Increasing the cloning performance
There have been many complaints about transfer rate degradation in Converter 5.0.Converter uses NFC (a proprietary VMware protocol) for cloning to managed destination. Security has been enhanced in...
View ArticleNTFS: deleting corrupt attribute record (128, $J)
I'm trying to do a really simple conversion from Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 to ESXi machine version 8. It seems to copy okay, but on the first VM boot it does an NTFS disk check and finds a bunch of...
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Using Converter offline, via WinPE / PXE booting?
Does anyone know how I can install or run VMWare Converter Standalone on WinPE? This is the Windows preboot execution environment provided with Windows Deployment Services on Server 2008 R2. It is a...
View Articlep2v issues with original vm IP address
Hi I am experiencing issues after I have P2v hyper-v vm's to esxi 5.5 the migration process I am performing is p2v and not v2v as I need the migrate the customers existing iscsi drives mapped to the...
View ArticleYet another "Operation timed out" problem
Hello,I'm trying to run a P2V conversion of a Hyper-V machine. The agent gets installed correctly, then at the "Connecting to source machine" step i receive the following error: "A general system error...
View ArticleP2V Successful but Hyper V Virtual, not so much.
Hello All; I just P2V the entire environment over the past week and must say YAY except for 1 pain in the rear end! I have a Windows Server 2012 running Hyper-V. I was able to P2V the entire server...
View ArticleP2V error at 97%
I'm trying to convert a physical Linux server to a virtual ESXi server. I am using VMWare converter to convert the machine and VMWare workstation to run the virtual ESXi server on. Both software are...
View ArticleVersion Support Information
The VMWare website and KB's are at times very confusing. I cannot seem to find an answer to my issue. Was hoping you all can help. Do any of the VMWare converters support Hyper-V 2012 R2 U1? I get...
View ArticleConvert Ubuntu Server 14.04 with 6.0.0
Using 6.0.0 release of VMWare Standalone Converter, did anyone manage to convert physical Ubuntu Server machine? It seems this standalone product requires a VMWare server. I don't know it that is a new...
View Articleconvert HV VM as physical or from HV manager
Hi. I have to convert one Hyper-V's VM to vSphere, it is a windows server 2008 r2 (both HV and VM) and HV have simple default installation.First step: with source as Hyper-V I had got a problem at 1%...
View Article2012 R2 support - converter 5.5
I see converter supports server 2012, but do we know if that also includes 2012 r2? We've found a few times that 2012 support != 2012 r2 support and we have a couple vm's we need to run through...
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VMWare converter network functionality
Hi, If I set up a converter job where source is a standalone ESXi and destination is also a standalone esxi, how do traffic go, will source send directly to destination or will traffic run through...
View ArticleProblem running a VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.0 SDK locally for a...
Short description of the situation:We are trying to run the VMware SDK for a convert operation on a local machine. We have installed the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client, the one with a GUI...
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Error 29163 is still here
Hello everybody,the old issue about geting Error 29163 during the installation has never been answered.I keep getting "Error 29163. Could not copy file c:\windows\temp\converter-agent.xml.", and the...
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FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: 'The operation experienced a...
Hi everyone.I was used VMware Converter Standalone 6.0 to converter server 2003 on Hyper-V to host ESX of vCenter.Hyper-V have IP : 10.132.2.200vCenter have IP: 10.132.2.177Host ESXi have IP :...
View ArticleCant convert windows xp machine to a virtual machine
Have gotten a new PC and trying to convert the old one to a virtual machine using the converter program.The PC I am trying to convert is running Windows XP.I have tried all the available versions of...
View ArticleP2V for Lotus Notes Server ?
Hi, There is a request to perform a P2V for a Windows 2003 Server running as Lotus Notes Server. Just would like to seek your advice what is the steps I have to take in order to prevent a major problem...
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Latest Version of Standalone Converter that supports Windows 2003 Server?
Hi, We are running ESxi 5.5 with FC SAN. We are going to perform a P2V for a 32 Bit Windows 2003 Server. Just wonder which version of Converter suits us most ? Thanks
View ArticleError 1920 when installing VMWare Converter 4.0.1
Hi folks, when we try to install (as administrator) the actual converter on our windows 2003 std. 32 bit server (domain controller, 1 nic, fully ms patched) we always receive the following error:...
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