Converting a physical server to a host

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• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• Help converting a physical server 'live' in a virtual machine VMware VirtualCenter Consolidation 2.5.0

  Hello, I read the manuals and understand the process as much as I have not actually started the consolidation. I have a Compaq ML350 server which has a default of fan cooling and want to make a virtual machine as a starting point. It will be important for the virtual machine to have the same computer name and be a member of our domain. The only question which does not seem to be addressed has to do with the old server. I need to have the available printserver. I know that you cannot have two SID, names of computers or IP addresses on a network domain at the same time. There is an option to change the name of the virtual machine before you start building. It would be wise to use a temporary computer name while doing my first consolidiation/conversion. Once completed, I could stop the printserver, remove the domain, start the virtual machine, rename it, join it to the domain, and then set the IP address to match my old material printserver. I guess correctly? I can't wait to leave the company without a printserver for more than a little bit. I guess additional servers, I wanted to convert should be treated in the same way? If I posted in the wrong place, please accept my apologies. If there is other material that I may have missed that might also be useful, but I have about 4 different PDF so far. Thank you. brand

  I forgot an important step - sorry, you must add the converter

  plugin - in the menu there is a plugins to manage - it's here where you

  can add the client plugin

  Once you do this, you should get this option

  January 28, 2009 at 15:08, 'rsxsr' [email protected]

• VMware Converter error conversion physical server running CentOS 4.7

  I'm trying to convert a physical server running CentOS 4.7 to a virtual machine (on an ESX 3.5 server) using VMware converter - 4.0.0 - 146302.  The server is powered and I start the converter customer and go through all the steps to convert the server.  The process starts and hangs at 1 percent.

  I have exported and reviewed the logs and see what follows in the agent log:

  GetEvent (taskID = task-3) task converter

  impossible to detect the State of comments like 'running', will try again 1199 times...

  could not get the print server digital certificate. Retries 284 times...

  obtained the help server footprint: 1 has: F9: DA: D5:BC:E5:8 C: FD:22:CC:7E:6F:11:5F:3 A: FC:DB:4 B: 42:0 C

  Connection to VIM to 10.9.10.246...

  Reuse the existing connection of VIM to 10.9.10.246

  Unable to obtain the IP address of GuestInfo, will try again 299 times...

  In addition, the newspapers show gui Converter:

  UpdateTask

  {(converter.task.TaskInfo)

  dynamicType = & lt; unset & gt;

  key = "task-3."

  task = ' converter.task.Task:task - 3'.

  name = "convert."

  descriptionId = "Convert.P2V."

  userName = "root."

  source = "10.9.10.201"

  target = "10.9.10.246/brsauth.bigrocksports.com"

  State = "error"

  canceled = false,

  cancelable = true,

  data = & lt; unset & gt;

  error = {(converter.fault.HelperVmFailedToObtainIpFault)

  dynamicType = & lt; unset & gt;

  MSG = "Cannot get the IP address of the virtual machine to help."

  },

  result = & lt; unset & gt;

  progress = 1,

  estimatedTimeRemaining = & lt; unset & gt;

  transferRate = & lt; unset & gt;

  queueTime = ' 2009-02 - 26 T 14: 37:11.293159Z.

  startTime = "2009-02 - 26 T 14: 37:11.553563Z.

  completeTime = ' 2009-02 - 26 T 14: 43:34.277239Z.

  eventChainId = 29,

  vcTask = & lt; unset & gt;

  logBundleInfo = (converter. DiagnosticManager.TaskLogBundleInfo) {}

  dynamicType = & lt; unset & gt;

  key = "task-3-diag-20090226144333 - MQFAUK.zip."

  timeCreated = "2009-02 - 26 T 14: 43:33.438212Z.

  format = "zip."

  content = (converter. [DiagnosticManager.BundleContent)

  "agentLogs."

  "serverLogs.

  ],

  size = 706251,

  CRC =-1155030952,

  },

  }

  I can convert Windows servers on the ESX Server without any problems. Can someone translate this myself and I would like to know how to work around errors?

  Thank you

  Shannon

  On the Linux server you are converting.  When the converter reaches step 3 Options display/change the last option is called Helper VM Network.  You can change this option and add an ip address.  The ip address must be on the same network to your default gateway on your Linux server.

• vCenter Appliance physical server, 3 guests, small environment size

  Hi all.

  I'm trying to move a vCenter device to a physical server.  This is a small facility with only 3 guests.  I'm a bit new to VMware.  If I put in place, single sign - on again and add the hosts once again, this isn't a problem.  I did not put groups in place and yet it is a new installation. In fact, there is a cluster but DRS and HA is lit.  I want to remove the cluster but not the hosts.  We have a small Windows 2008 R2 AD domain.  The vCenter Server is member of the domain, as are ESXi hosts.  This is version 5.5.

