[quote=“Jaymes Driver, post: 21135, member: 3582”]But as VincentJ stated, it could be a problem with the IDE nature of the hard drives in the virtual hardware itself. I know when I use VMWare I had to build a custom kernel that included scsi drives just to be able to upload, and it was ALWAYS painful to upload from VMWare. I [U][B]NEVER[/B][/U] solved the issue with slow uploads. I switched to using VirtualBox instead. It uploads WAYYYYY faster than VMWare could have hoped to.

I know that’s probably not what you wanted to hear, but I would test some other physical hardware (Nothing spectacular just upload and image and push it to a test machine) so you can see if the speeds are normal. If the image uploads/downloads at a decent rate, you know the issue has to be with the virtual hardware. In which case I would recommend building a custom kernel, which MAY NOT solve the issue.

Hell I will link you another topic I was a part of about this discussion maybe you can pull some information from it.

[URL=‘http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/slow-upload-from-vmware-esxi.4541/#post-13208’]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/slow-upload-from-vmware-esxi.4541/[/URL]
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/increase-vmware-host-upload-speeds.4388/[/url]

In these particular topics you can see the discussion I had with the posters, some decided to barate me instead of condusively figuring out the issue. Some people have no issues with VMWare, but I never could get anyone to stick around long enough to troubleshoot the issue with me.[/quote]

I set my virtual machine HD’s to SATA, IDE & SCSi are options but i don’t use either… should i bother trying the other ways? also it uploads slow on brand new hardware… but if i run the old fog .32 withtout partclone i don’t deploy as fast but i pull at 500-700mb/min vs topping out under 300mb/minute so i don’t think its my hardware. PartClone just seems a lot slower at pulling…

[quote=“VincentJ, post: 21123, member: 8935”]how many vCPUs does the VM that is uploading have?
What is running your DHCP service for the VMs? I always have pfsense to run DHCP on my test networks, never tried the internal one.[/quote]

2 CPU’s @ 2 core’s when on my AMD. but when on my mac its a single processor dual core. but on my mac i can’t even get it to pull. and in a real hardware situation the uploading machine is a core i5 with 4gb of ram and a 5400rpm HD. and with i upload the image with fog .32 it is much much much faster at least 1/3 the time

[quote=“VincentJ, post: 21121, member: 8935”]Compression might be hurting your upload… Depending on how many vCPUs are on your guest. And if your SSD is sandforce based it will get it’s speed boost by using compression… I get similar speeds to you with 1 normal HDD in my test server.

What hypervisor are you using? I use ESXi and Virtualbox. ESXi needs IDE devices (possibly not needed anymore on 0.33b) and virtualbox works out of the box for me.[/quote]

On my mac i am using VMWare Fusion 6.0 and i can’t get it to pull it refuses to mount the images folder. My Mac is a Dual Core i7 with 8gb of ram and a 256gb SSD.

My PC is an 8 Core AMD with 32GB of ram and a 512gb SSD Running Workstation 10.0 which I did get it to pull but after it pulled it failed to connect to the TFTP it had lost connection and wouldn’t re-establish connection so i guess it failed, after waiting over an hour for it to pull a simple windows 7 image, and it is compressing if i build this image on real hardware and pull to real hardware its like 40gb but the image on the server is around 10gb so it has to be compressing already

OS: Ubuntu 13.10
Fog: 0.33b

1st: No Matter how i do it I cannot seem to pull from a virtual machine to my virtual machine FOG server. it refuses to mount the share from the server. If i boot the windows 7 guest with the fog server running it will not pull a dhcp address despite both machines being on private to my mac. But it will PXE boot just not upload. If copy both Virtual Machines to my Windows 7 PC and set them both to a virtual network it seems to work fine.

2nd: PartClone uploads horrifically slow. I am talking maxing out at 250mb/min on my SSD powered everything sitting on my SSD virtual machines. Its no faster on our dedicated fog server with all gigabit connections Any way to make this faster?

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[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/465_partclone.png?:”]partclone.png[/url]

[quote=“chad-bisd, post: 14605, member: 18”]You may have to configure multicast groups/preferences in the switch. We use DLINK DGS-3120 POE series switches, and they had some advanced settings for making Multicast work for some other applications.

