Hello guys,
We've been playing with the VMWare Import tool in XO and after a lot of fighting we finally have it working.
First we have some weird issues when XO was not in the same VLAN as the VMWare source host and XCP-NG destination host so we had to re-design our lab to make that work.
Then there was this "strange" problem that XO never actually started the import, sometimes there was a brief error and some times just nothing. Clicking Import again actually started the import.
Now one of my colleagues mentioned that the VM's feels a bit sluggish, I myself never noticed anything but he's mainly doing Windows and im mainly doing Linux so maybe thats why I didn't notice.
He is sure this is due to disk performance so we booted up a VM on our VMWare host that we successfully migrated to XCP (Both hosts have a Samsung PM893 960Gb SSD for SR/Datastore, the OS sits on an NVME, a single Xeon E3-1225 v5 @ 3.30GHz and 64Gb DDR3 RAM)
This VM is running Windows Server 2022, on VMware we have the latest 8.0 VMWare tools installed and on XCP-NG we have the Citrix VM Tools 9.3.1 installed. The VM has 2 vCPU, 4Gb RAM and 50Gb disk and this is bench32 on VMWare:
And this is on XCP-NG:
The difference is not huge but enough to worry us a bit. I know about the SMAPIv1 limitations and history and I also know SMAPIv3 is in progress, but is anyone else seeing this or am I alone?