  Is it OK if I simply remove the vCenter device by stopping and removing disk and inventory, then install the physical server and add hosts, delete the server appliance of AD and add the new physical server to AD and set up SSO again on the new server - that will work?  Did I meet problems questions?

  I would point out that the reason behind my fact that must implement vSA on the 3 hosts, and from what I read, I can't launch the vCenter on a VSA host device, and 3 guests must be guests of VSA if each should share its space with the other 2. I also read that I can't add VMS to guests until the VSA cluster has been created.  So I need to ditch the current cluster and take the guests out of it.  That a host is always under the existing cluster.  I'm hoping that by performing these steps above that I can add my hosts to the new server physical vCenter once it's running and just delete the old a.  If this is not the way forward on this issue, if you please point me in the right direction and you will be worth your weight in gold as far as I'm concerned.

  Thank you very much in advance,

  Sam

  Just a quick note on the ASB. You can read the new features of vSphere Storage Appliance version 5.1, which explains the added features, including a brownfield facility.

  André

• 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

• Clone a physical server with converter

  When the cloning of a physical server with converter and selecting Configure the VM when completed does change on the physical server?

  My original physical server becomes inoperative?  I would rename the virtual server and give it a new IP address, but also want to continue to use the original physical server.

  Welcome to the community - but be aware that if you do not want to run two machines on the same network, your willingness to care about the host name and IP address to avoid confllicts.

• VMware converter restarts the physical server after conversion!

  Hello

  This can already city, but I can't find any discussion about it. I do some V2Vs using the converter Vmware 4.1.0

  The problem I have is that once the converter is completed, it randomly restarts the physical server, I converted (does not seem to happen to any of them). Of course, I don't want the physical server switch on again as changes could be made to it. I don't see any option in the converter to tell him not to restart or even stop.  It's a VtoV.  He is a SQL Server. Windows 2003 64-bit.

  I try without shutting down the server at all because it's a production server.  I don't have a Vcenter (to copy to an esxi to an another esxi).

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Hello

  For sure in the Converter 4 there is an option for the source stop server after migration.

  Below you will find a screen of VMware converter 5 with the option you are looking for. It is available at the end of the migration Assistant in OPTION --> option advance section

  

  Below the download link for Converter 5

  http://downloads.VMware.com/d/info/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_converter_standalone/5_0

  See you soon
  Artur
  

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• 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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• VMware converter restarts the physical server after cold clone

  Hey

  This can already city, but I can't find any discussion about it. I do a few P2Vs using the bootable disk to Vmware converter 4.1.0 cold clone. We have not all KVM/IP switches, I visit the server room to check the status of the conversion. The problem I have is that once the converter is completed, it randomly restarts the physical server, I converted (does not seem to happen to any of them). Of course, I don't want the physical server switch on again as changes could be made to it. I don't see any option in the converter to tell him not to restart or even stop that would be ok?

  Has anyone encountered this problem and maybe a solution?

  See you soon

  This is a very dirty hack that will do what you want

  Edit the coldclone.iso and delete the file... \I386\bootfix.bin.

  If you delete this file from the CD will not be asked to "press any key to boot from the CD" - instead, it will always start in the CD.

  So this also means you must change the boot sequence for the physical machine BIOS to boot from the CD-ROM.

  Then - even if the CD Coldclone restarts for unknown reasons - it will never restart under the original system, but raise the CD.

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  VMX-settings- VMware-liveCD - VM-infirmary

• Physical server VM disaster recovery

  Hello

  Today, I meet some customers who would ask the site of recovery after a disaster. They would like to use all physical servers to the recovering site.

  Here's the scenario. In the production site, they will have 3 host to ESXi 4.1, with BL460G6 (the Server Blade HP), 2 Proc Intel X 5600 series, 48 GB RAM. Storage use is NetApp with iSCSI (NETAPP FAS2040) options.

  All their (converted from physical) virtual computers will consume about 4.2 TB, for most of the Linux server, multiple windows, according to. The growth of data every day is 1.6 GB. They will invest the same storage (FAS2040) on the site of DRC. Will of replication occurs every 15 minutes. They had a very good bandwidth

  Now they're using the standard replication method, they transfer file to the DRC to their server (Linux, replication, automated with script-based) and until now its works very well.

  Because they will migrate to Virtual Server, after all migration, they all want their server used in the DRC Site. My point is to know how to do it. Pouvez VMware replicated on the physical server? They will not invest more than license VMware or upgrading their equipment. They want to use the server as is.

  I thought to use RDM, create a LUN, attached to the virtual machine with the physical/virtual compatibility, then use the NetApp replication method to replicate the DRC site. Then, in the DRC, all the physical server mapped to the same LUN. Restoration, then, just reverse the replication. But then, the implementation will be difficult, because each server has a specific LUN (it had more 20 + server).

