RDM disk conversion using vconverter

[Seng_Leng]

hi guys,

i have a Production ESXi3.5 VM in a standalone host, we plan to convert this VM to a ESXi4.1 standalone host.

This VM has a RDM(physical mode) disk. Can vconverter 4.01 convert this VM RDM disk to VMFS when doing the conversion?

We plan to do a hot cloning as our license has expired so we cannot power off the production VM

Thanks so much.

[POCEH]

There is no reason to use old version of Converter, the latest one is recommended.

All volumes and disks seen from Converter, including RDM, are transferred as VMDKs disks, see User's Manual.

HTH

[patanassov]

We plan to do a hot cloning as our license has expired so we cannot power off the production VM

Keep in mind that hot cloning does not imply the destination VM will be running after the conversion, i.e. it will be powered off.

[Seng_Leng]

hi Poceh,

i can see the RDM disk and able to choose to export it as thick when i went through the vconverter wizard.

But when the conversion starts, the task fails at 1 % with File IO error.

Saw this in vmware-converter-worker

Disk number 1 has been skipped because of errors while reading partition table

Disk number 1 has been skipped because of errors while reading dynamic disks header or LDM database is corrupted

[POCEH]

Could you upload log bundle?