Convert ESX to HV failed

[audi911]

Hello,
I'm trying to convert my VMWare Server 2016 server to HV and it keeps failing. I'm at a bit of a loss I don't really understand why I've done this many times.
From the HV machine I run the converter and vCenter starts it's snapshot. The snapshot goes to 66% and then jumps to 100% and errors with a failed to quiesce the virtual machine.
I'm thinking to myself (it's never happened before) that the virtual machine but I cannot shut off the VM. So I'm thinking that I am going to copy the contents of the virtual machine and try to convert them to vhdx when they are offline but no matter what I do whether it's from winscp / datastore browser from vCenter or from the host I cannot copy the vmdk.flat file. Every file copies correctly except for the flats and the flats are the actual hard disk files as far as I can tell they are huge.

Can anyone help me out I don't really know what to do, how can I convert a live VM to HV without it erroring out?

Thanks!

[yaroslav (staff)]

While converting, was the VM shut down? Can I have the conversion logs, please?

[audi911]

Hello!
Thanks for the reply.
The current server is running under a VMWare environment and we are moving towards a Hyper-V environment. We want to simply convert the ESX machine to a Hyper-V machine so we can make the upgrades accordingly when we are ready.
Unfortunately, every time we try to convert it it fails.

The log posts the following as errors

12/12 2:13:24.202 9c0 Facility ???WARNING: WrapperESXI::disconnect: m_proxy->Logout fail - 12
12/12 2:13:24.202 9c0 Facility ???ERROR: getErrorFromSOAP: soap_sprint_fault - SOAP 1.1 fault "":ServerFaultCode [no subcode]

I am unsure this is an issue of the VM being open because I have already converted VMs in their running state I'm unsure what the issue is here.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[yaroslav (staff)]

Try shutting down the VM and converting the disk.
You can also copy the VM disk to the Hyper-V server (i.e., destination) and convert it as a local file.

[audi911]

I'm trying to do exactly that. I cannot copy the file it fails no matter what I do. The VMDK-flat file (the gigantic file) always fails. No matter what I do no matter what tool I use fails
Every other file works except for the flat files

[yaroslav (staff)]

Hi,

File copy failing quite does not seem to be related to StarWind's software. May I have the error it fails with?

[audi911]

Sure I can report the error shortly. But starwind software fails during conversion because it takes a snapshot and then for whatever reason the error is "failed to quiesce the virtual machine"

[yaroslav (staff)]

Greetings,

Could you do conversion of the VHDX locally? If the file copying itself fails. the same thing might be not letting conversion happen.