[virt-tools-list] virt-v2v question involving esx

[Kenneth Armstrong]

I'll have to try it again over the weekend, so that I can relatively
afford the downtime.

-Kenny

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:38:40AM -0400, Kenneth Armstrong wrote:
>> Yeah, I'm writing to an NFS server (my RHEV export server).  I'm going
>> between two switches that have two fiber pairs bonded together using
>> LACP, so I don't think it's a bandwidth issue.  I'm running the
>> virt-v2v command from a RHEL 6 vm that is on the same subnet as my NFS
>> target.
>
> Can you characterize the bandwidth separately:
>
>  - between ESX (over HTTP) to the guest (not NFS) using wget
>  - between the guest and the NFS server
>  - seen when using virt-v2v between ESX and guest local disk
>  - seen when using virt-v2v between ESX and NFS storage
>
> Also look at the HTTP headers (ie. 'wget -S') to see if it's using
> HTTP compression.
>
> Rich.
>
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