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Increasing the cloning performance

October 25, 2011, 6:57 am
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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 Converter 5.0 by encrypting the data transfer. Unfortunately this has caused a more severe performance degradation than expected.
Switching off SSL encryption is a way to work around this issue. Here is how it is done:

  1. Open the converter-worker.xml configuration file. It is located in "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone" folder for Windows Vista or newer or in "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone" for older Windows versions.
  2. Set the key Config/nfc/useSsl to false and save the configuration file.
  3. Restart "VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Worker" service.

 

I.e. it should look like:

    ...    <nfc>       <readTimeoutMs>120000</readTimeoutMs>       <useSsl>false</useSsl>    ...
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NBD_ERR_NETWORK_CONNECT' (error code:2338)

June 23, 2017, 7:12 am
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Hi everybody,

 

I am trying to V2V a Windows Server 2003 machine.

I've been trying for hours, but it keeps failing.

 

Error in the logfile; NBD_ERR_NETWORK_CONNECT' (error code:2338)

 

I already tried;

- Downgrading and updating vSphere Converter.

- Changing my hosts file so it has the source and destination.

- Reboot my machines.

- Converting to VMware Workstations works! But when I import on the new ESX fails.

- Enabling and disabling 'Use proxy mode'.

 

Please see attached logfile.

For privacy reasons I renamed the hostnames, thank you for your understanding.

 

Who can help me in the good direction? Thanks!

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Failed p2v redhat with converter 4 Standalone.

March 25, 2009, 10:21 am
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Hello,

 

 

I'm trying to p2v a redhat in a HP BL460c with the new converter 4 standalone.

 

 

I give an error "Unable to connect to the Converter helper server on the target virtual machine". And the Status on the "task progress" tab is "FAILED. Failed to communicate with the remote host, either due to network errors or because the host is not responding".

 

 

I'll found this error in documentation & forums, but I have no luck, maybe someone can help me with this issue. I attach the log files.

 

 

Thanks a lot.

 

 

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Linux P2V issue: unable to query the live Linux source machine

April 19, 2016, 8:32 am
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We're trying to convert some servers in a remote datacentre; the owners have given us SSH access through the firewall and even supplied the root password (I can confirm this by actually SSH-ing into the boxes, so that's definitely working).  However, the actual conversion process is going nowhere near as smoothly.  Every time we try, the conversion process refuses to start, telling us that it was "unable to query the live Linux source machine"

 

 

Some details:

     Converter version: 6.1.1 (as Administrator), running on a Windows 10 PC (I've tried converter 4.x and 5.x as well, though)

     Source: Dell box running RHEL 5.11

     Destination: vSphere 5.1 cluster (not that we actually get that far)

 

I've checked what seem to be the usual causes for this; /tmp is writable, there are no "echo" statements in anyone's .bashrc, and root has a proper shell (/bin/bash), and still no joy.  Can anyone suggest what we might have missed?  I've attached the logs from the failed conversion as well.

 

Thanks,

Ian.

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Any reason for painfully slow transfer rates with VMWare Converter?

November 17, 2013, 8:21 pm
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By now I have been through several P2V and one V2V conversion using the VMWare converter 5.0, 5.1 and now 5.5 and all have suffered from very slow transfer rates. On 5.0 and 5.1 I have disabled SSL Encryption and while doing a local P2V from the physical machine or a P2V from a remote machine (all on a Gigabit LAN network) I have seen slow transfer rates of maybe 5 MB/s.

 

And now doing a V2V using 5.5, I am moving a VM from internal storage onto a SAN, I am seeing average of 2MB/sec transfer rates. This is with SSL enabled. And I am converting a 1.6TB VMDK (windows 2008) that has only 480GB used. For this particular V2V, I had to resize the volume and make it a thin from thick, so I realize a slower file level copy is taking place instead of a block level or volume level. But are these transfer rates "normal"?

 

Thanks for any and all feedback in advance.

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Converter failing with: The operation experienced a network error

November 4, 2016, 10:18 am
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I can't believe there is any kind of network issue because all of my VM's are working and on the network.

I am running version 6.1.1 and have tried three different ESXi servers. Two are 5.5 and one is 6.0 servers and they all fail. I have also tried this on another PC that fails.

I have also tried different VM's to import. I took one of the VM's and converted it on my PC from one drive to another drive and that works telling me the VM isn't the issue.

I found one article on the web from VMware Converter: "The operation experienced a network error" - discussing the network error issue but said it was something else that he got around.

