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Converter does not see disks of HP BL460c G6

  • 1.  Converter does not see disks of HP BL460c G6

    Posted Jan 20, 2011 09:32 AM

    Hello,

    I have a HP c3000 blade enclosure with some BL460c G6 blades running Windows 2008 R2 which I would like to convert to virtual machines.

    The problem is...on the settings page...at the "Data to copy" tab...It doesn't show any source disks

    Can anyone please tell me how to fix this?

    I'm running the latest version of converter standalone (4.3)

    I also attached a screenshot of the problem

    Thanks, 



  • 2.  RE: Converter does not see disks of HP BL460c G6

    Posted Jan 20, 2011 01:56 PM

    is your source a physical blade?  What does 172.17.0.213 represent?



  • 3.  RE: Converter does not see disks of HP BL460c G6

    Posted Jan 20, 2011 02:05 PM

    172.17.0.213 is the address of the phisical HP BL460c G6 blade running Windows 2008 R2....which I want to convert to a virtual machine...but it's disks aren't showing up and I don't know why.



  • 4.  RE: Converter does not see disks of HP BL460c G6

    Posted Jan 20, 2011 02:11 PM

    I don't know if this would make a difference, but maybe trying, when converting 'powered on machine', using FQDN.  Or try installing VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.3 onto the W2k8R2 box you are trying to convert and convert powered on mchine, this local machine.



  • 5.  RE: Converter does not see disks of HP BL460c G6

    Posted Jan 20, 2011 02:17 PM

    do you have assigned a driveletter to the 100 Mb boot-partition in case you have one ?



  • 6.  RE: Converter does not see disks of HP BL460c G6

    Posted Jan 20, 2011 06:18 PM

    Well I did not install them, but it seems they do not have that 100MB boot-partition.

    Is the problem related to this?



  • 7.  RE: Converter does not see disks of HP BL460c G6

    Posted Jan 20, 2011 07:21 PM

    it seems ?

    check in diskmanagement



  • 8.  RE: Converter does not see disks of HP BL460c G6

    Posted Jan 20, 2011 08:22 PM

    sorry, just a figure of speech, of course I checked there, and no, there isn't any boot partition on any of the blades I tried to convert.



  • 9.  RE: Converter does not see disks of HP BL460c G6

    Posted Feb 06, 2011 03:57 PM

    Hi,

    you must run as administrator vmware converter

    Felipe



  • 10.  RE: Converter does not see disks of HP BL460c G6

    Posted Feb 06, 2011 04:30 PM

    hi,

    I did, and also loged in as Administrator on the remote machine i'm trying to convert. but I can't see it's disks



  • 11.  RE: Converter does not see disks of HP BL460c G6
    Best Answer

    Posted Feb 06, 2011 04:39 PM

    a guess:

    Try the conversion with UAC turned off. Maybe this prevents from detecting the drives.

    Just to make sure, did you use the local "Administrator" account or just a user with administrative rights?

    André



  • 12.  RE: Converter does not see disks of HP BL460c G6

    Posted Feb 06, 2011 05:04 PM

    You were right!! It was the damn UAC, I disabled it, rebooted the machine and not converter sees its disks.

    I don't know why I didn't think of this :smileyhappy:

    Thanks a million.