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.

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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.
    >

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