I'm pulling my hair out over a devilish problem that's holding up a fileserver 
migration.
Any advice desperately appreciated.

When you try to transfer files to the VM, the transfer just randomly pauses and 
un-pauses after a few hundred megabytes of each burst. The pauses last around 
15 seconds but can be a minute or more. It's worse the bigger the file is.
2012 R2 server fully patched with 2 CPU & 5GB of RAM & 60GB system & 800GB 
storage on VMware backed by a SAN.


*         File transfer dialog on Windows 8 usually bottoms out at 0 bytes/s 
when this happens. Pausing or cancelling transfer on client doesn't register 
until it un-locks.

*         Resource Monitor on server shows Disk as no activity when this 
happens except for maybe some random bursts

*         Happens with robocopy and xcopy as well as native Windows Explorer

*         Happens connecting from both 2008R2 and Win8.1 with different network 
paths.

*         Occurs when transferring to system drive or data storage drive.

*         NTFS/REFS doesn't matter on storage drive

*         SMB signing is off

*         Absolutely nothing installed on the server. NOTHING. No roles. No 
extra features other than the GUI.

*         Pauses are worse the bigger the file is.

*         Data Deduplication and File Resource Monitor used to be installed, 
but they've been removed for troubleshooting.

*         Tried uninstalling SMB 1.0 on server

Again, ANY ideas or tips appreciated.

Thank you!


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Daniel Wolf
Neopost USA


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