Import from ESXi Extremely Slow

[PwrBank]

Let me know if there's anything else I can do to provide more useful information. I'm going to keep fiddling around and doing some testing next week (starting Tuesday, it's Canadian Thanksgiving) to see if I can make it do... something different.

Thanks again for all the effort you're putting into this.

I'm working on a different approach, hopefully I can have it done by tomorrow though. I created another branch in the Github page that says "direct-send", with this version it creates 8 SSH connections to the ESXi host and pulls the data down using dd. FUSE is used to have one path to pull from. In testing it's getting about 2x what HTTP does over 1GbE (again, haven't got 25GbE working)

https://github.com/PwrBank/pve-esxi-import-tools/tree/direct-send

I'm still working on getting the GUI part working though. But, in theory, this should completely bypass the HTTP limit. The caveat is the ESXi host will need SSH enabled, which I can imagine would be a fair trade off if it does actually increase performance.

I'll keep you informed, thanks for testing these out as well @spencerh!