vCenter Converter Task FAILED $Reconfig$

By Tom, on January 7th, 2011

Recently I was running a P2V conversion of a Server 2003 file server. It had approximately 200GB in Hard Drives, so the conversion took a considerable amout of time. (25 hours and 46 minutes to be exact)

Finally at 95% it stopped with:

Error: An error occurred during reconfiguration

FAILED: Unable to create ‘\\.\vstor2-mntapi10-shared-69066906007E00000000000007000000\$Reconfig$’.

I was a little nervous that I would have to run the conversion again, but decided to try to boot the Virtual Machine to see if it would just work anyways. Since it was at 95% I was sure that all the data had been converted.

When I started the VM I got a BSOD with a stop error 7B, meaning that the storage controller driver had not been installed during the conversion.

I then decided to run the Configure Machine task in vCenter Converter. It took 13 minutes and Completed Successfully!

I was then able to boot up the VM with no problem.

Note: the original host was an HP DL385 server, so after installation of VMTools I mounted Kendrik Colemans VM Advanced ISO and ran the P2V cleanup tools.

I haven’t had any issues with the server since.

VMware   BSOD, Converter, ESXi, Server 2003, vmware, vSphere  

12 comments to vCenter Converter Task FAILED $Reconfig$

• Nate

  February 9, 2011 at 9:53 am · Reply

  You are a life saver!
  Just wanted you to know how much this helped me.
  Cheers!

  • Bhasker.V

    November 21, 2011 at 8:20 am · Reply

    Thanks a lot Sir,

    I saved 10 hrs, this tick is supper. with in 2 min.. my VM is ready..

• Ed

  June 2, 2011 at 3:09 pm · Reply

  Thank you soo much you save my life!!!1

• Emilio

  June 15, 2011 at 10:34 pm · Reply

  Thk’s I habe the same problem, and work fine.

• JamesVanderbeek

  July 20, 2011 at 3:43 pm · Reply

  This article needs more love. I could not figure out what the heck the problem was and ran the conversion multiple times until I found your solution. Thank thank you!

• me too

  August 6, 2011 at 4:09 am · Reply

  THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! This saved us tons of time and headaches. It took about 10 minutes, but during that time it looked like it wasn’t doing anything, then… Successful.

• VenoushCZ

  September 1, 2011 at 9:38 pm · Reply

  Thank you! You saved me a lot of trouble!

• Befuzzled

  September 17, 2011 at 8:54 am · Reply

  I used this post to lead me where I needed to go! Turns out the server I was converting needed some sysprep files it didn’t have. I finally found the correct VMWare page that lists all the fancy details on how to fix this if the server couldn’t be configured. Here is the link: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1005593

  Thank you so much for this article.

• The J

  November 12, 2011 at 3:33 am · Reply

  Thanks you save my life, the server boot up and I have the same HP DL !!

  Nice Post!

• OGO

  February 29, 2012 at 11:53 am · Reply

  Is a simple solution that saves a lot of minute. thank you

• God

  March 20, 2012 at 6:23 pm · Reply

  You are God like!

• A.Saleem

  May 5, 2012 at 1:57 pm · Reply

  Thanks man