The storage I am writing to is a Dell Compellent 8000 SAN connected via 8GB fiber channel, and the particular datastore I am writing this to is all flash.Īll of this in my opinion should constitute an optimized (or at least better than average) environment for the conversion. The network is full Gig, and 'flat' between the physical server and the VMware hosts/vCenter (one single switch). I set the 'Data connections per task' to maximum, completely removed all AV, and made sure there were no other disk intensive tasks running during time of conversion. I went through the VMware best practices guide for optimizing the conversion rate so SSL encryption is turned off. I am also not doing any resizing so it is performing a block-level clone. The conversion is only converting 2 drives, the boot volume (~300MB) and the C partition which is ~180GB so nothing huge.
I am converting a physical Windows 2012 R2 server to a VM, but the transfer rate is abnormally slow, sub 50KB.
