Recently I had an unpleasant surprise while trying to convert a physical machine to a virtual one.

The estimated conversion time shown by VMware Converter was… a modest… 4.5 hours, all because of encryption.

I understand encryption when transmitting over a public network, but over a LAN…?!

After disabling encryption, the transfer took 40 minutes.

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