The other strange thing it does, the progress bar gets to 50% and then speeds up to 98% and then goes back to 6% where it fails.

I have attached the log files from one of the tests.

 

Thanks

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Vstor2 - A General system error occured: Missing Vstor2 driver or not started.... haven't been answer in other threads.

May 24, 2018, 11:26 am
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Well i'm converting a 2012 server on to esxi, but as i start the conversion i get the error from the Topic. My pc is on win10. agent is well installed on the server, i've did other servers in the past.

 

What's missing ?

 

PS: maby there is some magic out there to find that vstor2 driver to !

 

Thanks !

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Getting error, a general system error occurred: unknown internal error

May 28, 2013, 1:41 am
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Conversion fails with the error:FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion:'root is not found'

April 7, 2013, 10:37 am
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I try to convert P2M Linux server SUSE SLES 11 64 bit.

The Converter server log is attach.

It is my first linux to convert.

Any help?

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Errors trying to covert VM?

October 26, 2016, 5:50 pm
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I'm trying to use Vmware Converter Standalone 6.0.0 build 2716716 to convert a VM on an ESX6 server.  it worked perfectly fine in the past.  All of a sudden I'm getting an error at the very end of the conversion:

FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion:

'The session does not have the required permissions'

 

and in the log highlights:

Error: Unable to clone disk [DATASTORENAME] path/vmname.vmdk on the virtual machine 'Vm Name'.

 

Any idea?  I did recently install Veeam backup & replication on the same client machine Converter is running on.  Veeam runs fine.

 

Thanks for any help.

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"ERROR: Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible" - Win8 64bit P2V with VMware Converter 5.5.0

April 15, 2014, 1:05 pm
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Hello everyone,

I am trying to hot-P2V a Win8 64bit OS which came pre-installed on my new notebook (it's an OEM license so I don't have the OS installation discs and thus cannot create a VM from scratch).

 

Unfortunately, like many people before me, I experienced this error while reconfiguring the newly-created virtual hard disk.

I read that the cause of this problem is an inaccurate BCD configuration: VMware KB: P2V conversion using VMware Converter fails with the error: Unable to find the system volume, reconfigura…

 

This post states that I'm supposed to import the virtual machine to vCenter Server and repair the VM's BCD from there.

Unfortunately I do not own this software and tried to import the VM in VMware Converter and run "Configure Machine" to fix the BCD data but no, I get the same error.

I should also mention that I did NOT install VMware Tools on this VM.

 

I spent some time reading articles about what BCD actually is and I more or less understood WHAT to do but still need a hand on HOW to do it.

Comparing my BCD with my Control Panel --> Disk Management it looks like the partitions are laid out correctly:

the first is a Win rec. partition (400Mb), then you have the boot partition (260Mb) and then the OS partition (drive C:).

The Z: volume is merely a data partition where I put music and movies and was not included in the VM.

Finally, the D: volume is a Hewlett Packard rec. partition. - this was not included in the VM either.

The BCD says the {bootmgr} is '\Device\HarddiskVolume2', so it seems to mirror the Disk Management structure.

But I'm no expert at all so here I am, asking for help.

 

I am attaching VMware Converter's logs and screenshots of my Win8 BCD and Disk Management.

Apart from solving my issue I'm especially interested in understanding WHY this problem occurs so I can learn and be better prepared for the next time.

Thanks a lot for your help,

Regards.

Stef

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Install VMWare Converter on VC Server ?

August 13, 2008, 10:05 pm
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We are new to VMWare Converter and we get an Enterprise Version.

 

 

 

 

 

We would like to convert some physical servers to VM in the near future.  In this way, we start looking into VMware Converter.

 

 

 

 

 

We would like to know is it a good idea to install VMWare Converter on the VC Server ?  From the web, we understand that there are 2 components of Converter - Agent & Manager.  Should we install both of them in the VC Server or just install the Manager component ?

 

 

 

 

 

Moreover, since the C drive of the VC Server is almost full, can we install VMWare Converter on the D drive ?  This is a fellow has told us that we have to get it installed on the system drive.

 

 

Thanks

 

 

 

 

 

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Increasing the cloning performance

October 25, 2011, 6:57 am
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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 Converter 5.0 by encrypting the data transfer. Unfortunately this has caused a more severe performance degradation than expected.
Switching off SSL encryption is a way to work around this issue. Here is how it is done:

  1. Open the converter-worker.xml configuration file. It is located in "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone" folder for Windows Vista or newer or in "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone" for older Windows versions.
  2. Set the key Config/nfc/useSsl to false and save the configuration file.
  3. Restart "VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Worker" service.

