V2V from ESX4.1 host credentials problem with HyperV 2012

September 22, 2013, 8:50 pm

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I have a Win2012 hyper-V server setup, together with SCVMM 2012 SP1 (3.1.6011.0).

I've added a VMware cluster to the fabric, which seems to have worked - it can see the hosts and VMs. Status of the host is "Ok" (not "OK(limited)")

I'd like to try a V->V, so I followed the steps here :

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg610672.aspx

The first problem is similar a bug I found when doing a p->v last year (not using SCVMM) - when calculating disk space for placement, it doesn't take CSVs into account. This was fairly easy to get round - add a large empty LUN to the host as another drive. You don't have to to use it, and indeed it didn't let me - the destination volume can be a CSV. It's just the disk space calculator is a bit dumb.

Having got that sorted, I then set up a v->v job. This swiftly failed with

Error (10406)

Virtual Machine Manager cannot contact xxx because the credentials for xxx are missing.

Provide credentials for xxx and then try the operation again.

If I look in the host settings, I can try both an AD account with admin privileges, and the ESX root account, and they both work for browsing the host. (both set up with run-as accounts).

Any idea what the problem is? Is there somewhere else the credentials have to be provided?

(I have seen a very similar question asked here, but that was for 2008 - I'm on 2012 SP1)

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P2V physical drive to vhdx vs. vhd

September 23, 2013, 10:27 am

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Is it possible when converting a physical machine to a virtual machine using SCVMM 2012 sp1 to make the virtual drive vhdx versus vhd? When trying the conversion I am only seeing vhd.

davidh

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Offline P2V conversion fails with error 2921

September 10, 2013, 6:22 am

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Converting a Windows Server 2003 Standard that was a domain controller (no longer is) to virtual via offline conversion.. It's a machine that has been around awhile. No matter what I do, I cannot seem to get this particular machine to convert. Fails with the following:

VMM cannot complete the operation on the file C:\Users\administrator.CHIDOMAIN\AppData\Local\Temp\SCVMM.f4eb56b979\boot.wim on the VMServer1.chidomain.local server. One of the following system errors occurred: a file is read-only, the specified path is a directory, or Virtual Machine Manager does not have the required permissions.

Both machines are in the same domain, and I'm using the Domain administrator account to do everything? VMserver is a Windows 2007 server enterprise with SP2 and running System Cente Virtual Machine manager 2008 R2.

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Failed P2V

September 12, 2013, 10:33 am

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Hello Everyone,

Am having a challenge pulling a physical machine running server 2012 to virtual using VMM 2012 SP1. I've checked to confirm there are no unknown SIDs on both machines and am running it using a domain admin account but i still get the error below even after rebooting and trying several times. Please advise on how to resolve this.

NB: Both servers are of the same hardware and running on Server 2012.

Error (13243)
The snapshot creation failed because VSS writer {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220} on source machine SERVER5 did not respond within the expected time interval.
Internal error code: 0x809933BB

Recommended Action
Ensure that VSS writer is functioning properly and then try the operation again.

Meshack

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Centos Convertion

September 12, 2013, 10:36 am

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Hello everyone,

Please advise on how i can go about pulling a physical machine running Centos to Hyper-V 2012 using VMM 2012 or any other technology that can be used to move it Hyper-V.

Meshack

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VMM 2012 rollup 3 P2V Server 2003 SP2

September 18, 2013, 1:26 am

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Hello,

We have a physiscal computer with Windows 2003 sp2 server. We want to make a physical to virtual conversion. We encountered some problems with P2V agent installation, so we install the P2V agent manually (the agent is C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012\Virtual Machine Manager\agents\p2v\amd64\vmmP2VSource2k3.msi). The version of P2V agent is version 3.1.6011.0.

The version of VMM is 3.1.6027.0. When we want to get physical machine configuration with SCVMM (withNew-SCComputerConfiguration cmdlet), we obtain the error 408 :

MyComputer has an unsupported version of the Virtual Machine Manager agent installed.

Any ideas what the problem could be?

Thank

PS : KB2858511 gives an error. Is there a link ?

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Errors while using P2V wizard in SC12VMM on XP SP3

September 18, 2013, 10:47 am

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I'm trying to use the P2V wizard in SC12VMM to virtualise an old XP box.

