After several attempts at virtualising an old Dell PE 1400, running NT4 SP6, with version 3.02.x of VMWware Converter, unsucessfully, I'm now trying version 4.0.0.0 of the standalone converter software - VMware vCenter Converter Standalone.
With the previous version I could at least get the Agent installed on NT, select the drives (had to break mirrors), and it went through the motions for an hour or so creating the drive space on my local drive but eventually failing.
With the new version however, I don't even get that far - does anyone know what the error 1622 means? I can't install V4 directly on NT4 it seems, and maybe that's part of the issue, but I DID read somewhere that it was intended that V4 would allow a hot-clone of NT4. I don't believe I can get a copy of the Cold P2V CD unless I purchase Virtual Centre.
I see others have had various issues once they've performed the P2V but I can only HOPE to get that far.
Hope there's some bright spark here who can help, thanks in advance,
Jon.
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0 doesn't support Windows NT conversions. It also doesn't support installation on NT machines.
Can you confirm lack of support for NT4? The Converter documentation says that NT4 is a supported source system.
I am assuming you too are referring to Converter 4.0. Windows NT4 SP6+ is supported as VM source. NOT as a powered on machine. Please look at Powered-On Machine Conversion Limitations section in the Converter 4.0 user guide.
I am assuming you are a vmware employee so hopefully Im not wasting your time if you are
not...but,
The converter overview states support for NT4 with no caveats. So I downloaded, installed
and...wasted my time. Yes, the datasheet and maybe the user guide (which I could not
locate on any of the converter product pages) states this limitation, but because of the
explicit statement of support for NT on the overview, I did not dig further before pursing
converter...
Thanks.
Richard Corn
RAC Consulting
P.O. Box 12299, Olympia, WA. 98508 USA
(360) 357-9572 fax: (360) 352-8453
email: rac@racc.com web: www.racc.com