Permissions required in Vcenter

[pikasean]

I need the specific permissions required in VMWare when migrating form VMware ESX to Azure. I am currently getting an error "Insufficient permissions in the host operating system."

[yaroslav (staff)]

Hi,

Check this document out https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ ... -agentless.

[pikasean]

Thank you. I have looked at that route. other hurdles there as well. This tool looks like it should work I just need to know permission required in VMWare to let the VM Admins know so they can accommodate me.

[yaroslav (staff)]

Hi,

That document discusses permissions needed on the VMware side.

[pikasean]

The document states read only access is required. I have elevated rights beyond read yet I still get an error at the step it says opening image file. So I think the software requires something more than read access. I can browse the files in vcenter and see then no issues.

[pikasean]

If this helps any this is in the log.
???ERROR: ESXVmdk::ParseFile: m_VixDiskLib_Open is fail - 3014, Insufficient permissions in the host operating system
???ERROR: ESXIDisk::CreateInputImage: ParseFile is fail

[yaroslav (staff)]

Hi,

The converter itself has no permissions to open file. Try logging as root.