The wizard keeps failing, with a range of errors.

Attempt 1

Error (3154)
An internal error has occurred trying to contact an agent on the trcmay092 server.
The remote procedure call failed (0x800706BE)

Recommended Action
Ensure the agent is installed and running. Ensure the WMI service is installed and running, then restart the agent.

Information (20524)
Virtual Machine Manager has added the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate with thumbprint obtained from the computer trcmay092 to the Trusted People store of the VMM management server.

At the same time, on the XP machine (a user account was logged in at the time), an error was displayed

VMM P2V Agent has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Send Error Report?

More Details - EventType: BEX P1: vmmP2VAgent.exe P2 3.1.6011.0 P3: 50aabaef P4: vmmP2VAgent.exe P5: 3.1.6011.0 P6: 50aabaef P7: 0014765e P8: c0000409 P9: 00000000

I clicked 'send error report', and waited. Nothing happened in the VMM P2V wizard. Further wait. Eventually I shut down the XP machine and finally VMM P2V wizard said

An internal error has occurred trying to contact an agent on the trcmay092 server.

Ensure the agent is installed and running. Ensure the WMI service is installed and running, then restart the agent.

ID: 3154
Details: The remote procedure call failed (0x800706BE)

Attempt 2

Broadly similar - this time logging on to the XP machine took an extraordinarily long time, this time the error was

Error (410)
Agent installation failed on trcmay092.
Call was canceled by the message filter

Recommended Action
Try the operation again. If the problem persists, install the agent locally and then add the managed computer.

This time - SC12VMM itself crashed somehow

Error (1700)
The Virtual Machine Manager service on the XXXXXXXX server stopped while this job was running. This may have been caused by a system restart.

Recommended Action
To restart this job, navigate to the Jobs view and select the job in the results pane. Then, in the Actions pane, click Restart.

Attempt 3

Error (408)
trcmay092 has an unsupported version of the Virtual Machine Manager agent installed.

Recommended Action
Uninstall the Virtual Machine Manager agent using Add or Remove Programs on trcmay092, and then try the operation again.

I uninstalled the P2VAgent from the XP control panel and tried again... leading to

How can I go about troubleshooting this, please?

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V2V from ESX4.1 host credentials problem with HyperV 2012

September 22, 2013, 8:50 pm

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I have a Win2012 hyper-V server setup, together with SCVMM 2012 SP1 (3.1.6011.0).

I've added a VMware cluster to the fabric, which seems to have worked - it can see the hosts and VMs. Status of the host is "Ok" (not "OK(limited)")

I'd like to try a V->V, so I followed the steps here :

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg610672.aspx

Having got that sorted, I then set up a v->v job. This swiftly failed with

Error (10406)

Virtual Machine Manager cannot contact xxx because the credentials for xxx are missing.

Provide credentials for xxx and then try the operation again.

If I look in the host settings, I can try both an AD account with admin privileges, and the ESX root account, and they both work for browsing the host. (both set up with run-as accounts).

Any idea what the problem is? Is there somewhere else the credentials have to be provided?

(I have seen a very similar question asked here, but that was for 2008 - I'm on 2012 SP1)

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VMM 2012 RC V2V - Insufficient Space and Placement Bug

February 16, 2012, 12:04 pm

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Setup consists of:
VMM 2012 RC
3 node cluster of Windows 2008 R2 Deployed via VMM 2012 Bare Metal Deployment
3 FC Luns with ample freespace

What I'm seeing during a V2V from an ESX VM is that if I don't have sufficent free space on the local system drive (in my case E: since this is a bare metal deployed system) or If I don't mark the local system drive for placement, I can't complete the wizard because of warnings about the E: drive either not having enough space or it not being available for placement.

Only if I free up space on the local system drive AND mark it for placment, can I then get to the next screen to select a shared LUN.

Anyone else see this?

