Dolphino2

Surely if the drives being used for unraid are configured with RDM they are not being touched by ESXI and are simply passed through? That way if the drive goes down its a simple swap out and rebuild as you would do normally with unraid.

Cheers for the help so far - there must have been an issue with the UNRAID vmdk i'd made. Created it again from scratch, uploaded it to the ESXI box, and this time it worked a treat. I've started pre-clearing the disks (3x2tb) and so far so good, except for the fact that the SMART Reports dont seem to be working when using the ./preclear_disk.sh /dev/sdX command. I get the following back: Should this be happening? All the disks are WD Green drives (WD20EARX) And show as passing the Preclear, but I cant see any of the usual stats.

hi guys, just after a bit of advice. I've got an N40L with ESXI installed from a flash drive. I've set up the 250gb hard drive as the data store and have 3x2tb drives RDM'd ready for using in UnRAID. Is there a way to install unraid basic without the need to an unraid USB stick? I've followed instructions online to create an unraid vm, but it still requires the USB stick to be plugged in. The problem being that the N40L doesn't appear to allow you to select the USB boot order, so it keeps booting the unraid stick before ESXI.