Found the issue! After some research and discussion with Cisco, we had to add “PIM” to the vlan on our core, even though both the server and client are both on the same vlan!
Used the command - ip pim sparse-dense-mode on vlan 1 interface and it started working like a charm! I really appreciate everyone’s assistance here. This will help our institution so very much.
As always, the community comes through! Not sure how this got askew, but following these directions I was able to fix the issues. The image pulled correctly and at the end updated the database info. The image is good, I am all set. Thank you again this was awesome!
@Tom-Elliott Good thinking, I just attempted that but it seemed to make no difference. My clients still seem to hang on the partclone screen. I did reach out to Cisco to check to see if my 6509E core switch has all the correct settings on it for multicasting. I also made sure the port the server was on is using “port-fast”. It worked like a charm the moment I plugged it into the edge switch. I will do some more testing while I wait for Cisco to answer me back. Sorry for all the back and forth with this, I really do appreciate this product, it’s developers, and the dedicated community behind it.
@george1421 I watched during the deploy but didn’t see anything relating to which bzimage version it is using. Odd. I have a feeling it is still using the other bzimage. I am going to test by backing up the current 4.19.101 bzimage and renaming the bzimage533 to “bzimage”. Just a temporary test.
@Sebastian-Roth Testing with newer init with partclone 0.3.13 and kernel 4.19.101 seems to fix my slowness in deployment of images. I am seeing speeds of 9GB or more in my testing now. I am guessing it is the partclone that is causing the slowness in some environments. Will continue to test and utilize 0.3.13 partclone to verify theory.
@Sebastian-Roth Thank you for all you and everyone does. I agree with you this was a good choice to make a second topic out of. This is working well now and I greatly appreciate all the assistance!
@Sebastian-Roth Testing with newer init with partclone 0.3.13 and kernel 4.19.101 seems to fix my slowness in deployment of images. I am seeing speeds of 9GB or more in my testing now. I am guessing it is the partclone that is causing the slowness in some environments. Will continue to test and utilize 0.3.13 partclone to verify theory.
@Sebastian-Roth Can confirm that after testing this in my environment with the new init (partclone 0.3.13) and the latest dev Kernel specified, things are back to fast again. Average in my environment was somewhere around 9/GB per minute.
@Sebastian-Roth My apologies if this is too forward, but would the latest build with 0.3.13 be able to be installed by myself as well? I would love to test 0.3.13 to see if it fixes my slowness issue as well. I would gladly report back my findings.
@64bitfury We only did the web UI. We ended up giving it a DNS entry, getting our commercial certificate, and then installing the cert in Apache on the server. It wasn’t FOG specific, it was more installing a cert on Apache that you have to go through. Have you had much experience in commercial certificates?
Do you mean just securing the web UI with a certificate? Or do you mean securing the client communication between the server and the client with a cert? I have done the former.
@Tom-Elliott I tried some newer kernels like 5.3.3 as well as what shipped with 1.5.7 (kernel version 4.19.48). I tried using the original version of init.xz but it claimed my memory was too low or something of that nature so I switched it back. The speed didn’t seem to change at all on any of the different kernels, almost like the speed wasn’t related to those kernels. Also as another piece of information I am using UEFI pxe booting with ipxe.efi as the boot file.
I just updated to 1.5.7.115 but no change at all. Just for full disclosure.
@Tom-Elliott It is possible it is something in my environment. Typically it is a single machine (imaged either via the console, or directly from the machine itself by a member of our desktop support team). It seemed related to the version because I first noticed it after I upgraded from 1.5.7 to the dev version of 1.5.8 and then later the dev version of 1.5.7.102. It went from like 12GB/min to 4GB/min or 1GB/min. The servers are production boxes so I can’t make too many changes without potentially affecting others but it still seems like it is related to the update I did. Perhaps the update of partclone? Also I noticed that when I pulled an image today for testing, the capture was super quick at 10GB/min but the deploys to the same machine and others like it were 4GB or less. I feel like I am missing something extremely mundane and obvious.
@Sebastian-Roth They are normal SSD sata drives for the most part. I was told by a member of the desktop team today though that they tried to image an Optiplex 7070 with an M2 solid state drive (the ram style drives) and it was around 1.4gb per minute.
I will certainly try to make some changes, but the fixes that came with the dev version far outweigh the speed issues I am having at the moment. Hoping some bug fixes in the 1.5.8 version will do the trick. I will keep testing as I can. Thank you all for your help for now!
@Sebastian-Roth said in Slowness after upgrade to 1.5.7.102 (dev branch):
file /var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe/bzImage533
Good catch, found the typo and got it to deploy. The speed is the exact same however. I stepped through all the steps, verified the 5.5.3 Kernel and the speed is around 950mb per minute. Way slower than my usual. Part Clone is .3.12, I tried using the old init.xy file from 1.5.7 but it claimed I didn’t have enough memory. Very very odd. Do I just deal with it until stable version of 1.5.8 comes out maybe?