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ok - great. &nbsp;let me try that. &nbsp;standby sir.
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ok - great.  let me try that.  standby sir.

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Thanks for your help, gentlemen. &nbsp;running it directly from the target did the trick, as well as downgrading the version for the older OS. &nbsp;thanks
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Thanks for your help, gentlemen.  running it directly from the target did the trick, as well as downgrading the version for the older OS.  thanks

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Hello - we're using VMware Converter utility to copy physical servers into virtual machines on a VMWare host, and we're having trouble when RE-copying a machine for a second time. &nbsp;It fails to deploy, no matter what we do - even after rebooting the target server. &nbsp;What causes the agent to fail after it's already been ran on a server once?<br />
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thanks
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Hello - we're using VMware Converter utility to copy physical servers into virtual machines on a VMWare host, and we're having trouble when RE-copying a machine for a second time.  It fails to deploy, no matter what we do - even after rebooting the target server.  What causes the agent to fail after it's already been ran on a server once?

thanks

VMWare converter deploy agent fails

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).