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this is normal for x8 generation boards. take a look at your fan's thresholds. if fan ran below low value, then server thinks its dead, and turns it on on full speed. adjust your thresholds with ipmitool or similar.

Yes, if you can afford them. your CPU price in your list(E5-2630L) looks unreal to me. if you go newer generation route, you must change CPU too for more modern one - that mean more expensive too..

if you use both CPU, you need at least one ram module per cpu. recommended config is two modules per cpu.

just be sure it's flashed in IT mode..

i'm asking cos i'm using Active DACs with Mellanox PCIe card in my server - i changed 1M to 2M Active DAC recently, and right after a few minutes of work, port started flapping.. i resolved it by adding one more fan inside a case to low directly to PCIe zone. i'm wondering, maybe additional heat-sinks on ports would help a bit more..

interesting, where do you plan to fit them?

have you some link on this?

Glad you sorted it out. there are some posts on forum about this option, but they all are quit old already, but as you see, problem still persists.

do you have this advanced option in your VMX? disk.EnableUUID = "true" my ESXi is at version 6.5, virtual hardware version 9.

what command are you using to create this VMDK? i just looked at it: # Extent description RW 19532873631 FLAT "/dev/sda1" 0 are you sure "/dev/sda1" is a correct? i would try with "/dev/sda" to access whole drive..

and previous versions of unraid are working ok with the same drive? i have virtual drive as cache drive on my unraid server, and it works just fine. but i'm still on version 6.6.6 in that VM

what do you mean by "ESXi-provisioned hard drive"? thin provisioned virtual drive ?

take some Linux live(Ubuntu for example) and try to boot. then you can eliminate starting at which kernel Linux can boot your CPU..

No, unraid is still loaded into RAM.

What NC version? when i updated my NC from v11 to v17, this warning disappears only on v17. but i'm using my Apache web server as reverse proxy, and i had to add trusted_proxies and overwritecondaddr to my config.php. see here: https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/17/admin_manual/configuration_server/reverse_proxy_configuration.html

@johnnie.black sorry to ask, but wouldn't be cable like this much simpler? https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Internal-Mini-SAS-SFF-8087-to-Mini-SAS-SFF-8643-HD-High-Density-Data-50cm-Cable/183919513328?hash=item2ad2750ef0:g:NUAAAOSwAaRdB0Gq

No probs, see pic. attached.

Just updated my Guacamole instance too. all works as expected, didn't noticed something new and Guacozy docker works too with this new version..

no problem at all - just download plopKExec iso (https://www.plop.at/en/plopkexec/download.html), add it to Esxi VM, and you are done - Esxi VM boots from plopKExec ISO, then it automatically select unraid USB stick and continue to boot.

yes, google for site-to-site VPN between your routers. i have some Ipsec tunnels between Mikrotik routers, and it works just fine. and then you just setup proper routes and that's all.

as for SSD, you should care about how it's being trimmed - connect it to Mobo Sata port(i read somewhere IBM1015 wont support trim on all SSDs), and use trim plugin to get SSD trimmed at least once a week. if you won't write to cache very intensive then your cache drive should last for years. i'm using Hardware RAID1(two 1TB HDD) as my cache for now, but i'm planning to switch to BTRFS RAID1 pool. but i'm not using my cache drive for docker - i'm mounting addition small ESXi virtual drive(SSD physically) for this.

huh, my mistake, i just corrected my previous post - if you RDM a whole drive, then you get SMART and spindown works just fine - just tested it on my offsite backup server.

by adding one more AP i mean connect it to a router/switch by CAT 5e/6 cable, so AP won't work as repeater on single radio. and BTW Mikrotik has also centralized management called CAPsMan - you simply choose which device would be central manager and connect all other AP to this.

i agree with you, but it all depends - i have a flat with three rooms and in this case all in one router like i mentioned before Mikrotik Hap AC2 works very well. But when you live in house with two floors then separate router like https://mikrotik.com/product/hex_s and several AP is a way to go. and you can always add one more AP, other than buy one super duper Wifi device..

i have no experience with ASUS or NETGEAR equipment, and yes, RouterOS are all the same for all hardware - it just depends on hardware which processes you can offload on hardware, and which ones are done by CPU. RouterOS is very rich on features on routing switching side. if you would like to try ROS, yes they have and CHR images - see here: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:CHR and it have 60 day trial version with unlimited speed interfaces. according to configuration - ROS have builtin web interface, but more recommended is their Winbox tool - can run it on Linux too.