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I just hate when someone doesn’t post what they ended up doing… Oh wait ! That was me !

Anyway, I went the route easiest to flow… I can be lazy like that.

I has an issue with the drive. For whatever reason it mounted, expanded, did what it should. However something was goofed in the expansion so it was of no use. Partclone didn’t see any images when it came time to deploy ( Not at all a fog issue )

I had a backup clone of Fog with the same 1.8Tb of data. One of the many reasons I LOVE ESXI.

Changed the IP address, fired it up ( Both VM’s at once ) My images are on a separate disk ( separate vmdk, basically like using 2 hard drives )

So I just dropped the bad disk on the new build in vSphere, created a new disk of the size I needed this time. Created the partition with the correct tools for GPT. Formatted it ext4, and then was time for some Linux magic

Now with the clone and new build running, I just ran rsync keeping the permissions on everything. Went home because even on a DAS to DAS , 1.8Tb is a lot of freaking images

Woke up and all is well. Updated to Trunk 4443. Now it was time to test.

What I was shocked at was the speed… I would have done this a long time ago if I knew how freakishly fast this was going to be !

Client : HP Elite 8200 Desktop CMT, i7, 8Gb, 120 SSD. I build my master images on SSD’s

I start @ 16GB/min and settle down at about 14.5GB/min download. ( Single Disk Resizable / Compression @ 6 )

I upload starting @ 5GB/min and soon hold about 6.5GB/min

On ESXi I’m a happy camper, I thought the numbers were wrong at first.

Again big thanks to the Fog project and all that help !

@george1421 Every time I think I’m a nerd, I see George break down a setting in a 3 paragraphs, dissecting it in the craziest detail.

You guys rock. That level of detail is seriously helpful. Allowing us to learn other things in the process to help us later. When I see that effort to help someone, I just like to call it out !

I’m the kind of guy that needs to take everything apart to see how it all works. You guys definitely help to paint the picture.

Ok, as I hate people that don’t come back. I try my best not to be that guy.

FOG problem = Nope… As usual.

Problem with dropouts, scrambled data. Proxmox 8 is very angry with my onboard nic. It uploads without issue (and very fast I may say) But deployment it just crapped out. Every time it re-connected, Fog just tried to do it’s job over and over. The blast of data just shut the nic down.

Finally found this looking in the Proxmox log. Found ethernet adapter hang detected, then reset.

Also a great excuse to finally order that dual 10Gb card. She’s happy now running full speed. Hopefully faster when the 10Gb switch shows up

Thanks to all that looked over this, and even more for the reply. !

@Wayne-Workman

I have Veeam as well as vSphere VDR, I should be able to use Veeam for files only. I was hoping something stupid I was overlooking ( I can hope ) However I would have to agree at this point something has to be off. I thought when I first set it up I would be golden, not realizing that fdisk and mbr has the 2Tb limit. And that was fine for a while, but I seem to fill that rather quick. Now with Windows 10 my images will likely double, so I’m shooting for 6Tb I’m thinking.

Or maybe better yet a couple 2Tb vdisk ? So that way if one messes up I can just move 2Tb worse case, because I know 2Tb alone will take most of a day just to move. Even though ESXi is all in one box, it still acts like it’s transferring through a 1Gb switch. Not disk to disk.

Anyway, many thanks for your time and effort ! I’ll pay better attention and make sure I’m using my full disk before I ever start loading images

Again thanks for your time, and Fog !

All the best !

You stated this …

Then one day last week, my client image size said 0. I read somewhere in the forum where installing the Trunk version will fix it.

So this issue was present before the upgrade ? Just trying to see if the problem is not the upgrade itself.

I have seen brown out’s freak out switches and routers… Messes up nvram in some cases, I would have to reprogram routers even when settings look fine. And yes, full clear and setup.

If the switch did that again I would think about ditching it. Bad switches do crazy things.

@george1421 Actually I figured it out (When you pointed me in the right direction )

My first item ( newer image )

item -Win10–1803–o16–ninite–8-28-18 -Win10–1803–o16–ninite–8-28-18 (89)

It see’s the -Win10 and pissed it off. I created it that way so it would be on the top of the list… And not knowing a “-” would piss it off.

Changed the name of the image, as well as the directory name it was in.

Now the menu opens after I log in !!

Can’t say enough about you guys, huge help here !!!

Many thanks for your time and steering me in the direction !!