Enabling Disks to Be Brought Online as Part of a Conversion

For Windows VMs, to enable disks to be brought online as part of a conversion, enable SAN policy for the source VM.

Before You Begin

Procedure

  1. Open a command line or PowerShell session locally on the VM.

  2. Open the disk partition tool using the following command:

     C:> diskpart
  3. Verify that the SAN policy is set to Offline Shared:

    DISKPART> SAN
    SAN Policy : Offline Shared
  4. Change the policy to OnlineAll:

    DISKPART> SAN POLICY=OnlineAll

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