Unable to view all the disk partition of a Linux VM while doing a P2V conversion

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

• We are able to see only the OS disk partition while converting the Linux VM 

  converter-worker.log

  YYYY-MM-DDT20:44:29.129+05:30 info vmware-converter-worker[84384] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Converter::Util::SysCommandWrapper::LogResult: Command stdout:
--> [YYYY-MM-DD 20:44:28,598591 INFO storage ]:  Probing for disks using parted
--> [YYYY-MM-DD 20:44:28,598681 INFO storage ]:  Parted returned device with path: /dev/sda, type: 1
--> [YYYY-MM-DD 20:44:28,598782 INFO storage ]:  Parted successfully probed device with path: /dev/sda, type: 1, disk type: msdos      --------------> We are able to fetch the OS disk details
--> [YYYY-MM-DD 20:44:28,598801 INFO storage.disk ]:  Creating SCSI disk with path: /dev/sda
--> [YYYY-MM-DD 20:44:28,598837 INFO storage.disk ]:  /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/proc_name is 'virtio_scsi'
--> [YYYY-MM-DD 20:44:28,599624 INFO storage ]:  Parted returned device with path: /dev/sdb, type: 1
--> [YYYY-MM-DD 20:44:28,600562 ERROR storage ]:  Parted failed to probe device with path: /dev/sdb, type: 1
--> [YYYY-MM-DD 20:44:28,600582 INFO storage ]:  Parted returned device with path: /dev/sdc, type: 1
--> [YYYY-MM-DD 20:44:28,601396 ERROR storage ]:  Parted failed to probe device with path: /dev/sdc, type: 1
--> [YYYY-MM-DD 20:44:28,601412 INFO storage ]:  Parted returned device with path: /dev/sdd, type: 1
--> [YYYY-MM-DD 20:44:28,602132 ERROR storage ]:  Parted failed to probe device with path: /dev/sdd, type: 1
--> [YYYY-MM-DD 20:44:28,602149 INFO storage ]:  Parted returned device with path: /dev/sde, type: 1
--> [YYYY-MM-DD 20:44:28,602893 ERROR storage ]:  Parted failed to probe device with path: /dev/sde, type: 1
--> [YYYY-MM-DD 20:44:28,602909 INFO storage ]:  Parted returned device with path: /dev/sdf, type: 1
--> [YYYY-MM-DD 20:44:28,604200 ERROR storage ]:  Parted failed to probe device with path: /dev/sdf, type: 1
--> [YYYY-MM-DD 20:44:28,604226 INFO storage ]:  LVM2 executables found

Environment

VMware Converter 9.x

VMware Converter 6.6

Cause

We were able to see only sda disk on the Converter UI because only the sda disk contained a valid partition table, while the remaining disks (e.g., sdb,sdc,sdd,sde,sdf) were unpartitioned. Since unpartitioned disks lack identifiable volumes, they were not detected during the VM conversion

Resolution

Please engage the Linux vendor to further investigate and verify whether the disk partitioning has been performed correctly