[How to get more then 100MB/s from VM > unraid share?]

Thanks for the info.

 

After a few more hours of troubleshooting I narrowed it down to an issue with the libvirtio driver. I ended up manually stopping it and then rebooting and it seems to of come back online and everything is working as expected now.

 

although I have no idea how the issue started in the first place, this is a fresh install of unraid and this is the first VM I have made.

 

Hopefully it keeps working, if not then I guess I will reinstall before I move my data to an array.

[How to get more then 100MB/s from VM > unraid share?]

I have unraid running good now and just setup a windows 10 VM that I will use to manage backups / synchronization of my data as the software I use does not work on linux (viceversa) and I really like this software.

 

Sadly though the VM is limited to gigabit speeds and is actually using the network according to netdata to access the shares? I get much faster speeds using my separate PC that is connected with a 10gb link (although still slower then bare metal due to the network overhead) but can't tie up that PC while the server runs backups.)

 

This will take a very long time to run backups if using the network as I have around ~1 million small files it has to scan and a normal backup can have upwards of ~100gb of changed data that has to be updated.

 

How can I setup the VM to interact directly on the unraid machine and not go out into the network?

 

I have tried:

 

Installing proper drivers from the virtio iso.

mapping the shares using both the server name and IP address

using different bridges, although only the primary bridge seems to work, virbr gives error "Cannot get interface MTU on 'virbr0': No such device"

[[Support] binhex - qBittorrentVPN]

On 6/3/2020 at 9:52 PM, binhex said:

You don't need to configure qbitorrent, it's all done for you

Sent from my CLT-L09 using Tapatalk
 

Oh, so the port it qbittorrent is already the forwarded port? And it will update the port when it inevitably changes down the road? Very nice!

 

I realized I was only pinging tcp and that is why it failed, when I tried via another method ping succeeded.

 

Very nice plugin, super simple to setup!

[[Support] binhex - qBittorrentVPN]

Ok, google has been zero help with this one strangely.

 

Just got this docker installed and all went smooth using PIA with Canada server so that port forwarding will be enabled.

 

The issue I am having is how do I see what port I am being assigned from PIA so that I can put that into qbittorrent?

 

All I can find online is to run the PIA port forward script but I did that and it just says port forwarding is already enabled with no further information.

[Unassigned Devices - Managing Disk Drives and Remote Shares Outside of The Unraid Array]

6 hours ago, dlandon said:

Update UD and you should be able to use spaces in the share names.

WOW! That was fast and works perfect! Thanks!

 

Saves me a lot of hassle of trying to get everything converted over asap and can now take my time and do it as convenient.

[Unassigned Devices - Managing Disk Drives and Remote Shares Outside of The Unraid Array]

Loving this plugin so far, real nice to be able to try out unraid and get it setup without committing XFS / transferring all my data to this format and preventing me from going back if needed. Also it will take a long time to transfer everything over since I will have to move things to another drive, and back again.

 

I am having an issue though, my old setup was windows and thus I used spaces in the share names without an issue. A lot of devices are mapped to these names and changing them all would be a royal pain at this point.

 

Is there a way to use spaces in the share names with UD?

 

Everytime I try it just turns the space into an underscore?

 

Although unraid itself appears to be able to handle spaces fine.

 

Any tips would be great.

[How to force unraid to require password to browse SMB?]

TLDR

I need unraid to require a password to log on / browse \\tower.

I disabled netbios, and this prevents browsing but does not bring up the password prompt in windows so I can enter the correct user account like it does when browing a windows PC.

 

 

Ok, I have been chasing this around and around. Read every thread google pulled up on the topic but they all basically said to enable SMB1 in windows 10, I don't want to do this for all my machines and it would be a lot easier to simply have unraid require a password to browse the server.

 

What I think is happening from past experiences when this machine was running windows, if I allowed guest log on on the host, windows 10 guest would not prompt for a password and because windows 10 does not allow logging on without a password, it would then just give a generic error.

 

Everything was solved when I simply disabled all guest / unsecured access. Windows would then prompt for a user name and password and work fine.

