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2m /s transfer rate using 'quick' migration

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I've got a vmware server that I need to move a windows vertual server from. It's on a Dell 2950 and is the last server still on that. Since it doesn't need all that hardware, I want to move it to a dell PE 840 and use the 2950 for something more demanding.

Problem is that the server is about 600G, and when I tried the migration it reported throughput of 2mb/s and did about 20% +/- in 15 hours.

I searched around and found someone complaining about how slow THEIRS was at 27m/s so I assume at 2 I've definitely got some kind of problem.

This is a product I grabbed just so I could do this one migration quickly so I'm not at ALL familiar with it and might just be missing something simple, but i figured I'd check...

Any input is appreciated.
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Re: 2m /s transfer rate using 'quick' migration

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What is the job bottleneck stats for your quick migration job?
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Re: 2m /s transfer rate using 'quick' migration

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Sorry, I have no idea. First time using this tool, and I haven't dug into it at all. Can you tell me where to find that?
Also, I found that I had either a bad cable or an old CAT3or5(?!) cable that was plugged into my bench system, so it was only getting a 100M network connection. I swapped that out with a new CAT5e and have restarted, and it's giving me 16mb/s and has processed about 47g in 50 minutes. Better I suppose, but it still seems like I should expect more.

If you have any other suggestions please let me know. Thanks!
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Please select the quick migration job session (sessions node on the left of the backup console) and take a look at the details, there should be bottlenecks stats highlighted that would be helpful in troubleshooting.
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Re: 2m /s transfer rate using 'quick' migration

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Actually managed to get it to transfer overnight and even got the one file that I inadvertently updated while I was working. Shutdown the original, and started the migrated one> An amazing tool!
Anyway, I'm good for now. Have to do a client system as well, but that one's not in use, so it should be much easier and transfer time shouldn't matter. Thanks again for your help though!
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Re: 2m /s transfer rate using 'quick' migration

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Good to know that you've managed to transfer the data, anyway please keep in mind that bottleneck stats is the first step to troubleshoot performance issues.
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