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    Hi,

    Am I the only one here wanting to use his storage server to be used with VMWare and configure Datastore ? As I can see, the only way to use UnRAID with VMWare is with NFS. And do not seems to be very stable as VMWare lost the disk often.

    So is there any way to use (with stability and speed) UnRAID for VMWare Datastore ?

    P.S.: I'm curently in the process of buying 10Gb NIC between UnRAID and my 2 ESXi


    Well I see that I'm not alone on this, did you find a way ?

    I am not interested in using the datastore for the VMS, but rather as a repository for Templates or isos.

    If I try to connect Vsphere with unraid I get this message:

    "Operation failed, diagnostics report: Mount failed: Unable to complete Sysinfo operation.  Please see the VMkernel log file for more details.: The NFS server denied the mount request"

     

    Thanks!

  2. Hello Guys, here is the explanation I got when reading this error.

    "Unraid StatusNotice [TOWER] - array health report [FAIL]Array has 4 disks (including parity & cache)warning

    Parity - ST10000NM0226_E_ZA21794D0000J651V8A0_35000c50086bb8633 (sdc) - active 34 C (disk has read errors) [NOK]
    Disk 1 - ST10000NM0226_E_ZA21796H0000J7167T4Z_35000c50086bb826f (sdf) - active 37 C [OK]
    Disk 2 - ST10000NM0226_E_ZA21AAH10000C7258S57_35000c50093ae2913 (sde) - active 39 C [OK]
    Cache - OCZ-TRION150_26OB318DK1CU (sdb) - active 27 C [OK]

    Parity is valid
    Last checked on Sun 07 Nov 2021 08:16:47 PM PST (today), finding 0 errors.
    Duration: 10 hours, 27 minutes, 10 seconds. Average speed: 263.9 MB/s"

     

    If click on the error it takes me to the Main tab. Should I replace the parity disk?

     

    My diagnostics are attached. Haven't rebooted.

     

    Thanks.

    tower-diagnostics-20211109-1351.zip

  3. On 10/29/2021 at 2:50 AM, ChatNoir said:

    Hello, please create your own thread.

    While you may have the same symptoms, what you want to do is totally different from this one year old thread.

    OK. Let me see.

     

    On 10/29/2021 at 8:46 AM, trurl said:

    Seems like everything you want to keep is exactly those things on your flash drive. A clean install with all of that is exactly what you already have. Unless you mean you want to get rid of all of the data on those disks that it recognizes.

     

    with a more complete description of your problems, and your diagnostics.

     

    Yes I do want to keep all the data in those disks. However the Gui is making nonsense stufff.

     

    What I ended up doing is going back to 6.8 Version and now, it seems to be responding more, but, since I'm running some Rsyncs every night I will keep an eye on it hoping that 6.10 will be released soon... Is there any date yet?

     

    Thx. both.

  4. In my case I got this:

     

    "Unraid StatusNotice [TOWER] - array health report [FAIL]Array has 4 disks (including parity & cache)warning

    Parity - ST10000NM0226_E_ZA21794D0000J651V8A0_35000c50086bb8633 (sdc) - active 34 C (disk has read errors) [NOK]
    Disk 1 - ST10000NM0226_E_ZA21796H0000J7167T4Z_35000c50086bb826f (sdf) - active 37 C [OK]
    Disk 2 - ST10000NM0226_E_ZA21AAH10000C7258S57_35000c50093ae2913 (sde) - active 39 C [OK]
    Cache - OCZ-TRION150_26OB318DK1CU (sdb) - active 27 C [OK]

    Parity is valid
    Last checked on Sun 07 Nov 2021 08:16:47 PM PST (today), finding 0 errors.
    Duration: 10 hours, 27 minutes, 10 seconds. Average speed: 263.9 MB/s"

     

    If click on the error it takes me to the Main tab. Should I replace the parity disk?

  5. Hello to all, I have same issue, and some strange issues with my unraid.

     

    So, I would like to make a "clean" install again, but, I have many shares and data in the array and I don't want to loose any information.

     

    Is there a simple way to back it up to make the new install that recognizes drives, shares, network settings and dockers?

     

    Thanks!

  6. On 10/16/2021 at 7:39 PM, clay_statue said:

     

    Is this because the default sata/sas ports available in the tower aren't usable by the unraid array?  I was looking at the HP ProLiant m350 and the unraid thread about that one said that the native raid controller didn't work with unraid and you needed to basically make use of the pci-e slots to connect sata drives and bypass the raid controller

    Additionally I see that the card you are talking about only has two SAS ports internally.  I am unfamiliar with SAS... how many drives can you run off that one card?  Just two?