 

This is particularly annoying since I use a single user for all the LAN connected devices and not the individual user names for the machines. So if windows does not prompt for a user name, it will try to log on with the default and that will fail. Windows will then not allow another user name to be used until you reboot.

 

I have used this workaround in the past, not perfect since it is only for PC's that you want to have constant access but it works. Add a credential in windows for the unraid server with the correct log in user name / password. You can use the credential manager or simply map a drive with a different user and check the box that you want it to remember the log in. The log in will apply to the whole sever, not just that share.

 

I still would like to password protect the whole server to allow browsing from devices I don't want to have contact access and to prevent anyone on my wifi from being able to look at the server.

[Alternative to HBA LSI SAS card that supports trim for cache pool? Or does trim matter?]

I am going to try an adaptec HBA and see what the results are with it.

[Alternative to HBA LSI SAS card that supports trim for cache pool? Or does trim matter?]

On 5/26/2020 at 6:47 AM, johnnie.black said:

LSI SAS3 models like the 9300-8i support trim as long as the SSDs support deterministic read zeros after trim. e.g, 860 EVO, WD Blue 3D, etc

 

True but that doesn't include old laptop SSD's like I will be using lol.

On 5/26/2020 at 10:12 AM, coolasice1999 said:

I picked up a handful of asmedia based 2 port cards to add ssds to my system.  Filled up all my 1x slots.  Kept my  hds on hba card and now have 6 ssds connected.

 

Yep, I actually have been doing the same, had 3x such cards in the system until recently. I don't have enough spare PCIE slots for that anymore though, I have 1 each x8, x4 and x1.

 

The 4x is now being used by a 10gb NIC, the 1X will be used by a Pro 1000 once the x1 to x4 adapter shows up.

 

Already tested the pro 1000 by taping off the extra pins converting it to a X1 card and it preformed the same as in x4 mode according to iperf with 4x clients connecting to it with LACP bonded connection, topping out around 3-3.5gib/s combined.

 

Leaving just the 8x slot open. So got to get a card that can handle all my drives and the SSD bandwidth into that single slot (those x1 cards are only good for a single SSD each).

[Alternative to HBA LSI SAS card that supports trim for cache pool? Or does trim matter?]

So I am in the process of trying out unraid trail as I am wanting to switch over to it. Figured out most things but one issue I am having is lack of sata ports.

 

I have a bunch of Small SSD's floating around and I want to put them into a raid 0 cache pool for storing unimportant things I can replace (like game installs that multiple users can access but are easily replaced so no worries about if something dies), really looking forward to the rumored multiple cache pool feature I saw somewhere.

 

Also be nice to use as a scratch drive for my main system that has a 10gb P2P connection to the server.

 

So the obvious answer is put in a SATA card, I currently have a cheap 4 port pcie x1 card that works fine but is limited to 500mb/s and I need more bandwidth. (I only have 2x onboard sata 3 ports with my dell 7010 motherboard)

 

Doing reading, everyone recommends an HBA LSI card (although finding a particular model that works and is cheap is proving a bit harder). The issues is I also read that these do not support trim on consumer SSD's?

 

TLDR:

Need more SATA ports for SSD Raid 0 cache pool

SAS cards don't support trim

 

So my question is four fold:

 

1: Are there any SAS cards that work with trim on consumer SSD's?

2: If not, are there are alternative cards that would work at a similar price point? I have a total of like $100 in my server right now not including the drives and that took years to put together. So the cheaper the better.

3: Is there a way to trim the drives manually by moving them to another controller once a month or so for example?

4: If trim will simply not work, has anyone run a cache pool without trim? What are the effects? The write slowdown is expected and while it sucks, as long as the speeds are still reasonable, I could live with it. More worried about drive longevity of the nand flash.

 

Thanks for any suggestions.

 

After years of trying different options for my server from windows 7, ESXI, Proxmox, freenas, Windows server, windows 10, I have to say that unraid is far far better out of the box then those were after a lot of setup and tweaking. Quickly falling in love with dockers and my inherent distrust of raid fits perfectly with unraid. Although I have been watching ZFS, it might get me on the raid bandwagon.