We are currently testing a new vCenter environment with 6.5 Update 1 as well as hosts patched to 6.5 ESXi. These have been configured as new hosts without reference previously used host profiles. What has been done at this point, is configure some basic settings to make sure the environment is stable, however, we are encountering some errors when migrating VMs over to test.
- Hosts are licensed with Enterprise Plus 6.5
- Datastores are presented from PureStorage (2x 10tb datastores in a cluster)
- The DiskMaxIO attribute is set to 4096bytes (as recommended by Pure)
- Pure Storage Claim Rules are loaded for RoundRobin
- dvSwitch is used for 2 nics for management purpose. This holds vMotion and ESXi Management and only hosts use this
- A second dvSwitch is used for 2 nics to use for Virtual Machines. This has a single VLAN on it right now and VMs use this as their network interface
If I create a new VM and install Windows 2012, it boots and loads the OS then can properly boot to Windows without an issue. This seems to work perfect and can vMotion between hosts without any connectivity loss. This helped confirm that everything appears to be configured correctly.
However, I would like to Migrate our templates for our Windows builds that work perfect and work great in two separate locations. The following is done to migrate:
- Convert Template to VM
- Export to OVA/OVF (tried both single file and also multiple files that are loaded at the import process)
- Import and select the new network interface
- VM boots up but attempts to boot from the VMXNET3 first even with other boot options in the priority as if it cannot find the disk. The VMDK is visible on edit settings.
I attempted to upgrade the virtual hardware but that did not make any difference. Any idea what else could cause this? I tried checking the .vmx config file but nothing looked out of place. Also, we can take this same VM and move it to our other production vCenter environment in another location and it loads fine. Our production vCenter environments are all 6.0 vCenter with 6.0 hosts.
Any ideas? Thanks!