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I've got my BI5 installed under ESXi 6.7 and have a 1TB drive allocated for clip storage. This hopefully to prolong the availability of clips to beyond 90 days. I have struggled with the manual instructions on setting up this and still get an over allocation error... which doesn't make much sense to me. The manual isn't much help. I have allocated 849GB of the 920Gb storage to avoid using the "very last byte". My efforts have failed... I'm still getting this error message:
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Show us the numbers in the Clip and Archiving location you are actually assigning/allocating.
 

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What amount did you allocate on Stored? Is Stored and New the same location? Also, is the Windows OS installed to the same drive? So everything is loaded onto the single 1TB drive?

It only shows you 400MB over. It may have to do with the math of how your hypervisor creates a 1TB drive and how Windows/BI sees a 1TB drive.
 

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What amount did you allocate on Stored? Is Stored and New the same location? Also, is the Windows OS installed to the same drive? So everything is loaded onto the single 1TB drive?

It only shows you 400MB over. It may have to do with the math of how your hypervisor creates a 1TB drive and how Windows/BI sees a 1TB drive.
Stored is ZERO. I have never used it, so didn't bother setting it up.
 

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You also have the option to move to Stored enabled, you need to disable that and let BI manage the clips within New.
 

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You have the New moving to stored. So you must have a stored folder. Even if the stored is zero.
Also your Blue Iris DB may be corrupt. Delete the files in C:\BlueIris\DB then reboot the BI computer

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My Standard allocation post.

1) Do not use time (limit clip age)to determine when BI video files are moved or deleted, only use space. Using time wastes disk space.
2) If New and stored are on the same disk drive do not used stored, set the stored size to zero, set the new folder to delete, not move. All it does is waste CPU time and increase the number of disk writes. You can leave the stored folder on the drive just do not use it.
3) Never allocate over 90% of the total disk drive to BI.
4) if using continuous recording on the BI camera settings, record tab, set the combine and cut video to 1 hour or 3 GB. Really big files are difficult to transfer.
5) it is recommend to NOT store video on an SSD (the C: drive).
6) Do not run the disk defragmenter on the video storage disk drives.
7) Do not run virus scanners on BI folders
8) an alternate way to allocate space on multiple drives is to assign different cameras to different drives, so there is no file movement between new and stored.
9) Never use an External USB drive for the NEW folder. Never use a network drive for the NEW folder.


Advanced storage:
If you are using a complete disk for large video file storage (BVR) continuous recording, I recommend formatting the disk, with a windows cluster size of 1024K (1 Megabyte). This is a increase from the 4K default. This will reduce the physical number of disk write, decrease the disk fragmentation, speed up access.
Hint:
On the Blue iris status (lighting bolt graph) clip storage tab, if there is any red on the bars you have a allocation problem. If there is no Green, you have no free space, this is bad.
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You also have the option to move to Stored enabled, you need to disable that and let BI manage the clips within New.
Unsure of what the benefit would be... I just didn't want the FIFO stack to be too short. As well some of my recordings seem to be cut off while the motion continues... trying to correct that.
Have never seen "Stored Enabled".
 

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I have 920G available, allocated 849G, leaving 71G unallocated.. I don't understand what is wrong... Seems simple enough... I have way more available than allocated. Not moving anything. Delete after 90 days... simple... ?
 

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Have you tried repairing the DB? I've seen that fix over allocation issues.
 

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You have allocated 920 GB. you can not allocate more then 860.

Is your S drive internal or on an USB or a NAS. If you are running a VM that may be your problem also.


Please provide a screen shots. full frame (use windows 10 snip & sketch tool)
1) windows task manager process tab sorted by memory (most at the top), Must contain, memory, disk, network, GPU, GPU engine columns
2) windows task manager performance, GPU (if you have multiple GPUs, then muitiple screen shots)
3) Blue Iris Setting about tab (black out your license key)
4) Blue iris status (lighting bolt graph, upper left corner) clip storage tab
5) blue Iris status cameras tab
6) Blue iris settings clips and archiving tab , for the NEW folder, stored folder, alerts folder. (three screen shots)
7) on two of the camera prosperities the record tab.
 

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I'm running a HP DL380g7 server. Screenshot from 2020-11-11 12-15-12.png Most of the important data is here in the thumbnail.
I have 920G and have allocated 849... well below the 860 you mentioned.
The S drive is a SATA drive which has been transformed into a ESXi storage drive.1605115471342.pngScreenshot from 2020-11-11 12-21-59.png
 

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again you have allocated 920 GB.
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Blue iris settings clips and archiving tab , for the NEW folder, stored folder, alerts folder. (three screen shots)
 

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On that last screen shot, you have New highlighted. Highlight Stored, take a screen shot. Highlight Alerts, take a screen shot.
 
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