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P2V physical drive to vhdx vs. vhd

September 23, 2013, 10:27 am

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Is it possible when converting a physical machine to a virtual machine using SCVMM 2012 sp1 to make the virtual drive vhdx versus vhd? When trying the conversion I am only seeing vhd.

davidh

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Error (12700) VMM cannot complete the Hyper-V operation on the ... could not initialize. (Virtual machine ID ) (Unknown error (0x8000))

May 9, 2011, 1:46 pm

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I have been having a consistant issue during P2V conversions. If I have the converted placed on my Win 2008 R2 system (also running SCVMM) I get the following error message and recommendation:

Error (12700)
VMM cannot complete the Hyper-V operation on the VirtualMgt.amrinc-corp.local server because of the error: 'testV' could not initialize. (Virtual machine ID 03D6F613-71C2-4E2B-A72E-0832902B00CA)
(Unknown error (0x8000))

Recommended Action
Resolve the issue in Hyper-V and then try the operation again.

These P2V conversions were win2000 SP4 with SP4 Rollup applied. I have done 3 of these with the exact same ending error message. Now the interesting think is if I tell VMM to place the P2V conversion on my old Virtual Server running on Win2003R2 it works just fine accept for Virtual Machine Integration .

Any idea what might be causing this issue?

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VM Migration from Hyper-V 2008 R2 to 2012 successful but leave duplicate source VM with "Incomplete VM Configuration"

October 7, 2013, 9:57 am

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We are in the process of moving VMs from our legacy 2008R2 Hyper-V cluster to our new Hyper-V 2012 cluster using VMM 2012 SP1 CU3. Most VM migrations go just as expected and are completely successful. I have had a couple of VMs however that appear to successfully migrate but leave behind the VM on the source 2008R2 in the VMM configuration with a status of "Incomplete VM Configuration." Using the VMM shell, I get the following:

Get-SCVirtualMachine | where { $_.Name -EQ "<VM>"} | fl name, status, VMId
Name   : <VM>
Status : IncompleteVMConfig
VMId   : <DuplicateID>

Name   : <VM>
Status : Running
VMId   : <DuplicateID>

If you use failover cluster manager on both the 2008R2 and the 2012 clusters the VM shows it is gone from the 2008R2 cluster and just fine on the 2012 cluster. I have tried everything I can think on short of removing the cluster from VMM to try and resolve this issue and I really don't want to have to do this everytime I run into this issue. I've tried just right-clicking the VM in the VMM console and selecting "Delete" which does remove it but then it pops back in once the VMs refresh on the 2008R2 nodes. I have tried to force the removal using "Get-SCVirtualMachine | where { $_.Name -EQ "<VM>" -and $_.Status -EQ "IncompleteVMConfig"} | Remove-SCVirtualMachine -Force" and it again pops right back into the console. It seems to me like during the migration, SCVMM isn't cleaning up after itself and updating its database to reflect where the VM now resides. How can I permanently remove this VM that is leftover when migration between clusters without having to remove and read the cluster to VMM?

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P2V not enough memory error ID:3503

October 21, 2013, 10:09 am

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I am trying to P2V a server that has 64GB of memory, my target host has a total of 128GB RAM, 55 GB of which are already allocated to other VM's, that leaves a total of 73GB free. When I run the P2V process I received an error:

"Not enough memory available. Total memory on the host is 56800 MB. Remaining memory for use by existing and new virtual machines is 54752 MB. At the time of evaluation, the remaining memory was 56800 and the amount requested by this virtual machine is 65600 MB. ID: 3503"

Is there a limit on the amount of memory that a VM can be assigned? What am I doing wrong here? I am not sure how to troubleshoot this further.

SCVMM 2012SP1

Physical machine to be converted to Virtual: Windows 2008R2, 64GB RAM, 24 procs, Vol1=300GB Vol2=1.7TB, neither is GPT

Target Host: Windows 2012 Datacenter, 128GB RAM, 32 procs, vol1=500GB, vol2=2TB, iscsi attached vol3=3TB

davidh

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how to migrate physical server to VM????

October 29, 2013, 11:37 am

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hi folks..............

i have 4 physical windows server 2008R2...........which i need to migrate to my HyperV cluster (windows 2012 data center)

so can u plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz give me any web link to do so.......

step by step conifg link............

what kind of tools i should use to do so .............

what are microsoft best practices ????????????/

how to convert Physical to Virtual and also Virtual to Virtual ???????????

thnx..........waiting for ur help ...........

istiaq

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Migrating 200 Gb VM to new host with 800Gb available on target volume. "Not enough disk space on the available volumes" No hosts available for placement.

October 30, 2013, 10:54 am

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I am trying to migrate a VM with 200Gb of fixed disks to a different host with 800Gb available on it's VM storage volume. When I try to select the new host as a destination, the following pops up.

