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dwc
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Slow transfer of VMs to ESXi - will a license key help?

I have researched this issue and seen no answer for this anywhere... but I still have to solve the problem.

Transferring our VMs from Server 2.0 to ESXi 5.1 is taking an extraordinarily long time. For example: 300GB takes 7 days to transfer. The max transfer rate I get is 5Mb/s...! I have tried ssh+wget, WinSCP and VMWare Converter.

Prior to running VMWare this hardware was running Win2k8 and there were no problems with disk speed or network throughput.

So my question is: will a licence for the ESXi remove the bottleneck?

Furthermore: do people have this problem with vSphere?

Any [constructive] advice would be appreciated.

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weinstein5
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Welcome to the Community - No adding a license key will not affect the transfer speed - How is you network configured? When using converters what method are you using to bring over the VM - while the VM is running or converting the files that make up the VM?

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vHaridas
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Try "Veeam FastSCP" with this you can upload VMs to ESXi faster than any other tool.

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a_p_
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How is the storage on the ESXi host configured?

Other than Windows, ESXi does not do any write caching any fully relies on the storage sub-system, e.g. a controller with write-back cache. If this is not available, you may be limited due to the disk controller operation in write-through mode.

André

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