joker5893 Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 Hey guys, i have a real serious question here. Unfortunately i have been assigned at work to create a new server but first i have to take the old server load it up into virtual server and then make the swap. When i try to load the ghost image onto the virtual server i am only getting about 35 MB's/min. This is calling for a 10 hour install. I need to speed up the process. Ne ideas? Oh btw i'm going across the network and also i've tried going from PC to PC but still i get slow speeds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 Hey guys, i have a real serious question here. Unfortunately i have been assigned at work to create a new server but first i have to take the old server load it up into virtual server and then make the swap. When i try to load the ghost image onto the virtual server i am only getting about 35 MB's/min. This is calling for a 10 hour install. I need to speed up the process. Ne ideas? Oh btw i'm going across the network and also i've tried going from PC to PC but still i get slow speeds. I was going to say PC to PC, but if that is just as slow, maybe something on the network configuration is not setup properly, or you have a really slow hard drive? Are you connected cable to cable or ethernet? And if ethernet, is it 10/100 or 10/100/1000(Gigabit adapter) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joker5893 Posted August 30, 2007 Author Share Posted August 30, 2007 Yeah i'm connected from PC to PC with ethernet cable. Currently i have 10/100's in there, but switching to Gigabit might not be a bad idea. The only problem is that the bus on the server isn't the greatest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 Hard drives are slow.I'm amazed your getting that speed. Consumer grade (7400 RPM) HD to HD copying is around 13MB/s when only reliying on the hard drives with no file system caching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargor Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 try copying it over with a ethernet crossover cable, not going through a switch/router. It maybe that your switch is under heavy load. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deveant Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Hmm, if ur loading for real PC to to into VM, ur gonna get hell lagg. Ur causing a great load on ur CPU, RAM, and Interface. Possibly HDD - to - HDD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunex Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Hard drives are slow.I'm amazed your getting that speed. Consumer grade (7400 RPM) HD to HD copying is around 13MB/s when only reliying on the hard drives with no file system caching. What he said. My godly new(less then one year old) computer's HDD clocks at about 56MB/s synchronous so unless your server is state of the art or is using RAID strips you're not going to get much faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joker5893 Posted August 31, 2007 Author Share Posted August 31, 2007 I think everyone misunderstood me. I'm getting 35 MB's per minute so that means that i'm getting little less than 1 MB per sec. Right now i'm trying to go from USB 2.0 to Server so lets see if i can't get that going. After that plan B, PC to PC with a crossover using Gigabit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunex Posted September 1, 2007 Share Posted September 1, 2007 I think everyone misunderstood me. I'm getting 35 MB's per minute so that means that i'm getting little less than 1 MB per sec. Right now i'm trying to go from USB 2.0 to Server so lets see if i can't get that going. After that plan B, PC to PC with a crossover using Gigabit. Doh! Missed the "per minute" thing. Haven't seen anyone scale transfer speed to the minute before. I'm just going to assume that your network and server is not the point where it needs a major hardware upgrade and just ask about the software you're using. What transport protocol are you using and what software are you using for that protocol. Version may be helpful too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joker5893 Posted September 2, 2007 Author Share Posted September 2, 2007 To tell you the truth i don't know what protocol its transferring over. I am indeed using Ghost ver. 8 to transfer the image to the virtual server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmanice Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2007/0...-file-transfer/ worst comes to worst check that out... looks kinda promising.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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