Standalone Converter 5.5, slow P2V, GPT disks, etc
The physical server is 2008 R2. I installed Standalone Converter on the physical machine. There is a 250gig C: and a 4.3TB D: with 2.7TB used. the D: drive is GPT. When I run my conversion, with...
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Re: P2V to ESXI on same box
Hi Welcome to the communities.Could you please share the log .and error . If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
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Re: Standalone Converter 5.5, slow P2V, GPT disks, etc
Hi Welcome to the communities.please share the exact transfer rate if its around 3 mbps then there might be network configuration problem . If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe...
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IF I do a copy from the server to a VM on my SAN, it's well over 80 MB/s. When I do the P2V from the server to the same SAN, it's never above 3 MB/s.
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You can generate the logs from a failed P2V.View the job, right click, export logs, it will be in a zip like so "ConverterDiagnostics20131115142835.zip"Open the zip file, in there open another zip file...
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There are many factors that defines the overall speed of conversion: reading for source, network, writing to destination. The time to complete is calculated on current transfer speed, it is possible...
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tomerleib wrote: tomerleib wrote: Hi, I have several VM's on 2 locations, one datacenter that is managed by us on our site and several VM's hosted on external hosting company datacenter.Our own...
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leonhardtla wrote: Checks this KB: VMware KB: vCenter Converter fails to import machine at 1% Resolution To resolve this issue, add the IP address and hostname in the hosts file.Notes:If the source...
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And don't forget to deselect the destination partition from the source volumes in 'disks and volumes' page.
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We found that the RAID was degraded. The indicator lights on the drives were all green, but after looking that the RAID diag software, we saw a degraded RAID 5. We rebuilt the RAID and our P2V speeds...
View ArticleVMWare p2v coversion fails at 1 %
Hi All Currently i have a physical server 2003 r2 32bit, going to use vmware convertor standalone 5.1 to convert to esxi 5.1 server, a vcenter is installed on win 2k8 R2, which is managing two...
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View ArticleAny reason for painfully slow transfer rates with VMWare Converter?
By now I have been through several P2V and one V2V conversion using the VMWare converter 5.0, 5.1 and now 5.5 and all have suffered from very slow transfer rates. On 5.0 and 5.1 I have disabled SSL...
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make sure you can able to resolve the destination esxi hosts name from your the physical machine and also make sure your physical machine has the same DNS address as your hosts and vm environment....
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Do the following test: start conversion with block level and then share what the speed is.As workaround you can transfer at block-level and then resize the disk from OS.HTH
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Thanks for your response. One issue is that on the destination storage I didn't have 1.6TB available, so I had to resize the volume. Though for a 100MB system volume it copied at block level, that...
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If you start your task with 'thin' disk, you'll not be stopped to start conversion - wait to see the transfer rate for few percent and then cancel the task.You are correct about Converter view of disk...
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Re: Any reason for painfully slow transfer rates with VMWare Converter?
Hi Welcome to the communities. Did you checked by disabling SSL ? http://pubs.vmware.com/orchestrator-plugins/topic/com.vmware.using.soap.plugin.doc_10/GUID-3AF0A20C-F3F7-4549-BB5D-D64B5C6D01DD.html...
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@ 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...
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