converter 5.0 will crash when vcenter is upgraded to 5.1. Does anybody know any temp work around or fix? thanks
Well this totally blows. It would be nice to get an ETA to when a "working" converter will be released. Rolled out a standalone server using 5.1 (I'll think twice about using the "latest" versions of ESXi in the future), sent it to a remote client 500 miles away in hopes of P2Ving their old physical server.
Doh!
Yep, we got stuck as well.
I'm moving machines by connecting them to the ISCSI network and doing migrate to the vmdk
Afterwards migrating the host
But it requires me to have them on the same datacenter and to convert them from other VMware servers.
Any workaround for converting hyper-v VMs? Maybe a third-party tool?
Hey no worries everyone. Because of a project deadline I will be forced to rebuild ESX server as 5.0 on Monday, so that I can use the vmware converter tool.
The fix for this is sure to come out the minute after I am done.
Nope. It'l take them 6 months. Don't worry about that.
Good news!
Per some advice I read in another thread I was able to do a P2V conversion using version 4.1 of the standalone converter (didn't bother trying 4.3, but thinking that version may work too)! It's currently running now, waiting for it to complete... if it fails I'll update this post.
Did it work?
Like a charm.
Thanks!
Going to give this a try today myself.
Is there any progress on this?
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It hasnt been 6-8 months yet.
Plus the thread needs to be 100 pages or more for them to consider thinking about possibly taking action.
You can use version 4, it works, tested.
Worked for me as well.
The VM Version shows up as 4, instead of 8.
Just need to upgrade that after.
Thanks for the tip.
Anyone confirm if Converter 4.3 works? Haven't had a chance to try this yet myself.
Yep - a couple of us tried it successfully.
Thanks for the tip. Saved me some work today.
I used Converter 4.3.0 to migrate a machine from vSphere 4 to vSphere 5.1.
A solution I'm going to approach is the following:
1. Prepare a system with the free vSphere Hypervisor 5.0
2. Proceed with the conversion of the server (Server 2003) with the target being vSphere Hypervisor 5.0
3. Once the conversion is done, immedietly move/copy the file to ESXi 5.1
Anyone see a problem with this approach?
Thanks.
Or just use converter 4 to convert it to 5.1. Either way works, this way is the quickest.
I was able to convert SBS2008 to esxi 5.1 using converter 4.3 but what I did to get it to work was weird. For those of y'all that know what you are doing, you may laugh at the steps I took (I'm not very knowledgeable of the product) but it worked for me. Here is what I did:
Arch
Funny I had the same 95% issue converting a 2003 SBS server. My issue was that there was software RAID and the primary disk wasn't marked as active. I attached the vmdk to another machine, marked it as active in disk manager and it booted up.
I believe you can upgrade the v4 VM to a v7 v8 VM by shutting it down, right clicking in vSphere, upgrade hardware.
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