I was trying to P2V a server tonight and ran into substantial performance issues. I was getting transfer speeds approximately 500KB/sec on each attempt.
Here are some of the steps I tried in troubleshooting.
1. Installed VMware Converter 5.1 locally on the server and ran it from there.
2. Removed VMware Converter 5.1 from the server and ran it from the Client/Server install from another server, version 5.0. (All subsequent attempts were client/server attempts from this server)
3. Restarted the source server with all services except for Microsoft services, TeamViewer and the McAfee validation trust protection services running.
4. Tried to change the cloning operations to run on ESX0 (previous attempts were to ESX1)
5. Tried to change the destination datastore to the local datastore on ESX1 (was using shared iSCSI storage)
6. Tried without changing the disk type (to avoid volume based cloning) to local datastore on ESX1
I've run P2V migrations successfully with the client/server install on the server attempted above. So, it certainly points to something on the source server. I didn't notice any CPU, RAM or Disk bottlenecks during the attempts. The only thing that I could find was that I couldn't stop the McAfee Validation Trust Protection service from running. Not sure if that would have caused these issues.
Has anybody encountered anything similar?
ps. Forgot to mention that I have SSL is disabled in the VMWare Worker service.