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I export to a local datastore purely to speed up the whole process and it's only temp. orginally I mounted an nfs share using the VI client and exported to that - jesus was it slow!!! I tried loads of different settings in the nfs config but none increased the speed. And yes I meant 20mbps bits not bytes
This is the way I do my backups. Export locally, SCP that pulls the files off the server to a NFS mount on the serverthat is running the backup script. However 120GB is a large VM, only have one like it running on ESXi thankfully
I export to a local datastore purely to speed up the whole process and it's only temp. orginally I mounted an nfs share using the VI client and exported to that - jesus was it slow!!! I tried loads of different settings in the nfs config but none increased the speed. And yes I meant 20mbps bits not bytes
This is the way I do my backups. Export locally, SCP that pulls the files off the server to a NFS mount on the serverthat is running the backup script. However 120GB is a large VM, only have one like it running on ESXi thankfullyVery interesting. So it may be writing to the mounted NFS volume that was slow. That was exactly how I imported my VMs from my Ubuntu boxes. Mounted stores from the Ubuntu/VMware Server 1.0.7 boxes using NFS on my ESXi boxes and ran vmkfstools -i to import vmdks into the localstore. And that import was fairly fast. Didn't think about looking at the speed at that time. My source vmdks were thin.
Thanks for the helpful insight Shahid. Thinking back you setup an NFS share on ESXi and ESX totally differently, or well I did. I'm just glad I'm getting decent speeds now
