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P2V Problem with seeing hard drives
Hello, hope someone can help me with this problem.
I have two IBM H Series Blades both connected to the same IBM DS3400 SAN. I want to P2V both blades via VMWare P2V Converter Stand Alone v4.3. I have installed the P2C converter on both servers. Both servers have the same drive configuration - C:\ and D:\ are on one hard drive located in the blade and drive E:\ and F:\ are located on our SAN. When I begin configuring a new P2V task, I click the "View Source Details" link to view the server details including drives.
Blade 1 - when I launch a new conversion task, select the local machine, and click the blue link to "View Source Details", the converter sees all hard drives perfectly (Drives C:\ through F:\) and when I go through the P2V conversion process the task completes 100% without any errors at all. It is a wonderful experience!
Blade 2 - when I launch a new conversion task, select the local machine, and click the blue link to "View Source Details", the converter does not display the drives properly (Drives C:\ and D\: show up fine and F:\ drive shows up with and incorrect size and no D:\ shows up at all). If i follow through with the conversion completes with no errors however the drive configuration is incorrect.
The only difference between the Blades' E:\ and F:\ drives is the size on each blade.
Blade 1: E:\ Total Space 39.9GB In Use Space 24.1GB F:\ Total Space 29.9GB Used Space 24.1GB
Blade 2: E:\ Total Space 74.8BG In Use Space 37.2GB F:\ Total Space 69.9GB Used Space 69.6GB
Any help on this situation would be much appreciated.
Thanks
I have two IBM H Series Blades both connected to the same IBM DS3400 SAN. I want to P2V both blades via VMWare P2V Converter Stand Alone v4.3. I have installed the P2C converter on both servers. Both servers have the same drive configuration - C:\ and D:\ are on one hard drive located in the blade and drive E:\ and F:\ are located on our SAN. When I begin configuring a new P2V task, I click the "View Source Details" link to view the server details including drives.
Blade 1 - when I launch a new conversion task, select the local machine, and click the blue link to "View Source Details", the converter sees all hard drives perfectly (Drives C:\ through F:\) and when I go through the P2V conversion process the task completes 100% without any errors at all. It is a wonderful experience!
Blade 2 - when I launch a new conversion task, select the local machine, and click the blue link to "View Source Details", the converter does not display the drives properly (Drives C:\ and D\: show up fine and F:\ drive shows up with and incorrect size and no D:\ shows up at all). If i follow through with the conversion completes with no errors however the drive configuration is incorrect.
The only difference between the Blades' E:\ and F:\ drives is the size on each blade.
Blade 1: E:\ Total Space 39.9GB In Use Space 24.1GB F:\ Total Space 29.9GB Used Space 24.1GB
Blade 2: E:\ Total Space 74.8BG In Use Space 37.2GB F:\ Total Space 69.9GB Used Space 69.6GB
Any help on this situation would be much appreciated.
Thanks
ASKER
Thank you for the response.
Controllers and San Disks are identical - these are IBM Blade Servers in a H Series Blade Center connected with fiber connection to the same SAN. The blade servers are identical Windows 2003 R2 Servers, both running SQL Server. The drive configuration is::
Drive c:\ & D\: are the hard drive in the blades
Deive e:\ & f:\ are on the SAN
The converter showed all 4 drives perfectly and converted perfectly on the one blade and the problem I am having is the 2nd blade.
The problem is that on the 2nd blade, I cannot see all four disk drives when I first open the P2V Converter, select "Local Machine" and then click "view source details". So if I cannot see them at this preliminary stage, I cannot convert all drives whether together or separately.
Hope this answers your questions.
Perry
Controllers and San Disks are identical - these are IBM Blade Servers in a H Series Blade Center connected with fiber connection to the same SAN. The blade servers are identical Windows 2003 R2 Servers, both running SQL Server. The drive configuration is::
Drive c:\ & D\: are the hard drive in the blades
Deive e:\ & f:\ are on the SAN
The converter showed all 4 drives perfectly and converted perfectly on the one blade and the problem I am having is the 2nd blade.
The problem is that on the 2nd blade, I cannot see all four disk drives when I first open the P2V Converter, select "Local Machine" and then click "view source details". So if I cannot see them at this preliminary stage, I cannot convert all drives whether together or separately.
Hope this answers your questions.
Perry
Hi
Its strange.
Since this is a SAN with fiber, like i said you can add after the SAN disks into the new VMs. You don't need to import this. And i do not recommend to migrate SAN disks.
Check my article and the SAN disks part. Here you can remove and reattach the SAN disks into the new VM as a RAW disk
Jail
Its strange.
Since this is a SAN with fiber, like i said you can add after the SAN disks into the new VMs. You don't need to import this. And i do not recommend to migrate SAN disks.
Check my article and the SAN disks part. Here you can remove and reattach the SAN disks into the new VM as a RAW disk
Jail
ASKER
Ok, I understand what you are referring to now. I have been using P2V to create a test lab on a separate network. You are thinking that if I was P2Ving for production servers, I could connect the VM's to the virtual server after.
I have been reading that file sharing can cause problems - there is on shared folder on the problem server D:\ drive. Do you think that would be causing this issue. The other blade server has no shared folder on the D:\ drive.
You mentioned your "article" - where do I find this?
Thanks,
Perry
I have been reading that file sharing can cause problems - there is on shared folder on the problem server D:\ drive. Do you think that would be causing this issue. The other blade server has no shared folder on the D:\ drive.
You mentioned your "article" - where do I find this?
Thanks,
Perry
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ASKER
Thank you for your help - I will read through your document. My next opportunity to try this again is later this week. I will update accordingly once I have done that.
Perry
Perry
you might check to see if the disks are dynamic or GPT within disk manager of Windows on the 2nd blade.
ASKER
Thanks. I am going to follow your advise. For the other fellow who replied, the disks are not Dynamic. I looked into that one.
The controllers from both servers are the same?
What is the OS from both servers?
The SAN disks are the same type?
You can also P2V without the SAN disks, and then reattach that disks into the new VM
Jail