Malaysia VMware Communities » Converter http://malaysiavm.com/blog Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:50:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Bugs on Virtual to Virtual Migration from Microsoft to VMware http://malaysiavm.com/blog/bugs-on-virtual-to-virtual-migration-from-microsoft-to-vmware/ http://malaysiavm.com/blog/bugs-on-virtual-to-virtual-migration-from-microsoft-to-vmware/#comments Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:22:15 +0000 craig http://malaysiavm.com/blog/?p=2087 Recently had found some weird issue while we tried to migrate virtual to virtual from Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 to VMware vSphere 4. The import process done successful by the VMware converter, but we realized the network packets get delay while we performed the continues ping test to the virtual machine. the Ping respond had been delayed more than 1000ms in the LAN environment.
We had verified all the network connectivity, resources allocation from ESX host, which confirmed this was not the problem of the infrastructure we setup. We  performed another round of conversion again by powered on the virtual machines from virtual server 2005, before we performed the migration with VMware converter as physical machine mode. The delay ping respond no longer exist after this. We had opened case with VMware tech support and confirm there is not issue on the Virtual Infrastructure we built.

In case anyone of you had the similar experience, I will suggest you to power on the virtual server from Microsoft, and perform the migration process as physical mode.

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I decide to do a final round of import which keep every single configuration as default. All the configuration of the existing VM had not been changed and it works. After the success import, I had to manually update the vmtools and virtual hardware version. I had also cloned the virtual machine to the new VM name that I wanted to, with thin provision enable. It had been taken 6 hours for the entire import process, which is consider long as the virtual machine image was 400GB. I will suggest to leave the default setting for future import process as it shown as more consistent process. The rest of the configuration always can be done right after the success import.

]]> http://malaysiavm.com/blog/import-virtual-machine-with-vmware-converter-4/feed/ 2 VMware vCenter Converter 4.0 and 1st try failed! http://malaysiavm.com/blog/vmware-vcenter-converter-40-and-1st-try-failed/ http://malaysiavm.com/blog/vmware-vcenter-converter-40-and-1st-try-failed/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:22:58 +0000 jlchannel http://malaysiavm.com/blog/?p=876 VMware vCenter Converter 4.0 has just been released.

VMware vCenter Converter 4.0

What’s New?

  • Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Linux (RHEL, SUSE and Ubuntu) as source
  • Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Windows Server 2008 as source
  • Hot cloning improvements to clone any incremental changes to physical machine during the P2V conversion process
  • Support for converting new third-party image formats including Parallels Desktop virtual machines, newer versions of Symantec, Acronis, and StorageCraft
  • Workflow automation enhancements to include automatic source shutdown, automatic start-up of the destination virtual machine as well as shutting down one or more services at the source and starting up selected services at the destination
  • Target disk selection and the ability to specify how the volumes are laid out in the new destination virtual machine
  • Destination virtual machine configuration, including CPU, memory, and disk controller type

The most important features is support for Linux platforms and the bad new is my first SuSE Linux 10 SP1 convertion have been failed and I’m trying on second one…. stay tune.

VMware Converter

Updated: The second try worked and please make sure Converter Helper network setup is correct. It took about 24 minutes for convert from LAN to LAN and total of 34G hard disk space.

VMware Convert Worked

Check out the VMware vCenter Converter 4.0 Standalone release notes here.

Please noted that VMware Converter 4 download required registration or login.

Download details as below:
Converter Installer for Windows
Version 4 | 146302 – 02/12/09 101MB Binary (.exe)
Converter Installer for Linux
Version 4 | 146302 – 02/12/09 117 MB Binary (.tar.gz)

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It also support the P2V conversion process for Windows Server 2008. VM converter version 4 do support for converting new third-party image formats, including Parallels Desktop virtual machines, newer versions of Symantec, Acronis, and StorageCraft.

VMware Converter 4 Beta

Click here if you do not have a VMware account

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