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You could use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 and create a V2V between servers.<br />
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see my EE Articles<br />
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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_11489.html" rel="ugc">HOW TO: &nbsp;Synchronize changes when completing a P2V or V2V with VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_11449.html" rel="ugc">HOW TO: &nbsp;P2V, V2V for FREE - VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/A_9131.html" rel="ugc">HOW TO: Improve the transfer rate of a Physical to Virtual (P2V), Virtual to Virtual Conversion (V2V) using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0</a>
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You could use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 and create a V2V between servers.

see my EE Articles

HOW TO:  Synchronize changes when completing a P2V or V2V with VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 [https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_11489.html]

HOW TO:  P2V, V2V for FREE - VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 [https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_11449.html]

HOW TO: Improve the transfer rate of a Physical to Virtual (P2V), Virtual to Virtual Conversion (V2V) using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0 [https://www.experts-exchange.com/A_9131.html]

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Hi,<br />
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i am unable to move a server to another host in vmware esx 5.1 and content of data store is empty, Our other datastores located on the same SAN is ok and we are able to view the content.<br />
We have also tried powering the server off before moving it to a different host, <br />
error Message in vmware: The object or item referred to could not be found.<br />
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The Lun is quite large, 3.91TB, 1TB free, the server that has this issue is a Windows 2008 r2 server, the server is working fine in Windows and there we can Access all the disks.
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Hi,

i am unable to move a server to another host in vmware esx 5.1 and content of data store is empty, Our other datastores located on the same SAN is ok and we are able to view the content.
We have also tried powering the server off before moving it to a different host, 
error Message in vmware: The object or item referred to could not be found.

The Lun is quite large, 3.91TB, 1TB free, the server that has this issue is a Windows 2008 r2 server, the server is working fine in Windows and there we can Access all the disks.

Unable to move server to another host in vmware esx 5.1 and content of data store is empty

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.