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@trurl So, now after all that...I still have the 1gb SSD sitting on my desk. Back to your original question, what do I plan to do it? I'd like to increase the size of the Cache so I can add more vdisks associated with vms on the domains share. What is the best way to do that?

@trurl Well, after all that great info you provided, I think I'm now past "newbee". I have the system set up pretty well right now. Here is my set up: I shrunk my vdisks down to the minimum - just enough for the O/S and main programs. I have that on domains w/cache. I have another vdisk that I can't shrink right now, so I moved it to another Share w/o cache until I can resize it properly and them move it back to domains. I have a appdata share that I'm using to application programs with cache I have a data share for cad and video without cache So, it all seems to be working well with either mounting shares as drives or using symbolic links when "C:" drive is required installing a app.

@trurl Fantastic. Now, that we are level-set, what would suggest for the following: What part of the domains should be removed from the array? We have a VM with disk 1 and disk 2. I thought you need to run a VM on the array? We need at least 265gb to store the apps and and O/S for this VM. (Am I misunderstanding the relationship between Arrays, vms, and vdisks?) Should we increase the size of our Cache? As we started this thread, we purchased a 1gb drive to do so. But, with your suggestion in this thread, we don't seem need to increase it anymore. Agreed? Based on the fact that we have an storage array of 7.46 gb, is that the best practice for utilization? Above, you seem to suggest that we should store our files (in our case - cad and video) somewhere else. Can you elaborate?

@trurl Here is my current Share setup. I ran mover last night. I attached diags. renderserver-diagnostics-20220616-0850.zip

@trurl Attached. Thank you. Note: At the time of of this download, I don't have any VMs running. renderserver-diagnostics-20220615-0825.zip

@trurl No files at the top of cache: root@RenderServer:/mnt/cache# ls -l total 0 drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users 0 Jun 14 18:41 appdata/ drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users 30 Jun 14 10:08 domains/ drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users 12 Nov 3 2020 system/

Nothing in here: root@RenderServer:/mnt/cache/system/docker# ls root@RenderServer:/mnt/cache/system/docker# Only 1 file in here for my one test VM: root@RenderServer:/mnt/cache/domains# ls Windows\ 10\ TEST/ root@RenderServer:/mnt/cache/domains# cd Windows\ 10\ TEST/ root@RenderServer:/mnt/cache/domains/Windows 10 TEST# ls vdisk1.img In System I found this: root@RenderServer:/mnt/disk1# cd system root@RenderServer:/mnt/disk1/system# ls docker/ libvirt/ root@RenderServer:/mnt/disk1/system# cd docker root@RenderServer:/mnt/disk1/system/docker# ls root@RenderServer:/mnt/disk1/system/docker# cd .. root@RenderServer:/mnt/disk1/system# ls docker/ libvirt/ root@RenderServer:/mnt/disk1/system# cd libvirt/ root@RenderServer:/mnt/disk1/system/libvirt# ls -l total 1048576 -rw-rw-rw- 1 nobody users 1073741824 Jun 14 17:56 libvirt.img @trurl I didn't find any duplicates - agreed? Here are my disk files: root@RenderServer:~# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 65824696 890084 64934612 2% / tmpfs 32768 452 32316 2% /run /dev/sdc1 15612024 676616 14935408 5% /boot overlay 65824696 890084 64934612 2% /lib/firmware overlay 65824696 890084 64934612 2% /lib/modules devtmpfs 8192 0 8192 0% /dev tmpfs 65895440 0 65895440 0% /dev/shm cgroup_root 8192 0 8192 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 131072 468 130604 1% /var/log tmpfs 1024 0 1024 0% /mnt/disks tmpfs 1024 0 1024 0% /mnt/remotes tmpfs 1024 0 1024 0% /mnt/rootshare /dev/md1 976285620 421643424 554642196 44% /mnt/disk1 /dev/md2 7811939620 1066612328 6745327292 14% /mnt/disk2 /dev/sdf1 488386552 19404732 467906148 4% /mnt/cache shfs 8788225240 1488255752 7299969488 17% /mnt/user0 shfs 8788225240 1488255752 7299969488 17% /mnt/user /dev/sda1 976759804 837085300 139674504 86% /mnt/disks/External-Disk /dev/sdb2 3906885628 2299209608 1607676020 59% /mnt/disks/Seagate_Backup_Plus_Drive //192.168.1.99/External-Disk 976759804 837085300 139674504 86% /mnt/remotes/192.168.1.99_External-Disk /dev/loop2 1048576 4216 925832 1% /etc/libvirt I do find that these are identical. Not sure why they are two places.

The final fix was to rebuild a VM from scratch. It seems that once we upgraded the PCI controllers needed a whole different set of settings. Thanks to all that helped. Especially @ghost82

renderserver-diagnostics-20220614-0752.zip

@trurl After I ran Mover, here is what my Shares looks like. I appears that I would need quite a bit more Cache disk size to leave Domains and System on "Yes". Do you agree? I have a new 1.0TB drive that I can add, if need be. Also, I notices that Cache has a warning now. Not sure why? NOTE: I have NOT restarted the system, turned on the Array, Docker or VMs as of this screen shot. Currently, I'm waiting for the Parity Check to complete (8 more hrs.)

@trurl Thank for the help. I ran the mover. I'm now doing a parity check (10 hrs). After which, I will set up the cache as you prescribed above and see how we do. Thanks again! Erok

@trurl Here is how my system is set now, any suggestions?