New Import Wizard Available for Migrating VMware ESXi Based Virtual Machines

[aaron]

The preparation section of the wiki page should include checking for such policies.

done. Thanks for reporting this.

 

[dtom2444]

Has anyone tried importing a VM with active snapshots? I tried to import a VM with 2 active snapshots but the import wizard sat at 0% after 45 minutes. Is this scenario not supported?

 

[Falk R.]

Import with Snapshots over the vSphere API (used by this Wizard) are Not VMware Supported and very bugy. Please delete all Snapshots before importing.

 

[Grrmmll]

I have discovered the problem. The VM had a VM Storage Policy applying to it, the VM was encrypted using the VMware VM Encryption Provider. Removing the policy, and thus the encryption, allowed it to be imported. The preparation section of the wiki page should include checking for such policies.

Indeed.
We have some storage policies in place to limit IO on the VM disks and this was blocking the import process.
Once we remove them in VMware, no trouble with import.