P2V Speed using Converter Standalone

[bshubinsky]

It's been quite some time since I've P2V'd anything and I wanted to get a poll to see if something was wrong with my setup or if it's just how Converter works.

It's not an actual P2V - I'm trying to move a VM from a test server (ESXi 3.5) to our new vSphere (4.0) production server. I used Standalone Converter to move the virtual machine but it said that it was going to take a whopping 6 hours. Converter was doing about 5-6MB/s during the transmit, but our 30GB harddrive said it was going to take 5 hours which didn't seem to add up correctly.

Is Converter usually this slow? The NICs are set to 1000-Full and our switch is set to Auto/Auto on the ports.

[continuum]

why do you use Converter for that task ???

I would use FastSCP




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[bshubinsky]

Because I'm migrating the VM from the local disk based storage system to a SAN based storage system. I don't know if it would be possible to move it from a local disk to the SAN via FastSCP.

[FM-DK · Accepted solution]

Hi

I have been using VMware converter for several years and it allmost seems that the better (more functions) it gets - the slower it gets.

Nowadays (build 4.0.1 161434) it is not unusual to see as little as 2 MB/s when it is running file-level copying. Block- and volume-level copies runs faster but then you can not change disksizes.

My advice ? Just be patient G

Regards

André

[jkumhar75]

You can able to copy the files using the FastSCP from local disk storage to Shared storage.

Jay

MCSE,VCP 310,VCP 410

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[bshubinsky]

Patience only goes so far when I have limited hours to make the moves and these are production machines. 😛

[bshubinsky]

Tried to use FastSCP, still got the same data transfer rates. Could it be my SAN? Is this data transfer rate normal when moving/converting VMs?