KnoBuddy

Okay, well I guess I'm doing a reinstall. Will creating a new bootable unraid USB, then running zpool import be all I need to know about the drives? Or do I need to know which drives are where? I won't be moving them or rearranging anything physically in the tower itself.

It finally did shutdown from pressing the power button on the case once. I am not sure if it shutdown cleanly as I was away from the server for several hours. After leaving it on for a few hours, still no change to VM status. Any ideas? Can I modify the VM Settings file from terminal or with a plugin of some kind? Also the XFS system not being available over the network is pretty worrying. Accessing it from the GUI however everything looks fine.

The vm settings page just loads and loads in chrome. Yes, just a blank screen that never does anything. VM's don't show in the dashboard. CPU Pinning, lists docker as disabled and a loading portion of the page for VM's, basically same as the VM's page, and the settings page. I also can't access my ZFS pool over the network.

Title says it all. I have no idea what the issue is. My best guess is I have too much ram provisioned to the VM and didn't leave enough for Unraid to get it booted? I've searched the web, the forums, and I've tried reading through the logs. Tried waiting over an hour. The power was cut to the machine randomly, and I didn't access it until I connected it to a new network. (Just changed ISP's same time). I haven't been able to get it working since. Clean reboot stalls and never finishes as well. To top it all off, safe mode (GUI) is a no go? It just hangs as well. My CPU doesn't have an iGPU, and I'm using GPU passthrough on my 2070 Super. Doubt it matters but system specs are, Ryzen 3900x 32GB RAM 2070 Super 1 TB Boot/Array drive 4 x 8TB HDD in zfs mirror pool serverbuddy-diagnostics-20240312-2333.zip

I got everything working. I currently have 16TB (4 drives, 2 mirrors) in a zfs pool. I have a 1TB NVME in the array as Disk1. I have the plex server working, and the windows 11 VM with GPU passthrough working as well. I might need to change some pinning of the docker and VM, but overall performance is great. My question, however, is do I need to create a cache drive or should I setup movers and first place the data on the NVME then move to the ZFS pool? Currently the shares are setup in a way that they only use primary storage. All the shares used by the VM/docker are on NVME with the movies and other data only being stored on ZFS. What write and read speeds should I expect from the ZFS pool? Obviously I'm maxing out the 1 gigabit ethernet connection when moving files, but how much more headroom do I have? Is 2.5 gig still a bottleneck? Thank you guys for all the help. While most of the guides are outdated, Unraid has become much easier to use over the years it seems. serverbuddy-diagnostics-20230618-1041.zip

Okay, so datasets I don't have permissions to access from windows, but if I create a folder on the root of the share I can add and delete from there. (Can't delete folders though) I can't seem to find a way to delete the dataset in Unraid either, I assume it thinks there is data in there. I don't know that I need to use dataset, it just seemed like a good idea for the future. I have to go off to work, and will try back at this again later tonight.

Okay I got shares working. I had to set disk sharing to On from Auto, and then I was able to export the disk share. Now it shows up as well as the /data/ folder in Windows. Next step is to get plex a plex server up and running and my movies transferred over. I guess I will make a new post if I run into more issues.

I think the issue it that the dataset is a user share not a disk share. I created the zfs pool with "zpool create -m /pool pool mirror <name-of-disk1> <disk2> mirror <disk3> <disk4>". I then created a dataset using "zfs create pool/data". I have desperately been trying to find more information without asking for help but it's been very slow progress. Edit: Forgot to upload diagnostics. serverbuddy-diagnostics-20230611-1129.zip

Okay, I'm brand new to unRaid and I'm diving straight into ZFS and the beta version of unraid 6.12. My first goal is to get a ZFS mirrored pool useable by Windows 11 over the network. My second goal is to get a plex server running to serve the files on the network. Finally, I would like to setup a retro gaming docker or VM, as well as a VM specifically to use for game streaming from my gaming PC. The server has an RTX 2070 Super in it that I would like to passthrough for use in emulators as well. My current server setup has 5 drives. Four 8TB Seagate NAS HDD, and a 1TB nvme. I already setup a ZFS pools with 2 groups of mirrors. I followed SpaceInvaderOne's recent videos, have been searching the internet far and wide, and mashed it all together to get this far. Issue #1: Windows sees the server but cannot see the dataset I created in ZFS. I know windows can't see ZFS, but it was my understanding that's the point of the share? The server is in my network tab in windows but when I click on it it is empty. No dataset folder. Issue #2: How should I setup and initialize the array/cache/pool. I was able to initialize the array by using a spare USB Stick as a single disk. I have the NVME that I thought I would use as a cache drive or pass through to a VM. I know there will be more issues I run into but I'm hoping there is more documentation around them once I get past the ZFS bit. I am adamant about using ZFS and mirrors because it will allow me to add more mirrors for more performance and more storage without having to resilver or risk losing data. Maybe I'm way off and shouldn't even be using ZFS? I really don't think so... Help please.