Preferred solution for P2V (vCenter Converter or VEEAM)

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• How long for P2V to convert a Windows XP Pro machine?

  I have read the FAQ and can't find a rough estimate of the time to be allocated per GB for a P2V conversion. I need to convert portable en Windows XP Pro 80 from my boss as it moves to a new machine, and he wants to know how long it will take. I have converted the machines before, but I never stand-over to see how long it takes actually. About how long should it take to perform the P2V conversion a 80GB machine? Is there a simple rule like 1 minute per GB or something?

  Converter will find both drives, so there is no additional needs to be done.  Insofar as a book of recipes, the best that I can offer is the User Guide

  Oh another thing... Go to ESX (i) make sure that you replace the drive HARD IDE by SCSI, if in step 3 of the conversion process

• Looking for a perfect Solution for a file convert MBOX to the Excel Format?

  I looked at all the software on the market online, but I have not seen an effective solution to perform this conversion. In fact I want to convert MBOX file to Excel file format because sometimes I need see MBOX data all at once in a single Excel sheet. So, is it a complete solution available that help me out to convert a MBOX file to Excel format without any error.

  Hello Gemmahandcock

  I found a third-party software on Microsoft TechNet, named MBOX Converter Wizard that will maintain the MBOX emails in format Excel (CSV) with the correct information. When I tested this software to convert MBOX file to Excel format then it properly complete the process extract email attachments and save in the new folder.

  I recommend this software as it not only convert MBOX to Excel, but gives also facilitated to convert MBOX files in several formats to common files such as HTML, RTF, PDF, etc. from PST.

  Download link: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/MBOX-Converter-5767e6c6

• vCenter Converter support for dvSwitch and Nexus 1000v

  Nothing changed since it was published in May 2009:

  http://www.VMware.com/support/vSphere4/doc/vsp_vcc_41_rel_notes.html

  VMware vCenter Converter vCenter Server 4.0 | May 21, 2009 | Build 161418

  Document last updated: May 21, 2009

  Import and export tasks fail when a vNetwork Distributed Switch is selected as the network for the virtual machine target

  When you create an import or export tasks and select a vNetwork Distributed Switch in the choice of the network for the virtual machine target, the task begins but does not immediately with the following error message: unknown error returned from agent vCenter Converter. This problem appears when you use the wizards to import or export or the convert Command Line Interface (CLI) tool to create the task.

  Solution: Select a network to the computer virtual target that is not a vNetwork Distributed Switch.

  We had this problem a few weeks back and see how this problem exists since last year, vCenter 4.0 Update 1 or 2 this address?  Thank you.

  Hi Terran0925,

  According to the "Known issues" section in the release notes for "VMware vCenter Converter vCenter Server 4.0 Update 1 | November 19, 2009 | Build 206170 "to http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_vcc_41u1_rel_notes.html#resolvedissues , the question was always present.

  There is no mention of the issue on the VMware vCenter Converter vCenter Server 4.1 release notes. The release notes can be found at http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_vcc_42_rel_notes.html

  The details of this version are;

  VMware vCenter Converter 4.2 | July 13, 2010 | Generation 254483

  vCenter Server 4.1 | July 13, 2010 | Build 258902

  Note: in order to get this version of VMware vCenter Converter vCenter Server, you must upgrade your vCenter server for "vCenter Server 4.1 | July 13, 2010 | Build 258902.

  I hope this helps.

  Kind regards

  Graham Daly

  Champion of knowledge

  VMware Inc.

• CLI from VMware vCenter Converter vCenter Server 4.1

  CLI interface is supported for VMware vCenter Converter vCenter Server 4.1? (not independent).

  I see no mention to this topic in the Administration (vCenter Converter 4.2) Guide and VMware vCenter Converter Installation

  http://www.VMware.com/support/pubs/vcc_pubs.html

  Hello

  Converter 4.2 will not support CLI.

• vCenter Converter installation fails ("attempt read or write protected memory")

  I just upgraded my vCenter to v4

  When I arrived to install the Converter vCenter he traveled the GUI configuration as expected, but once finished he threw an error stating:

  Attempts to read or write protected memory.  It is often an indication that other memory has been corrupted.

  ??? Memory of others?

  I see this error whenever I run the VI in VC client.

  In the form of plugins, I see this for the vCenter Converter:

  vCenter Converter

  VMware, Inc..

  4.1.0

  People with disabilities

  vCenter Converter

  The plug-in could not load on the server (s) vcenter_server because of the following error:

  Reference object, not an instance of an object.

  If I right click and try to activate it gives me a pop up that says:

  External component has thrown an exception.

  Nothing in the logs of Windows

  Nothing in the console of VC or events.

  ???

  Next post can help you

  http://communities.VMware.com/thread/117475

• VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5.0 build-1362012 - unknown internal error trying to P2V Windows Server 2003 SP2

  I have a box of Windows Server 2003 SP2 Standard that fails to convert using vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5.0 build-1362012. After you submit the task in the wizard's GUI, I get "a general error has occurred: unknown internal error". A virtual machine is created and deleted and then a few moments later.

