This post is going to share you with the issue faced when i performed the P2V migration of Windows 2008 Server using VMware Converter Standalone version 4.3. When i initiated the P2V migration of the Windows 2008 Server using VMware Convereter 4.3 version, it was going fine with step by step wizard through the Conversion process but when i am submitting the conversion task. I am getting the below error:
A General System Error Occur: Invalid Fault
I found the below error messages from VMware Converter Worker log (vmware-converter-worker.log)located in (C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone\logs)
CreateVm task failed: The device or operation specified at index ‘6’ is not supported for the current virtual machine version ‘vmx-04’.
[#11] A minimum version of ‘vmx-07’ is required for this operation to succeed.
[#11] TargetVmManagerImpl::CreateVM: Vm creation failed with fault vim.fault.DeviceUnsupportedForVmVersion
After analyzing the above error, I noticed that I have selected the VM version as 7. and also my destination ESXi hosts is version 5.0. So understood from the Web search that It is recommended to use VMware Converter version 5 when converting to ESXi 5. So, I installed VMware Converter standalone version 5.0 to start converting the same windows 2008 server and selected VM version as 8. It was completed successfully without any issues.
So I will recommend to use VMware Converter standalone version 5.0 when converting to ESXi 5 hosts. I believe this is informative for you. Thanks for Reading !!!!