Hello,
I am trying to P2V an old server running windows 2000 ent w/ SP4. The hardware is an HP DL380G2 with 4GB of ram.
I tried to import directly to VMware Infrastructure, but it failed with unknown error with the Agent. So I decided to do a cold clone as this seems to work all the time.
I used the coldclone bootcd from the coldclone.iso dated 2009-2-5.
Here are the steps followed:
1 - Booted the server with the coldclone bootcd
2 - Selected the disk to import (C and D - disk(0) and disk (1)) and uncheck a hidden volume of 38Mb in size (also labelled disk(0))
3 - Checked to ignore pagefile and hybernation file
4 - created a separate for each volume.
5 - Select "Other VMware VM" as destination
6 - I saved the two vmdk files and a vmx file onto a local usb key, 32GB in size, formatted NTFS.
7 - From VirtulaCenter, I brwose the vSphere Client, on the VirtualCenter, I uploaded the two VMDK files and the vmx file that was also created.
8 - At first, i tried to added the VM to the inventory and tried to boot the VM.
9 - Seconds after booting starts, I received this error message:
Module DevicePowerOn power on failed.
Unable to create virtual SCSI device for scsi0:0, '/vmfs/volumes/4faa8a08-d4373668-6f56-001cc448b165/Cluster/CRD14/crd14vm.vmdk'
Failed to open disk scsi0:0: Unsupported or invalid disk type 7. Make sure that the disk has been imported.
10 -So I remove the VM from inventory and tried creating a new VM, pointing the VM the vmdk [(disk(0)) - drive c ].
Once this was at done, I tried to power the VM on again, but I received the same error message.
Can anyone help me figure this out and resolve the problem?
I am not sure it is a corruption in my vmdk files or the vmx file.
Here is the content of the .vmx file:
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "6"
memsize = "3840"
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
MemTrimRate = "30"
displayName = "crd14vm"
guestOS = "win2000advserv"
numvcpus = "2"
floppy0.present = "TRUE"
floppy0.fileName = "A:"
floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"
usb.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.connectionType = "bridged"
ethernet0.startConnected = "FALSE"
ethernet1.present = "TRUE"
ethernet1.addressType = "generated"
ethernet1.connectionType = "bridged"
ethernet1.startConnected = "FALSE"
scsi0:0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:0.fileName = "crd14vm.vmdk"
scsi0:1.present = "TRUE"
scsi0:1.fileName = "crd14vm (2).vmdk"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
tools.upgrade.policy = "useGlobal"
ehci.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.autodetect = "TRUE"
ide0:0.filename = "auto detect"
ide0:0.deviceType = "atapi-cdrom"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "buslogic"
buslogic.noDriver = "FALSE"
isolation.tools.hgfs.disable = "TRUE"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:dc:0b:ba"
ethernet1.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:dc:0b:c4"
uuid.location = "56 4d f4 04 6d d7 93 4b-cd aa 13 de 3a dc 0b ba"
uuid.bios = "56 4d f4 04 6d d7 93 4b-cd aa 13 de 3a dc 0b ba"
scsi0:0.redo = ""
scsi0:1.redo = ""
pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "32"
ethernet1.pciSlotNumber = "33"
ehci.pciSlotNumber = "34"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
ethernet1.generatedAddressOffset = "10"
checkpoint.vmState = "crd14vm.vmss"
Thank you