Hi Folks,
Having an issue while importing a Win 7 machine with min disk size (28 GB) on a ESX4 host with vCenter converter 5.0.0.
vCenter version is 4.0.
Error message is-
"Import Machine
Failed to take snapshot of a source
volume. Possible causes include not
having any NTFS volumes on
Windows XP or Windows 2003
source systems, and not having
enough free disk space."
.
There is enough free disk space on the datastore where I am trying to import.
Can anyone let me know possible cause and solution to this?
Thanks
vmrockin
Can you goto the source machine and check if you are using FAT32 volume or does the drive has enough free space
VSS needs space on the source disk for the snapshot, it also requires the source machine to have at least one NTFS volume, hence this message. However this is a general message and the error could have been something else. If you want more precise error, look at the worker's log.
If you know these requirements are met, you may just try restarting the VSS service and attempt the conversion again.
HTH
Plamen
Hey Akash,
This is a Win 7 machine and FAT32 is not used, also there is enough free space on the PC as well as datastore.
What I have suspectd is that there is a space issue on the vCenter server itself where the VMware converter is installed.
I guess it needs free space on the vCenter server to temporarily save files. I will check that.
Thanks