 

I.e. it should look like:

    ...    <nfc>       <readTimeoutMs>120000</readTimeoutMs>       <useSsl>false</useSsl>    ...
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Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

May 14, 2013, 7:59 am
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Using converter standalone 5.1 converting RHEL 5 to use with VMware workstation. I get the below error.

 

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ubuntu p2v - converter fails generic error

December 21, 2011, 1:19 pm
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Hello,

 

I'm new to vmware and I'm trying to teach myself. I have ubuntu 11.10 running on a spare laptop with linux converter server 4.0.1. I have the Converter Standalone Client 4.0.1 installed on a windows 7 machine. I have an ESXi server cluster running 4.1.0 that I'm a superadmin on. I'm trying to use the windows machine to convert the ubuntu machine from physical to virtual. I go the through the wizard and everything looks fine. I click start, it starts, and then stops and disconnects with a very generic error "Error: Unable to create the virtual machine 'ubuntu-test-machine'." no other reason given.

 

Can someone point me in the right direction? Either documentation is limited or my googling needs work because I'm having a hard time finding info on this. It's either outdated or a little to vague for a beginner. Point me in the right direction and I'm sure I can figure it out.

 

I appreciate any help. Screenshots attached.

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Error 1920 installing converter on XP

June 16, 2014, 7:29 am
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Hello -- I was in the process of   porting / converting a win/xp system by installing converter (v5.5) on the xp system.

 

The install ended just at the end with the error code 1920 -- which seemed to  indicate that there was an issue with the services the installed  with converter.

 

I was doing the install logged in with the "administrator" id --  Any suggestions on how to get this installed would be apprecaited

 

Thanks

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How to P2V multiple 2003 Servers to 6.5

March 15, 2018, 4:41 pm
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We have a Client with 10+ 2003 physical Servers that we need to convert to VMs in ESXi 6.5.

 

I've done some searching, and found that Server 2003 is no longer supported, and that Converter 6.0 was the last to support it.

 

What is the best way to P2V the 2003 Servers and get them into 6.5?

 

Do we use Converter 6.0 to P2V to ESXi 6.0 and then migrate to 6.5?  Or will Converter 6.0 work directly with ESXi 6.5?

 

What Hardware version should we choose?

 

Any other tips for P2V on 2003?

 

Thanks!

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How Do I Install VMware-Converter in Ubuntu 18.04-LTS

June 23, 2018, 5:19 pm
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Hello.  I am trying to install VMware Converter in Ubuntu 18.04-LTS.  I have no idea how to do this.  Install documentation for the operating system or just linux in general is virtually non-existent.  I read the current documentation and looks like I can only install this latest version in Windows, however there is an open source download available.  Can someone please help?  I downloaded the latest file.  The name of the file is VMware-converter-6.2.0-7348398.odp, of which I extracted all the way to VMware-converter-6.2.0-7348398.odp.tar, a tar file.  In general, I just want VMware Converter installed on my linux operating system.  Any help or guides\documentation would be appreciated.

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The virtual disk is invalid or needs to be repaired AND vmware-vdiskmanager does NOT fix the problem

May 29, 2018, 12:58 pm
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I'm running vmware-vdiskmanager -R against a VMDK file that produces "the virtual disk is invalid or needs to be repaired" errors in VCenter Converter.  vmware-vdiskmanager does NOT report anything; it just silently returns to the command prompt after a second or two and does not fix the problem.

 

vdisk-vdiskmanager -e reports: Disk chain is consistent.

 

Now what?  What to do when vmware-vdiskmanager -R does not fix the problem?

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Converter 5 does not recognize LVM partition on Oracle Linux 6

August 8, 2012, 12:07 pm
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I've got two physical servers running Oracle Linux Server release 6.3 64-bit.  They each have a /boot partition that is ext4 and the rest on an LVM partition:

 

/dev/mapper/vg_cleveland-lv_root /                       ext4    defaults        1 1
UUID=3d37688e-305a-4974-9bb7-f02232b78790 /boot                   ext4    defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_cleveland-lv_swap swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0

 

vCenter Converter is only recognizing the /boot partition in the "Data to copy" section "Select volumes to copy".

 

If I go forward the conversion fails when trying to reconfigure the VM.  I've looked through the user guide and googled a bit but I can't seem to find why the ext4 LVM partition is not being recognized by Converter 5.

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