CMSevilla
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Hello, I've been using FreeNAS 9.3 stable for about a year and a half now, never had issues with it until I did something lacking research today. I've searched the forums and found some topics similar to this one, but I haven't seen something exactly like this here--and if I missed it, by all means show me where if possible.
First, some details:
FreeNAS 9.3 running inside ESXI 6.0
FreeNAS is installed in a 16GB vdisk
Using LSI 9211-8i in IT mode via PCI Passthrough
4 x 4TB Seagate NAS drives in RAIDZ1
20GB of ECC DDR3 RAM allocated to this VM
1Gb network
No cache SSD
Today I got the urge to upgrade from 9.3 to version 11. I checked some videos out and some tutorials and it seemed fairly straightforward. Without too much hesitation (after making sure all data was backed up/made a snapshot of the VM) I went ahead and tried to do the upgrade through the option within the FreeNAS GUI. I changed the track to FreeNAS 11 (STABLE) and downloaded the components and asked it to reboot when complete.
Along the way of the installer...it got stuck. I wish I had the screenshot, but it didn't make it past the black screen where it's running through the config/processes when it tries to boot. It stayed there for 20+ mins before I figured I'd cancel this and revert back to my snapshot and much to my expectation, it came back to normal, or so I thought.
I began to notice that double clicking into the network share in Windows I created in a FreeNAS dataset would hang, and after maybe 10-15 seconds it'd continue. I thought maybe it was a fluke with my network, mostly because after the 1st occurrence, it'd be fine and work normally.
Still keen to try again to upgrade to 11, I had remember that I didn't have all my Plex media fully backed up, so I opened up ROBOCOPY via the command prompt and ran a copy/mirror function as I have hundreds of times in the past without issues. The file transfer began and randomly it'd stop at whatever % it was...and after 15 to 20 secs it'd continue...it did this many times in the span of an hour. I did a copy/paste over the Windows file explorer and noticed the transfer speed would drop to 0 MB/s....stay there for like 15 seconds...and then resume.
Now one thing worth mentioning is that no, this isn't something I may just not have noticed in the past. I know it may dip from time to time, but hitting 0 and staying that way many times over a single file transfer/ROBOCOPY doesn't seem right.
Did I screw up my FreeNAS installation? And even so...how? I made a snapshot before ANY changes were made to the VM. Shouldn't it have just literally picked up where it left off? I also noticed it takes probably 3 times as long to go from completely off to on.
At this point I may just start from scratch and build a new FreeNAS 11 VM and use that, but I just want to know if I may have caused a problem by upgrading it. Is it not recommended at all to do any upgrades if FreeNAS is on ESXI?
Any feedback would be helpful.
First, some details:
FreeNAS 9.3 running inside ESXI 6.0
FreeNAS is installed in a 16GB vdisk
Using LSI 9211-8i in IT mode via PCI Passthrough
4 x 4TB Seagate NAS drives in RAIDZ1
20GB of ECC DDR3 RAM allocated to this VM
1Gb network
No cache SSD
Today I got the urge to upgrade from 9.3 to version 11. I checked some videos out and some tutorials and it seemed fairly straightforward. Without too much hesitation (after making sure all data was backed up/made a snapshot of the VM) I went ahead and tried to do the upgrade through the option within the FreeNAS GUI. I changed the track to FreeNAS 11 (STABLE) and downloaded the components and asked it to reboot when complete.
Along the way of the installer...it got stuck. I wish I had the screenshot, but it didn't make it past the black screen where it's running through the config/processes when it tries to boot. It stayed there for 20+ mins before I figured I'd cancel this and revert back to my snapshot and much to my expectation, it came back to normal, or so I thought.
I began to notice that double clicking into the network share in Windows I created in a FreeNAS dataset would hang, and after maybe 10-15 seconds it'd continue. I thought maybe it was a fluke with my network, mostly because after the 1st occurrence, it'd be fine and work normally.
Still keen to try again to upgrade to 11, I had remember that I didn't have all my Plex media fully backed up, so I opened up ROBOCOPY via the command prompt and ran a copy/mirror function as I have hundreds of times in the past without issues. The file transfer began and randomly it'd stop at whatever % it was...and after 15 to 20 secs it'd continue...it did this many times in the span of an hour. I did a copy/paste over the Windows file explorer and noticed the transfer speed would drop to 0 MB/s....stay there for like 15 seconds...and then resume.
Now one thing worth mentioning is that no, this isn't something I may just not have noticed in the past. I know it may dip from time to time, but hitting 0 and staying that way many times over a single file transfer/ROBOCOPY doesn't seem right.
Did I screw up my FreeNAS installation? And even so...how? I made a snapshot before ANY changes were made to the VM. Shouldn't it have just literally picked up where it left off? I also noticed it takes probably 3 times as long to go from completely off to on.
At this point I may just start from scratch and build a new FreeNAS 11 VM and use that, but I just want to know if I may have caused a problem by upgrading it. Is it not recommended at all to do any upgrades if FreeNAS is on ESXI?
Any feedback would be helpful.
