I tried converting this server 8 times so far.
The first 5 times I did not have sysprep on my C drive (I thought I needed it on the server)
This is a production server, so I don't want to mess it up. It is the secondary server of a Citrix Metaframe farm (2 of 2), and the hard drive is M, not C.
I am guessing the problem seems to be the RAID controller. It is RAID 5 on a Compaq Smart Array 5i. It reads the disk 0 as SCSI (Port:2; Target ID: 4, LUN:0). The disk is 16.95 GB, with a 36 MB FAT (EISA Configuration), then a M drive NTFS of 11.6GB, and 5.32 GB unallocated.
The machine is an old Compaq ProLiant DL380 G2. Which should be a great test machine since it will not use a lot of resources on the vmware server (powerEdge 2950)
The sysprep is version 1.1.
If I do the import without running "Reconfigure destination virtual machine" (sysprep) at the end, it ends the convertionsuccesfully, but of course it fails to boot.
The 97% convertion also fails to boot as well, with error 0x0000007b Inaccessible_boot_device. When I searched this error it seemed that it can be because of the controller drivers, and I tried both, the buslogic and LSI logic with no success.
I am using ESXi version 4.0
I did not change the settings on the Data to copy.
This is my first conversion, and it is not looking good. I would really like to convert this server since I have 3 with the same hardware, so i am expecting this problem to pop up with the other 2 as well.