P2V of disk with multiple partitions

[DavideD]

Hello,

I'm working on a customer to convert his physical servers to vSphere 5.5 infrastructure.

I'm using converter 5.5 and have problems P2Ving one windows 2003 server with system disk with 2 partitions (C and E).

Physical Server

Disk 2: system disk with 2 partitions (C:, E: )

Vmware Converter

I have converted in following way:

Partition C:, G:, F: together

Partition E: standalone (converter 5.5 doesn’t support conversion of multiple partitions on the same disk).

Result is I have one virtual machine with 3 vmdk (disks C, G, F) and another “fake” virtual machine with only one vmdk (disk E).

I have moved the disk E vmdk to the folder of the “real” vm and added it to the virtual machine.

Boot.ini file is as following:

timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003, Standard" /fastdetect

When I boot the virtual machine, I see the boot.ini menu, but the system doesn’t start and loop forever to boot menu.

Can anyone help me ?

thanks in advance

Best regards

Davide

[POCEH]

There is no Agent's log inside...

[DavideD]

See if this is a right file.

tnx

Davide

[POCEH]

The error is:

2015-01-16T15:59:08.108+01:00 [01844 info 'Default'] [,0] boot.ini:

--> [boot loader]

--> timeout=30

--> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

--> [operating systems]

--> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003, Standard" /fastdetect

--> C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons

2015-01-16T15:59:08.108+01:00 [01844 info 'Default'] [,0] Error parsing arc name C:

just remove last line from boot.ini and repeat operation.

HTH

[DavideD]

The last line is:

C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons

right ?

I need to remove it from physical server and do a new conversion ?

[POCEH]

Yes, correct.

[DavideD]

I'm unlucky.

Here the latest logfiles.

I can mount and browse system disk to another vm (see attached image).

Boot.ini is now:

[boot loader]

timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003, Standard" /fastdetect

[POCEH]

I don't see errors... So the conversion and reconfig passed but target VM doesn't boot, correct?

Could you try to convert without incremental options?

[DavideD]

Yes, it is correct.

What do you mean with incremental options ?

[POCEH]

In 'Advanced options'/Synchronize do *not* check the 'Synchronize changes' box.

[DavideD]

OK. I'm going to try.

tnx

[DavideD]

OK, nothing to do. The system does not want to boot.

At this point I decided to creeate a fresh new vm and I will convert only the user data disk (it's a fileserver). Therefore add data disk to the virtual machine.

Thank you for all your help and support.

Best regards,

Davide