Rob SFO

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  1. Thanks for the suggestions, I’ll check these out.
  2. I have built a multi-user system (dedicated GPUs to VMs, running long HDMI/USB cables under the house to my kids rooms). Is there an easy way to provide VM power on/off access to my kids, but only to their own VMs? Ideally via an iOS app, or possibly by using some type of HTTP call? I don't want to expose the server to them, and I don't want them to be able to access other VMs. So I don't think an app like ControlR would work? Has anyone run across a way to accomplish this? Thanks! Rob
  3. My server only has SSDs. I have a lot of them and there's no reason for me to spend money/power on mechanical disks (and it's 2021...disk is dead). I have a single M.2 1TB NVMe drive, and a whole bunch of SATA SSDs (that do support TRIM). I currently have my server setup with the NVMe as cache, and 2 x SATA SSDs for the array (no parity yet). I'm ready to add in the rest of my SSDs & protect them but I've been holding back as I research the all-SSD array issues. At this point, I am thinking I should just build a R10 cache from all the SATA SSDs, and use the NVMe as an unassigned device for VMs. Does that sound like a good plan? I'm assuming that I can simply add the SSDs to the cache, then once built I can remove the NVMe? Will that work? I then have to migrate the data from the array to the cache, then remove/destroy the array and add those final 2 drive to the cache R10. Any tricks to doing that? Anything I'm not thinking of? ### EDIT ### 👈 Do I have to have at least one array drive? Can UNRAID function without an array? I guess if I have to I could add an old piece of spinning rust that I have (4TB) and maybe use it as a backup target for the NVMe VMs? Thanks!
  4. I am in the process of gathering parts for my first unRAID build. Is it possible to convert my existing physical Windows 10 system into an unRAID VM, before I have the unRAID server installed? I will be cannibalizing parts from my current system for the build, so my current physical Win10 system will no longer be online once the unRAId system is built. I found this guide, which seems to indicate that I could simply pass though the existing disks to a VM and boot Windows from those? https://exitcode0.net/how-to-pass-through-a-drive-to-a-unraid-vm/ However, I'm not sure I want it to run from the disks forever, I'd prefer to convert it to a vdisk. Would it be possible do the passthrough method to bring up the VM, then migrate the VM from physical disk to vdisk? Thanks! Rob