  Create the virtual machine

  192.168.1.201

  Completed

  Search entity by UUID

  Completed

  Search entity by UUID

  Completed

  Remote disk open read-write

  Completed

  Search entity by UUID

  Completed

  Remote disk open read-write

  Completed

  Search entity by UUID

  Completed

  Delete the entity

  SRV-cspnsn. CSPNSN.local

  Completed

  The destination is VMware ESXI version 5.5.0 build-1623387 managed by vSphere Client version 5.5.50 build-1618071. The destination data store is a 5.60 VMFS volume with block size of 4 MB, on a local SATA HDD with 923, 50GB.

  Both machines are in the same network and have no any King or firewall or ACL in switches.

  In the log file, the only error is "error"Ufa.HTTPService"] Impossible to read the application; "flow: io_obj p:0x03403f24, h:-1, < tube"\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap">, < pipe"\\.\pipe\vmware-converter-server-soap"> >, error: class Vmacore::TimeoutException (Operation timed out).

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Thanks in advance.

  Hi all

  Once the converter VMware-converter-en - 5.5.1 - 1682692 does not work, with a touch of friend uninstall the 5.5 version of Converter Standalone Client, look for the VMware converter version - 4.0.0 - 146302 and install this version to the other machine. No not that I had to be Converter, but the windows 7 Pro 64-bit.

  After this race, the Standalone Client 4.4 Converter and everything work fine.

  Now I have the P2V converted and good machine, as was the real operation!

  I thank all of you.

  Best regards

  ADAJio

• vCenter converter 5.1 - just P2V to esxi 5.1 but stop virtual machine by iteself

  I P2V a machine using vCenter converter 5.1 and migrated to 5.1 ESXi host. If conversion/migration is finished without error. Now when I turn on the computer, virtual it stops up to the login screen and it goes on and on. Not able to understand what is happening. I veried resources assigned these looks good.

  Some successful how to enter safe mode. UPS service was guilty. Disabled it and also default actions has changed for this service of "Non-action" for all three incidents.

  No problems now and new virtual machine works very well without any problem

• vCenter Converter: Installshield Error 1335 data1.cab P2V Wizard

  I'm installing vCenter Converter v4.3 (P2V) on a Windows XP SP3 computer.

  The installation process fails with:

  "Error 1335: Cabinet file data1.cab required for this installation is damaged and cannot be used.".

  This is an error of Installshield Wizard.

  I checked the Md5 of the file installation (VMware converter-all-4.3.0 - 292238.exe) and it is correct.

  I used a copy of the installer on another computer Windows XP SP3, and installed correctly.

  I tried the following unsuccesully, the same error occurs each time:

  1 / /Unregister and then/regserver MSIEXEC

  2 / deleted MSI. DLL, MSIEXEC. DLL, MSIHND. DLL and re-installed the latest Installer Microsoft MSI v4.5.

  3 / delete C:\Program Files\Common InstallShield

  4 / implemented a fix registry CAB file.

  5 / rebooted the PC in a minimum configuration (MSCONFIG to disable all services by default, no provision of the automatic launch at system startup, but)

  6. completely uninstalled antivirus, firewall

  7 / made sure the path of the destination folder is short (ex. C:\VMC)

  Any suggestions please let me know.

  Randy

  during extraction worked among other files, you should find an MSI - you can doubleclick as MSI

• Can't access file system host (MAC) shared in VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client when wanting to create a VMware image (Windows 7 in Parallels virtual machine running on a MAC) for the option of machine Powered On.

  File HOST (Mac) system is currently shared in the Parallels virtual machine and is accessible through Windows Explorer and works correctly in the Virtual Machine environment, however, after installing vCenter Converter application on the Windows virtual machine these shared folders are not accessible from the conversion tool in the selection of the target destination of the file VMware (s). I can't select an existing folder on drive "C:" to write the image so that there is not enough space available for the VMware image and it must be written in a different file system, while the image is being created.

  Anyone know a way around it to show the target to write the image on the host (MAC OS) file system or is it a bug?

  Thanks for the reply.  It seems that the maps are not displayed if they were created as actions by the hosts.  When I created a mapping directly from Windows, then this mapping appeared and the conversion worked fine.

• VMware vcenter converter standalone physical conversion to virtual stuck to the completion of 81% for several days

  Hello everyone I have an interesting question, I'm physical conversion to virtual pointing to the new virtual directly on the server esx conversion would set schedule for a day. But now, it's just stuck at 81% and not go further! I don't get any errors of ideas? questions are there a basis that I can look to see what is happening? Is there a way I can fix it without start over again. There are enough resources on the destination esx I had to change the hard drive space for destination and ram, but done nothing radical imprint more small which I think should do better.

  It's an interesting case, you have here. I guess that conversion is complete, but somehow you do not see or a deadlock occurred.

