converting physical to esxi missing drives

[01closer]

I purchased the vsphere essentials and am trying to convert a physical server with exchange 2007 . The exchange 2007 has the mail store or database on a iscsi drive that the physical server see,s as a local drive. I installed the vmware converter standalone on the exchange and went thru the job using the wizard. the problem is that the vmware converter standalone does not see anything but local drive c. I want to build the vm with the iscsi drives as virtual drives so its not depended on the iscsi external device, Any ideas on how to do this would be great.

Thank You

Mark

[athlon_crazy]

It should see your iscsi drive as local storage. You could try p2v the machine without iscsi storage first. After successfull then, create new vdisk at minimum size of your iscsi volume on your VM. Finally use tools like "robocopy" and copy your mailbox from physical machines to the new VM vdisk. Yeh, this will take more time to accomplish but it should works.

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[01closer]

I am trying to avoid the database copy. any ideas why the iscsi is not showing up on the standalone converter

[athlon_crazy]

What OS did you tried to convert and what converter you used?

I found this in vConverter release notes ;

+*Converter does not report all disks and volumes present on the

system while converting a powered-on source machine running Windows

operating system*+

+This issue is caused by a bug in Microsoft APIs that Converter uses

to query devices. The issue is observed with Windows XP Professional

64-bit, without any service pack and might be present in other versions

of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 as well.+

+Workaround: Update to the latest service pack where the

issue is resolved. This issue is not observed in service pack 1 for

Windows XP Professional 64-bit.+

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