trying to convert got its own DNS and DC server ? check that and once the connection is back i think everything will be ok , check the Workers log Best...
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Re: Best Practice to convert Physical to virtual
Hi Ashrafali79, You might want to look into these resources for more information....
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Hello I'm trying to do a P2V with vmware converter standalone 5.5 The source is the same machine that hosts vmware converter 5.5 The operating system is W2003 which acts as domain controller...
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The message for error 32 is "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.". It looks to me as a permission error. Are you using the *local* administrator account, but...
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Hello I suppose you are aware that virtualizing domain controllers is a tricky thing. If not, you may want to have a look at VMware KB: Virtualizing existing domain controllers in VMware vCenter...
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Thank Plamen you for your hint, however I believe that it is not the case. I've already converted many DC before (either 2003 and 2008) w/o major issues. The problem here is that the converter is...
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Thanks ivivanov for your answer. I'll take a look to see if I find if there is a process blocking the disk access of the converter Answering your question I'm using the domain administrator to launch...
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Said that I can confirm that the domain user "administrator" is member of the localgroup "administrators"
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Yes, I know this is not the case. Just wanted to draw your attention to that.For the specific error - check for antivirus, backup software, or anything else that could open and use the whole disk.
View ArticleFAILED: An error occured while opening a virtual disk. Verify that the...
Hello, I am trying to convert 3 very large physical fileservers into 3 virtual servers. I am using VMware Converter 5.5 and have installed it locally on each server. I am converting directly into an...
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Could you upload log-bundle?
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You should attach converter-worker/converter-agent logs, GUI logs are useless in this case.
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Thanks all for your helpI've finally found the guilty service.It was pcmonitor a remote monitor/control software. Once I've stopped it's service vmware converter could get the capacity of the physical...
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Ok, thank you. I've attached the latest logs.
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Hmmm... no obvious problem, seems you hit some limitation in ESX because of bug number of disks... Also do not use this ESX as destination of other conversion(s), use for this conversion one only.As...
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It looks like that might have helped a little. One of the three servers are converting now, Server 2 with 8x2TB disks. The other two fails like before. I've attached the worker log from one of the...
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