A few things to note about multicast. They only go as fast as the slowest client, and I believe use a lot more memory on the server as the image is decompressed on the server before being sent out to all the clients.[/quote]

all our machines are brand new Dell latitude 3330’s with Identical spec’s and all imaged perfectly with unicast. I am not sure our switches truly support multicast. Despite Netgear claiming they do.

[quote=“Jaymes Driver, post: 19917, member: 3582”]it is a repository for HTMLdoc hosted and distributed by the Elrepo group.

alternatively, there are posts about the problem you are experiencing, pertaining specifically to CentOS, you can find SOME documentation (not much, it would be nice if someone familiar in CentOS would do a write up of full installation for noobs like we have with Ubuntu) here on the forums.

this works for CentOs 6.2 should work for 6.4 as well, this uses RPMforge instead of elrepo.

[LIST]
[]wget [url]http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/[/url][URL=‘http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm’]rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm[/URL]
[]rpm -i [URL=‘http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm’]rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm[/URL]
[*]yum install htmldoc
[/LIST]
[/quote]
thank you for the reply. The middle command did not work but the first and last did and it appears to be downloaded and running but i am still getting errors… the DHCP service isn’t starting.
[CODE][root@CentFog usr]# cd /home/fogtech/fog_0.33b/bin
[root@CentFog bin]# ls
installfog.sh
[root@CentFog bin]# ./installfog.sh

  ..#######:.    ..,#,..    .::##::.

.:###### .:;####:…;#;…
…##… …##;,;##::::.##…
,# …##…##:::## …::
## .::###,##. . ##.::#.:######::.
…##:::###::…#. … .#…#. #…#:::.
…:####:… …##…##::## … #
# . …##:,;##;:::#: … ##…
.# . .:;####;::::.##:::;#:…
# …:;###…

###########################################

FOG

Free Computer Imaging Solution

http://www.fogproject.org/

Developers:

Chuck Syperski

Jian Zhang

Peter Gilchrist

GNU GPL Version 3

###########################################

Version: 0.33BETA Installer/Updater

What version of Linux would you like to run the installtion for?

      1) Redhat Based Linux (Redhat, Fedora, CentOS)
      2) Debian Based Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu)

Choice: [1]1

Staring Redhat / Fedora / CentOS Installation.

FOG Server installation modes:
* Normal Server: (Choice N)
This is the typical installation type and
will install all FOG components for you on this
machine. Pick this option if you are unsure what to pick.

  * Storage Node: (Choice S)
      This install mode will only install the software required
      to make this server act as a node in a storage group

More information:
http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=InstallationModes

What type of installation would you like to do? [N]

What is the IP address to be used by this FOG Server? [172.16.43.134]10.10.10.10

Would you like to setup a router address for the DHCP server? [Y/n] b
Invalid input, please try again.

Would you like to setup a router address for the DHCP server? [Y/n] n

Would you like to setup a DNS address for the DHCP server and client boot image? [Y/n] n

Would you like to change the default network interface from eth0?
If you are not sure, select No. [y/N]n

Would you like to use the FOG server for DHCP service? [Y/n] y

This version of FOG has internationalization support, would
you like to install the additional language packs? [y/N] n

#####################################################################

FOG now has everything it needs to setup your server, but please
understand that this script will overwrite any setting you may
have setup for services like DHCP, apache, pxe, tftp, and NFS.

It is not recommended that you install this on a production system
as this script modifies many of your system settings.

This script should be run by the root user on Fedora, or with sudo on Ubuntu.

Here are the settings FOG will use:
Base Linux: Redhat
Detected Linux Distribution: CentOS
Installation Type: Normal Server
Server IP Address: 10.10.10.10
DHCP router Address:
DHCP DNS Address:
Interface: eth0
Using FOG DHCP: 1
Internationalization: 0

Are you sure you wish to continue (Y/N) y

Installation Started…

Installing required packages, if this fails
make sure you have an active internet connection.

