I'm parcticing with VMware to gain experience for when I pitch it to my employer as a plan for disaster recovery scenarios (we're network consultants). One of the main parts of this whole thing is being able to convert an Acronis image (what we use for the vast majority of customers' server images) to a VMware disk - a VMDK file. The process seems to work great in every way except one - time.
I converted a 15GB image in like 8 hours. This is running on a new Dell SC440 with a Pentium D935, a 3.0GHz dual core. 4GB DDR, 150GB RAID1 array. Brand new install of Server 03 Enterprise, nothing installed except Acronis, VMware and VMware converter and of course IIS. The VMware site advertises 'converting images in minutes' but that's not the way it's working and I can't seem to figure out what's slowing it down. The CPUs only hit about 10% usage, as far as I can tell it's only using ~4MB ram, and the disk usage light is just flashing - not solid or under heavy use. This process has to be limited by some resource, but I can't figure out what.
Has anyone worked with this before and have an idea what's happening here? If this process takes a week for a 200GB image it's not going to be practical, but I can't imagine this is normal.
I converted a 15GB image in like 8 hours. This is running on a new Dell SC440 with a Pentium D935, a 3.0GHz dual core. 4GB DDR, 150GB RAID1 array. Brand new install of Server 03 Enterprise, nothing installed except Acronis, VMware and VMware converter and of course IIS. The VMware site advertises 'converting images in minutes' but that's not the way it's working and I can't seem to figure out what's slowing it down. The CPUs only hit about 10% usage, as far as I can tell it's only using ~4MB ram, and the disk usage light is just flashing - not solid or under heavy use. This process has to be limited by some resource, but I can't figure out what.
Has anyone worked with this before and have an idea what's happening here? If this process takes a week for a 200GB image it's not going to be practical, but I can't imagine this is normal.
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