I'm trying to convert a physical Windows Server 2003 SP2 Web Edition with the converter (v 5.1) and every time it fails with the error " FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: 'Platform-specific error 2338'
Some of the errors in the log appear to point to a disk problem but I defragmented the disk and then ran a chkdsk and the disk looks good.
I appreciate any help.
Your physical machine can not access ESX:
2013-05-25T11:07:26.602-05:00 [03816 warning 'Default'] [,0] [NFC ERROR] NfcNewAuthdConnectionEx: Failed to connect to peer. Error: Failed to connect to server 10.1.2.18:902
you need to allow connection between physical machine and ESX @ port 902.
HTH
Please upload logs for check. Usually some firewall could break the connection.
I checked our firewall and we needed to allow it through. It look to be working now after we allowed port 902.
Your physical machine can not access ESX:
2013-05-25T11:07:26.602-05:00 [03816 warning 'Default'] [,0] [NFC ERROR] NfcNewAuthdConnectionEx: Failed to connect to peer. Error: Failed to connect to server 10.1.2.18:902
you need to allow connection between physical machine and ESX @ port 902.
HTH
I had the same issue when converting a Version 1 VM to a VCenter V5 VM, but it was caused by disk inconsistencies in the running VM. I shut down the Version 1 VM and told the converter to use the VM files instead of the running machine. Success.