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With the M1015 installed (and all other PCI-e cards removed) the boot process never gets as far as allowing keyboard input from the USB keyboard. With the card removed, the system boots as expected (or -- with everything removed, gives the expected message about inserting boot media).
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Just now, jonathanm said:
Are you sure that's IT mode? It doesn't look like it to me.
I know that it is NOT in IT mode. My first step was trying to boot so that I could update the firmware. That is where I'm stuck.
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After more attempts, I'm starting to believe I can't use this M1015 controller board (at least, with current firmware) with my ASRock 970 Extreme 4 motherboard. It continues to hang at the same spot. Unfortunately, I don't have any other machines to use to try to swap the firmware.
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Ok -- crisis averted. Thank goodness for my note taking! I had a similar issue in 2016, in that something caused the BIOS to reset to defaults, and by default, it selected PCIe over PCI for graphics card, (I have one of each) and it turns OFF IOMMU, which means none of the passthrough devices (the PCIe graphics controller and, more importantly the SAN controller) were seen by VMware ESXi. Resettings those two settings and restarting the machine fixed my issues!
So -- this leaves me back where I started -- not sure if there is a conflict not allowing the old and new disk controllers to be active in the machine at the same time? Motherboard is an: ASRock 970 Extreme4 AMD AM3+John
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Sadly -- my first attempt did not go well. I installed the new controller card (without any drives attached), and restarted the system. The system saw the controller card on boot, and gave the message about no drives found, and said to press any key to continue -- but no keyboard input was allowed. I shutdown, removed the card, and booted up again. This time around the system saw the old controller, but first started to boot to my unRAID USB stick. I shut down, removed the unRAID stick, and it started up again, but graphics came up on the wrong video card. ESXi started to boot this time, but would hang just after 'iodm loaded successfully'. I could connect to ESXi from the web interface even though the ESXi console still shows "loading" for the remaining drivers, but ESXi didn't see the passthrough controller, nor the video card that was previously set for passthrough!
Not sure where to go next. I'm tempted to start from scratch with the new controller card, and just rebuild everything... But that is always more work than I think it'll be...
Any ideas? Could this be as simple as the BIOS is confused?
Thanks!
John -
Great stuff! Thanks for taking the leap for us all.
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7 hours ago, uldise said:
just be sure it's flashed in IT mode..
Thanks for that reminder. I bought this stuff about 3 months ago, but then life got busy. Now -- for some reason -- I have extra time at home...
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Thanks @Doron -- that does sound like a great approach. Now to see if I have a spare PCI port of the appropriate type to have both disk controllers active! The system has been running smoothly for a few years now, so I haven't had to crack the case for a couple of years.
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Greetings,
I'm running UnRAID 6.8.3 as a Guest OS on ESXi 6.7.0. It's been running well for years, but I have a very old disk controller that can't handle drives larger than 2 TB. I've recently purchased a new controller and new (larger) drives.
What is the recommended approach to migrate from the old controller and drives to the new controller and drives? "New" controller (not that new of a product, but new to me) is an LSI SAS9220-8i. The whole controller is passed through to the UnRAID VM.
It looks like I might be able to attach all the old and new drives to this (8 connectors) but not sure if my motherboard can power 8 drives...
I'm in no hurry, but looking for suggestions.
Thanks!
John -
Thanks!
Since memory was the issue, and since UNRAID is running as a VM, I just increased memory to the VM, and the upgrade went smoothly.
John
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Greetings,
I recently attempted to upgrade from 6.7.0 to 6.7.2, and the upgrade would fail with filled disk. I can connect to server, delete all in /previous and continue on with the 6.7.0. I could replace the USB boot device, but the device itself is showing 3.5 GB free. Is a partition getting filled up? Is there some directory I should manually clear out?
I've attached my diagnostics. Thanks for any suggestions.
Thanks!
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(I think the Open VM Tools thread has been hijacked - perhaps the discussion of getting 6.4 for work with ESXi should be a separate thread in the Virtualizing UnRAID section).
https://lime-technology.com/forums/forum/46-virtualizing-unraid/
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I, too, upgraded my drives to XFS before moving to 6.x. I'm on ESXi 6.0.0.
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14 hours ago, itsrumsey said:
Question for those using ESXi. I understand the free version only support 8 vCPUs. If I am running a dual processor configuration, with 8 cores and 16 threads each, for a total of 32 threads and 16 cores... can I utilize all of these in one VM on the free edition?
I do think you are limited to 8. Remember, though, that the underlying resources not assigned to the VM are also used to support the VM processes if they are available and needed.
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Also looking forward to an update for 6.2.1.
Thanks!
