No, trying to copy the files on the same datastore fails at the same point as copying the files remotely.
On September 5, 2021 7:52:22 PM EDT, dmmoff...@gmail.com wrote: >Can you move or copy the file locally and then download the copy? > > > > > >From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Nate Burke >Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2021 5:10 PM >To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> >Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Moving Virtual Machines > > > >It's a HP DL380G7 with 6 140GB disks in a Raid10. Wouldn't the Raid >controller recognize the error and fail the drive? > >Although I don't think I've ever had a hard drive fail 'gracefully' For me >they usually go from working fine to preventing the machine from POSTing with >no middle ground. > >One one of my home machines, i just had a data drive that's been installed for >years crash the machine, and keeps windows from booting, but when i plug it >into a USB/SATA adapter, it works fine on the same machine. > >On 9/5/2021 3:18 PM, Adam Moffett wrote: > >I'd be tempted to think a bad sector on the host disk. > >Maybe fsck or whatever is equivalent for that file system. > > > >On 9/5/2021 3:29 PM, Nate Burke wrote: > >I just tried to copy the VMDK file to another folder on the same datastore, >and it stopped copying at about 25GB out of the 33GB file. The same time that >it stops on my other copy methods. Does this mean the VMDK file is corrupt? >The Virtual server itself seems to be running fine. > >On 9/3/2021 9:04 AM, Josh Luthman wrote: > >NFS is the only way I've found to be worthwhile for speed purposes. > > > > >Josh Luthman >24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340 >Direct: 937-552-2343 >1100 Wayne St >Suite 1337 >Troy, OH 45373 > > > > > >On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 8:35 AM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com ><mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >locally copy to USB hard drive? > >On 9/2/2021 9:17 PM, Nate Burke 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 <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> >http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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