VMware converter is my fail safe. If you have vcenter server it's fairly painless to migrate to the new host with the guest powered off
On Thu, Sep 2, 2021, 8:19 PM Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote: > I have a couple stand alone ESXi servers (6.5.0). I'm trying to move a > 30GB server image from one server to another. Trying to download the VM > machine image file onto my desktop with VCenter, it gets about 80% done > and times out. Same with trying Veeam backup tools. It throws an error > after about 80%. I'm running an SCP transfer now, but it's only running > at about 300Kb/s (Searching online, I guess SCP and ESXi is artificially > slow for some reason) so I won't know if it completes for another day. > > Is there anything that I'm missing to get the VMImage off the physical > hardware? I've moved lots of VMImages before just like this, and never > had a problem. The Virtual server is shut down while I'm trying to move > the image files. > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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