  Anyway you will probably be able to export logs to the customer. Go to the directory of newspapers to %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone\logs (for WP/W3K) or vCenter Converter Standalone\logs %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\VMware\VMware (for Vista +) and find the log of the last worker (vmware-converter-worker - .log #). The status of the conversion is currently connected. Take a look, or that she has finished, is still running, is stuck.

  If he has you can try restarting the client and/or server converter service. Do not stop the worker service unless you are sure that there is no conversion running!

  HTH

  Plamen

• vCenter Converter - P2V migration without dedicated boot partition

  Hello

  I'm looking to migrate to a physical computer to my ESXi cluster with vCenter Converter but actually I got this following error message:

  There is no directory "/ boot", mounted on the source machine. It is necessary to create a virtual bootable. Mount the directory "/ boot" on the source machine.

  Is it possible to ignore this message? In fact, this server is in production and I don't have any space on my hard drive to create another partition.

  I would like to know if we can convert a physical machine to a virtual machine without a dedicated boot partition.

  Note: I had a folder/boot but mounted on my.

  If anyone has any advice on this subject will be useful

  Yes, in theory, you can. / boot directory under / is OK, but this error message is a bit misleading - I'd say converter couldn't recognize your * discs * and so no partitions mounted, so he couldn't find/boot as a separate partition or as a directory under /. You use some software RAID (md) on your source server?

• vCenter Converter Standalone to vSphere Hypervisor

  Here's the situation.

  I would like to P2V convert an existing Windows 2000 Server and put the new virtual server in vSphere Hypervisor 5.1.

  Is this possible with the free vCenter Converter Standalone?  What version of the converter is what I use for P2V Server 2000 machine and I then have to use an older version of ESXI instead of vSphere Hypervisor 5.1?

  Any thoughts?

  Thank you

  The VMware converter, you can download it here... (https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=converter) Click on the license and download tab and log in to your my account of VMware. You should see the latest version and all the last one available for download.

  ESXi 4.0, you can download it here... (https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi&lp=default). Once again, same procedure, click on the license and download tab and log in to your my account of VMware. You should see 4.1 and below (4, 4 Update 1... and so on) available for download.

  Good luck

  -Clark.

• SOW for P2V and V2V

  Hello

  I'm new to VMware and still did not register in any activity related to vsphere 5 again.  Currently, my company has an agreement that needs me to run a P2V and V2V exercise for 800 server in a company and I don't know what that should I have to prepare for the conversion to succeed.

  There are a few question I wanted to ask and hope that all of you who are expert on that can provide me with a guide to archive this task

  Scenario:

  A company must consolidate all servers in site A, through p2v and v2v and bring them to site B and pull up all machines in a Cloud environment.

  Issues related to the:

  1. do I need an ESXi host and storage SAN (virtual infrastructure environment) to store all the converted machines from which this converted machine will be transferred to the cloud to be use on a remote site?

  2. If my client wanted to store all machines converted in the (NFS) network attached storage and import them into the Cloud Computing environment, this will be done using vmware vcenter converter?

  3. If I'm using vcenter converter 5, what is the conversion format suitable that I need to use in order for the converted servers to be used in the cloud?

  4. I have the program installation and virtual environment that consist of esxi host and iscsi storage, I convert a power on machine virtual infrastructure format and launch successfully in the esxi host. Problem is that I couldn't find an option to import a virtual machine since the converted file (NFS) and that's why I need to confirm if what format are suitable for the mentioned script so that I can import the converted NFS/SAN storage server.

  5. What are the other information I might need to know about this situation as:

  • Hardware compatibility for legacy server to participate in the activity of p2v
    
  • Activate the service ports of the network firewall/ports that must be for the conversion process
    

  Grateful if you guys (expertise) can give me advice to make it happen. Thank you in advance and hope you guys can answer this question.

  Hi Eric

  I'm not sure I understand your request of stil. The closest thing I associate is the command "Add to inventory" in "Datastore browser" in vSphere client. If this is the case, it opens a wizard to help you to choose the host ESX (the one who can see the data store). However it has nothing to do with the converter. In fact it is about adding to the inventory, not import.

• What Version of Vcenter Converter to install?

  Hello world

  New to the Group and have recently played with VMWare. Our 3 Vcenter servers run v4.1. I wanted to P2V a machine

  to one of our guests and noticed, Vcenter Converter we had not installed on Vcenter server.  When I looked

  to this he said Converter 4.2, installed and tried to start it. Came back with an error of not finding a configuration file and

  that I should reinstall the software.  Following a vmware doc, it was suggested that I go to the Vcenter server and uninstall the

  conversion software, uninstalled both the converter and the customer. Now trying to find the right version of the converter to reinstall.

  Watching downloads I am presented with 4.3 standalone - it would be OK?

  My apologies for the level of detail in the question, trying to FYI as well as ask.

  Converter 4.3 is the current version, although there is also a public beta version of Converter 5.0 (http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/beta/public_converter_50) that works really well. However, you also need to consider that comments of the operating systems you want to convert. The most recent versions of the converter do not support for example Windows NT and 2000.

  André