• Packages to be installed: httpd php php-cli php-common php-gd php-mysql mysql mysql-server dhcp tftp-server nfs-utils vsftpd net-tools wget xinetd tar gzip make m4 gcc gcc-c++ htmldoc perl perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5 lftp clamav

• Skipping package: httpd (Already installed)

• Skipping package: php (Already installed)

• Skipping package: php-cli (Already installed)

• Skipping package: php-common (Already installed)

• Skipping package: php-gd (Already installed)

• Skipping package: php-mysql (Already installed)

• Skipping package: mysql (Already installed)

• Skipping package: mysql-server (Already installed)

• Skipping package: dhcp (Already installed)

• Skipping package: tftp-server (Already installed)

• Skipping package: nfs-utils (Already installed)

• Skipping package: vsftpd (Already installed)

• Skipping package: net-tools (Already installed)

• Skipping package: wget (Already installed)

• Skipping package: xinetd (Already installed)

• Skipping package: tar (Already installed)

• Skipping package: gzip (Already installed)

• Skipping package: make (Already installed)

• Skipping package: m4 (Already installed)

• Skipping package: gcc (Already installed)

• Skipping package: gcc-c++ (Already installed)

• Skipping package: htmldoc (Already installed)

• Skipping package: perl (Already installed)

• Skipping package: perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5 (Already installed)

• Skipping package: lftp (Already installed)

• Skipping package: clamav (Already installed)

Confirming package installation.

• Checking package: httpd…OK
• Checking package: php…OK
• Checking package: php-cli…OK
• Checking package: php-common…OK
• Checking package: php-gd…OK
• Checking package: php-mysql…OK
• Checking package: mysql…OK
• Checking package: mysql-server…OK
• Checking package: dhcp…OK
• Checking package: tftp-server…OK
• Checking package: nfs-utils…OK
• Checking package: vsftpd…OK
• Checking package: net-tools…OK
• Checking package: wget…OK
• Checking package: xinetd…OK
• Checking package: tar…OK
• Checking package: gzip…OK
• Checking package: make…OK
• Checking package: m4…OK
• Checking package: gcc…OK
• Checking package: gcc-c++…OK
• Checking package: htmldoc…OK
• Checking package: perl…OK
• Checking package: perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5…OK
• Checking package: lftp…OK
• Checking package: clamav…OK

Configuring services.

• Setting up fog user…Exists
• Setting up and starting MySQL…OK
• Backing up user reports…OK
• Setting up and starting Apache Web Server…OK
• Restoring user reports…OK
• Configuring Fresh Clam…OK
• Setting up storage…OK
• Setting up and starting NFS Server…OK
• Setting up and starting DHCP Server…Failed!
  [/CODE]

I did manage to update my Ubuntu 13.10 build to .33B and it seems to be working but i cannot click the download and upload arrows on the tasks page i have to click the advanced then pick Upload or Download to create the task. Any ideas why that might be?

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 19915, member: 7271”]Make sure you install the elrepo repository for htmldoc.[/quote]

The noob in me says… “Wat” but i’ll google and see what its all about.

so i followed the direction here [url]http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php[/url] while under root. didn’t seem to do anything for the public key import but the RPM install made noise but the installer still failed.

[CODE][fogtech@CentFog ~]$ su
Password:
[root@CentFog fogtech]# cd fog_0.33b
[root@CentFog fog_0.33b]# cd bin
[root@CentFog bin]# ./installfog.sh

  ..#######:.    ..,#,..    .::##::. 

.:###### .:;####:…;#;…
…##… …##;,;##::::.##…
,# …##…##:::## …::
## .::###,##. . ##.::#.:######::.
…##:::###::…#. … .#…#. #…#:::.
…:####:… …##…##::## … #
# . …##:,;##;:::#: … ##…
.# . .:;####;::::.##:::;#:…
# …:;###…

###########################################

FOG

Free Computer Imaging Solution

http://www.fogproject.org/

Developers:

Chuck Syperski

Jian Zhang

Peter Gilchrist

GNU GPL Version 3

###########################################

Version: 0.33BETA Installer/Updater

What version of Linux would you like to run the installtion for?

      1) Redhat Based Linux (Redhat, Fedora, CentOS)
      2) Debian Based Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu)

Choice: [1]1

Staring Redhat / Fedora / CentOS Installation.

FOG Server installation modes:
* Normal Server: (Choice N)
This is the typical installation type and
will install all FOG components for you on this
machine. Pick this option if you are unsure what to pick.

