Thank you for taking time to read my post.
I'm attempting to use VM Converter to simultaneously V2V several powered off guests. The guests FCP attached on an ESX 4.1 host - some with RDMs, some without RDMs. Below is a synopsis of my setup:
* A second ESX service console resides on network 10.9.99.x. Has a 10gE NIC
* The VM Converter standalone server is a Windows 2008 R2 virtual guest with
* NIC on the 10.9.99.x network
* No A/V software
* Windows firewall disabled
* Converter 5 installed (most recent available download as of 8/29)
* V2V conversions occur when guests are powered off.
* Any attached RDMs are converted to .vmdk (this is desirable)
* Converter server and guests to be converted reside on the same ESX host (for source and destination)
* Destination datastore can be either NFS or FCP and experience the issue
I can successfully convert a single guest with excellent performance. While a guest is converting, I attempt to initiate a second conversion. When the wizard gets to the "Source System" screen, I enter the IP address of the 10gE Service Console, provide credentials, and I get an error message stating
"A general system error occurred: SSL Exception: The SSL handshake timed out local (IP of VM Converter server):50567 peer: (IP of ESX server):443."
As soon as the conversion is complete, I can start the next conversion, but it's my goal to begin several conversions at once. I read in the Release Notes that there's an issue somewhere around 20 simultaneous conversions, but I don't think it'd be a stretch to get 10 or so going at a time.
Has anyone seen this? Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks for the reply. I did find that and disabled SSL. I was getting conversions around 5-7 MB/s 'till I disabled SSL. then they jumped to 25-ish (NFS). For FCP it was up to the 60 MB/s range
One thing I did notice - I was able to convert 3 or 4 guests at a time this afternoon, but once I added a guest with an RDM, I was not able to add additional guest until that conversion was complete. I started another test and converted a guest with 2 RDMs first, and was not able to add subsequent guests.
Converting RDMs to vmdks is the main reason I want to use Converter. Many of the RDMs are provisioned around 2T, but have smaller file systems (10g, 30g, etc). Volume-based cloning (block-level) works great, if not for this issue.
