converter unable to obtain hardware information

SO then I tried to create a new vm in the empty datastore, and use the old vm disk for it. When I try to create a new Administrator User Group, to try to add this / propagate this group to the vm, I receive the following error:Ĭall 'HostLocalAccountManager.CreateGroup' for object 'ha-localacctmgr' on ESXi '192.168.2.70' failed I have tried to re-propagate the admin permissions, but no difference after doing this either.

I have the vms split into resource pools, but obviously the admin root user has full access. When trying to copy and paste, via vsphere client, it attempts the task, then reports errors and halts, the error being unable to access vmdk. I have tried to create a new admin for the whole esxi but it makes no difference. One datastore is empty, and Ive been trying to move a VM from another datastore to this one, to free up the bigger disk for another new vm.īut it is impossible now for me to either copy the vm through the datastore browser, or to access the vms via vcenter converter standalone, to convert it and move it that way.įor the latter, it tells me it is unable to obtain hardware information.

None of the vms are interdependent nor do they share any files between them. Using vSphere Client 5.5 and vCenter Standalone COnverter 5.5.2 Build 1890136. It is a new setup of esxi 5.5 with 5 luns / 1 datastore per lun & vice versa. Which means 'what else is going on in the important software we use if windows is now thinking the hardware has changed THAT much?' The import process changes all the hardware and the change in hardware means reapplying the windows license keys. I COULD run the Stand Alone importer on the machines however I would rather use the offline images. Upon selecting 'View Source Details' and or 'next' I get that error: 'Unable to Obtain Hardware information for the selected machine' I have gone and selected the vmx file from the machine I wish to import I have gone into 'convert machine' and selected 'VMware Workstation or other VMware virtual machine' I have then run the VMWARE standalone converter (by right clicking on it and running as administrator) To do this I shut the machines down and copied the entire machine folder from the Linux server to a Windows 2008 R2 enterprise machine. I have a Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit) server and a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32-bit) server VMWARE virtual Machine image I am trying to migrate. I have followed the various suggestions on how to deal with this issue and am still Unable to import the machines.

When I try and use the Standalone converter to convert the VMware virtual machine to 5.1 I get the error 'Unable to Obtain Hardware information for the selected machine'. I am trying to migrate two VMware virtual machines from Linux VMware server 2.01 to a VMware infrastructure install running VMWare ESXi 5.1.0.

Converter unable to obtain hardware information