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it will take time to move them if you have slow datastores.<br />
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A single drive does not produce many IOPS.
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Am I reading this correctly?<br />
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You have a server with a physical 1 TB drive. &nbsp;You added a second physical drive to the same server that is 500 GB. &nbsp;You now have a server with 2 physical drives (1 TB and 500 GB).<br />
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If that is the case, why are you using scp? &nbsp;cp would do the job, and it should be faster because it wouldn't get the network and encryption involved.<br />
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You could also look into using dd. &nbsp;That may be actually faster, but a little more complicated to get the command correct.
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Yes, you will need to power off the VM to move it.<br />
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Unless you have vCenter Server and the licenses and you can then move in real time with zero downtime.<br />
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SCP will be slow, you may find it better to use vmkfstools to move a VM, of simply cutting and pasting between datastores.
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All the VMs that are being moved are already shut down.<br />
I will check in on the vmkfstools.
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vCenter server is expensive! $7,472.00<br />
Maybe one day, I will be big enough to have something like that.
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Much cheaper deal, Essentials - approx $700!<br />
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Licenses for 3 Hosts (2 CPU) and vCenter Server license - $700!<br />
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But a single disk, moving to another single disk is going to be slow...
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Yes, johnsone.<br />
I have multiple 500GB drives connected to replace the single 1TB drive.<br />
All on the same machine.<br />
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trying to find commands for the CP and DD<br />
I am searching Google right now, but with no luck.
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Remember that ESXi is NOT Linux!
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I am also looking in on vmkfstools
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I am assuming that the comment has something to do with the CP and DD commands being Linux based<br />
And will not work with esxi?<br />
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What would be the best way of doing it with vmkfstools
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Andrew put me on the right path, to get started.<br />
It is at 14% right now.<br />
This is a LOT faster than the other methods I tried.<br />
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Thanks, Andrew.<br />
Wayne
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cut and paste takes the same amount of time!! if you use the gui!
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New question, if you can assist.<br />
<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29100527/VMWare-vmkfstools-not-Cloning-the-full-size-of-the-VMDK-over-16gb-out-of-50gb.html#questionAdd" rel="ugc">vmkfstools not Cloning the full size of the VMDK </a>
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The other issue is resolved.<br />
Files are made smaller during the cloning process.
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Because you created a THIN disk!<br />
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There are three types of disk, thin, thick (eager zero) etc<br />
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to be expected when you created a thin disk!
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Seems strange to me that there would be access to a low level command like scp, but no access to cp. &nbsp;I guess that's the way it goes. &nbsp;I'm sure that if you could find the *IX distribution that created the OS, you could get the commands there. &nbsp;But, that seems to be making is more complicated.<br />
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I also got confused. &nbsp;I used to work with a *IX variant called ESIX. &nbsp;Slightly different spelling and it caught me.
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Hello All;<br />
<br />
I have a 1TB drive of which has 11 VMs on it.<br />
Taking up about 95% of the space.<br />
I purchased some 500GB driver, I am in the process of moving the VMs over.<br />
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What I have done.<br />
#1:<br />
Using the datastore, I chose the VMs and I &quot;Moved&quot; them.<br />
It is going to take a few days to move the ones I selected over, about 426GB.<br />
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#2: I tried the OpenSSH<br />
Just to move one of the VMs over that is 60GB, will take over 24-hours.<br />
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Code for the SSH<br />
<br />

<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-10-29100478-1"><span>[root@localhost:/vmfs/volumes/5b005dd5-2ce20e85-e704-001517fcd2e8] scp -r &quot;00 - DNS Server&quot; root@192.168.2.101:/vmfs/volumes/Date-2016/&quot;00\\-\\DNS\\Server&quot;</span>
</code></pre>
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How can I make this go faster?<br />
It is only going from one drive to another drive, on the same server.<br />
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Thanks<br />
<b>Carrzkiss</b>
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Hello All;

I have a 1TB drive of which has 11 VMs on it.
Taking up about 95% of the space.
I purchased some 500GB driver, I am in the process of moving the VMs over.

What I have done.
#1:
Using the datastore, I chose the VMs and I "Moved" them.
It is going to take a few days to move the ones I selected over, about 426GB.

#2: I tried the OpenSSH
Just to move one of the VMs over that is 60GB, will take over 24-hours.

Code for the SSH

(CODE)

How can I make this go faster?
It is only going from one drive to another drive, on the same server.

Thanks
Carrzkiss

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