Re: Converting a File Server to shrink disk size - things to consider?
It worked great, thanks. Sometimes the simple answer is the obvious one! With the VM powered off, I also saw a near 50% speed increase.
View ArticleConverting Microsoft physical machine with OEM licensing
Hi All, I guess this is a well worn path for all the P2V newbies like myself. I converted an old XP box with an OEM license and get stuck at the prompt "This copy of Windows must be activated with...
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Unfortunatly almost all hardware was changed during conversions and you need to activate it after that.
View ArticleRe: Converting Microsoft physical machine with OEM licensing
I can start the machine in safe mode to do the necessary re-configuration, like removing the recovery partition, etc... The question I have is then what? Will Microsoft activate this license once I can...
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No way to change harware and not to reactivate Windows XP.
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Shrinking a VM HD - does the destination datastore need to have enough space...
Hi all, I have a File Server with the existing HD's configures: HD1: 60GBHD2: 20GBHD3: 650GB Total :730GB I plan to shrink HD3 to 250GB which will give me a new total of 330GB. My question is, when I...
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There is no need for that. Besides you can create thin provisioned VMs and overcommit. Regards
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Sorry, I am not sure I understand, no need for what?
View ArticleRe: Shrinking a VM HD - does the destination datastore need to have enough...
There is no for the datastore to have 730GB free in order to submit the conversion. 330GB free (the size after shrinking) would be enough. If you additionally select thin provisioning, you could even...
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Ok, thats interesting. Thanks for your help again!
View ArticleConverter 5.5 failure on windows 2003, Error occured while opening a virtual...
I've been reading through the boards and have the error with converter that. An error occured while opening the virtual disks. Verify that the converter servera nd the running source machines have a...
View ArticleRe: Converter 5.5 failure on windows 2003, Error occured while opening a...
Unfortunately the most important log : converter-worker/converter-agent is missing. Please add them.Also SSL will be disabled if you change setting in converter-worker.xml, and then restart the worker...
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Re: Converter 5.5 failure on windows 2003, Error occured while opening a...
Are those logs in a different location I'm not able to find them. One ones I uploaded were from the export diagnostics log link. Also I don't see the converter-worker.xml file and I've attached a...
View ArticleShrinking OpenSuse 11.4
Hi all,I was wondering if someone can help, I have an OpenSuse 11.4 virtual machine but the thick provisioned VMDK has been sized too big and I want to reduce it whilst still keeping it thick...
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No, I've been doing it from a powered off machine. I've just tried with it powered on and it says "Cannot covert a powered-on machine".
View ArticleRe: Converter 5.5 failure on windows 2003, Error occured while opening a...
You can find xml and logs in folder: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone
View ArticleRe: Shrinking OpenSuse 11.4
Many thanks, I got the option as a physical machine which is excellent and it converted ok, but on bootup kernal paniced, any ideas?
View ArticleMS virtual pc conversion failing
Im trying to convert a Win XP old ms virtual PC (i have the .vhd and .vmc) into vsphere 5.1. Im using converter standalone, but as soon as i choose "backup image or third-party virtual machine) and...
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