Conversion of MS Exchange Server disk from IDE to SCSI blue screens
Nice day
We are running a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 on a virtual machine in Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition on VMWare vSphere 5.1.0 with the following discs:
1 C: / Capacity 50 GB space free 22.5 GB (OS)
2 E: / 600 GB capacity, free 291 (Exchange database) GB space
3 F: / 360 GB capacity, space free 146 GB (Log files)
All of these disks are IDE and try to change in SCSI, we made a clone of Exchange running and to turn the server works smoothly, then IDE.
Because the Exchange running is still active, the clone is assigned an IP address outside of the vlan operational and is able to start and to flow normally, although some services, requiring probably the DNS do not start.
To work towards a smooth conversion, we changed all the Services of MS Exchange Server in manual start mode and followed the guidelines that provide by the link: VMware KB: conversion of a virtual IDE disk to a virtual SCSI disk
The same steps had previously worked for our virtual machine running Sage ACCPAC, but for the Exchange, immediately after changing SCSI drives and the switching on of the machine it blue screens and returns the message that we run a startup repair or start Windows normally.
As there is just no image to us for this and Windows starting is normally on the screen even in failed attempts to run a startup repair.
Anyone who has managed to convert a disk Server MS Exchange VM to IDE SCSI, kindly help what to do even if with off the server always returns the same error messages.
Assuming that the manual conversion is ok and the virtual controller selected to add the LSI Logic SAS as mentioned by tomtom901, you may still be missing appropriate drivers in Windows. In order to inject the required driver, or temporarily add another disk virtual SCSI connected to a controller LSI Logic SAS before changing records virtual or secret the data first disks, make sure the VM powers on and load the drivers and then convert the drive system in a second step.
André
PS: I removed your duplicate post in the forum of converter. Hope that's ok with you?
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