zetabax

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  1. Short answer is yes, I'm asking Lime to reconsider their licensing policy. It may have made sense when Unraid first set it up, but honestly, its restrictive and painful. I'll spare you the painful clichés but change is at the very heart of this industry. I'm by no means a licensing expert but I'm happy to a suggestion..... although its rooted in imagination and zero technical expertise so feel free to poke holes in its validity (just don't be rude about it please) First, Lime should eliminate the perpetual licensing scheme - IMO Lime is leaving money on the table. Why should I be able to move my license to new hardware? That's so not industry standard and how is Lime expected to innovate if you never 'see' customers again? Why not tie it to the fundamental components of the system? The license could be based on a 'fingerprint' of the core configuration (Motherboard + CPU, etc.) When the user goes to activate, Unraid produces a QR code that is based on this calculation. You take that QR code, purchase a one time activation code that you manually input into the Unraid server UI. It then produces the actual license key which the user needs to store securely. That key will only work if the fingerprint matches so when you reinstall, you get presented with the QR code again but would have the option to reenter the license key the and if it wasn't a close enough match to the hardware fingerprint, you need to purchase a new one. Just a thought.... be nice
  2. I'd really like to hear from Lime Technology on this because I don't believe it's an unreasonable request PLUS I'm not the only one trying to run Unraid on Dell / HPE enterprise class servers. The Dell Internal Dual SD Module was designed specifically for this purpose and for those that aren't familiar with what it is or what its for, Dell servers (and HPE) contain a Dual SD Card module that plugs directly into the motherboard. (Dual because they need to be identical SD cards that are then put into RAID 1) When you're installing ESXi (and a handful of other OSes) you can select the Dual SD Module as the target / boot drive. For operating systems like ESXi and Unraid, the SD card is perfect because the operating systems run from memory meaning the cards see very few writes. If a card starts to fail, you get a notification from iDRAC (or iLO) which helps a disaster because you simply replace the failed / failing card and rebuild the array. (faster then horsing around with licenses, etc.) https://dell.to/30GD3HM It would be greatly appreciated if Lime would take this feature request and run with it or at least comment and say why it isn't an option.
  3. Dell, HPE (and probably others) have a purpose built bootable SD Card reader installed on many of their server platforms. It is standard practice to install and boot VMWare ESXI from the SD card. And not just VMWare either - many read intensive OSs can easily and safely be installed into this module. I would like to understand if there is anything that technically prevents unraid from doing the same?
  4. Hi there, I'd like to install Unraid on to an SD Card and boot from the Dual SD Card slot on a Dell PowerEdge R720. I followed the manual installation instructions to the letter (since the installer app doesn't detect SD Cards) yet when the server boots, it can't detect Unraid on the SD Card. For reasons I don't care to discuss, not being able to boot from the Dual SD Card is unfortunately a deal breaker. Any suggestions would be appreciated?