@ POCEH: Thanks. I had read on many posts here that using the Converter would be the recommended method for resizing an existing VMDK file. Unfortunately I couldn't find any official VMWare documentation on what methods are recommended for shrinking a VMDK. Now the V2V process actually completed after 2.5 days and the server is running good so far! When you say there is a warning about this type of transfer, what do you mean? It's not recommended?
@Aiden1, thanks. I had SSL disabled a P2V conversions I did and it did help maybe 10% but it wasn't much. I saw a 45min be cut down by 10 mins or so. On a V2V I just did, I left the SSL enabled since the format of the worker agent xml looked different than in 5.1 so I didn't want to risk breaking anything.