Move a VM Cold Migration with vCenter Server (VCSA) (VMware vSphere ESXi 7) Jason Meers

Jason Meers - How to move a VM using Cold Migration on a vCenter Server (VCSA) (VMware vSphere ESXi 7)

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[TonyDL]

Hi, this was very useful THANKS! Question: Once the 'cold migrate' job is kicked off by the vCenter, is the vCenter in the path while data moves from host to host; each host having its own local storage? I ask this because I have an enviroment where I'm trying to do what you did here, but it's extremely slow. My vCenter is in a different country and both the source ESXi and destination ESXi hosts are much closer to each other physically. Could the remote vCenter (vCSA) be causing a bottleneck in the transfer or is it more likely a network bottleneck between the 2 ESXi hosts? My initial thought is that the vCSA merely sets up the job and the rest is between the 2 ESXi hosts. Your advice is much appreciated!

[luandt]

hi Sir, i have a issue when configure " cannot connect to host"

[Heineken]

I started cold migration of a 2TB machine. It started right at 30% and increased to 31% within 1 hour. This seems to be oddly slow. Do you know if I can abort it?