Sadly there are quite a few hits on the web and none seem to cover the issue. I am logged in as local administrator, tried running the converter as administrator user, tried switching from local machine to remote and specifying the loopback address.
Checked the disk for errors, nothing meaningful in the event logs. Eventually looked at the requirements of 6. I have tried in vain to locate a copy of converter 5. After looking at firewalls it was clear the after chatting to vCenter on it then opens a port to the target ESXi host on During this trial and error process I was advised from vmWare that the host, vCenter and ESXi machines all need to be on the same network interpret as routable. Opening a VPN from the remote server to the vmWare boxes sorted the issue and also seemed to boost the speed.
Sadly, I can't seem to download it either. Has anyone out there got a copy of 5. You will need a VMware account. Expand one of the two "Version History" headers lower down on the page. As an aside, I recommend running chkdsk on the source server you're trying to convert. If there are disk errors it often will cause the conversion to fail. Now wondering if this is a network firewall issue. Found an local windows server and 6. The Converter acts as the relay, if you will between vCenter servers or hosts on the source and destination sides of the process.
If you're converting from a vCenter server to a vCenter server, you do not need direct host access. The Windows Server is hosted externally as a singe box. This seemed to look good, allowing a job to be created and selecting an internal ESXi This is a real shame, maybe there is some config option. I then retried this on the external server so Converter points directly to the actual ESXi host that has the datastore, it was a none flyer - presenting an error that the host was managed by a vCenter and to connect there instead.
Next I have a forth ESXi server that is not part of vCenter essentials plus only allows 3 systems so I pointed the external host there and hey presto vConverter accepted it and submitted the job. The performance was terrible. There are many factors that go into it. Ever notice that copying a large file with MS Explorer gives you wild copy time remaining times? Same thing here - probably more accurate than MS though.
If so - create a GB disk, us a partition manager like gparted to shrink the volume smaller than GB , then copy it to the new disk - remove the 1TB disk from the VM don't delete it yet. If that is too much - you can run the converter and only convert the 1TB drive - shrinking it to GB.
You could even just shrink the partition as mentioned before then convert the volume VMDK to thin provisioned. Sure - it would be provisioned to 1TB but it would only use the space that the data takes up.
It has been a long time since I had to do this. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Spiceworks Help Desk. The help desk software for IT. Track users' IT needs, easily, and with only the features you need.
Learn More ». Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. We did a P2V conversion few months ago block level for a Windows server. Any other comments and suggestions are appreciated. Best Answer. Ghost Chili. Savingprivateryan wrote: da Beast wrote: Then you have made your network as fast as possible.
The other thing to do is make sure that the workstation performing the V2V or server is on the same network segment as the ESXi management interface. Here is our topology: Simple network with 1 gigabit switch,1 subnet I would run everything on host B like what you planned.
Make sure that vm6 nic is on the same vlan as the management nic is for host b. Notify me of new posts via email. Search for: Search. To disable the encryption of the P2V data stream: 1. Open the converter-worker. Change the value to false as shown below and then save and close the file. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here
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