{"id":283,"date":"2008-06-29T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2008-06-29T00:03:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T22:03:26","slug":"vmware-scvmm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Vmware > SCVMM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I have been playing in the sandpit with Hyper-V (build 6.0.6001.18016), System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (beta), Vmware and Windows Server 2008. I had a lot of issues first (for example I often lost the connection to the server\u00c2\u00a0from the console)\u00c2\u00a0but after I applied SCVMM2008_Beta_ServerUpdate.msp the console started to work much better.<\/p>\n<p>After moved one of my Vmware machines into the SCVMM library I started to converted it. The virtual-to-virtual conversion wizard was successfully but there was a couple of warnings saying that &#8220;Boot or system volume on the virtual machine is not found&#8221;. The virtual machine started but did not find a harddisk to boot from.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.contoso.se\/files\/scvmm_os_issue.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think the problem was the Vmware virtual machine disc\u00c2\u00a0configuration. After I changed it and re-imported the machine in SCVMM library the virtual-to-virtual conversion was successfully without any warnings. I recommend you to uninstall Vmware tools before you convert the machine as you cant uninstall it without the &#8220;vmware tools.msi&#8221; file, that is easy accessible on your Vmware host, it works much better uninstalling it on the Vmware host in general.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.contoso.se\/files\/scvmm_complete.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In my sandpit a virtual-to-virtual conversion for a 19GB large machine took 11 minutes. next step will be to get everything monitored by Operations Manager 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I have been playing in the sandpit with Hyper-V (build 6.0.6001.18016), System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (beta), Vmware and Windows Server 2008. I had a lot of issues first (for example I often lost the connection to the server\u00c2\u00a0from the console)\u00c2\u00a0but after I applied SCVMM2008_Beta_ServerUpdate.msp the console started to work much better. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/?p=283\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contoso.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}