Thanks for your KB. I am consider about to suggest my customer to purchase VI Enterprise. But first i have to prove him that the whole story is runing. So I have to use the free stuff. I read a couple of threads about the bad throughput of the datastore. Closely it seems as there is still some problem with free VI. I wonder it is slowed down by purpose and i'ld understand that for the free edition. May someone commit that? Do I get better throughput when i purchase the whole story?

I still have another problem. For deploying the ESXi we had to save the original old messy windows system which we take over by our forrunner. To achieve that, we converted the original system to a VMWare image and run it temporarly at a GSX2 on secondary temporarly Hardware. Now when the ESXi is setup and the new systems are installed. The old one should go back to the ESXi, temporarly, up to when the new systems are fully setup. For that i started a conversion with vmware-vdiskmanager from the GSX2 on Friday (GMT+1). Still, the conversion is working to 76%, the storage size is something about 580GB. Now, I am concerned about getting ready while copying the whole disk over the network (bad throughput). Coz, on monday at 8:00 am the old system have to run properly and the customer like to work again (20 clients) then. Is there a chance to copy the file directly? I mean i think about to connect the harddrive to one of the internal controllers and copy the vmdk directly. Is ESXi able to read the NTFS filesystem? Or might it be able while copy it manualy with booting another instand Linux system? What Linux system has VMFS support?

Thank you for your suggestions.

Mirko