Hello guys, I have one OVH server with ESXI Vsphere 6.5U2 and I recently bought a new server on OVH and I installed same ESXI also there.
Now, there is a problem.
I need to migrate 1 VM from Server A to Server B.
The VM is a Centos 64 bit based.
I originally created it as a big thick disk (750GB, used only 206GB...).
Now, my new server has one 800GB SSD.
So the problem is that I have to shrink the source virtual disk to a value like 350G about.
I tried to use VmWare vCenter Converter Standalone, but when it creates the converter helper, it cannot communicate anymore with the VM to be copied (there is no assigned IP).
I get this error :
FAILED: Unable to obtain the IP address of the helper virtual machine.
I don't know how to do...
Do you have any suggestion, please?
Thanks
Ok, I finally solved by assigning manually to the helper converter VM created by vCenter Converter Standalone the own MAC Address created by OVH for the Failover IP that I added to the helper itself. The OVH Failover IP must be assigned the same value to both IPv4 and Gateway. Netmask should be 255.255.255.0. That's all, now it is copying and moving the VM from Server A to new Server B.
The helper VM looks for IP to be assigned through a DHCP server. If you don't have one, you can use a static IP.
Here's the pocedure to do that - Configure the Network for the Helper Virtual Machine
assign a static IP address to the Helper virtual machine, select Use the following IP address: and specify the IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway. Be sure the IP address you specify for the Helper virtual machine is not already in use on the network.
Thanks for the reply, but these servers are on OVH... They are not in my own private Lan with a router...
How can assign a static IP? I think I cannot use any invented IP address...
I tried, but result is the same error.
One server IP class is 176.106.x.x the other one is 35.100.x.x.
I also tried to move the VM inside the same Esxi server using the converter, same exact error...
Are you okay with powering it off? You can export it and then import it on the OVH ESXi.
As I said in my first post, the problem is that I have to reduce the size of the virtual drive, because the destination is smaller...
It seems an impossible task to do.
Is it possible that no one ever faced the same problem with Esxi? Or all people are using Esxi only on local deployment in their own Lan?
Thank you.
Ok, I finally solved by assigning manually to the helper converter VM created by vCenter Converter Standalone the own MAC Address created by OVH for the Failover IP that I added to the helper itself. The OVH Failover IP must be assigned the same value to both IPv4 and Gateway. Netmask should be 255.255.255.0. That's all, now it is copying and moving the VM from Server A to new Server B.