  * Storage Node: (Choice S)
      This install mode will only install the software required
      to make this server act as a node in a storage group

More information:
http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=InstallationModes

What type of installation would you like to do? [N]

What is the IP address to be used by this FOG Server? [172.16.43.134]10.10.10.10

Would you like to setup a router address for the DHCP server? [Y/n] n

Would you like to setup a DNS address for the DHCP server and client boot image? [Y/n] n

Would you like to change the default network interface from eth0?
If you are not sure, select No. [y/N]n

Would you like to use the FOG server for DHCP service? [Y/n] y

This version of FOG has internationalization support, would
you like to install the additional language packs? [y/N] n

#####################################################################

FOG now has everything it needs to setup your server, but please
understand that this script will overwrite any setting you may
have setup for services like DHCP, apache, pxe, tftp, and NFS.

It is not recommended that you install this on a production system
as this script modifies many of your system settings.

This script should be run by the root user on Fedora, or with sudo on Ubuntu.

Here are the settings FOG will use:
Base Linux: Redhat
Detected Linux Distribution: CentOS
Installation Type: Normal Server
Server IP Address: 10.10.10.10
DHCP router Address:
DHCP DNS Address:
Interface: eth0
Using FOG DHCP: 1
Internationalization: 0

Are you sure you wish to continue (Y/N) y

Installation Started…

Installing required packages, if this fails
make sure you have an active internet connection.

• Packages to be installed: httpd php php-cli php-common php-gd php-mysql mysql mysql-server dhcp tftp-server nfs-utils vsftpd net-tools wget xinetd tar gzip make m4 gcc gcc-c++ htmldoc perl perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5 lftp clamav

• Skipping package: httpd (Already installed)

• Skipping package: php (Already installed)

• Skipping package: php-cli (Already installed)

• Skipping package: php-common (Already installed)

• Skipping package: php-gd (Already installed)

• Skipping package: php-mysql (Already installed)

• Skipping package: mysql (Already installed)

• Skipping package: mysql-server (Already installed)

• Skipping package: dhcp (Already installed)

• Skipping package: tftp-server (Already installed)

• Skipping package: nfs-utils (Already installed)

• Skipping package: vsftpd (Already installed)

• Skipping package: net-tools (Already installed)

• Skipping package: wget (Already installed)

• Skipping package: xinetd (Already installed)

• Skipping package: tar (Already installed)

• Skipping package: gzip (Already installed)

• Skipping package: make (Already installed)

• Skipping package: m4 (Already installed)

• Skipping package: gcc (Already installed)

• Skipping package: gcc-c++ (Already installed)

• Installing package: htmldoc
  Error: Nothing to do

• Skipping package: perl (Already installed)

• Skipping package: perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5 (Already installed)

• Skipping package: lftp (Already installed)

• Installing package: clamav
  Error: Nothing to do

Confirming package installation.

• Checking package: httpd…OK
• Checking package: php…OK
• Checking package: php-cli…OK
• Checking package: php-common…OK
• Checking package: php-gd…OK
• Checking package: php-mysql…OK
• Checking package: mysql…OK
• Checking package: mysql-server…OK
• Checking package: dhcp…OK
• Checking package: tftp-server…OK
• Checking package: nfs-utils…OK
• Checking package: vsftpd…OK
• Checking package: net-tools…OK
• Checking package: wget…OK
• Checking package: xinetd…OK
• Checking package: tar…OK
• Checking package: gzip…OK
• Checking package: make…OK
• Checking package: m4…OK
• Checking package: gcc…OK
• Checking package: gcc-c++…OK
• Checking package: htmldoc…Failed!
  [/CODE]

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 19909, member: 7271”]I run CentOS 6.4.[/quote]

I cannot get it to install on a fresh copy of 6.4… It gets down to checking package htmldoc and fails it has several other warning further up but seems to get past them… attached is my full install log.

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/442_foglog.txt?:”]foglog.txt[/url]

What Version and distro are you using this 0.33b on? i’d love to try it out.

File did not attach to first post and edit isn’t working right on the new firefox?

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/441_error.txt?:”]error.txt[/url]

I am unable to create new tasks… when i click either the up or down arrow on the host it loads a semi blank page. I went into my apache2 log and pulled this out of the end… any help would be appreciated. I have done some digging and some people are blaming it on php being to new… I am running a brand new ubuntu 13.10 install I used the information from my other post to get it build UDPCast correctly to get it install. I can PXE boot to the menu i can register and i can tell it to fog… but since I cannot upload images all i can do is deploy images i’ve copied to this from my old FOG.

