Hi,

Im trying to make a p2v over a 100Mbit ipsec connection with vmm 2012 where in my mind the 100Mbit is the limiting factor.

When I look at bandwidth usage during transfer I see a jigsaw maxing out at 95Mbit and min 40Mbit, the whole transfer takes about 10h. I would really like to use my full (> 90) bandwidth constantly to reduce this transfer windows, I got lots of server to p2v

Cant find any documentation which components are involved and options, probably agent <-> agent and bits?

Anyone with experience that have tweaked this or know if something can be done to improve it?

I have no problem maxing out this 100Mbit with an ftp transfer... (constan > 90Mbit)

Thanks :)

Hi MatteDS,

I noticed the process of P2V , at the imaging phase it will use bits service to transfer the data :

Imaging phase:

1.                   A Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) image is captured for each NTFS volume. If a dynamic destination VHD format is selected, this process captures data only, not empty spaces.
2.                   Data is streamed directly from the source computer to the VMM host using Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS).
3.                   Each physical volume becomes a separate virtual hard disk.

Please try  to allow unencrypted file transfer , also disable bits service on the source host:

• Open the VMM Administrator Console
• Depending on your environment configuration, select the Host Groups (e.g. All Hosts) that has all of your Hyper-V hosts
• Right-click on the Host Folder (e.g. All Hosts)
• In the "Allow Unencrypted file transfers ", check the box

Best Regards,

Elton Ji

Use this video to fix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reb4eMcpl20