{"id":447,"date":"2012-04-10T17:58:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T17:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=447"},"modified":"2012-04-11T14:54:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:54:29","slug":"how-long-does-it-take-to-copy-vms-with-vmware-vcenter-converter-standalone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"How Long does it take to copy VMs with VMWare vCenter Converter Standalone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still considering whether it will be worth purchasing <a href=\"http:\/\/store.vmware.com\/store\/vmware\/en_US\/DisplayProductDetailsPage\/productID.233867900\">vCenter software<\/a>, for now I am getting by with the free tools supplied by VMWare.  To clone a new VM from one ESXi host to another, I powered it down and used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/converter\">vCenter Converter<\/a> to do a VM to VM copy.<br \/>\nThe VM I&#8217;m copying was about 350GB. When I launched the Task, the Estimated time was 1 hour.  After the progress achieved 1%, the estimated time jumped up to 1 day, 18 hours.  It remained there as progress reached 2% about an hour later.  I came back the next morning about 15 hours later, and the conversion was completed successfully.  Very glad it didn&#8217;t take more than 1 day or I would&#8217;ve had to stop the process and find another way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still considering whether it will be worth purchasing vCenter software, for now I am getting by with the free tools supplied by VMWare. To clone a new VM from one ESXi host to another, I powered it down and used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=447\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}