Convert a physical compatibility mode raw device mapping to a virtual compatibility mode raw device mapping

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• Limitations of architecture with replication of VM with physical RDM Mode

  What are the Limitations of Architecture with replication of VM connected with physical RDM Mode in vsphere replication. Why VMware does not support this?

  I will add some colors to the response of GS. A particular interest with regard to the physical path RDM (pRDM) works, summarize these two chips of the article:

  • Physical mode specifies minimal virtualization SCSI of the mapped device, allowing greater flexibility for SAN management software.
  • VMkernel passes all SCSI commands to the device, with one exception - the REPORT LUNS command is virtualized, so that the VMkernel can isolate the LUN to the virtual machine owner. Otherwise, all the physical characteristics of the underlying hardware are exposed.

  There is an integrated in vSphere vSphere (RV) replication agent that has several functions. In particular, she keeps track of the Scriptures to the virtual machine. When a replication cycle occurs, the changed data is replicated to the target location. The VR agent should be able to 'see' These Scriptures to follow. Given that the physical mode all SCSI commands directly to the device, the VR agent is unable to follow these changes for replication.

• Need help to start a partition converted previous physical Machine manually in VMDK

  I had a problem with a HD that was not in a State of health , I was able to make a backup with Acronis Image Home in time. The backup has been partial, the original disc had 4 partition (3 primary and bootable partitions and a logical partition of data only), it was a Boot Manager to boot Windows 7, Windows Vista respectively (2), WindowsXP (3) (1). I made a backup of the W7 partition and the DATA partition.

  I had no need of the old disks of Vista and Windows XP, and that's why I made the partial, not backup to disk backup.

  I want to virtualize the old machine. Using VMware vCenter Converter I could not convert the tib file, it gave error, probably because it was only a partial backup of the first and the last partition.

  So I have chosen to follow a different path, I mounted the TIB file, which has mounted the two partitions as separate discs, then using Backup of EASE, I made a backup of the first partition (Windows 7) and converted to the VMDK image using VDDK 5.1

  Now, I created a 9 VMX (Using VMWARE) Workstation, which asked me to convert the VMDK in version 9.0 (I said NO). I also converts the data partition later.

  . Starting the virtual machine, he started for the Boot Manager, but obviously it does not work, no matter what boot option I chose I get this error:

  Status: 0xc000000e

  Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is not accessible.

  If I remember well using VMware converter, the software takes care of the conversion of the machine as well as pilots of controller used when the machine has been installed on the real hardware.

  Now, I need solve this problem and I need advice to do all the steps safe and functional without worries.

  Priming for sure and partition table sector must be updated to reflect a disc with only a partition and must also solve the problem of all the drivers installed in the system that could give a problem.

  I have the installation DVD of Windows 7 has tried to fix the trunk then now, it identifies and the main C: Partition successfully deleted other references of boot partition. The system seem to start but I got a BSOD:

  Status: 0x0000007B
  
  I think that the problem is related to IDE drivers or something, how do I fix this problem?
  
  Relok.

  Sorry - I'm in a hurry and don't have time for lengthy explanations.
  Take a look at my site http://sanbarrow.com/p2v2008r2.html
  It has a section "patch - easy alternative."
  This applies to win7, 32 and 64 and 2k8r2

  Use a recovery CD if the builtin recovery mode cannot be started.

  Also, make sure that your vmx always have lines
  scsi0. Present = 'TRUE '.

  scsi0.virtualDev = "lsisas1068".

• Convert a physical box 2003 Server vm and the VM is extremely slow. Trying to connect again...

  Convert a physical box 2003 Server vm and the VM is extremely slow. Trying to connect again...

  This is my first time converting a physical box to virtual. This is Server 2003. The conversion took place and I try to connect to the box now but it's so slow. Currently, he sat to apply personal settings for almost 10 minutes.

  My boss has converted physical to virtual several times before and never said that he ran into something like this.

  Am I missing something? Any suggestions?

  I think that it is always looking for active directory. the newly P2V'ed will operate all IP settings. Therefore, you will need to wait until it has expired, and then enter the IP that is (ip, dns and etc.) above. the other way to speed things up would be to disconnect your network and the thing that your OS to expired immediately.

