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Hello,

I am attempting to migrate a few Guests from our VMWare Server to an ESX 3.1 server using VMWare Converter. I cannot get the Converter to connect to the VMWare Server though. It gives me the following error message:

"Unable to verify remote hosts's SSL certificate.

The host certificate chain is not complete or the host name used for the connection does not match certificate."

I have tried connecting with the FQDN and IP address for the server to several different ports with no success. Can anyone shed some light on this error for me?

Thanks!

Are you running VirtualCenter at all? If so can you try selecting that as your destination then picking the ESX server. Can you webaccess into the ESX server without problem? Converter 3.0.1 now uses port 443, you might also try using Converter 3.0.0 which does not use the web port it uses 902 instead. Otherwise you can try re-generating the SSL cert for the ESX server using the process below, if you restart mgmt-vmware and have auto vm startups enable there is a bug that will shutdown your VM's. This is only on ESX 3.0.1 and is fixed with the 5/15 patches.

3.0.1 mgmt-vmware/auto startup bug fix - http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-7557441-patch.html

1. Change directories to /etc/vmware/ssl

2. Create backups of any existing certificates by executing the

following commands:

mv rui.crt orig.rui.crt

mv rui.key orig.rui.key

3. Enter the following command to restart the vmware-hostd

process: service mgmt-vmware restart

4. Confirm that the ESX Server host generated new certificates by

executing the following command comparing the time stamps of

the new certificate files with orig.rui.crt and orig.rui.key:

ls -lha.

Thanks for the information. I will try Converter 3.0.0

The problem isn't with our ESX server, I can connect to the ESX server just fine. The problem is with our VMWare Server. Unfortunately, we are not using VirtualCenter as of yet.

VMWare Converter 3.0.0 cannot connect to the server either...

Sorry misunderstood your post. Converter cannot connect to VMware Server like it does ESX. You need to install Converter directly on the VM you want to convert or install Converter on the VMware server and select the VM's vmdk file as your source. I actually have both methods documented on my website.

http://www.vmware-land.com/Vmware_Tips.html#VM1

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Thanks, Eric

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Ahh, I see. That makes sense. It would be nice if they incorporated the same functionality for VMWare Server into the converter. I appreciate your help!