    Kind of, A SAS controller is a device that can interact and control SAS drives (Serial Attached SCSI) Are Enterprise level devices used in, as you have guessed servers.

    As far as dell Poweredge R320 T320 goes, the PERC Cards (SAS Controllers) are actually LSI cards flashed with a Dell proprietary software, that, as far as I know, is not compatible to Unraid. 

    So, either you flash your card to LSI (you can google it and get a lot of results) or you installed one already flashed. (Was my case). Otherwise you can not use the hot swap drives.

     

    Those SAS cards, can also handle sata hard and ssd drives to.

    I am not familiar to HP servers, I don't know what kind of SAS controller they have. 

    My advice is first to find out if those SAS cards are compatible to Unraid, and then go and get the server. 

     

    My second advice would be to get a DELL T320 T420 R320 R420, there are many on sale at ebay for a reasonable price and have their PERC cards, it is not that difficult, however, if you make a mistake you can brick the sas controller.

     

    I have a H310 card and it can manage up to 8 drives (but my chasis is for 8 3.5" drives), and depending on the chasis you can go up to 16 drives, that depends on the server's chasis backplane.
     

    Cheers.

  7. On 9/25/2021 at 8:03 PM, Squid said:

    Under Settings - Notification Settings, disable Dynamix checking for updates on a schedule.  It'll fix you up, especially since you're also running Auto Update.

     

    6.10 has a number of fixes for this behaviour some users see in 6.9

    I just cant find it on 6.9.2:

     

     

    Screen Shot 2021-10-05 at 8.16.33.png

  8. 11 hours ago, jesta said:

    Hey guys, I need some help.

     

    I recently lost my cache drive and had to restore docker.img and appdata from a backup (tried the two backups I have). Since then nextcloud won't work anymore.

     

    The container loads fine:

     

    But when accessing nextcloud all I get is Error 504: Gateway timed out.

     

    /log/nginx/error.log says this:

     

    Any pointers how to fix this?

     

    I will tell you what I know. Maybe it will give you some information. Something similar happened to me, I lost my cache drive too and restored the .img file from the CA Backup/Restore. But, mine was 6 days old.

     

    My Nextcloud worked after restoring, however, files stored in the cache drive, were not passed on to the array. I could recover them, but, when the user was running the nextcloud client from her computer, she got a lot of synching errors. So I had to erase and upload again everything. 

    My best advice is to backup realtime or at least daily the Database (I use MariaDB), The containers and synch the files to another NAS.

     

    I hope this helps you at least something.
     

  9. Hello, I have a similar issue.

     

    I've experiencing some problems to reach the WebUi. I have "solved" by restarting the services like this:

     

    /etc/rc.d/rc.php-fpm restart
    
    /etc/rc.d/rc.nginx restart

     

    I have 2 Networks, the 192.168.100.X and the 192.168.2.X.

     

    I can not access the WebUi through the  192.168.2.X network, however, windows can access the shares and Nextcloud service is working fine and even remotely.

     

    Through the 192.168.100.X network, I can reach the WebUI.

     

    I have rebooted the server and it is the same.

     

    Here is my config file.

     

    I hope you can give me a hint. 

     

    Thanks.

     

     

    tower-diagnostics-20211004-1113.zip

  10. Hello guys! thanks for all your work to make possible Nextcloud in Unraid.

     

    I want to ask you some questions. But let me first explain you what happened to me.

     

    I have a server running nextcloud in a docker container. It has an ssd as cache drive that holds the Nextcloud folder where all the files are stored before being moved to the array (my first mistake). Just to justify this, I was trying to speed up data transmissions but, since all the clients accessing this server are over the internet, it makes not much of a difference. And, in this case, was a disadvantage.

     

    The thing is that I changed the server, and moved the drives to another one, started the array, but, to my bad luck the parity disk failed and I had to replace it. So I was distracted and never realized that the cache one was not recognized by Unraid (second mistake), and, despite of that, the array started normally and Nextcloud and MariaDB (which run from the cache drive) started as well. (it should be at least a flag there if the cache drives are missing when starting the array).

    So when I loggid into nextcloud's webUI, It was asking me to configure the database. So I panicked and the best solution I could come up was to restore my appdata backup but it was 6 days old (third mistake). Then started Nextcloud again and it went "well". I could log on and all the users were being recognized but I wasn't aware that there were misstakes going on. 

    Next day in the morning users were complaining that all their Nextcloud folders were missing files from last week.

    So, the worst of all (like it hadn't been enough already) was that, due to the outdated database, Nextcloud deleted the newer files and those who had changes where an endless list of problems in the user application: checksum errors, sync errors, to mention some. Why did Nextcloud did this instead of asking the user to keep or delete those files?