  A guy had an idea?

  Thanks for your help.

  From what I understand so far, they virtualized or not their systems and virtual machine files are stored on NetApp storage synced to the DRS!

  In this case, with the environment of virtualization (VMware Essentials) in place at the DRS, they would have only to add the virtual machine to inventory and them lights disaster on the production side. This doesn't mean no reconfiguration of drivers (for the merger to the physical hardware), up to date systems (synchronizes every 15 min.) and very little time to have the environment running on the DRS.

  The advantage of the Essentials package on the free version is management, which equals the production site and the possibility of use for example, backup software, which usually requires a licensed version.

  André

• Conversion of physical server into a virtual machine

  Hello

  I would like to take a physical server and convert it to a virtual machine on the same box.  I'm new to VMs, so please tell me if this is possible and if yes, what is the best way to do it. Right now, I think these are the basic steps:

  (1) take operating system image current (2003 Server STD) using Acronis.

  (2) wipe server and install ESXi 4.

  (3) use the free VMware Converter to convert the Acronis image to a guest VM on the ESXi host.

  Will this work? Am I missing something? The traps that I should look out for?

  A few questions more to go with this:

  -J' currently have an ESXi 3.5 on a desktop host. Wouldn't be better to convert this machine on the fly to a guest on this 3.5 host, then move the guest to the new 4.0 host once it is ready?

  -This server is now an application server and has a few databases, such as WSUS and Kaspersky Administration kit and maybe something else I can't think right now. Is that causing trouble with the DBs in the transition from the physical to the virtual?

  -The machine has also acts as a file server and is connected to our iSCSI SAN. Will be a problem or I would be able to remap the LUN to the virtual machine quite easily just like I did to the physical machine?

  Sorry for the long post. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

  As long as you can take decisions associated with the image with Acronis and then convert it to a virtual machine, I think this is a good approach.  You can convert the server in a virtual machine running on your ESXi 3.5 environment but I would not run a server database production on class workstation hardware.  The performance would be probably pretty bad if you had a large number of users hitting that database.  As for using Acronis I know that it is supported but in the past I have never tried to convert an Acronis image for a virtual computer by using converter.

  The databases themselves should not have any problem on a virtual machine.  SQL runs in a virtual machine and saw complex databases even accomplish a lot.

  Reconnect to your iSCSI SAN shouldn't be a problem either.  You must ensure that the networking on the newly built 4 ESX host is configured to allow you access to all the VLANS required (iSCSI VLANS, server VLAN, etc.).  It is an important step to ensure that you have right or you will not be able to reinstall your iSCSI LUNS, once the server is converted.  Once the networking is configured the process of reconnecting to the iSCSI LUN from inside your virtual machine is the same as if it was physical.

  Good luck!

• Passing of TMS physical server in VM with external SQL Server

  What we have:

  13.2 physical TMS with TMSPE running on the Windows Server 2003 Enterprise with SQL server 2005.

  Application of TMS, tmsng, and TMSPE all located on the same server.

  What we wanted to do:

  Move the 13.2 TMS with TMSPE to 2008 r2 VM with tmsng located on the separate server from SQL 2008 VM (external).

  First attempt; the physcial and TMS VM servers with the same host name, the different IP addresses.

  (Physical server removed from the field after copying tmsng db and taken offline - changed then to the TMS VM server host name).

  13.2 of TMS and TMSPE installed smoothly on the virtual machine, we copied then the db tmsng existing since the physical server on the SQL 2008 VM server.

  Everything seemed fine, except that we could not clearly one of the TMS tickets tell us different MST services were not running, this despite the Court and restaring every MSDS services several times.

  TMPSE diagnosis showed all green, but the VCS - C told us a different story; with all of the connections; telephone directories and devices, users will fail with an http 400 error.

  At this stage our window of opportunity was closing quickly, we had to go back and bring back the old physical server, on the line.

  During testing, we used different for the physical host names and servers of MV, but we found TMS2 tickets thrown indicating different services of MST did not run on TMS1, so we thought we would try with identical host names for TMS1 and TMS2.

  There are some dependencies that we missed?

  Any advice on how to achieve better would be much appreciated.

  see you soon

  /Jens

  Hello

  I have seen this problem several times before and his tickets basically generation because it has a double set of services listed in under TMS Server (below), the following list Maintenance TMSNG db when you move it, it shows that there are for example 1 TMS Live Racing Department and one stop of service TMS Live where the next generates this ticket. Simply click the clear list to solve the problem.

  Regarding the TMSPE, have you moved the db TMSPE more on the new server or you let it run to the old?

  At all the configurations to correct in terms of user name / etc in the field configuration settings?

  Best regards

  Magnus Ohm