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Randomly my windows 10 vm will just max out my cpus. sometimes a couple seconds up to 5 minutes. I wont even be using the vm and it will randomly do it. Any ideas on how I could start to figure out why the vm is doing that. The vm has a bunch of memory available to it and most of my cores as you can see.

Nevermind, I took the chance and unraid just added it back in. No issues.

I am not sure if this is a me issue or a apple server issue.

After the system did its ?rebuild? everything seemed to be fine again. no issues/smart warnings or anything with the hdd's. I turned off the auto start for the array for now on. I also shut down the vm and docker and moved around alot of my files. Domains, isos, got moved and I removed everything from the array that was not needed. I should have it setup where only a few things touch the array and everything else is on/limited to the ssd's.

I have a supermicro superserver. When I setup the server I added some ssds to it but just sat them inside the case for lack of better options. I recently purchased a 3.5 drive that lets me use the ssd in a normal drive bay spot. I have two ssds in the cache pool that are set to raid 1. What type of issues am I going to get into if I shutdown the server and just remove and replace the ssd but in a new connection position? Will it force me to format the drive? rebuild the array? what steps should I take before doing this? IF this works I plan to purchase another one of these bay drives for the other ssd on the pool.

I cannot seem to connect to the recovery server for any of the os versions. I followed the online tutorial and made sure I tried multiple nic settings. rerunning the docer after every change / attempt.

So I did the rebuild and from what I can tell everything is working. no more disabled drives. I have to be honest, that kind of freaked me out but that's why I choose Unraid. I actually purchased two replacement drives just to keep as backups in case something happens again. I post the diag file if someone wouldn't mind seeing if I have any issues that I don't know about. tower-diagnostics-20250308-2311.zip

I'm glad I asked. The whole point of this is just to get the most vm performance my hardware will allow. Thanks again for the help

I will do that. I was just going to add the m.2 to the array but limit it to its own vm share and try to copy my vdisk over to it or start a new vm on that share if the copy didnt work. Am I on the correct thinking for setting this up or is there a better way to give the vm the m.2 speed?

Correct. I was just using the m.2 slot that doesn't require the sata cable. One goes with the pcie slot directly and the other requires the cable for this card.

I could see that being a good reason but I don't think that's the case here. There really is no way for me to bump the drives or the connections on this setup.

Im running a supermicro superserver. Supermicro X10DRi-T4+ 2x Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2697 v4 @ 2.30GHz - just upgraded Memory: 256 GiB DDR4 Multi-bit ECC - just upgraded intel arc 380 video card nvidia p2000 card I pass to the vm I only every used the server for all my media/data/backups. Its job has just been to do plex and storage and has been great at it. I recently started doing some cad work and decided running a Windows 10 vm was the best solution. I run linux on all my pc's. The problem is even with the new upgrades - its slow. I have given the windows basically every core except 0 and most of the ram I have along with the p2000 gpu. I started thinking that maybe the reason for the cpu's to hit this frequent 100% usage was that the vdisk was stored on a standard hdd. I decided I would get a pcie 3 expansion card and run a m.2 on it. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JKH5VTL?ref=fed_asin_title I shut unraid down for the first time in awhile and installed the card with m.2 and rebooted the server. The server detected the card and m.2 without a hitch but immediately started giving me drive errors on my array. one of my parity drives and disk 1 both were disabled. I removed the pcie card and I am now rebuilding the array but is there any way the hooking up of the card somehow messed up the array? tower-diagnostics-20250307-1745.zip

I appreciate you responding anyway.

Can you explain what you mean by you removed the iso files. If I remove them and try to boot the os it doesnt work. Just woundering what your actual steps were when you got this working.

Hello everyone. I was hoping to get some help with usb passthrough. I am trying to get my 3d connexions mouse from my linux box to my unraid windows vm. Unraid version is 7.0 sever is a old super server – supermicro - intel cpu’s – new intel arc gpu windows 10 vm connection is done with Remmina over RDP. windows vm has the latest 3d conn.. drivers installed Server bios has VT-d enabled PC - arch linux box shows the mouse on lsusb Bus 003 Device 010: ID 046d:c626 Logitech, Inc. 3Dconnexion Space Navigator 3D Mouse Unraid does not show any usb devices that match under tools / system devices. In the VM setting I have: bios – OVMF USB Controller - 3.0 Qemu xhci (I have xhci handoff enabled in the server bios) VirtIO driver - is the latest version available. Other PCI Devices – None available. I have done a lot of searching but most of the information I have found on this is kind of old now. I was considering getting a drawling tablet as well if I can figure this passthrough stuff out. any help would be appreciated and as always thank you for your time.