ASR Deployment Planner - Hyper-v

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ASR Deployment Planner - Hyper-v

Nicola D'Effremo 55

when i run the command .\ASRDeploymentPlanner.exe -Operation StartProfiling with VMlist

Example: VMList.txt contains the following VMs:

Host_1\VM_A
10.8.59.27\VM_B
Host_2\VM_C

I have this error:

10/10/2024 17:57:11:Performing prerequisite checks...

10/10/2024 17:57:11:The special character: \ is invalid in a VM:thinkpad-17\acronis. Remove the special characters from VMName list.

10/10/2024 17:57:11:The special character: \ is invalid in a VM:thinkpad-17\eset2. Remove the special characters from VMName list.

Can anyone give me a solution? I used the delimiter as indicated.

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Answer 1

hossein jalilian 13,120 Volunteer Moderator

Thanks for posting your question in the Microsoft Q&A forum.

Instead of using the Host\VM format, use a comma-separated format with the host name and VM name on the same line. For example:

Host_1,VM_A
10.8.59.27,VM_B
Host_2,VM_C

If you need to keep the current format, try escaping the backslashes by using double backslashes. For example:

Host_1\\VM_A
10.8.59.27\\VM_B
Host_2\\VM_C

Please don't forget to close up the thread here by upvoting and accept it as an answer if it is helpful

Nicola D'Effremo 55 Reputation points

2024-10-11T07:21:12.0933333+00:00

Hi, thank for the support.

The comma partially solved the problem, the vm disks are not found.

VMLIST: thinkpad-17,acronis, thinkpad-17,eset2, thinkpad-17,vm,

10/11/2024 09:17:09:Performing prerequisite checks...

10/11/2024 09:17:09:Finding all clustered nodes

10/11/2024 09:17:09:Saved Physical Disk Volume Details to C:\Users\ndeffremo\Downloads\ASRDeploymentPlanner-v3.0\ProfiledData\PhysicalVolumeDetail.xml)

10/11/2024 09:17:09:Successfully Got HostList for all Clusters

10/11/2024 09:17:09:Finding VMs along with their VHDs....

10/11/2024 09:17:09:Exiting Method FillMapOfVMToVhd()

10/11/2024 09:17:09:Finding VHDs that dont need to be profiled

10/11/2024 09:17:09:Prerequisite checks completed.

10/11/2024 09:17:09:

Total number of profiling virtual machines: 0.

10/11/2024 09:17:09:Exiting.

10/11/2024 09:17:09:

2024-10-11T09:17:09.2180834+02:00 Info: Trace Session Ended
Nicola D'Effremo 55 Reputation points

2024-10-11T07:22:33.2+00:00

Where could the problem be?
SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 49,441 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2024-10-11T17:27:47.4433333+00:00

@Nicola D'Effremo Check the disk details C:\Users\ndeffremo\Downloads\ASRDeploymentPlanner-v3.0\ProfiledData\PhysicalVolumeDetail.xml). Could it be that the host is clustered and the server from where you are running ASR deployment planner might not have the disk ownership. This could be the reason for disks not being detected. You could run the command on the node which has the disk ownership in the cluster.

Hope this helps!
Nicola D'Effremo 55 Reputation points

2024-10-17T08:27:52.4066667+00:00

Hi,

this file PhysicalVolumeDetail.xml is empty.

What do you mean by "having ownership of the disk"?

I ran the tool, on the same server there are VMs.

Thanks and regards

Nicola
SadiqhAhmed-MSFT 49,441 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2024-10-17T08:37:40.7666667+00:00

@Nicola D'Effremo We can take this offline. Refer to the instructions from the private message for further discussion.
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AndrzejP 6 Reputation points

2024-12-18T16:24:30.59+00:00

Hi, did you ever got this resolved?

I've got the same issue where "", "\" and "," are not working.
Nicola D'Effremo 55 Reputation points

2024-12-19T08:33:05.75+00:00

Hi,

do not use the ASRDeploymentPlanner-v3.0 tool, but the previous version 2.52
Ramon Tettero 0 Reputation points

2025-04-18T13:50:20.6666667+00:00

Both solutions are NOT working for me with version 3.2
The solution to fallback to version 2.52 is working correctly.

Answer 2

Nicola D'Effremo 55

Hi,

do not use the ASRDeploymentPlanner-v3.0 tool, but the previous version 2.52

AndrzejP 6 Reputation points

2024-12-19T10:40:13.1266667+00:00

Thank you, the previous version works :)
Martha Bloomfield 0 Reputation points

2025-03-11T13:01:48.57+00:00

Where can I find the previous version? I'm running into exactly the same issue, both with csv and txt versions
Nicola D'Effremo 55 Reputation points

2025-03-11T13:21:31.4133333+00:00

Hi,

now there is version 3.2

https://download.microsoft.com/download/7491a137-315d-40ca-9307-f74f913f7e6a/ASRDeploymentPlanner-v3.2.zip

Verify please.

Regards
Martha Bloomfield 0 Reputation points

2025-03-11T13:37:23.1033333+00:00

That's the version I've been trying with, no luck :(
Martha Bloomfield 0 Reputation points

2025-03-11T13:37:44.6133333+00:00

That's the version I've been trying with, no luck :(
Alessio P 81 Reputation points

2025-03-14T09:11:39.1366667+00:00

Has anybody found a solution? 3.0 and 3.2 have the same problem with \ in VMListFile (even if created by itself!)
James 5 Reputation points

2025-09-30T00:03:36.3833333+00:00

Thank you for this! It took a bit of sleuthing to find a copy of the 2.52 version (thank you internet archive!), but it appears to be working fine. No changes in syntax or anything needed, just running the same command referencing the same txt files with the older version, everything "just works".

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Dowell, Keith 5

I am also having this issue with no luck.

Dowell, Keith 5 Reputation points

2025-08-23T14:08:43.41+00:00

I notice you have a '-' in your hyperv name....I have the same. I wonder if the '-' is the true propagator of this issue.

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