VMWare Converter Failing at 99% - Disks Dont Compile

[rbeard.js]

I know this is a long shot post this here but maybe someone has run into the same issues and found a solution!

We are trying to convert a server to a virtual disk using VMware converter and the process keeps failing at the end at 99% completion with a general unspecified error.
Weve tried multiple different storage mediums and have the same issues.

This is fine though because the vmdk disk making process does complete and the disks do work in vmplayer if I attach them all seperatly. However, the converter usually will combine all the vmdk files into one single large file. This is probably the step the converter is failing on.

I would still like a single vmdk file if possible. Is there a way to manually combine them?

Ive tried using vdiskmanager but that doesnt seem to be working and just makes a copy of the disk I point it at rather than combine all the disks in the folder

 

[alexskysilk]

Do you have multiple vmdk's to begin with?

if yes, no way to combine outside of the guest. inside the guest you can use a partition management tool to increase the size of a disk and copy the partition from one disk to the other.

if no, and you just have a vmdk with multiple files, just flatten it in vcsa.

 

[rbeard.js]

Well kinda
We did this on some other servers and didnt have these issues with the multiple vmdks. Each of these servers have a C drive E drive and sometimes an F
the first two we virtualized, the tool compressed everything into a single vmdk file despite the multiple drives in the server.
This time though, Im getting multiple vmdks for each drive and that's probably because the tool is crashing last minute and not finishing the job.
I just didnt know if there is a way to do what the tool does manually and compress them all into a single vmdk
And unfortunately, I cant modify the server before making the copy as its in production until we get it virtualized.

Ive seen this program in this video here: Video
But It just makes a copy of the disk I point it at rather than combines all the vmdks

 

[alexskysilk]

btw, you dont actually need to use the converter.

1. create the vm normally but without drives, note the vmid.
2. COPY the vmdks from VMware to a file storage device in proxmox, into /mnt/pve/[name of filestore]/images/vm-vmid-disk[0,1,2..n].vmdk
3. add them into the config. If the machine is bios and not uefi, make sure you add them in order (eg, c: drive is disk0, d: is disk1, etc)
4. set storage bus to IDE, and NIC to Intel

you can then remove the vmtools package and install qemu guest agent and drivers so you can change the host bus and nic.

 

[rbeard.js]

btw, you dont actually need to use the converter.

1. create the vm normally but without drives, note the vmid.
2. COPY the vmdks from VMware to a file storage device in proxmox, into /mnt/pve/[name of filestore]/images/vm-vmid-disk[0,1,2..n].vmdk
3. add them into the config. If the machine is bios and not uefi, make sure you add them in order (eg, c: drive is disk0, d: is disk1, etc)
4. set storage bus to IDE, and NIC to Intel

you can then remove the vmtools package and install qemu guest agent and drivers so you can change the host bus and nic.

Im sorry I guess I should have specified that these servers Im converting are on baremetal, no hypervisor.
I was just using this tool as it has been the best options so far
I made an addition to my last post too, a video of what I was trying to use but unsuccessfully.

 

[alexskysilk]

I see.

But It just makes a copy of the disk I point it at rather than combines all the vmdks

sorry, thats not an option.

 

[rbeard.js]

I see.


sorry, thats not an option.

Gotcha well Ill just have to use the disk separately, it should be okay. thank you for looking into it!