     

    I was really stressed. And I hope it does not happen to any of you guys.

    So, I would like to understand deeper how Nextcloud + MariaDB work, because I thought that the database was only storing user names and passwords, but, as you have seen it is not. What else is stored in that database that needs to be handled carefully? 

     

    Dos any of you have a good knowledge about how Nextcloud works internally In order to troubleshoot it better and faster?

    And it is quite a topic, what to do and how to properly have Nextcloud backed up and maintained so data loss won't happen.

    If there is here an advice on the best practices of how to proceed in case of critical hardware failure, I am open to suggestions and I hope that you can learn from my mistakes.

    Here is what I've learned so far:

    1.- Dont Use a Cache Drive for Nextcloud, at least from users that rely on it remotely.
    2.- Backup MariaDB daily If more than once every day, much better.

    3.- Every time the array starts, to check if all the cache pools and drives are working correctly.

    4.- Don't jump fast into restoring backups, the right files could still be there... hidden.

     

    Thanks in advance.

     

    Cheers.
     

  11. I also run an Rsync for my Nextcloud share, but I do not delete any directory. It has been running for 1 week and I hadn't had this issue before. 

    Well in my case, /etc/rc.d/rc.php-fpm restart brought the NGINX Server online.

     

    However, Nextcloud and MariaDB, which are the only services I'm using my unraid server were woriking fine, I did not want to reboot since there are clients relying on nextcloud for their daily work.

     

    I hope this adds some information up!

     

    Cheers.

  12. Hi guys!

     

    I've been crawling the internet and not been able to find anything clear. 

     

    Currently I want to have a backup unraid server in case of hardware failure.

     

    So I want to go from server A to server B.

     

    I have nextcloud running and I would like to backup the whole nextcloud (docker container, MariaDB and Nextcloud Share).

     

    I was thinking to run a backup on server A and recover it on server B. then to copy the whole Nextcloud share.

     

    I don't know if it is that simple, but at leasts shows you what I am trying to achieve.

     

    Have any of you guys done this?

     

    I mean If you have a couple of users relying on nextcloud and if it breaks, what would happen?

     

    Thanks a lot.

     

     

  13. Hi, I did some digging, and used the console with the "tail" command to the syslog file when starting the array and I found that the array was starting correctly (good thing!) that is why there were no errors on the drives.

     

    However, unraid is mounting a  "shim-eth0" ethernet card, with the same ip adress as my eth0 card, so, that was why the GUI "stopped working" (it never did) it was only unreacheable. Then I took it down and I can acces the GUI again, the array is ok and all the shares are there.

     

    So, Unraid never stopped working, the array was working fine, the problem is that there were then 2 ethernet cards (eth0 and shimeth0) with the same IP address. 

    I hope this helps. 

     

    I will keep looking to see if I can figure out, why the shimeth0 is created.

    If you know why, it happens, I'll be very thankful.

     

    Thanks.

     

  14. 21 minutes ago, itimpi said:

    If you can get to the console then you can also generate the diagnostics using the ‘diagnostics’ command and they get put into the ‘logs’ folder on the flash drive.

     

    don’t enable the auto-start as it is probably a good idea to have it off while investigating any issue.  I just wanted to make sure it was intentional.

    Here is the one created when trying to start the array.

    tower-diagnostics-20210726-1112.zip

  15. If I try to start in normal mode, it hangs and I can not access the Graphic interphase. I can access via console and then "powerdown -r" from there. 

    I will try to generate the diagnostics file when "starting" the array in normal mode.

     

    Auto start is disabled, just a precaution since I've been running some tests. But I can enable it.

  16. 1 minute ago, itimpi said:

    Not sure what you mean by ‘the array is not starting’?

     

    I would suggest you provide a screenshot of the Main tab and a copy of your system’s diagnostics zip file (obtained via Tools->Notifications) attached to your next post so we can give you some informed feedback.

    Thanks, I mean I can only start it on Maintenance Mode.

     

    Here is a copy of the diagnostics:

    Thanks

    tower-diagnostics-20210726-1231.zip

  17. On 4/8/2017 at 3:04 PM, JorgeB said:

    Disk2 is the problem:
     

    
    Apr  8 21:41:25 Cardinal kernel: XFS (md2): _xfs_buf_find: Block out of range: block 0x874704438, EOFS 0xe8e08870 

     

    Start in maintenance mode and run xfs_repair on disk2 (md2)

    Hi, where do you find which drive is the faulty one? My array is not starting, there are no errors in the parity but I need to run the diagnostics again, but I don't know wich drive should repair.