Hi Guys,
recently I have setup two ESX 4.1 on two IBM 3650m3 servers. I also have setup a cluster HA with two esx, without DRS (purchased essential plus licence). Until now all is working fine, but something goes wrong when I try to use Vmware Converter plugin at VCenter or Converter Standalone on VM to convert.
My scenario:
ClusterHA with:
- esx1
- esx2
- vcenter 4.1 (on win200864bit VM into the cluster) with vcenter converter plugin 4.2
- vcenter converter standalone converter 4.3.0 (on windows machines)
Also I have an older vmware server 2.0 with 15 VMs to migrate into the new ESX4.1 farm.
No issues I encountered when migrating old VMs with V2V conversion from converter plugin (only linux operating systems), always with "powered on" procedure.
Now, it's time to convert only 2 windows xp 32bit vm:
A) V2V powered machine conversion with plugin from vcenter doesn't work and during deploy agent (or view source details) show me an error : Unable to contact specified host.
I'm sure that isn't a network problem, all required ports are open and tested.
B) I tried also to install vcenter converter standalone on windows machine. In this case, all works fine until Summary Review conversione parameters. If click finish to start conversion, in vcenter I can see create and then delete vm tasks, but in converter standalone I get a "A general system error occurred: unknown internal error"
C) Another way to convert this VMs is shutdown vm, from vcenter source type virtual machine, select vmx file located in a network path, view source detail --> Unable to obtain hardware information for selected machine.
Logs for case A)
Converter::Client::Gui::Common::DiagnosticDataProvider::DownloadSourceDiagnosticFile - Using last known source computer spec:
(converter.ComputerSpec) {
dynamicType = ,
},
}
Logs for case B)
Unable to submit job: vmodl.fault.SystemError
Submit job failed: A general system error occurred: unknown internal error
Next/Finish failed: A general system error occurred: unknown internal error
Logs for case C)
Converter::Client::Gui::Common::DiagnosticDataProvider::SetLastKnownSource - Setting last known source:
(converter.ComputerSpec) {
dynamicType = ,
configFilePath = "
10.192.0.11\vm1\Virtual Machine_1\Virtual Machine.vmx",
password = ,
networkUsername = "test",
networkPassword = (not shown),
type = "vmwareVM",
},
}
Cannot query source HW info: vmodl.fault.SystemError
Can someone help me?
Thanks
