Can I find anywhere a step-by-step guide on how to migrate a powered-down VM from Azure to a local server using VMware standalone converter? The converter's user guide does not mention anything about Azure. Thanks.
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Migrate a powered-down VM from Azure
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use vcenter converter standalone to p2v failed
Dear everyone
my physical computer is install windows server 20003 sp2 standard edition,now i want to conver it to VM on vmware vsphere .when started conver ,it has a issue below
my vcenter converter standalone version is 6.1.1
physical computer's agent is manual installed (can not push install from vcenter converter standalone server)
i also restart the source computer after install agent
now i have no ideal for this issue
so can anyone help me to resolve this issue,?thanks a lot.
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P2V - SuSe Linux 10 Enterprise SP3 failing at 3%
Hello Community,
I'm trying to P2V a physical telecommunication server with two NICs and as OS SuSe Linux 10 Enterprise SP3.
Deploying the helper VM and grant more RAM *12GB* is working fine but at the step: Formatting the destination partitions the VMware Standalone Converter will fail with this error:
FAILED: A general system error occurred:
Network error. Host XX.XX.XX.XX key can't be retrieved. (return code 2)
But the helper VM and all NICs of the physical machine are available through Converter Server and vCenter during the process.
I also looked into the messages log on the helper VM and there are those errors:
Maybe somebody had the same issue like me and can help me.
Thank you very much.
Have a nice evening.
Greetings
KKvss
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vmware convertor issue
Configure the VMware helper ip address.
This will resolve this type of issue. Convertor 6.1.1
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Converting time P2V - Windows Server 2008 R2 (proxy enabled)
I tested exactly that same physical server and:
a) without synchronization converting time is around 27 minutes
b) with synchronization ( Run immediately after cloning) i take 60 minute and 6 minute for next job with synchronizastion.
If this is normal ?
Sebastian
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Error when installing VMWare Standalone Converter to Windows 10
Having an odd problem, I have use the converter software before with no issues until now. Recently purchased a new PC with Windows 10 Home edition, ( Version 1703, Build 15063.540). Installed VMware-converter-en-6.1.1-3533064 with no issues, however when I try to launch it, I get the following error:
Config File Error: Not Well-Formed (invalid token) (line 4)
I've tried installing and launching the software as well in Compatibility Mode for Windows 8, also same issue.
Does anyone have an insight on this?
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Prompting for Windows Product Key
While generating a procedure for my department to convert physical Windows 2003 servers to VMs, I ran into an issue. vConverter v6.0 converts the machine; however, I am prompted to enter a Product Key. The other conversions I did not prompt me for this. Any idea why this happened? Also, do you know how I can prevent this from happening?
Please note: I double checked the sysprep file on the vConverter server. It is expanded and in the same location it was for the other conversions.
T.J.
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Latest Converter corrupts XP boot files
I had a newly imported XP vmdk (imported with dd)
When booting it inside a VM it bluescreened with a 7B - so everything was fine.
Then I used Converter 6.1 with the "configure machine" option.
Result was that the perfectly booting vmdk now hangs with a white cursor in the upper left of the screen.
Checking with a LiveCD showed that the boot partition still had the bootable flag.
So the conclusion is that the current Converter corrupts the boot.ini or the ntldr.
As a workaround I now boot from a custom made boot floppy - but that really should not be necessary.
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Get error : unable to proceed since the sysprep parameters provided are not correct
Hello,
I'm trying to convert (P2v) a Windows server 2008 R2 (french edition) using vcenter converter standalone.
At the end of conversion, i have this message "unable to proceed since the sysprep parameters provided are not correct".
Is there any way to fix that ?
I have no english windows available to install*
Thank you very much for your replies!
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Installs Correctly, Can't Connect
Hi,
I'm having trouble getting the Converter to connect to the server. I'm running Win 7 Pro and have successfully installed the Standalone Converter 5.0.0 build 470252 with the default settings (no advanced changes). I am not joined to a domain. I am logging in as my default Admin account. I run the Standalone Client as an Administrator and the main window comes up. When I click on Convert Machine, I get:
Unable to connect to VMware vCenter Converter Standalone server. Please check your network connection.
followed by:
The connection to VMware cVenter Standalone server was lost. Do you want to try connecting again?
Note - I am not trying to connect to a remote machine, just the local server with the default account. All the VMware services are running (Agent, Server, Worker) and all are set to run as local system account. I've tried restarting all of them. I've tried rebooting. I've tried uninstalling, rebooting, reinstalling and still have the same errors. I cannot see any extra logs in the Event Viewer indicating something is bombing.
When I open a command window and try to connect to localhost via 443, I get a failure. I've already tried opening the port via Windows Firewall and still get the connection failure so I'm not sure if my port is still blocked or if the server itself isn't responding. I don't have any other AV or firewall software running aside from Windows Firewall. Any ideas on where to troubleshoot next? Thanks,
DB
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Is it possible to specify destinaton host as the local machine when performing P2V using vcenter standalone converter?
I cannot find a way specifying the local machine to save the VM for my remote Linux machine. Is there a way? I don't have a ESXi server.
Thanks.
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Minimize downtime during P2V conversion
All,
In a test environment, I am using vCenter Converter Standalone v6.0 to generate a procedure to convert Windows 2003 Servers to VMs. My goal is to minimize my customer’s downtime.
