I have two VMWare ESXI 5 hosts and I want to move a 2 TB .vmdk file from one to another. I tried downloading the file via vSphere Client to upload it to the other host via vSphere Client, but it seems that it would take a week or more!
I tried scp
command and the speed was not bad, actually 30 MB/s, but the operation broke after a while.
Is there any way to split that 2 TB file into smaller files, so that I can transfer it easier? Or is there a better solution to transfer it?
Best Answer
The best generic approaches are:
Solutions like rsync or scp will be rate-limited and have no knowledge of the content (e.g. sparse VMDK files, thin-provisioned volumes, etc.)
Also see:
Move VMware ESXi VM to new datastore - preserve thin-provisioning
How to export a VMware ESXi 5 VM into a file to restore it later?