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i'm running plopKExec on my offsite server - just download plopKexec iso image, add it to your unRAID VM, and thats all.. plopKexec boots, then it scans flash drives, finds unRAID flash, then automatically boots first boot choice of the flash..
So just to confirm -- After I download the plopkexec iso image, and put it on my ESXi server, all I need to do is change the particular virtual machine setting for CD/DVD Drive 1 to use the new ISO image, and no longer use the plpbtmycd.iso file, correct?
I've got multiple USB memory sticks in my server -- will it give me a chance to find the correct one, or does this use the USB 1 field, as I currently have it defined with the existing PLOP configuration?
Thanks,
John
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With a new build, I decided I'd revisit virtualizing unRAID under ESX, and ran across plopkexec (actually mentioned elsewhere on this forum for a different purpose). I can say that this drastically cuts down on the boot time (for all perceived purposes, same as bare metal).
I too would love to see some more information on switching from plop to plopkexec. Upgrading from 6.1.9 as a VM to 6.2 would be a great time to try this.
Thanks,
John.
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Greetings,
Just downloaded the update. It looks good except this error in your test display area:
Here's what share free space looks like: snmpwalk -v 2c localhost -c public NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."sharefree" NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."sharefree".1 = STRING: /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/snmp/share_free_space.sh: line 16: allocator=\"mostfree\" * 1024: syntax error: operand expected (error token is \"\"mostfree\" * 1024\")
Thanks!
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The fix is to just delete the file and reinstall the plugin, or just reboot your server. I'm not sure why it's not working for you... On my system this file gets properly overwritten when I install the plugin.
I tried just deleting and re-installing the plug-in, and behavior didn't change. I did check permissions and they were set as you suggested.
I then deleted the SNMP plug-in, upgraded from 6.01 to 6.1, and re-installed the plug-in and now it works!
+============================================================================== | Testing SNMP by listing mounts +============================================================================== Looks like snmpd is working... Output: HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrFSMountPoint.22 = STRING: "/var/log" HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrFSMountPoint.25 = STRING: "/boot" Here's what drive temperatures look like: snmpwalk -v 2c localhost -c public NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."disktemp" NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."disktemp".1 = STRING: WDC_WD20EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-WCC4M0927675: 28 NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."disktemp".2 = STRING: WDC_WD20EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-WCC4M4PJF00N: 29 NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."disktemp".3 = STRING: WDC_WD20EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-WCC4M3PHD4DE: 29 NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."disktemp".4 = STRING: WDC_WD20EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-WCC4M0072449: 27 Here's what share free space looks like: snmpwalk -v 2c localhost -c public NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."sharefree" NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."sharefree".1 = STRING:
Thanks,
John
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Working backwards:
If that works, you can try restarting snmpd:
That seems to work fine:
root@OshTank:~# bash /etc/rc.d/rc.snmpd stop Shutting down snmpd: . DONE root@OshTank:~# bash /etc/rc.d/rc.snmpd start Starting snmpd: /usr/sbin/snmpd -LF w /var/log/snmpd.log -LF w /var/log/snmpd.log -A -p /var/run/snmpd -a -c /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/snmp/snmpd.conf root@OshTank:~#
It doesn't find the disk temp stuff if I run it manually:
root@OshTank:~# !snmpwalk snmpwalk -v 2c localhost -c public 'NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."disktemp"' NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."disktemp" = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID root@OshTank:~#
Well, is the config file updated properly?It looks like you are trying to execute the whole statement below as a single command, but that didn't work for me:
root@OshTank:~# root@OshTank:~# tail -n 1 /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/snmp/snmpd.conf extend disktemp /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/snmp/drive_temps.sh ==> /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/snmp/snmpd.conf <== disk /mnt/cache tail: cannot open ‘extend’ for reading: No such file or directory tail: cannot open ‘disktemp’ for reading: No such file or directory ==> /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/snmp/drive_temps.sh <== exit 0 root@OshTank:~#
Here is some other stuff that might be useful:
root@OshTank:/usr/local/emhttp/plugins/snmp# more snmpd.conf rocommunity public syslocation Here syscontact root@tower disk /mnt/disk1 disk /mnt/disk2 disk /mnt/disk3 disk /mnt/disk4 disk /mnt/disk5 disk /mnt/disk6 disk /mnt/disk7 disk /mnt/disk8 disk /mnt/disk9 disk /mnt/disk10 disk /mnt/disk11 disk /mnt/disk12 disk /mnt/disk13 disk /mnt/disk14 disk /mnt/disk15 disk /mnt/disk16 disk /mnt/disk17 disk /mnt/disk18 disk /mnt/disk19 disk /mnt/disk20 disk /mnt/cache root@OshTank:/usr/local/emhttp/plugins/snmp#
