Monday, September 16, 2013

Missing Source Disk In VMware vCenter Converter

Last night I was trying to convert a physical server to a virtual machine using VMware vCenter Converter.  However, one of the disk from the source is not showing up in VMware vCenter Converter.

Disk Management

The disk in question is a dynamic disk spanning across two LUNs.  The following two lines appeared in the VMware Converter Agent log/

[#1] [2013-09-14 14:21:26.749 07216 warning 'App'] Failed to get info for \\.\PhysicalDrive1: error Read \\.\PhysicalDrive1 disk layout: Incorrect function (1)
[#1] [2013-09-14 14:21:26.827 07216 info 'App'] Volume \\?\Volume{6eebfa01-57d8-48f7-a780-8ab804dacab7}\ is assosiated with a disk that had been filtered out; filter out the volume as well.

The disk is less than 2TB so http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2004289 is not relevant.

It turned out the problem was because it was a GPT disk and my VMware vCenter Converter version was before 5.1.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1016992

VMware vCenter Converter prior 5.1 does not support conversion of GPT disk.  Upgrade to VMware vCenter Converter 5.1 solved the problem.

1 comment:

virtualcloudz said...

Hi Alex,

It's great to see your blogs with consistency.

Can you share your contact e-mail ID? I would like to send you some private message.

Many thanks,
Jo