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  • 1.  vmdk copy

    Posted Dec 14, 2011 04:15 PM

    I have a 10GB backbone, but whenever i copy a VM through CIFS it is always slow, but any other files except VMDKs copy much faster, so my question is why copying VMDK files windows to windows always slow?



  • 2.  RE: vmdk copy
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    Posted Dec 14, 2011 04:38 PM

    Rohail2004 wrote:

    I have a 10GB backbone, but whenever i copy a VM through CIFS it is always slow, but any other files except VMDKs copy much faster, so my question is why copying VMDK files windows to windows always slow?

    I don't care how much network bandwidth you have, networking is NEVER the limitation.  Disks are the problem, file system, IOPS, spindle speed.. RAID configuration, CACHE.. all factors.

    It's really hard to say which or combination is the problem.. CIFS also is another complex layer.. maybe your CIFS server is not efficient...



  • 3.  RE: vmdk copy

    Posted Dec 31, 2011 02:31 PM

    I'm actually having a similar problem - have a VM on my laptop, and when copying it off via network, as soon as it hits one of the .vmdk files, the transfer speed drops to a few 100KB/s (from 11MB/s).

    The VM works just fine on the laptop, and the hard drive the VM is on works just fine too.

    Are .vmdk files difficult to copy because of their data structure or something?         



  • 4.  RE: vmdk copy

    Posted Jan 03, 2012 11:55 AM

    Are these copies being performed by download/upload function of the datastore browser?  As, those functions are actively limited to about 10MB/s.

    You can copy full-speed by mounting the target as an NFS datastore.



  • 5.  RE: vmdk copy

    Posted Jan 03, 2012 11:56 AM

    I don't know about Rohail, but I meant just copying via Windows Explorer via a regular Windows 7 network share.        

    -edit- Just realized that in this subforum, that's probably not very common :smileygrin: