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P2V - SuSe Linux 10 Enterprise SP3 failing at 3%

Hello Community,

I'm trying to P2V a physical telecommunication server with two NICs and as OS SuSe Linux 10 Enterprise SP3.

Deploying the helper VM and grant more RAM *12GB* is working fine but at the step: Formatting the destination partitions the VMware Standalone Converter will fail with this error:

     FAILED: A general system error occurred:
     Network error. Host XX.XX.XX.XX key can't be retrieved. (return code 2)

But the helper VM and all NICs of the physical machine are available through Converter Server and vCenter during the process.

I also looked into the messages log on the helper VM and there are those errors:

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Maybe somebody had the same issue like me and can help me.

Thank you very much.

Have a nice evening.

Greetings

KKvss

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Hi okcjj,

sorry for the late response.

Yes I get it to fly, but not with VMware Converter.

That is what I did:

- bare metal backup the physical disk with Acronis 11.7 Linux

- create a blank new virtual machine with the disk size of the physical machine

- boot the VM with Acronis 11.7 Linux ISO

- restore the ENTIRE DISK (don’t select volumes) on the virtual disk

- reboot the VM without Acronis

Maybe after the restore you must edit /etc/fstab to change the names of the volume.

Have a nice day.

Greetings

KKVss

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vijayrana968
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What is the converter version you are using, have a look on this one : VMware : Converter return general system error occurred: Network error. key can’t be retrieved.

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KKvss
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The actual one - 6.1.1

Thank you very much, will try it, tomorrow.

Let you know if this was the solution! Smiley Happy

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KKVss,

  I am having the same issue with a RHEL 6 conversion.  I tried what was suggested in this post, but that didn't resolve my issue.  Were you able to get this to work?  If so, what was your fix?

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Hi okcjj,

sorry for the late response.

Yes I get it to fly, but not with VMware Converter.

That is what I did:

- bare metal backup the physical disk with Acronis 11.7 Linux

- create a blank new virtual machine with the disk size of the physical machine

- boot the VM with Acronis 11.7 Linux ISO

- restore the ENTIRE DISK (don’t select volumes) on the virtual disk

- reboot the VM without Acronis

Maybe after the restore you must edit /etc/fstab to change the names of the volume.

Have a nice day.

Greetings

KKVss

okcjj
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Thanks, but sadly that is exactly what I am trying to avoid doing.  I have some sizable physical servers that I need to virtualize. 

Thanks again,

OKCJJ

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You need a downtime or I think you can do a online backup with a agent of Acronis to avoid downtime.

But the size of a physical is not a problem only the downtime frame :smileysilly:

You can do a test with a small Linux server so you can see before what changes you must do for your productive system.

And changing fstab was much easier then the backup and restore process Smiley Happy

It was the smoothes way I found - no other converter was working.

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