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    <title>dmyersbasch Tracker</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 13:15:06 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:date>2023-11-15T13:15:06Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Converter failing at 3% with Host &lt;IP&gt; key can't be retrieved</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/Converter-failing-at-3-with-Host-lt-IP-gt-key-can-t-be-retrieved/m-p/2990666#M44494</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Previously we had tried to use CloneZilla to make an image and or images of the OS and its files, but when trying to pull from images to VM in Hyper-V it has run into numerous issues and Kernel panics preventing the device to boot properly with everything left in place.&amp;nbsp; We were told to try this solution but it appears, due to age of the CentOS machine, we may not be able to utilize this solution either unless we can resolve why it cant seem to get the SSH key to continue pass 3%.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;My next steps are to try and use DD to directly image to VM via SSH, and if that doesn't work, to try and DD to a drive and flatten due to this device having numerous Drives and partitions.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2023 21:02:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>dmyersbasch</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-10-11T21:02:43Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Converter failing at 3% with Host &lt;IP&gt; key can't be retrieved</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/Converter-failing-at-3-with-Host-lt-IP-gt-key-can-t-be-retrieved/m-p/2990663#M44493</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Yes, very old unfortunately.&amp;nbsp; We are having to keep it alive for historical purposes for client due to subpoena.&amp;nbsp; Unfortunately the software used is very old as well and is no longer supported and not available anymore.&amp;nbsp; We were hoping to be able to P2V the device to be able to do backups of the data, instead of continuing to repair and keep this old PowerEdge server alive.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2023 20:56:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>dmyersbasch</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-10-11T20:56:04Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Converter failing at 3% with Host &lt;IP&gt; key can't be retrieved</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/Converter-failing-at-3-with-Host-lt-IP-gt-key-can-t-be-retrieved/m-p/2990426#M44491</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I inspected the CentOS 5.11 server I am trying to P2V and ran the ssh-kegen -lf command.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I confirmed that the thumbprint that shows on the server, matches the thumbprint that shows up in the first thumbprint warning when connecting to the Source machine in VMware converter.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Back to square one.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:19:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>dmyersbasch</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-10-10T17:19:32Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Converter failing at 3% with Host &lt;IP&gt; key can't be retrieved</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/Converter-failing-at-3-with-Host-lt-IP-gt-key-can-t-be-retrieved/m-p/2990422#M44490</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;After running the Converter through its steps and failure again, decided to look at the conversion status closer after it failed at 3% as usual.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;seeing the following:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;FAILED: A general system error occurred: # 192.168.23.2:22 SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_4.3 # 192.168.23.2:22 SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_4.3 # 192.168.23.2:22 SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_4.3 # 192.168.23.2:&lt;BR /&gt;22 SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_4.3 Network error. Host 192.168.23.2 key can't be retrieved. (return code 2)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The host this is stating is our CentOS 5.11 device we are trying to pull from for the P2V, not the ESXi host.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:08:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>dmyersbasch</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-10-10T17:08:02Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Converter failing at 3% with Host &lt;IP&gt; key can't be retrieved</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/Converter-failing-at-3-with-Host-lt-IP-gt-key-can-t-be-retrieved/m-p/2990421#M44489</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3141757"&gt;@ptarnawski&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I attempted to run the commands you showed in the previous comment, but found that ssh-keygen command could not be found.&amp;nbsp; After investigating, i found that I had to run the command from its location&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;PRE&gt;/usr/lib/vmware/openssh/bin/ssh-keygen -lf /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub&lt;/PRE&gt;&lt;P&gt;However the output for this did not appear in the same format nor letters as I am used to seeing a thumbprint shown as.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;After researching how to view the fingerprint on ESXi and inspecting the ESXi host I was able to run the following to confirm the fingerprint&lt;/P&gt;&lt;PRE&gt;openssl x509 -in /etc/vmware/ssl/rui.crt -fingerprint -sha1 -noout&lt;/PRE&gt;&lt;P&gt;I then tried to run the Converter tool again and when it got to adding the destination, it always comes back with a security warning, saying the host certificate has these problems:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="dmyersbasch_0-1696956881734.png" style="width: 400px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/103918iFD9693DA12C54D02/image-size/medium/is-moderation-mode/true?v=v2&amp;amp;px=400" role="button" title="dmyersbasch_0-1696956881734.png" alt="dmyersbasch_0-1696956881734.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;So viewing the certificate details under Thumbprint, I was able to verify that the thumbprint matches that which I had previously discovered on the ESXi host.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Any other ideas?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:01:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/Converter-failing-at-3-with-Host-lt-IP-gt-key-can-t-be-retrieved/m-p/2990421#M44489</guid>
      <dc:creator>dmyersbasch</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-10-10T17:01:39Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Converter failing at 3% with Host &lt;IP&gt; key can't be retrieved</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/Converter-failing-at-3-with-Host-lt-IP-gt-key-can-t-be-retrieved/m-p/2989674#M44480</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5142253"&gt;@VRO123&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Firewall is disabled on the Linux server that we are trying to P2V, and the Host server that has the ESXi server is a fresh install of ESXi.&amp;nbsp; General network firewall allows traffic from one device to another.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3141757"&gt;@ptarnawski&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;So this is one portion of the process that I am not sure why it would be an issue as we connect to the device using password, not ssh key.&amp;nbsp; We do get the prompt to accept the ssh fingerprint from the Linux machine at the beginning of converter tool process, and this happens every time we try.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;I have already turned on the ability to allow RSA keys not just DSA keys on the Linux server.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;How do we verify the ESXi host machine fingerprint, and does it not use the same fingerprint each time we run the converter process?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 18:28:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/Converter-failing-at-3-with-Host-lt-IP-gt-key-can-t-be-retrieved/m-p/2989674#M44480</guid>
      <dc:creator>dmyersbasch</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-10-04T18:28:46Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Converter failing at 3% with Host &lt;IP&gt; key can't be retrieved</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/Converter-failing-at-3-with-Host-lt-IP-gt-key-can-t-be-retrieved/m-p/2988658#M44460</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hello,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I am working on getting an old CentOS 5.11 server moved P2V and while trying to use the VMWare converter standalone tool seem to be hitting a wall at 3% getting the message:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I looked over the Server and Worker logs, and have been googling and looking over tons of VMWare community pages that have had the similar issue and have tried the following things:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;OL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Enabled SSH v2 protocol on server&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;enabling RSA authentication, enabling public key authentication, enabling authentication files, allowing multiple sessions up to 5&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;added "ALL:ALL" and also tried adding the specific IP's for the ESXi and the helper.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;confirmed nothing listed in hosts.deny file&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Disabling iptables&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;disabling ipv6 on the converter helper during set up.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have attached the fresh logs from the latest attempt in this post.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I am open to any further ideas some of you have, or something I may have missed.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2023 18:50:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Converter-Standalone-Discussions/Converter-failing-at-3-with-Host-lt-IP-gt-key-can-t-be-retrieved/m-p/2988658#M44460</guid>
      <dc:creator>dmyersbasch</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-09-27T18:50:07Z</dc:date>
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