How Do I Speed Up Uploading Files To Esxi

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What are you copying data with, from local host storage to where?

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I'one thousand copying data using SFTP from two 146GB SAS drives in RAID 1 (VMFS datastore) to ii local SSDs in RAID 1 (on a dissever Windows Server 2016 Essentials server). Both of these have showed that they can perform faster in other circumstances.

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For lots of small-scale files, 40MB/s is not unusual. Max on gigabit LAN is about 113-117MB/s for large transfers similar a virtual hard bulldoze.

The right answer to your question is to upgrade your core switch to 10GbE. Large transfers on Dell RAID1on ssd gets me about 550-650MB/s over 10GbE. RAID10 on 4 drive platters gets me about 280-300MB/s. Raid10 on 8 drive platters is about 650-700MB/south. Raid6 on 10 drive platters on 10GbE Synology NAS is near 440-460MB/southward. Of course any is the slowest device in the transfer sets the speed overall. Large numbers of small files are typically 40-60% of those numbers vs a single 2TB virtual hard drive file.

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What y'all are doing is really copying "VM files" from the ESXi data store to a Windows File server.

If you are migrating VMs on a ESXi host, you should exist using vMotion or "migrate" to motility them to another ESXi host.

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40MB/s is with a large file from a VM on the host to the Windows Server 2016. When I copy an every bit large file from the host to the Windows Server, I just get 10MB/south. I recall I'm just going to plug the drives into the Windows Server and copy them locally using the VMFS commuter, as this (hopefully) should be quicker anyway.

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Sorry, I mean migration as in manual migration, equally I only have the gratis version of ESXi. Information technology's for a home lab, and I'grand setting up a new ESXi host, and copying some of the VMs across.

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You might go through all the NIC settings both virtual and concrete and await for a serious mismatch somewhere or Jumbo Packets/VMQ/QOS oddities.

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Upgrade NIC commuter/firmware.

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Distressing, I mean migration as in manual migration, as I but have the free version of ESXi. Information technology's for a dwelling lab, and I'm setting up a new ESXi host, and copying some of the VMs across.

This is not manual migration....this is copying files from the data store (VMFS) to your Storage (NTFS or FAT32). So information technology is slow for many reasons but naught to do with your network speeds, y'all tin be running on 100GbE and still go 30-60Mbps speeds.

You mayhap better off either using VeeamSCP or practise a backup then restore if yous accept large VMs.

https://www.veeam.com/vmware-esxi-fastscp.html

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Ah, okay, thanks for the aid. I didn't know about VeeamSCP; I'll give it a go tomorrow

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