TomEA
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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!
- Tom
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!
- Tom
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Another option is NFS. You can copy the files across quite rapidly while love using ghettovcb.sh. All you have to have setup is an NFS server on the network segment.
How many esxi you have? None of them connected to shared storage?
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No, all of our ESXi servers have local storage at present.
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The Veeam FastSCP solution worked perfectly for me. Thanks!