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  • 1.  Cloning is very slow on host

    Posted Jun 04, 2013 02:56 AM

    Hello,

    I have a ESXI 4.1 host with 2 1TB 7200 RPM sata drives.  NO hardware RAID controller.  It has 8GB of RAM and 2 quad core procs.   Here is my question.  As I am cloning my servers 3-4 at a time it takes a long time for the cloning process to complete...9 hours or so. Currently no vCenter installed. 

    Does vCenter make a host run faster for any reason?  Please don't laugh at me.  I don't think vCenter will help this as I believe it is a disk IO issue.  But hey, if I am wrong about that then please let me know.

    Thanks



  • 2.  RE: Cloning is very slow on host
    Best Answer

    Posted Jun 04, 2013 08:32 AM

    Hi,

    No such thing as a stupid question as you know :smileyhappy:, unfortunately though vCenter won't help you in this instance. vCenter's main purpose is to administer multiple esx/esxi hosts from a single GUI. Also has of course many other facts, HA/DRS/VMotion/plugins etc but yes won't assist in making the host run any faster.

    regards



  • 3.  RE: Cloning is very slow on host

    Posted Jun 04, 2013 12:29 PM

    Thanks fro confirming that.



  • 4.  RE: Cloning is very slow on host

    Posted Jun 04, 2013 01:52 PM

    What kind of disk latency are you seeing as you clone multiple machines at the same time? How long does one system take?  7200 RPM disks and no hardware RAID would probably be the culprit.



  • 5.  RE: Cloning is very slow on host

    Posted Jun 04, 2013 01:59 PM

    Hello,

    that is a good question to help me solve the problem. However, these host are not currently in my possession. I suspect Disk for sure. I also remember when I was the one doing this I made an OVA file and deployed from OVA. That seems to be a bit faster than folder copy or cloning per the right click method.

    Thanks