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--- vmware:hbr_ctype [2012/11/27 03:41] – created naccad
+++ vmware:hbr_ctype [2012/11/27 03:52] (current) – naccad
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 ====== vSphere Replication fails with Unknown Controller Type ======
-This was published as a VMware Knowledge Base article #[[2030526]]http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2030526
+This was published as a VMware Knowledge Base article #2030526 [[http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2030526|here.]]
+In short, you will face this situation if you Virtual Machine configuration is really really old, in which case, the adapter type of the VMDK is set to LegacyESX.
+vSphere Replication simply does not recognize that adapter type, and we need to change it by modifying the VMDK descriptor and change it to something modern like "lsilogic".
+I wrote a little script to go through all the VMDKs available and find out if any of them have that adapter type, you can easily modify it to also do a search and replace instead of just search, but I will leave that as an exercise for the reader :)
+<file bash find_legacy.sh>
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+for i in `grep vmx /etc/vmware/hostd/vmInventory.xml |
+   sed -e 's/<vmxCfgPath>//g' |
+   sed -e 's/<\/vmxCfgPath>//g' |
+   sed -e 's/ \//g' cut -d '/' -f 1-5
+do
+  cd $i
+  grep vmdk *vmx | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | xargs grep legacyESX
+done
+</file>