Copy larg VM from workstation to server

[JThoma]

I'm have problems with copying or syncing large VM's from a workstation to a server. Some of them fail due to windows cache size or just stop.

[continuum]

Lots of questions ....
- "to server" ? - is the server an ESXi ?
- which tools did you try so far ?
- do  you power the VMs off before you try ?
My favorite tool to get large files from or to ESXi is ddrescue: can be resumed when it aborts and does something useful if it runs into errors.

[JThoma]

I'm trying to copy to Windows 2008 R2 server

[JThoma · Accepted solution]

I have the VM's on an external drive from a previous Windows 7 workstation. I would like to have these VM's on my Windows Deployment Server for imaging purposes. So far I've tried Robocopy and Filesync with no success.

[a_p_]

Welcome to the Community,

It may be worth a try to temporarily  disable A/V on the server. At least for real time scans of *.vm* files.

André

[JThoma]

Thanks so much for your response I'm looking into this now your response also have me looking into other alternatives.

[JThoma]

Thanks for your response, I've taken care of the A/V issue, looking into alternative copy or cloning style apps. Thanks again!