The User Guide list an option of “Stop Services Running on the Source Machine” before Converter Standalone synchronizes the data between the source and destination machine. While the services on the Source are synchronized with the Destination, this is an outage or downtime. Is there a way I can find exact time synchronization started and ended? I am trying to estimate or measure this downtime. This will allow me to tell the customer “When we converted Windows 2003 Server XYZ in the lab, it was offline ABC minutes.”
T.J.
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Server 2012 Inaccessible_Boot_Device after V2V from Hyper-V.
Trying to migrate 4 VMs from 2012 R2 Hyper-V Server to a mixed vSphere 6/6.5 cluster via VMware converter 6.1.1 . I have tried converting and choosing mutliple types of disk controllers and it doesn't seem to matter I get a BSOD on VM startup with an Inaccessible_Boot_Device.
Anyone have any other ideas?
Tried the steps in the following articles
These are all Gen1 Hyper V vms with IDE virtual disks.
I also tried this with no luck.
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Virtual PC XP SP3 Conversion failed
Log files attached. Please advise.
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Error: Unable to clone the volume mounted on '/'
Citrix XenCenter v6.5 (64-bit)
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client v6.1.1
vSphere Client v6.0.0
VMware ESXi v6.0.0
Full Error:
FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: 'packet_write_wait: Connection to <ip address>: Broken pipe /bin/tar_1.28: Unexpected EOF in archive /bin/tar_1.28: Unexpected EOF in archive /bin/tar_1.28: Error is not recoverable:
exiting now /usr/lib/vmware-converter/bin/ssh -z -F /usr/lib/vmware-converter/ssh.conf root@<ip address> -p 22 " tar --one-file-system --sparse -C '/' -cf - ." | /bin/tar_1.28 --numeric-owner --delay-directory-restore -C '/mnt/p2v-src-root/' -y -xf - (return code 2)'
Log Highlights:
Error: Unable to clone the volume mounted on '/' from '<ip address>'
I've been having issues with getting this Linux xencenter vm to convert over to VMware, and I've been able to fix a few issues, but now I'm not 100% certain what is next...
The error above occurred at 17%, but had also occurred at 11% initially. Disabling SSL got the conversion past 11%.
What could be the next issue?
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Converter Hangs at 1%
I've got a machine that I've been tasked to virtualize, but I never get any farther than 1%, which is wierd because a collegue of mine P2Ved this server a couple months ago and it went through. (we had to delete that VM because it wasn't brought online in time.)
The conversion doesn't fail, it just stays at 1%.
Server is a Windows Server 2003 R2 box and it's main role is Raisers Edge. I turned off all the SQL services per another post. I'm not quite sure what else to include, other than the logs.
Thanks.
Message was edited by: Awanogardn Scrubbed the logs.
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Error: Unable to reconfigure the destination virtual machine.
Buenos dias, estoy intentando virtualizar un Ubuntu Server 14.04.1 con un converter 5.5.1 y me da el siguiente error al 97%
FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: 'GrubInstaller::InstallGrub: /usr/lib/vmware-converter/installGrub.sh failed with return code: 0, and message: Installing GRUB1 on (hd0)... [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no Error 15:
File not found grub> '
Alguna idea?...
he actualizado el grub a la version GRUB2 y me falla igualmente, y he vuelto a bajar la version.
Saludos y gracias
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FAILED: Unable to reconfigure the destination virtual machine. (98%)
Hi guys !
I have a physical server running Windows Server 2008 ( join domain ).
I has using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone ( Vesion: 6.1.1 ), I want to convert a physical server this to virtual system ( have vCenter anh 2 hosts )
When i was run VMware vCenter Converter Standalone to 98% that display FAILED: Unable to reconfigure the destination virtual machine like this picture.
I was attached file the log of job converter Failed this.
So can you help me fix and know why FAILED this ?
Thanks.
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VMware Converter helper VM Login Prompt
Hello guys,
I'm trying to convert a Linux VM from Hyper-V to ESXi using Converter 6.1, After it creates a target VM and boot with helper ISO, it sits on a login prompt asking for username and password.
Can anyone help on this please.
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Unable to query the live linux source machine
I'm trying to convert a RHEL4 server and am getting 'Unable to query the live linux source machine' after I push Next on the credentials screen.
I can use putty from this server to logon as the root account. Any Ideas ?
The following is in the log files:
Testing client connection to agent
Reusing existing agent connection
Cannot query source HW info: converter.fault.SysinfoQueryLinuxFault
Testing client connection to agent
Reusing existing agent connection
Testing client connection to agent
Reusing existing agent connection
Cannot query source HW info: converter.fault.SysinfoQueryLinuxFault
Cached agent connection is for a different source, recreating connection
Creating SOAP stub adapter over pipe:
.\pipe\vmware-converter-agent-soap
Testing client connection to agent
Reusing existing agent connection
Cannot query source HW info: converter.fault.SysinfoQueryLinuxFault
Cached agent connection is for a different source, recreating connection
Creating SOAP stub adapter over pipe:
.\pipe\vmware-converter-agent-soap
Testing client connection to agent
Reusing existing agent connection
Cannot query source HW info: converter.fault.SysinfoQueryLinuxFault
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