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Re: What ports needs to open before starting conversion process

Physical server firewall means inbuilt OS firewall u mean to say please correct me if I m wrong.

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Re: Migration from Hyper-V to Esxi 5.1

So you are suggesting option a) ?Downtime is really not an issue since the servers are needed only during business hours (max 10 hours per day).

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Re: What ports needs to open before starting conversion process

yes, if it is enabled.

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Re: want to Reduce C drive space

Yes, you can use the Converter to change the disk size during conversion process, both P2V and V2V cases. HTH

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Re: Info required regarding Sparse Disk

What exactly do you need assistance for? Workstation and ESX use different vmdk formats as you have noticed. I am not familiar with vmkfstools, but if you have managed to power on the VM, what is the...

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Re: Migration from Hyper-V to Esxi 5.1

Just a little correction - in Converter terminology V2V implies a powered off source VM, though from user's point of view it may not be so.Both approaches have their pluses and minuses. V2V is...

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Re: Having trouble with NIC driver for Cold Clone CD

I had this same problem this weekend P2Ving a HP 350 G5 with the coldclone ISO with injected NC326i drivers. It turned out I had to select NIC #2 from the drop-down menu on the network config screen to...

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server 2012 dedup volume

Hi i am having trouble converting a iscsi target within a file server to a vmdk using vm converter.  The machine is already a vm and has a iscsi which is a dedup volume within it which i am trying to...

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Re: server 2012 dedup volume

Keep in mind that 1% of big disk could be many data and can require more time that you expect, based on your network transfer rate.Otherwise, can you upload log bundle to check errors?

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Re: server 2012 dedup volume

hi. how  do i get the logs of a running task? i did leave this over 24hours it keeps telling me 1% estimated time remaining 1 hour 3 minutes

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Re: server 2012 dedup volume

i see this in the worker log 14-04-08T13:49:36.232+01:00 [00296 info 'task-4'] VolumeBasedCloneTask::StopPreviousTrackingBitmaps: no bitmap ID(s) specified for the previous cloning...

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Re: server 2012 dedup volume

File level cloning is slowest possible method to copy data. However you can look at network activity to find out is data copy is in progress. Every percent of your disk is ~ 18GB... should be patient.HTH

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Re: server 2012 dedup volume

ok thanks, so does that log file look normal?

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Re: server 2012 dedup volume

Absolutely Once you see percent changed in UI the appropriate log message will be in log too.

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Re: server 2012 dedup volume

ok cheers ill set it off now and see what happens, also in ui i dont get the speed of the data transfer  all i get is type, created, status, started, Estimated time remaining, estimated completion time...

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Re: server 2012 dedup volume

The speed and other info is updated together, don't worry about this.About DD volume and file-level cloning - the file's data was read raw and then transffered, also I should note you that the...

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Re: Cannot Download VMware vCenter Converter

Bulldog1,I have same problem. I just tested the below.My Macbook air(safari), Sony Vaio Pro11 (IE11) and Thinkpad x240 (IE11 and Chrome)  It can't download it!!!!

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Re: Cannot Download VMware vCenter Converter

I am able to download today, no issues. Not sure what happened.

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What method of conversion should i use for converting Oracle VM 2 virtual...

I've been reading the standalone converter docs today.   I have 43 Oracle VM version 2 virtual machines to migrate to VMWare.  The OS for all the VM's is either Oracle Linux 5 or Oracle Linux 6....

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Re: What method of conversion should i use for converting Oracle VM 2 virtual...

Welcome to the Community - Standalone Converter might work but if you treat it as a Redhat Linux but it might not - your options would be to use something like PlateSpin or Double Take which support a...

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