root@OshTank:/usr/local/emhttp/plugins/snmp# root@OshTank:/usr/local/emhttp/plugins/snmp# cat drive_temps.sh #!/usr/bin/bash MDCMD=/root/mdcmd AWK=/usr/bin/awk CAT=/usr/bin/cat FIND=/usr/bin/find GREP=/usr/bin/grep RM=/usr/bin/rm SED=/usr/bin/sed HDPARM=/usr/sbin/hdparm SMARTCTL=/usr/sbin/smartctl CACHE=/tmp/plugins/snmp/drive_temps.txt mkdir -p $(dirname $CACHE) # Cache the results for 5 minutes at a time, to speed up queries if $FIND $(dirname $CACHE) -mmin -5 -name drive_temps.txt | $GREP -q drive_temps.txt then $CAT $CACHE exit 0 fi $RM -f $CACHE $MDCMD status | $GREP '\(rdevId\|rdevName\).*=.' | while read -r device do read -r name # Double-check the data to make sure it's in sync device_num=$(echo $device | $SED 's#.*\.\(.*\)=.*#\1#') name_num=$(echo $name | $SED 's#.*\.\(.*\)=.*#\1#') if [[ "$device_num" != "$name_num" ]] then echo 'ERROR! Couldn'"'"'t parse mdcmd output. Command was:' echo 'mdcmd status | $GREP '"'"'\(rdevId\|rdevName\).*=.'"'"' | while read -r device' fi device=$(echo $device | $SED 's#.*=#/dev/#') name=$(echo $name | $SED 's/.*=//') if ! $HDPARM -C $device 2>&1 | $GREP -cq standby then temp=$($SMARTCTL -A $device | $GREP -m 1 -i Temperature_Celsius | $AWK '{print $10}') fi # For debugging # echo "$name = $device, $temp" echo "$name: $temp" >> $CACHE done $CAT $CACHE exit 0 root@OshTank:/usr/local/emhttp/plugins/snmp#Thanks for your help!
John
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Can you log into your server and run the following?
/usr/local/emhttp/plugins/snmp/drive_temps.sh
That worked:
root@OshTank:~# /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/snmp/drive_temps.sh WDC_WD20EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-WCC4M0927675: 28 WDC_WD20EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-WCC4M4PJF00N: 28 WDC_WD20EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-WCC4M3PHD4DE: 29 WDC_WD20EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-WCC4M0072449: 27 root@OshTank:~#
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Doh. I forgot to install the helper script. Try version 2015.08.25. Hopefully this time the test output will show drive temps.
I'm not 100% sure the temps will be picked up by your monitor. If you can find any docs on what the monitor queries for, I can see about supporting it.
Hmm... On the plus side, this plug-in architecture works great!
Here's the fresh output - no real change:
+============================================================================== | Testing SNMP by listing mounts +============================================================================== Looks like snmpd is working... Output: HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrFSMountPoint.1 = STRING: "/mnt/disk1" HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrFSMountPoint.2 = STRING: "/mnt/disk2" HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrFSMountPoint.3 = STRING: "/mnt/disk3" HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrFSMountPoint.22 = STRING: "/var/log" HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrFSMountPoint.25 = STRING: "/boot" Here's what drive temperatures look like: NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."disktemp" = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID ----------------------------------------------------------- snmp has been installed. Copyright 2015, David Coppit Version: 2015.08.25 ----------------------------------------------------------- plugin: updated
unRAID can see the temps - as shown in the screen shot below. To complicate things - My unRAID system is a virtual guest on VMware ESXi. The disk controller is "passed through" to the VM, and is dedicated to the VM, as are all the attached disks.
Thanks,
John
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I've also integrated drive temperatures
Nice. I just updated the plug-in, but I'm not seeing temperatures, either in your installation test, or from my SNMP monitoring server. Here's the snippet from your installation:
+============================================================================== | Testing SNMP by listing mounts +============================================================================== Looks like snmpd is working... Output: HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrFSMountPoint.1 = STRING: "/mnt/disk1" HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrFSMountPoint.2 = STRING: "/mnt/disk2" HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrFSMountPoint.3 = STRING: "/mnt/disk3" HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrFSMountPoint.22 = STRING: "/var/log" HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrFSMountPoint.25 = STRING: "/boot" Here's what drive temperatures look like: NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutLine."disktemp" = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID ----------------------------------------------------------- snmp has been installed. Copyright 2015, David Coppit Version: 2015.08.24 -----------------------------------------------------------
Thanks,
John
Controller and drive upgrade advice (ESXi Guest)
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Yes the motherboard has a PS/2 keyboard connection. I've got a note out to some local friends to see if they have a PS/2 keyboard I can borrow. I did also try every USB port on the machine - just in case.
Thanks for you ideas. I appreciate it.
John