do Virtual Iron VS Tools really need to be disabled first (or at all) for...
I hope this is acceptable - I posted this under ESXi 5 since it gets more traffic and it's a general question, but I haven't gotten feedback there yet. Overall my conversions seem viable leaving VS...
View ArticleP2V failed after 98% when converting physical RHEL 6.2 system
Hi all, We are getting the following error when converting physical system of RHEL 6.2 to virtual system using Vmware vCenter standalone converter 5.1 : Status : FAILED: An error occurred during the...
View ArticleEntry in Windows Application Event Log - Faulting module name:...
Hello,since my Windows 2008 R2 (Web Server edition) installation uses 100MB System restore partition I had to use this fix for that: VMware KB: P2V conversion of a Windows 2008 R2 machine fails at...
View ArticleP>V conversion of Windows server > ESXi host 5.1 fails
I have a Dell server running 2003 Server- Standard SP2 and Exchange 2003Trying to do a P>V conversion using a laptop w/ vmConverter going to ESXi Host v ESXi 5.1. Laptop and destination host both...
View ArticleCan't convert Server 2008 R2 Machine getting error: The VSS snapshots cannot...
I have a couple of Server 08 R2 machines where the P to V conversion fails. I did some digging and the problem appears to be related to the 100mb System Reserved Partition that has 0% free space...
View Articlecan not download vm machine from datastore
Hello,I downloaded vm from local data storage, but always get the error:Expected put message. Got: ERROR I have a local data store o esx server (i have a esxi 5.2 + essential kit). No shares, no other...
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Suggestions for running VMware Converter over the internet
Hi everyone, I'm looking for a bit of advice Currently using VMware Workstation 9 and things are going great, I've P2V'd a couple of local machines on the network using the VMware vCenter Converter...
View Article98% FAILED: Unable to reconfigure the destination virtual machine. Win srvr 2003
We are trying to convert a Windows Server 2003 x64 SP2 machine and get this error at 98 percent,"FAILED: Unable to reconfigure the destination virtual machine." The only reference I see in the log...
View ArticleProblem with Converter Standalone Client 5
Now I install Converter Standalone Client 5 on windows 7 Sp1 64bit But when opening see message :config file error: not well-formed (invalid token) (Line 4)and this a log event for error:Faulting...
View ArticleUnable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine - Standalone...
vCenter: 5.1.0Standalone Converter: 5.1.0ESXi : 5.1 I am unable to complete any P2V conversions with vCenter Standalone Converter. I get the error message "Unable to obtain hardware information for the...
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Where can I find the Cold Clone CD?
It was my understanding that if you have an Enterprise Plus license for ESX, the cold clone CD was available to you with Converter, but I dont see it under the Converter downloads.We are going to be...
View ArticleConverting from rsync'd backup of RHEL/CentOS 6.4 system
I recently upgraded a CentOS 5 system to 6.4 on bare metal. I've been backing up by rsync'ing the system to both a local USB drive and a remote system's USB drive. The backup is a snapshot of the live...
View ArticleProblem importing a Win7 machine onto ESX4 host
Hi Folks, Having an issue while importing a Win 7 machine with min disk size (28 GB) on a ESX4 host with vCenter converter 5.0.0.vCenter version is 4.0. Error message is-"Import MachineFailed to take...
View ArticlePoor transfer rate using Converter 5.0 Standalone compared to 4.3
I recently started using the newly released Converter 5.0.0 . I had successfully done over 30 P2V's of Windows 2003 systems using version 4.3. Immediately, I noticed two problems: 1) The average...
View ArticleVcenter Converter 5.0 Error 1603
Hello all, I am usind vmWare vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0 to run a P2V on a server that is running Windows 2003. I have ran two different P2V's this 2003 server with success over the past three...
View ArticleService_Boot_Start error on v2v conversion
I am trying to do a v2v conversion with the 5.1 standalone converter on a windows 2008 r2 VM. I am doing this to shrink the system partition which was wrongly thinly provisioned at 415 gigs down to...
View ArticleScripting Converter Standalone
Is there any way to create a script to convert a VM at a given time (let's say, during the night, to save resources...)?Regardsmarius
View ArticleBase System Device problem esxi 4.1
Hi, Running esxi 4.1 with vcenter 4.1.0. I recently converted (vmware converter 4.3.0) two Windows 2008 (not R2) 64 bit, none of them can identify the Base Device Driver.From what I have found on...
View ArticleCold clone a Windows 2008 R2 machine
Hi, Is there any way to cold clone Windows 2008 R2 machine? As far as I know there is no vmware 5.1 boot cd for cold cloning. So I've tried to use latest cold clone cd (4.1.1 - 206170). Problem is that...
View ArticleUnable to update boot.ini on the destination machine's system volume - Failed...
hi allI'm having the problem on the objectI've search enought for same problems but everybody get the error while trying to convert windows server 2003 - I also found that 2008 doesn't have a boot.ini...
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