Guys
just P2Vd a machine.
the source is Windows Server 2008 R2
has 2 HDD. C = 67 GB, E=410GB
when i did the P2v i resized the disks so c = 60GB and e = 400 GB because there was a huge amount of wasted space on the servers and the LUN i was moving the VM to was limited to 500 GB of storage free.
the conversion took about 24 hours to complete. when it was finished i connected to vCenter, went to the newly created VM and clicked Edit Settings and switched off the network cards. the reason for this was that the Source is still live and i just wanted to test if the VM had actually workd fine.
when i tried to power on it reached 20% and then i got the following error (2013_01_03_11_11_58_Power_On_virtual_machine.png)
I've also attached a copy of all files in the datastore.
anyone any ideas where to start with this?