While reading some documents from Anne Jan and Erik about migrations of physical machines by means of P2V I noticed there was information about the ports that are being used for this migration:
- Physical machine to the converter server port 443
- Converter server to physical machine ports 445 and 139
- Converter server to vCenter server port 443
- Converter client to converter server port 443
- HTTP port 80
- SOAP port 9085
- Web port 9086
The information I was missing though was about the services that are beeing used when migrating a Windows physical machine:
- Workstation service
- Server service
- TCP/IP Netbios helper
- VMware Converter service (which will become available on the physical machine when the converter client is pushed)
- Volume Shadow Copy service (Windows XP, Windows 2003 server)
Most of the times these services are running. But when having problems with a P2V migration be sure to check out these services.
On a personal note: I’m happy I could help them to create even better documents ;)