Andrew Clarke

Could someone on the forum please have a look at this gentlemans syslog.txt and see if there are any errors that we're unable to resolve. Larry Crandall (an unRaid user I've been helping resolve some filesystems errors) Potential problems with eth0 (undiagnosed but hopefully this is why we're trying to investigate) Realtek PCI-E Gigabit LAN Controller 8111E (integrated) @lawrence1986 syslog.txt

Not quite sure why it was connecting through proxy. Unfortunately I was trying to diagnose this without a computer in front of me. Just a little bit difficult. Glad to hear youve come to a solution on it Clambert.

A welcome $0.02 thank you HawiHoney I shall endevour to do this when I get some time free. I've just bought a spare z270m motherboard and plugged a spare i3-6100 sat round doing nothing in to it for better IOPS (was running i7-3770k), but that was on a DDR3 Z75 Pro3 motherboard. Thanks for the feedback. I'll be pinning this discussion and using it when I purchase the 10gig switch and dual NVMe drives. Thanks

Thats what I thought hawihoney thankyou. Appreciate that the throughput is a questionable factor but thats basically the information I was after. Yea its a bit of a no brainer when you think about it. I meam 500MBps vs 3GBps is a substantial increase in performance. Now I know what Im looking for NVMe drive wise, I shall be looking to buy a minature 10gigabit switch and two 512gb NVMe drives and then look to rearrange my whole setup so its a bit cleaner and tidyer. I imagine that I would want to run the NVMe drives in the cache pool and use SSDs for storage? Thanks for your help guys

Hmm... From the Chromebook I assume you can ping the host (192.168.86.3). If network comms are OK, I suspect its gonna be a setting within noVNC thats causing it. Failing this I would recommend something like tightvnc or vncviewer from the chromebook. I know this is a daft question to ask but your VM is turned on? Are you sure it hasnt crashed? Check to make sure it actually says port 5900. Each VM thats made, when started, is issued its own VNC port. Ports start at 5900 and then increment by 1 for each active VM within the pool. Hope this is of some help.

Would I see any measurable peformance increase over using NVMe M.2 drives in comparison to running say SATA M.2 drives guys?

Anyone had any experience with running NVMe drives in an unRaid configuration? Just looking to find the most optimal performance benefits from running NVMe drives in an unRaid setup. Thanks guys

I assume that your Chromebook is on the same network as your unraid server is on? Your not trying to run these seperately are you?

A lot of people have said in previous topics about dumping the graphics cards BIOS from terminal. Have you tried dumping the BIOS of the graphics card to a file and then ensuring the VM tries using this ROM for output? See the below video link on dumping bios using putty or any ither SSH tool. Note: Failing the below, you could VBIOS dump using GPU-Z. This seems to be quite a common problem.

IP should be the IP address of the host server and each time a VM starts is spawns a new port, so if you only have one VM running it should start on port 5900 not 5700. Try connecting to 5900 with a software install VNC Viewer instead and this should get around the problem. Ports are normally listed on the VM host page of the unRaid server in question.

I imagine its a Windows PE environment issue because its a limited version of Explorer.

Are you pointing your search path for drivers at the root of the CD drive, or did you select a folder from within the CD drive for drivers? Windows 10 for example wont look at subfolders in the drive selection screen. You need to manually select the driver in order to install this. Windows Server 2019 works on the same kernel as Windows 10 so I expect this to be a problem across all versions of Windows. Thanks

Thanks testdasi. Ive just clean swapped out my motherboard on my unraid server to a core i3 6th gen board with NVMe capability. Would i be better off using an NVMe stick in cache or storage? Thanks 🙂

Hey guys, Quick question. Whats better? Single 240gig SSD in cache or dual 120gig SSD in cache? Just wondered if theres any performance increase to be had from having another hard drive to the cache pool or not. Thanks for any info put forwards. Cheers