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• Convert a physical machine with attached LUN

  Hi all

  Need to convert a physical server (windows 2003) that has 2 LUNS attached but I'm not shure about the correct procedure to do this.

  I think that the two options I have are:

  1 stop of the database on the phsysical Server service.

  Clon hot server

  Map the phsysical (database) LUNS on my esx servers

  Add LUNS to the server virtualized with RDM

  cold 2 clone the server whose only the operating system disk

  Map the phsysical (database) LUNS on my esx servers

  Add LUNS to the server virtualized with RDM

  This procedure are not? You have no experience on something like that?

  Thanks in advance

  Saludos/looks

  Nicolas Solop

  Buenos Aires, Argentina

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  So it seems that my procedures are 'almost' correct, right?.

  Yes

  Your suggestion on the subject of convert SAN disk was my first choice, but do not have enough storage available to it virtualizes.

  Right, this could be a reason.

  Another reason could be the time required for the entire conversion.

  André

• Convert a physical machine into a virtual machine

  Dear expert;

  Please help me solve the error appear when Convert machine physical-to-virtual machine "WARNING: cannot read the block at offset '293,563,158,528' volume 'C:'.»

  the operating system of the Source is Windows 2008 R2 stander and the version of the converter is "5.5.3" build-2183569.

  How can solve this problem and make convert successfully.

  Thank you

  Dear all;

  I found the solution retractable C to C and D drive, then convert the machine.

  Thank you

• Problem of converting a physical server Ubuntu 14.04

  Hello. Everyone tried to convert a physical 14.04 Ubuntu installation? For me it is not check grub version it looks.

  I also tried on 12.04 and it works fine. The differense is:

  12.04:

  $ grub-install - v

  grub-install (GRUB) 1, 99 - 21ubuntu3.14

  14.04:

  $ grub-install - V

  grub-install (GRUB) 2.02 ~ beta2-9

  14.04, I use the capital V for version control. Is it possible to change this in the converter? I use version 5.5 of converter

  The result seems to be that the converter installs the wrong version of grub, or not at all.

  Solved the problem by following this work around:

  VMware P2V conversion: GrubInstaller error during the Conversion of the host Linux Debian | Mantraaz

  I guess that's the only solution because you cannot change anything in the converter.

• Error VMware Converter in converting a physical server

  Hi support them.

  We Vsphere 5.5 and trying to convert a physical machine into a virtual machine with the help
  VMware Converter 5.5 standalone.

  source server is windows 2008 r2

  We receive the following error

  FAILED: An error occurred when opening a virtual disk. Check
  that the Converter server and machines running the source access access network
  to the ESX/ESXi hosts source and destination

  Please help me solve the same if it's not
  the appropriate forum to discuss this please guide transmit me on the right Forum

  You can also find the error logs

  Thank you

  Anoop

  The error is:

  2014 05-11 T 18: 17:05.288 + 04:00 [warning 03248 "Default"] [, 0] NfcNewAuthdConnectionEx [NFC ERROR]: unable to connect to peer. Error: Failed to search for host for server presxi13.in.nawras.com.om address: no host is unknown 2014-05-11 T 18: 17:05.288 + 04:00 [info 03248 "Default"] Sysimgbase_DiskLib_OpenWithPassPhrase failed with 'NBD_ERR_NETWORK_CONNECT' (error code: 2338)

  Your physical machine could not connect to the ESX Server, allow the COMPLETE domain name resolution in a physical machine. HTH

• Independent drive persistent and physical RDM Mode

  Hi all

  Need your opinion on taking snapshot backup in option of the few VMs via NBU 7.6

  We intend to resume via auto-created snapshot NBU, but is that all VM have persistent independent drive along with some VMs have physical RDM Mode.

  I am aware that the physical RDM mode supports not instant, but is independent of the persistent drive?

  Thank you and best regards,

  Shrikant Germain

  The IIRC snapshots are used when cloning a virtual machine under tension.

  André

• Convert a physical server (w / HBA) virtual

  Hello

  I need your help to convert a physical server connected to a HP Modular Storage Array 1000 thanks to an HBA.

  My question: what is the best practice to do this kind of conversion? When I select the physical server VMWARE converter will convert the storage on a virtual drive?

  Thank you.

