PlateSpin Migrate stalls at stage 3.1.1 Creating virtual machine on ESX server (running 1% complete)
November 3, 2010 1 Comment
While performing a P2V job using PlateSpin Migrate, the conversion job hangs / stalls at stage 3.1.1 Creating virtual machine on ESX server (running 1% complete).
This could be caused by:
-the ESX hosts on which the target VM is hosted is a running the free ESXi edition. The API’s which are used by Platespin to create a virtual machine are not available on the free edition. The evaluation version will work and all licensed editions will obviously work as well.
-the VMware datastore is not able to store the VMDK of the target VM. If the datastore has a blocksize of 1MB, a VMDK or other file can be 256GB in size max. If a partition on the source server is larger, it will not work.
In my case, both were okay. So I deleted PlateSpin Migrate server and client, deleted the SQL Express database, deleted IIS role , deleted the Program Files folders or Platespin and SQL and rebooted.
After reboot, I disabled User Access Control and reinstalled PlateSpin. After that, the issue was gone!
It might be caused bu UAC being enabled! Platespin advises to disable UAC.
About Marcel van den Berg
I had the same issue, stuck at 3.1.1, the fix was just to run the change option to all the .net software in add/remove programs