V2V

[vjosuz]

Hi All,

V2V process takes real long time in my enviroment. I am trying a to v2v a VM with same source and destination host plus same datastores but still it takes around 10 hours to do it.

Vcenter is 4.0

Drives are of 11,2 and 5 GB in size. Anybody can advice why it may be taking that long.

Cheers

[a_p_]

Please provide some details of your setup.

Storage: local (RAID level, write-cache enabled, ...), FC (1, 2, 4, 8 GBit/s), iSCSI (1, 10 GBit/s)

Provisioning type: Are the disks you convert thin or thick provisioned?

How is the workstation/serer - on which you run the Converter - attached to the ESX(i) hosts? (virtual machine, physical machine, NIC speed)

Which patch/build do you run on your ESX(i) hosts?

André

[vjosuz]

Hi Andre,

Thanks for your reply.

Set up is like as below

- Virtual center server 4.0 located in a Tokyo ESX host

- All APAC ESX hosts are managed by above VC

- I am located in Singapore, trying to migrate a VM hosted in a Sydney ESX host to another host in Sydney, in a different datacenter.

- Disks are of same format as source

- Source and destination hosts are ESXi4

- Nics are in 1000 full

- 2 HBA's on each esx host

Note: All hosts are managed by Tokyo VC

Cheers

Heera

[Rich123]

Ignoring your setup for this reply just to provide some info on something that's worked for me in the past--

When I've had slow v2v conversions, I've just pretended the source was a physical machine and done a p2v; that worked for me.

Rich

[vjosuz]

Thanks Rich