  Pedro

  The big question is what is the storage. ESX (i) have a limit on the size of the drive (2 TB less than 512 bytes). The MSA1000 is less than 2 TB, you should be able to run the converter and create the virtual server, including the E: drive. If the MSA is greater than 2 TB, but the used space is less than 2 TB converter will allow you to create the fret.

• SQL snapshots in physical RDM mode help?

  If a virtual machine with a drive located on a RDM in physical mode, doing things like SQL snapshots work?

  There is a discussion where some people wondered if them soon be virtualized servers SQL must use internal iSCSI client to connect directly to a SAN logical unit number or if you are using a physical RDM mode. They were not sure if features like SQL snapshots work.

  Operating system doesn't "know" what type of disc it uses (virtual physical RDM, RDM virtual disk), so that all the functions as snapshots made within the OS itself will work the same. It's only the instant VMware that has no effect on a physical RDM.

  André

• Converting a physical server to a host

  I'm new to VMware and I'm unable to find the right strategy.

  I would like to convert a physical server to a computer computer ESXi host and migrate existing BONES from the server (Windows Server 2003 w/SQL Server 2005) to a virtual machine on the same machine. This host will be the first on my network. What I've read, it seems that the Converter requires a destination host must be specified during conversion. Because the machine will become the destination host, how should I do this?

  Is it possible for me to convert the existing operating system and store, install ESXi and then import the old OS as a virtual machine?

  Thanks in advance,

  Adam

  Hi Adam,.

  Welcome to the forums.

  You can virtualize your server as a workstation or VM Player that you will store on a PC (possibly use a disc of removable storage for conversion). Use Workstation or Player to start the virtual machine and verify that everything is OK. When you think that your application is running virtual, install ESXi on your physical server and a copy of the virtual machine, or make another conversion of PC to ESXi.

  Good luck.

  Concerning

  Franck

• Convert the physical Linux machine with VMware Converter Standalone 4.0.1 on VMware Workstation

  Hello

  I work in a virtualization project, now I test and I want to test the new version of the converter, because I need to convert some Linux machines and I know that with this version is not difficult.

  I do not have the ready virtual infrastructure so I test on a workstation environment. I would like to know if someone has converted a physical Linux machine to virtual and if the destination has VMware workstation 6.5. I know that this is not supported, but this does not mean that you couldn't do.

  When I have to specify the type of destination, I got the error that you could see on the photo.

  Please let me know if you have tested this before and you know how to solve this problem.

  Thanks in advance!

  See you soon

  Malulas,

  Welcome to the Community Forums.

  To do a physical to virtual conversion, you MUST GO to ESX.  It is a requirement under the guidance of the user manual.

  If the virtual machine was already in ESX, you might be able to export to a workstation image while the ESX VM is powered off.

  Sorry for the bad news.

  Kind regards

  EvilOne

  VMware vExpert 2009

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• convert a physical machine under linux in virtual

  I need to convert a physical machine running Fedora core 5 in virtual machine. Is there any tool of vm to do?

  Someone already do? I do not use a GUI.

  Thank you for your help

  You can find platforms supported in the release notes

  http://www.VMware.com/support/converter/doc/releasenotes_conv40.html#platf

  Good luck!

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• Physical disk how can I add in the Virtual Machine?

  I am trying to set up a network of storage, but I discovered it is there is a limitation for the addition of physical hard disks in the virtual machine.

  I have 1 virtual hard disk for the operating system (SCSI), an invited so I try to add more than 4 disks, but it should not add more than 3. They showed that (IIRC).

  I try to add 4 x 1 TB as physical hard disk in virtual machine hard disks, but it says that I must remove one to add.

  1. in the settings of the Virtual Machine, is there a difference between (SCSI) (IDE) and why are the physical disks (IDE)?

  2. What is the limitation of total hard drives under the VM settings, four?

  Johwwy

  physical disks can be detected such as IDE or SCSI - depends on the drivers used by the host

  SATA in ide-compat mode is used as IDE

  SATA AHCI mode is detected as SCSI

  It is possible to rewrite the descriptions after their creation.

  It is a little advanced - see my notes

  http://sanbarrow.com/VMDK-basics.html#changeadapter

  for a start, it may be necessary to also change the geometry... ask first so uncertain.

  I think the limit of physical disks that can be attached to a virtual machine is 64 = 4 x 15 - scsi and IDE 4-disc drives

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