I have found that in my experience, no matter what the specifications of the host and the fact that we have 1GB network everywhere and good enough NAS. Export to OVF takes mega ages to complete. It always seems to go at a speed no faster than 6MB/s. Is there a setting somewhere in vcenter to get this to move along at a faster clip, IE a speed that most modern cellphones can dwarf by all measures. Like a 'business usable' switch to on attribute in a configuration file or GUI. It seems like a deliberate throttle, as there is no fundamental resource usage or limitation that I can see or am aware of that would slow this down to such a steadily rubbish speed.
How to speed up the vSphere Client on Windows 7. Is your vSphere Client slow to update the screen when you run it on Windows 7? VMware just published a workaround for this in their knowledgebase which involves disabling Desktop Composition on the vSphere Client shortcut. Speeding up the Export to OVF Process? I have found that in my experience, no matter what the specifications of the host and the fact that we have 1GB network everywhere and good enough NAS. Export to OVF takes mega ages to complete.