I just recently set up my ESXi server but am having a hard time migrating all of my desktop (VMware Fusion) images into my new server.
I've tried two approaches: VMware Converter and OVF Templates with mixed success in both.
For VMWare Converter, about half of the VMs I try to convert give me this error when I select the source image and click Next: "Unable to obtain hardware information for the selected machine".
I have not been able to find a commonality between the ones that work and the ones that don't. Some are Linux, some are Windows 7, Server 2008, etc.
For the ones that do not work with Converter I have tried to convert to OVF, however I see mixed results there too. Some work, but others when I click Deploy OVF in VSphere the process completes really quickly and I notice the vmdk is created in my datastore but 0 bytes. Therefore, when I try to start the VM it fails because it cannot find an operating system.
Does anyone have any better approaches or can help explain why I'm seeing this issue? VMWare Converter seems to be the way to go, I just can't get past that error on some of my machines!