Hey Alek,
So this approach is definitely not working. What software/tool are you using for your scheduled VM backups? Another approach you can take is take a full VM backup using VEEAM or Symantec Net Bacup or Acronis.
Once the backup (block level) has been taken, you can use that backed up image as the source for VMware Converter and convert the backed up image to a working virtual machine on the ESX environment.
Converter supports the following platforms
Third-party backup images and virtual machines
- Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 and Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
- Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2
- Hyper-V Server virtual machines that run Windows guest operating systems
- Hyper-V Server virtual machines that run Linux guest operating systems
- Acronis True Image Echo 9.1, 9.5, and Acronis True Image 10.0, 11.0 (Home product)
- Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (formerly LiveState Recovery) 6.5, 7.0, 8.0 and 8.5, LiveState Recovery 3.0 and 6.0 (only .sv2i files)
- Norton Ghost version 10.0, 11.0, 12.0, 13.0, and 14.0 (only .sv2i files)
- Parallels Desktop 2.5, 3.0, and 4.0
- StorageCraft ShadowProtect 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2
The other way you can try is converting the VM to hyper V image using Microsoft Converter (vmm) and using that as the source for conversion
Regards
a