LInux P2V woes
Hi All,I'm P2ving a Linux RHEL 4 to vCenter 5I'm not familiar with Linux, all the version i'm working with are supported under converter 5.5 and i've also tried 4.3 but get same errors. Linux server...
View ArticleP2v fails error "Unable to reconfigure the destination virtual machine."
Hello i am trying to convert physical windows machine using vcenter converter standalone 5.0 ,it got failed at 98 % & 95% .whats the reasonhow ro resolve this iuuse.first time it got failed...
View ArticleCan't transfer UUID.BIOS from source to destination Guest with SOAP SDK...
We're using VMWare Convertor in our infrastructure and have another product interfacing with it to enable us to flex the settings of a VM Guest (Disk,RAM and CPU). We've been asked to be able to...
View ArticleFailed Conversion - Possible controlsetXXX issue?
I'm having an issue P2Ving a machine and I think I have finally traced back my issue and just wanted to throw this out to everyone. I have had a ticket open for awhile now with VMWare. My...
View ArticleAn error occurred while opening a virtual disk. Verify that the converter...
Hi everybody,I ran across this infamous error now on my machine. I tried several other suggestions from other posts with no luck. I am trying to convert a powered off VMware Infrastructure machine...
View ArticleCanot see any SAN partition while trying to convert RHEL
Hi Guys I am trying to convert my Physical RHEL Oracle to VM but I can only see OS partition but not all the SAN partition via Conversion wizard . I am using Vmware vcentre converter standalone version...
View Articleconverter error "Host key can't be retrieved.
Hi all, I'm having an issue using the standalone converter to p2v a linux (CentOS) box. It gets to 1% then fails with the following error: FAILED: A general system error occurred:Network error. Host...
View ArticleKeep P2V VM (periodically) synchronised
Hiya all, We need to create a backup VM from a physical server, and keep it as up-to-date/synchronised as possible, for use as a failover server.Using the latest versions of vSphere/vCenter/Converter,...
View ArticleVMware Converter Enterprise - Is this still available?
Hi, I have done about 50 conversions with VMware Converter Standalone which have gone reasonably well. I am now looking to speed up the conversion process so we can do more servers in a weekend....
View ArticleP2V conversion failure
Hello I am running VMconverter 5.5, I am trying to convert Windows server 2K3 server R2 Enterprise and I received a failure at 96% (So close!) . The failure I received was FAILED: An error occurred...
View ArticleConverting a File Server to shrink disk size - things to consider?
Hi all, This weekend I plan to do a v2v conversion of our File Server to shrink one of the drives from 600GB to 250GB and also change the disk type from Thick to Thin. I am expecting this to take...
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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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...
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 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...
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...
View ArticleAfter Conversion XP Hangs at Activation
I really hope someone is able to help. I'll try to be as thorough as possible in my explanation.Here is the scenario. I have a Dell laptop with an OEM version of XP. I want to turn this into a Virtual...
View ArticleConvert Windows 7 to ESXI 5 (P2V) fails
Hi,I get the following error: FAILED: The VSS snapshots cannot be stored because there is not enough space on the source volumes or because the source machine does not have any NTFS volumes. Error...
View ArticleCannot do P2V saving the vm file to a USB-attached storage
Hi all, Thanks for the help in advance! I am attempting to do a P2V to a disk locally attached to the source computer, at the end it failed, and the error message was not too helpful: "A general system...
View ArticleConverter fails at 98% InternalError
Hi all,I cannot convert a physical machine.. Though serached and surfed, I am not able to find any suggestion.Maybe the point is the error MNTAPI_ERROR = 50 MNTAPI errorType = 2, errorCode = 3 but I...
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