What sort of data data transfer can I expect with home grown P2V?

This post is (one of the very few) for my own reference.

Often you will want to ghost/image the drives of a physical machine into a virtual machine.  If you are doing this you can expect:

  • To an external usb drive, about 400 meg a min or 8.5 gig in about 22 minutes
  • Gigabit networking makes a difference.  A 1.6 Gb VHD file copy will take 2:36 on Gig vs 8:51 on 100 Meg

 

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