Boot CD Converter speed slow?

[CTSTech]

I'm doing a P2V of an HP ML310 G4 that has about 400 GB of space.  I'm using the Boot CD Cold Clone method, converting to ESXi 5 on an HP ML350 G6 with 15k rpm drives - using an HP Procurve GB Switch.

The speed it's converting is about 24500 KBps, and its estimating 5 hours or so.

Anything I can do to speed it up?

[marcelo_soares]

Nics from the physical machine and ESXi are on 1gbps? Can you double check? Also, are they on the same network, or better, same physical switch?

[CTSTech]

Yes, both NICs show as 1000 full and connected to the same physical switch.

Checking an online calculator, it looks like 24500 KBps = 196 Mbps so it is definitely faster than a 100 Mbps NIC connection, but I have done P2Vs at a much higher rate than this.

Any ideas?

[jimraina]

Hi

what about firewall , have you made any entry of that port ?

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[CTSTech]

I noticed on the Converter Best Practices:

If the NIC on the source machine is compatible with TOE (TCP Offload  Engine), you need to disable it by running this command in a command  prompt on the source machine:

netsh int tcp set global chimney=disabled

Do I need to do that on the Cold Clone Boot CD NIC settings too?

[CTSTech]

I think the converter speed depends heavily on:

1. Read speed of the source server drives
2. CPU speed of the source server
3. Free Ram on the source server
4. Write speed of the destination server drives

I recently tried doing a P2V with the Cold Clone CD, but it failed at 85%.  I was getting 150 Mbps transfer rate.

I ended up having to do a Hot Clone with Converter 5 and was only getting around 100 Mbps - even with SSL disabled in Converter.