Azure to on premise V2V issue
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2020 10:18 am
Hello,
I've been asked to look at moving a few VMs in Azure back to our on premise VMware estate. I've tried VMware's converter, but that gives me an I/O error as soon as I try to convert a VM. So I thought I'd try StarWinds V2V which get's much further.
I've installed it on a server in our VMware estate and managed to get it connected to Azure where I can see my test VM with 2 partitions. I select the VM and it start to convert and it gets to 99% and I get the error:
"You have requested access to an area of the virtual disk that is out of bound"
Anyway I go to vCenter and the VM boots up fine to the desktop but the additional partition is not there and if I go to Disk Manager it sees the partition but wants to format it as if it's a new drive.
I then decided to build a new test VM in Azure with just the C drive and I converted that and once again it gets the same error at 99% but still boots up find in VMware so I don't think it's an error to worry about.
I need to somehow get the additional partitions over successfully, please advise.
Reddit post and screenshots here https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comme ... v2v_using/
Thanks
I've been asked to look at moving a few VMs in Azure back to our on premise VMware estate. I've tried VMware's converter, but that gives me an I/O error as soon as I try to convert a VM. So I thought I'd try StarWinds V2V which get's much further.
I've installed it on a server in our VMware estate and managed to get it connected to Azure where I can see my test VM with 2 partitions. I select the VM and it start to convert and it gets to 99% and I get the error:
"You have requested access to an area of the virtual disk that is out of bound"
Anyway I go to vCenter and the VM boots up fine to the desktop but the additional partition is not there and if I go to Disk Manager it sees the partition but wants to format it as if it's a new drive.
I then decided to build a new test VM in Azure with just the C drive and I converted that and once again it gets the same error at 99% but still boots up find in VMware so I don't think it's an error to worry about.
I need to somehow get the additional partitions over successfully, please advise.
Reddit post and screenshots here https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comme ... v2v_using/
Thanks