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Hi everyone

Is it possible to convert from GSX server to ESX 3?

If soo whats best practice?

I get an error when tried use vmware converter. Saying something about cant access the source.

Any ideas?

Yes, that should work.

What exact error do you get? Anything else that could help finding the problem?

After saying where i wanna put it (the esx server). On step2 after datastore. I get message

Unable to find the server. Please verify..........

This is a running machine.

Roar

Do you connect to ESX directly? You can also use the Virtual Center Server there.

Are your IP/hostname/credentials ok?

I have tried connecting direct to ESX and VC Server.

Same error.

It works fine from physical machines and from old ESX 2.5x server.

Didnt work good from GSX.

What i havent checked is converting as image.

Roar

Maybe the log on the system where you run converter on brings some light into this. It's in %windir%\temp\vmware-temp.

This is the last part of logfail.

Says has trouble connect to host (ESX).

No trouble ping from the machine that wanna move.

Look like agent installs ok.

\[#1] \[2007-08-28 13:52:13.861 'App' 548 verbose] \[ufaConnection,94] Creating local adapter...

\[#1] \[2007-08-28 13:52:13.861 'App' 548 verbose] \[disposable,69] Registering disposable session object id=VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task\{2}

\[#1] \[2007-08-28 13:52:13.861 'App' 548 verbose] \[disposable,80] Associating disposable session object id=VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task\{2} with session id=0FB485EA-9D9A-426A-809E-AF996191DADB

\[#1] \[2007-08-28 13:52:13.892 'App' 1284 verbose] \[imageProcessingTaskImpl,504] VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task\{2}: Starting execution of an image processing task

\[#1] \[2007-08-28 13:52:13.892 'App' 1284 verbose] \[imageProcessingTaskImpl,154] VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task\{2}: SetState to running

\[#1] \[2007-08-28 13:52:13.892 'App' 1284 info] \[vmiCheckDestAvailableTask,40] VmiCheckDestAvailableTask initialized

\[#1] \[2007-08-28 13:52:13.892 'managedImportDestination' 1284 info] Connecting to host vox1.cc.uit.no on port 443 using protocol https

\[#1]

\[#1] \[2007-08-28 13:52:16.986 'App' 1284 error] \[rpcConnectionWrapper,172] Failed to establish Vim connection to vox1.cc.uit.no. Vmacore::Exception: A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable network.

\[#1] \[2007-08-28 13:52:16.986 'App' 1284 error] \[managedImportDestination,252] Import host not found

\[#1] \[2007-08-28 13:52:16.986 'App' 1284 error] \[imageProcessingTaskImpl,552] VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task\{2}: Image processing task has failed with MethodFault::Exception: sysimage.fault.IncompatibilityFault

\[#1] \[2007-08-28 13:52:16.986 'App' 1284 verbose] \[imageProcessingTaskImpl,154] VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task\{2}: SetState to error

\[#1] \[2007-08-28 13:52:17.033 'App' 1284 verbose] \[disposable,122] object explicitly disposed: VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task\{2}

\[#1] \[2007-08-28 13:52:17.033 'App' 1284 verbose] \[imageProcessingTaskImpl,123] VmiCheckDestAvailableTask::task\{2} being destroyed

\[2007-08-28 13:53:45.236 'App' 1284 verbose] CloseSession called for session id=0FB485EA-9D9A-426A-809E-AF996191DADB

\[2007-08-28 13:53:45.251 'Ufa' 1284 info] Plugin stopped

\[#1] \[2007-08-28 13:52:13.892 'managedImportDestination' 1284 info] Connecting to host vox1.cc.uit.no on port 443 using protocol https

\[#1]

\[#1] \[2007-08-28 13:52:16.986 'App' 1284 error] \[rpcConnectionWrapper,172] Failed to establish Vim connection to vox1.cc.uit.no. Vmacore::Exception: A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable network.

Have you already tried to connect directly to the IP (not DNS hostname)?

When i first tried i tried both ip and dns name.

And i tried the first two options in the converting menu.

What i found out to work is the converting from vmdk files. Not the VM server itself.

Its up and running on new ESX cluster now. Thanks all.

Roar

Well, i cheered too fast hehe.

What i notice after converting image was that its taking the wrong one.

I can only select the .vmx file when converting.

But it seems like it refer to wrong vmdk file.

In the catalogue it has a regular .vmdk file with old date and a .vmdk.redo file with current date.

How can i convert the correct one soo its up to date. Seems like the file the .vmx use is the regular .vmdk file while the one i want is the .redo file.

Any ideas?

if your just trying to import a gsx vm into esx, then you can just copy it over (scp/winscp) and run vmkfstools -i to import it

question then is, should i copy both the .vmdk file and the .vmdk.redo file or just the .redo file since it is the newest.

thanx,

roar

You should commit your REDO file and change your disk to persistent before copying/importing/converting.