P2V infinitely slow

[Ivanildo_GalvÃ_]

Masters, yesterday I tried to do a P2V of a Windows 2003 Server with 8GB of RAMand about 300GB of hard drive, server, Dell PE 2800 with gig NICs, in the process Iwas using my laptop that has vCenter Converter, but the network card isFastEthernet, the target server is a Dell T410 with 8GB of RAM with ESXi 5, butalready have a Windows server 2008 R2 and a Debian virtualized ESXi free memory is only 1.5GB of RAM.

Well I started the process and was taking forever, I've surprised because this process servers in other similar profile, changing only the manufacturer of IBM andDell to this day the P2V took half an hour yesterday every time I started it stipulated1h 3 minutes, then jumped to 24 hours, transfer rate miserable 985kb /s.

Well, the switch is a customer Furukawa FastEthernet, so I thought, it should be, so I made a cross cable, called ESXi in Giga Ethernet and Giga Ethernet in 2003,installed in VMware Converter to convert servidro own, well, with cross cable, Giganetwork, should go fast, I thought.

Nah, just as slowly, the same throughput.

Well, with my testimony, what can you guys think is catching? Could it be memory?But I do not think the end is converted and the machine is switched off at the destination until it is finished, the memory would be an adjustment factor to be done after converted, ok?

I found it very strange the delay for the conversion, dem me the power of knowledgeto you.

[Troy_Clavell]

if you are using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0 you can try the work around listed in the Release Notes

1. Open the converter-worker.xml configuration file. It is usually located in C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware vCenter Converter Standalone folder.
2. Set the key Config/nfc/useSsl to false.Save the configuration file.
3. Restart the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Worker service.

[Ivanildo_GalvÃ_]

Thanks friend, I will do this test next week, probably on Tuesday and then post the result here.

[Althathwe]

Thank you. My problem solved.

[edmandsj]

Thanks. Fixed my problem. Migrating a 250GB Windows Server 2003 VM from old to new storage on ESXi Free. I was getting ~1MB/sec before this change. Now seeing 10-20MB/s.

NOTE: Using services.msc, restart the vmware converter standalone services after editing the config file. Mentioned above but not clear for linux admins like me

[tomtom901]

Restarting only the worker service (VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Worker) should suffice, you do not need all 3.