P2V using SIM5.0

[Chris Li]

Hi all,

I am facing a big trouble when I use the SIM 5.0 and VMM to do P2V from my old proliant DL380 G1 to VM on Windows 2003 R2 + MS Virtual Server @ DL385

I have confirmed that I have installed the agent and all the related softwares. When I click P2V on the SIM and select the source system, it keeps showing the following

Valid hosts are not avaliable

Any Clue ?

[MC1903 · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris,

We faced this same issue today (on a HP SIM/RDP/VMM/SMP partner training course)... We eventually got it working after a few hours of 'hair pulling'...

Firstly, I assume the target server (DL380 G1) & the virtual server host (W2K3 R2 Virtual Server) are recognised properly by SIM.

If so, here are a few things to look for/try:


Can you ping the target & virtual server host by name from the SIM server?

Is the MS iSCSI initiator installed on the SIM server and did you reboot the SIM server after it installed?

Is OpenSSH installed & working between the SIM server and the target & the virtual server host - Test with Tools | Command Line Tools | Windows | Dir

Did you deploy a VMM license to the virtual server host?

Did you deploy the VMM Windows agent to the virtual server host and did you reboot the virtual server host server after it installed?

Did you deploy a SMP license to the target server?

Did you deploy the SMP agent to the target server - no need to reboot?

Try un-registering and then re-registering the VMM agent - the option is on either the Deploy or Configure menu.

Try restarting the VMM agent - again the option is on either the Deploy or Configure menu.



Good luck...

Martin

[NEETI TOLIA]

Hi,

Looks like your target host with Windows 2003 R2 + MS Virtual Server @ DL385 is not licensed properly. Do you see a green tick against this host in your all systems page in SIM? When you click the server name from all system page and go to "system page" for the host, are all information and VMM status showing up fine?

If you are sure you had licensed the server and deployed the agent, try following steps

a. Go to manage license keys, click on VMM license and see the host listed has your host and that seats consumed number is non 0.

B. IF you find step 1 is through then try identifing your system through the SIM menu item "identify system" and make sure you have the VM column marked green against your host.

Incase you are not able to get this work, chances are that your global settings are not set appropriately, check the same up. If you still have issues post the hpvmmsvc files.

Neeti

[Chris Li]

Hi all,

It was finally found that the left-out cygwin remained blocks the SSH from installing and hence causing the mess ... I have successfully done a P2V migration!

Thanks for all the help.

[ALCS]

Hi,

I am having a problem with P2V migration
I am getting "Driver Injection to boot VM failure", did you face this problem ??

I am trying to migrate a Win2k3 machine
SIM is v5.0SP5 (VMM2.202)
iSCSI initator v2.02
SMP was installed on the source
SSH already installed on the ESX

I appreciate any hint (I noticed very few effort about P2V on the forum)

Thanks
Farid

[Pedro Costa Magalhaes]

Could you please send the smpMigration*.log file of the P2V migration?