How to copy a 200GB file faster?

Solution 1:

To be real down and dirty you can use netcat.

On the sender

cat {filename} | nc -l 3333

On the receiver

nc {sender_ip_address} 3333 > {filename}

Since there will be nearly no application overhead, you should only be limited by IO, whether disk or network.

Solution 2:

Use an unencrypted transfer method that doesn't do compression. I'd suggest FTP, given how simple it is to setup and the lack of chatty protocol, like Samba

Solution 3:

Good points from Matt again, you might also consider ensuring you have the latest VMtools installed on Server B.