Hello everyone! I have searched around here and can't find any good answer yet so hopefully someone can help.
We have a cluster of 3 ESXi servers running off a single iSCSI target and frequently need to copy VM's to and from the VMFS file system.
Using the Converter tool is incredibly slow, so that's out. WinSCP and FastSCP work at about 5MB and 3MB/sec. FTP is the best option so far but that's only 8MB/sec. When we need to copy around a 20GB VM that takes a very long time. Additionally when we need to make 15 copies of a VM it's impossibly long.
I was hoping to be able to connect directly to the iSCSI target and mount the filesystem somehow but can't seem to find any way to do that. Failing that is there any better or faster method? Perhaps a better FTP server than the proftpd option?
We were hoping for some local copy method via USB or eSATA but neither seem to work. USB isn't even detected and I can't get a non-VMFS file system to mount via eSATA.
If it works better we can set up a linux machine to mount the iSCSI target if file copies can work that way.
Thanks for any advice!