I recently started using the newly released Converter 5.0.0 . I had successfully done over 30 P2V's of Windows 2003 systems using version 4.3. Immediately, I noticed two problems:
1) The average transfer rate dropped from about 100 MB/s to between 0.8 and 2 MB/s.
2) The process consistently failed following completion of C: drive cloning and starting on the D: drive.
I tried this on 5 different physical servers going to 5 different VMware ESXi 4.1 host servers and the result was always the same. I assumed it was a Network or Firewall problem and sent the Network team on a "wild goose chase" for 2 days. After they were convinced that the physical machine being P2V'd was simply not sending sufficient packets, I went back and re-installed version 4.3 and restarted the P2V transfer. This time I received an average transfer rate of 100 MB/s (50x faster) and the entire process completed successfully.
Has anyone else seen a similar problem? Any possible explanations?