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by aknash-cae
Tue May 12, 2020 5:43 am
Forum: StarWind V2V Converter, P2V Migrator
Topic: Unable to create ESXi VMDK from RHEL7 disk
Replies: 8
Views: 4616

Re: Unable to create ESXi VMDK from RHEL7 disk

Hi, I had discussion with R&D team recently. 1. What is RHEL7 file system (i.e., XFS or Ext3)? 2. The thing is that Windows cannot work with XFS (even Windows 10) natively. Sure, you can do some customization to make it work. 3. You are working with the disk not with the file system in this par...
by aknash-cae
Tue May 12, 2020 5:42 am
Forum: StarWind V2V Converter, P2V Migrator
Topic: Unable to create ESXi VMDK from RHEL7 disk
Replies: 8
Views: 4616

Re: Unable to create ESXi VMDK from RHEL7 disk

Greetings, We did not test StarWind V2V Converter to work with Windows 7. Learn more about P2V conversion at https://www.starwindsoftware.com/v2v-help/PhysicalDisksandP2VScenario.html Please make sure to follow this guide https://www.starwindsoftware.com/v2v-help/ConvertphysicaldisktoVMDK.html Plea...
by aknash-cae
Thu May 07, 2020 1:04 pm
Forum: StarWind V2V Converter, P2V Migrator
Topic: Unable to create ESXi VMDK from RHEL7 disk
Replies: 8
Views: 4616

Re: Unable to create ESXi VMDK from RHEL7 disk

Thanks for your response. No, the disk wasn't in use when I attempted the conversion. It's a 512GB SSD containing an installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux v7 that I simply connected to a spare SATA port on my Windows 7 workstation. Here is the complete log: The log file name: 'logs\V2V_Log-202005...
by aknash-cae
Tue May 05, 2020 8:55 pm
Forum: StarWind V2V Converter, P2V Migrator
Topic: Unable to create ESXi VMDK from RHEL7 disk
Replies: 8
Views: 4616

Unable to create ESXi VMDK from RHEL7 disk

Hello, and thank you for this very useful tool! I have used it successfully to create Windows VMs using backup disks. However, I haven't had any luck creating ESXi VMDK files from RHEL7 system backup disks. I always get this error (last two lines from the attached log file): 5/4 20:07:35.534 1bc4 Fa...