Converter does not see disks of HP BL460c G6

[st3reo]

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, 

[Troy_Clavell]

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

[st3reo]

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.

[Troy_Clavell]

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.

[continuum]

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

[st3reo]

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

Is the problem related to this?

[continuum]

it seems ?

check in diskmanagement

[st3reo]

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.

[Zikuta]

Hi,

you must run as administrator vmware converter

Felipe

[st3reo]

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

[a_p_ · Accepted solution]

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

[st3reo]

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

Thanks a million.