"There is not enough disk space on the available volumes.
Maximum disk space on the most appropriate volume, accounting for the host resource utilization (in megabytes): 109118
The virtual machine requirement (in megabytes): 204801
The maximum available space at the time of evaluation, after considering the virtual machine requirements (in megabytes): 138650 "

This reflects the space available on the local drive of the host, but not the SAN volume that is a 1Tb volume with one VM hosted on it.

In the properties of the host, under storage I can see the 1Tb volume, and under placement, the 1Tb volume is the only volume listed. Anyone have any Idea how I can get SCVMM 2012 to see the actual target volume ?

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V2V a VMware VM with more than 3 harddisks

October 31, 2013, 3:18 am

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I'm V2V'ing a VM from VMware which has got 5 hard disks, all of them below 50 GB.

The V2V process completes without errors, all disks are created as VHDs, but since all disks are created as IDE disks, I can only see the first 3 in Hardware Conf. The problem is that when I create a SCSI adapter I get an error saying the VHD is already in use by another VirtualHardDisk. It seems the VHD is somehow attached to the VM, but doesn't show in Hardware Config.

Anyone seen this and got a solution for it? I guess I could delete the VM without deleting the VHDs and then recreate it, but that shouldn't be necessary.

I'm running SCVMM 2012 R2, but the same thing happened when I was running SCVMM 2012.

Best Regards

Lars

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Error 658 going into P2V

November 4, 2013, 8:40 am

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Hello.

I'm trying to P2V a server into Hyper-V, using SCVMM 2008 R2.

The target server is a Dell PowerEdge R710, running Windows Server 2008 R2.

I walk through the P2V wizard. On the last page, where it does its final pre-conversion check, I get the following:

=== Begin Quote ===

Error (658):
The bus location for the object [servername] at (IDE, 0, 255) is not valid.

Recommended Action:
Ensure the bus location values are valid, and then try the operation again.

==== End Quote ====

The behaviour is the same whether I select online or offline conversion.

I can't edit the P2V script, as the wizard isn't getting far enough to generate one.

I've seen threads about similar issues on Technet, but all with slightly different situations - and no solutions.

Does anyone have any ideas?

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P2V ports

November 5, 2013, 11:26 am

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What are the exact requirements for P2V with 2012 SP1?

I need to migrate some virtual machines to hyper-v 2012. I can't use V2V because SCVMM 2012 SP1 doesn't support Xenserver 6.2. So I thought I could try P2V.

Here is what I have:

Multiple VLANS
Each VLAN will either won't be on a domain or will be on a different domain from the Hyper-V / SCVMM setup
I can enable routing/communication between the VLANs

Here is what I have tried:

VLAN 1 = SCVMM & Hyper-V (Management VLAN)
VLAN 10 = VM I tried to migrate
SCVMM IP is 10.10.0.199
HYPERV01 IP is 10.10.0.201
VM IP is 10.1.10.55
I am migrating it to HYPERV01.mgmt.local and the VM I am migrating is COMPUTER1.cloud.local domain.
COMPUTER1 can communicate with HYPERV01 (resolve DNS too.. put in hosts file)
HYPERV01 can communciate with COMPUTER1 (doesn't resolve DNS... does it need to?)

Error I get:

VMM is unable to complete the requested file transfer. The connection to the HTTP server HYPERV01.mgmt.local could not be established. Unknown Error (0x80072ee2)

Ensure that the HTTP service and/or the agent on the machine HYPERV01.mgmt.local are installed and running and that a firewall is not blocking HTTP/HTTPS traffic on the configured port.

Problem is I don't see anything listening on port 80 for HYPERV01.mgmt.local

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P2V over WAN

November 6, 2013, 9:34 am

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We are looking to P2V some physical servers at a datacenter. The physical servers are in the same LAN as the Hyper-V cluster they will be migrated to. However, the SCVMM server that manages the Hyper-V cluster is across a 10Mb WAN connection. It looks like from this article...

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd221390.aspx

...like the bulk of the communication is directly between the source and the destination host (hyper-v cluster in this case). However, I've seen a couple of posts here that indicated that the disks are copied to the SCVMM server, which would mean a much longer timeframe for the P2V to run.

Can someone help to clear this up?

Thank you,

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