Hello, room.

I have a Dell PE 1850 running ESXi  3.5 build 158869 with 2 built-in Intel Gigabit NICs. They are not teamed. I have had extreme slow slow... file transferring the host using scp, wget. SSH is enabled on this server.

I hope everyone can show me how to resolve this issue, perhaps some bebugging methods.

Background: I used to run the VMWare server 1.x on a Linux box. There were no problem with transfering files to the host. I have a habit of putting iso, vmware disk files on the host for building new virtual instances. Nothing has changed. This new ESXi host connects the same network switch, same patch cable. I also have other ESXi and VMWare server hosts in the same rack connecting the same LAN switch. They have had no problem. I attempted a quick fix by plugging the network cable into different port. It made no difference in the file transferring performance. I also try to isolate the issue by enable just one NIC at the time. That made no difference either.

I am stumped. The next desperate thing I might do is upgrading this ESXi box to update 4 | 153875

Please advise.