hello everyone,
I'm trying to convert a physical Windows 2008 R2 (SP1) to virtual, using Vmware vCenter Converter Standalone version 5.5 build 1362012, it fails at 1% (after around 40mins) with the following message
FAILED: Unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s). Error code:
2147754758 (0x80042306).
The windows systems has some LUNS (4 x various GB size each) from the SAN, being GUID Partition Table (GPT). I went through the wizard typically, selecting "powered on machine", destination "vmware workstation or other vmware virtual machine" selected vmware player 6.0.x and the target location being a LUN with 500GB space.
Now for data to copy I selected 3 of the LUNS (on which some database is residing) and put "Min size" option (but I have tried maintaining the size for different runs) to save on space.
Looking through the logs, i see the following errors
vmware-converted-server-1.log
2014-01-16T19:42:37.371-07:00 [08696 info 'Default'] [serviceWin32,416] vmware-converter-server service started
2014-01-16T19:42:51.006-07:00 [08696 info 'Libs'] [ADS] Get user name failed: 1332
2014-01-16T19:42:51.006-07:00 [08696 info 'Libs'] [ADS] GetTokenInformation failed: 1312
2014-01-16T19:42:51.115-07:00 [08696 info 'Default'] [user,874] Successfully authenticated user Administrator from this local machine (using pipe)
2014-01-16T19:43:38.898-07:00 [10116 info 'Libs'] [ADS] Get user name failed: 1332
2014-01-16T19:43:38.898-07:00 [10116 info 'Libs'] [ADS] GetTokenInformation failed: 1312
2014-01-16T19:43:39.023-07:00 [10116 info 'Default'] [user,874] Successfully authenticated user Administrator from this local machine (using pipe)
2014-01-16T19:43:39.647-07:00 [07628 info 'ThreadPool'] Thread enlisted
2014-01-16T19:44:26.152-07:00 [08696 error 'Ufa.HTTPService'] Failed to read request; stream: <io_obj p:0x0141b84c, h:-1, <pipe '\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap'>, <pipe '\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap'>>, error: class Vmacore::TimeoutException(Operation timed out)
2014-01-16T19:47:32.
vmware-converte-worker-1.log
2014-01-16T19:47:34.323-07:00 [07248 warning 'Default'] Disk number 1 has been skipped because of errors while reading partition table
2014-01-16T19:47:34.323-07:00 [07248 warning 'Default'] Disk number 1 has been skipped because of errors while reading dynamic disks header or LDM database is corrupted
2014-01-16T19:47:34.323-07:00 [07248 warning 'Default'] [MoveActiveDiskIfNeeded] GetFirstBootDisk failed, mntapi error: 176
2014-01-16T19:47:34.323-07:00 [07248 warning 'Default'] Partition:Invalid sector magic number.
2014-01-16T19:47:34.323-07:00 [07248 warning 'Default'] Partition:Invalid sector magic number.
2014-01-16T19:47:34.323-07:00 [07248 warning 'Default'] [PopulateCapabilities] Volume-based cloning was disabled due to: <no volumes are recognized>
..
2014-01-16T19:47:34.323-07:00 [07248 warning 'Default'] Partition:ERROR: MBR sector must be present and valid to initialize GPT disk.
2014-01-16T19:47:34.354-07:00 [07248 info 'Default'] Disk signature found 80a2884a-05e9-4c1b-81-3d-35-1b-a3-6c-4b-bc, disk size in sectors 225981112, sector size 512
2014-01-16T19:47:34.354-07:00 [07248 info 'Default'] Partition found type Efi System / unique 4078aaff-430e-4825-bf-07-67-c6-ab-a1-87-3f
...
2014-01-16T19:47:37.365-07:00 [07596 info 'ThreadPool'] Thread delisted
2014-01-16T19:47:37.412-07:00 [10164 info 'ThreadPool'] Thread enlisted
2014-01-16T19:47:37.459-07:00 [07696 info 'Default'] MNTAPI: Mounted volume \\.\vstor2-mntapi20-shared-444D494F3A49443AFFAA78400E432548BF0767C6ABA1873F03000000\ FS:<>
2014-01-16T19:47:37.584-07:00 [07696 info 'Default'] Error 0 while call GetVolumeInformation for \\.\vstor2-mntapi20-shared-444D494F3A49443AFFAA78400E432548BF0767C6ABA1873F03000000\ FS:<>
2014-01-16T19:47:37.677-07:00 [07696 info 'Default'] Error 0 while call GetVolumeInformation for \\.\vstor2-mntapi20-shared-444D494F3A49443AFFAA78400E432548BF0767C6ABA1873F03000000\ FS:<>
2014-01-16T19:47:37.755-07:00 [07696 info 'Default'] Error 0 while call GetVolumeInformation for \\.\vstor2-mntapi20-shared-444D494F3A49443AFFAA78400E432548BF0767C6ABA1873F03000000\ FS:<>
2014-01-16T19:47:37.849-07:00 [07696 info 'Default'] Error 0 while call GetVolumeInformation for \\.\vstor2-mntapi20-shared-444D494F3A49443AFFAA78400E432548BF0767C6ABA1873F03000000\ FS:<>
2014-01-16T19:47:37.942-07:00 [07696 info 'Default'] Error 0 while call GetVolumeInformation for \\.\vstor2-mntapi20-shared-444D494F3A49443AFFAA78400E432548BF0767C6ABA1873F03000000\ FS:<>
2014-01-16T19:47:38.052-07:00 [07696 info 'Default'] Error 0 while call GetVolumeInformation for \\.\vstor2-mntapi20-shared-444D494F3A49443AFFAA78400E432548BF0767C6ABA1873F03000000\ FS:<>
2014-01-16T19:47:38.098-07:00 [10164 info 'ThreadPool'] Thread delisted
2014-01-16T19:47:38.098-07:00 [03736 info 'ThreadPool'] Thread enlisted
I wonder if the converter is not able to work on GPT partitions ? (i think I've seen some community threads about this problem using v.5.1, but using 5.5 should be solved ?)
Any help is appreciated. Thanks
