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hmmmm.... something must be awry in my configuration then, since if I install a package, it won't auto-reload unless I update the .vmdk disk
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A general tip for anyone running unRAID in ESXi (4.1 or 5.0) if you are looking for a very fast boot up.
Make a .vmdk disk image of your thumb drive using WinImage. I used a spare (non-licensed) 2gb flash drive I had laying around and deleted the config directory and created the image from it (change the name after the make bootable part to something other then UNRAID). Upload it to your ESXi server and attach it to your unRAID VM. Still do the USB passthrough like you normally would.
What happens is ESXi boots up from the vmdk image (very fast) and sometime during the boot unRAID mounts any flash drive with the name of "UNRAID" and reads the config/license data from it.
Pro:
1. Boot up from the local HDD (less then 10 seconds on mine)
2. Config and license still stored on the thumb drive
3. Can do away with the plop boot manager/CD
4. Never have to remove the thumb drive and attach it to a Windows machine again. All "updating" is done on a spare thumb drive and the images created from it.
5. Can have a boot vmdk of every version sitting on your server. Booting a different version is as simple as attaching a different vmdk to the VM guest.
Con:
1. Haven't found any yet.
2. Changes to your configuration, i.e. packagemanager changes have to be copied from the flash drive to the .vmdk disk....
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two of these in raid0 as my window's machine boot drive works great!
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If you really think about it, it's a no-brainer!
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Just to inform, the new version of VMware ESXI is already available to download:
Here I see no improvement on speed, and no support of the second NIC of Supermicro X9SCM-F, but memory management seems a bit better.
care to elaborate?
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are you running 5.0b11 ??
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Mine is under my computer table, towards the back.... or at least it will be when I finish futzing with it and put the cover back on... so right now it's in the middle of the floor in my office!
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What he said!
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Thanks for all the replies. I guess a few gig's of HD space on the cache drive is cheap insurance
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I am transitioning from 1TB drives to 2TB. I was copying folders of files (about 700GB worth) from a 1TB drive to a 2TB drive with MC. The array was started but without parity. I got a Kernel Bug, see attached syslog. Anybody got any ideas? :'(
OBTW, I excised large sections of dupe-file errors from the syslog.
OBTW2, running on ESXi.
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was thinking of Cache_dirs...
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just thought I'd add what I posted in the ATLAS thread...
I too, followed the lead of bryanr in his http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=7914.0 thread, mapping each drive via command line manipulations, and with 16 drives it was a bit of a pain in the arse. Not only that, but any time a disk is moved or swapped, it must be done again!! Gotta be an easier way.
I have 16 hot swap bays in my tower with 16 Samsung 2TB drives. The first 6 are on the "Intel Controller", the next 8 on an LSI 2008 SAS controller.
, and the last two on a Marvell 4 port Sata card (which ESXi has no drivers for). I also have an LSI 4 port raid controller with 3 1TB Seagates in a Raid5 for my ESXi Datastor.
While poking around in the GUI for ESXi (vSphere Client) I found a page where I could assign the entire controller to a VM (configuration/advanced-settings). I created a new VM for unRAID and instead of going through all that commandline stuff, I assigned the 3 PCI-bus controllers as passthrough, then selected them in the unRAID VM settings. Voilla.... the VM runs just as if it were (and it is) running on the bare bones. The drives came right up, and they are not virtually mapped, so I'm free to swap them around and replace them just be re-booting the VM
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Just wondering if it's worthwhile carving off a piece of my cache drive.
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your not gona believe what my problem was
i was looking at /mnt/disk1/movies when actually it was /mnt/disk1/Movies
im speechless
s/b "I'm speechless"
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Version 5.0-b9 seems VERY stable....
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You would think so.... but the Kingwin's have a spring loaded SATA connector (presumably to boost ejection) and it takes a substantial force just to fully seat the connector!
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I've been using Kingwin 3in2's and 4in3's for awhile with no problems... that is until I bought a mess of Samsung 2TB drives... they're 1/16" shorter than a Seagate and don't quite make a good connection. Had to tape a piece of 1/16" lexan to the front of 16 drives!
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I too, followed the lead of bryanr in his http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=7914.0 thread, mapping each drive via command line manipulations, and with 16 drives it was a bit of a pain in the arse. Not only that, but any time a disk is moved or swapped, it must be done again!! Gotta be an easier way.
I have 16 hot swap bays in my tower with 16 Samsung 2TB drives. The first 6 are on the "Intel Controller", the next 8 on an LSI 2008 SAS controller.
, and the last two on a Marvell 4 port Sata card (which ESXi has no drivers for). I also have an LSI 4 port raid controller with 3 1TB Seagates in a Raid5 for my ESXi Datastor.
While poking around in the GUI for ESXi (vSphere Client) I found a page where I could assign the entire controller to a VM (configuration/advanced-settings). I created a new VM for unRAID and instead of going through all that commandline stuff, I assigned the 3 PCI-bus controllers as passthrough, then selected them in the unRAID VM settings. Voilla.... the VM runs just as if it were (and it is) running on the bare bones. The drives came right up, and they are not virtually mapped, so I'm free to swap them around and replace them just be re-booting the VM
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thanks for the clarity... now I "get it"!
I'll just move the "other" versions to a non-user share! Thanks...
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I run virtualbox on unraid, and I am very happy with the result. Since there is no swap partition and the unraid kernel is not built to use a swap partition I would recommend having ample ram. I run two vms right now without issue on my unraid. All my vmdk files are on a partition that sit outside the protected array. Furthermore, I looked into the whole esxi situation and you need very specific hardware which makes the results with esxi very unpredictable.
I wholeheartedly disagree. Running Virtualbox on unRaid is a hack at best, while ESXi is designed precisely for the task at hand. Given reasonable hardware, the results are VERY predictable. Backing up the VM couldn't be simpler. Turn the "power" off to the VM, browse to the VM in the datastor browser and export the VM as a file to wherever you'd like to keep it!
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Or change the directory name so it's no longer a duplicate location. The message is a little misleading, as it doesn't really detect duplicate files, only a naming collision between files on different drives that are being mapped to the same file in a user share.
Bingo! That's the "issue", but it would seem there would be a better way to disable this reporting (and hence "spamming") of my syslog.
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.xml or .plg.... let the plugins roll... !!
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I think that it would also allow me to solve a problem which I have just encountered ... it seems that the standard Linux distribution of mptsas (and, I'm guessing, mpt2sas) drivers appear to hit problems in some circumstances. One proposed solution is to use the driver distributed by LSI.
What problem would this be?
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I'm in the midst of a similar build on a Tyan S5512 board. I have my first 6 drives on the southbridge motherboard "Intel" controller. When raw-device-mapped to the unRaid VM, the temps don't appear to work whereas the drives mapped through from the LSI SAS controller report correct temps. Have you seen the same?
ATLAS My Virtualized unRAID server
in Virtualizing Unraid
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Why not? That was the intention. Just like unRAID, it's read into memory at boottime and that's it.... no frequrnt updates unless you make a lot of config changes!