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jaganpjames
Enthusiast
Enthusiast
‎04-14-2008 06:49 AM

Converter fails at creating target VM

When using my user id to connect to VC and create a VM directly, it does as it is supposed to, but when i am using the same user id, to connect to VC, using the converter wizard,(It allows me to complete the wizard, answer all the questions,), but when conversion starts, it fails at 1 %, and throws an error, of "unknown error returned by VMware converter agent" . The point of failure is creating target virtual machine.

The difference i have noted is, when the user id i am using is having admin role, it works perfectly, but when the account used is moved to power machine user, it fails . So is there something like, only admin role accounts can only be used for conversions? or some specific roles are there which can be used for coverter users.

I want to create a user group to be used exclusively for conversions, for which i dont want to add those accounts to have admin roles.

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theanykey
Virtuoso
Virtuoso
‎04-14-2008 09:06 AM

Check credentials and privileges

  • Ensure that each username can login to all systems (you may want to create one admin account on all systems to simply the testing)

  • Ensure the user has permission to create a VM on the target system

  • Ensure the user has access to LUNs on the target system

  • Ensure the user has write privilege on target system storage devices

  • Verify that the user can create a new VM on each target system from VirtualCenter

Your Virtual Centcer user (if applicable) needs the following privileges:

  • Allow ReadOnly

  • Disk Access

  • Allow Virtual

  • Machine Files

  • Download

  • Inventory of VMs

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