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How to Speed Up File Transfers To/From ESXi Datastores

Hi folks!

Our company has a large number of

VMware ESXi 3.5 and 4.0 servers. (Note: This is the free ESXi, not the

paid ESX Server.) They generally work very well for us. The one area of

problem I have is in transferring files to and from the datastores on

the machines.

Since we do not have the paid ESX Server, I cannot

use VirtualCenter or vMotion to transfer virtual machines from one place

to another. So if I need to move a virtual machine to a different host,

the only solution I'm left with is to download the virtual machine

files from the data store onto a local or network drive, and then upload

them to the new datastore, all using the vSphere Client. The problem

with this is that I have found it to be extremely slow. It can take

hours just to copy one virtual machine.

Does anyone know of a

better way to do this that would decrease the transfer time?

Thanks!

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Tom

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