I used this to get my FOG to install… but i am still unable to start a task… Someone mentioned it might be the PHP version… can i downgrade that without botching the install?

[quote=“Gavin Behrens, post: 14303, member: 11980”]under storage management - all stroage nodes - default member(or whatever node it’s going from) there’s a field for max clients - the deafult value is 10. As a rule of thumb though I usually stick to multicasting to all hosts on the same physical switch as there can be some timing issues using xover-uplinks from switch to switch , though have tested on multiple switches that have had trunked vlans and all work fine at full speed 4.5GB/min. let me know how you get on.[/quote]

Thank you very much

WE have several Netgear GS724T switches that unicast just fine up to 23 clients at a wonderfull 1gib/min, now if i multicast with these switches the speed drops to 300mib/min… i see nothing about mutli-cast short of the storm control… as its explained in the help on the router web interface its to stop flooding of packets… and not what i am looking for… Can someone possibly lend me a hand with getting this working? do i need jumbo frames enabled?

As for some unknown reason i cannot multi cast to the 200+ new dells a school as recieved the gigabit switch is multicast enabled and if i unicast to any one machine i get 3.5-4 gib/min but if multicast to 20 at once (24 port switch) they max out around 230mib/min… its a managed netgear and it is off network in its own… I’ve made sure anything multicast is on and up… So for whatever reason that won’t work. I am going to get stuck unicasting but i want to do more than 10 at a time … and i can’t seem to. at the magic 10 mark i get to sit and wait for one machien to fall off for another to start… I scoured the config and only saw a multicast max client setting… where is the Unicast?

[quote=“Jaymes Driver, post: 14260, member: 3582”]That’s insane!!! Well I’m glad you found it. We are still running office 2007, and I am pretty sure the SMART boards we use are the 400 model, but don’t quote me on that :)[/quote]

We Run 620’s pretty much everywhere… BUt i don’t think the software is any different between models… I am not sure what caused it… but for all but one of our sites its an unfixable problem…

[quote=“Jaymes Driver, post: 14248, member: 3582”]Umm What verision of the software are you using, because we use the SMART board system and I deploy my image with the software and drivers already installed.

Try pushing an image with the smart software ommited on a test machine, if it works that way, try to install the software after it is imaged and see if the issue still arises.[/quote]

Thats what was done. One of our sites doesn’t use smartboards so when i deployed the image to custom tailor it for the new site i pulled the smartboard stuff off and after a sysprep and deployment the checkboxes problem went away. the only other change really was downgrading office 2010 to 2007 and i can’t imagine office doing. as we have several of each type of image and they all do it but the one school without smartboards.

I believe I found the issue… SMART BOard Smart Software is causing the issues… It was uninstalled for one of the sites we are doing and the deployed image didn’t have the Checkboxes for select. So Eureka i guess. sad part is we need the smart software on all the pcs… ohh well

[quote=“Jaymes Driver, post: 14149, member: 3582”]I’m with smshahan I have made 12+ images of windwos 7 and imaged with fog and I have NEVER experienced this. I have however ran into issues with my user accounts in my early sysprep stages, but since then I have gotten a better grasp.

I would first start with a blank image on a virtual server, sysprep it with your CURRENT unattend file. If you don’t encounter the issue, then it is not with the Sysprep process. This is only to troubleshoot your unattend file. IMHO the unattend file is the most daunting task of the sysprep process.

If your sysprep files isn’t the issue, I would say it is a rogue program or a setting in the AD or Group Policy Settings. Again I’ve not encountered this issue so I can’t tell you exactly what it is. I would give that Link above a shot on one of your units, if it solves the issue then push out the Regfile as a log in script.[/quote]

I don’t know where the unattend file is… we’ve used this process for three years this is the first year its ever acted horrible. To build an image we install Windows 7 Pro 64bit or 32bit to a target model machine… Install device drivers… run windows update till its done. Add our apps. update again to update the microsoft apps. and run sysprep with OOBE and generalize and reboot selected. thats it… no idea why its being Evil this year.

[quote=“smshahan, post: 14132, member: 2574”]Is this what you are referring to?

[url]http://lifehacker.com/5432923/enable-check-box-selection-in-windows-7[/url][/quote]

Yes this is exactly what I am referring to. Sysprep is doing it… or something in the default FOG post scripting is doing it… Neither of which I can determine to be the cause.