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You got my reply before my edit. Also, any chance of an option for a flat black or grayscale menubar icon? I'm not really a fan of colorful menubar icons.

This is awesome! I've got 5 Macs of various ages and models I can test this on. Late 2007 MBP, Late 2011 MBP, Late 2013 retina MBP, Late 2010 MBA and a Mid 2012 MBA. All running 10.9.2. I noticed there is an "Array" switch. I'm assuming this just stops the array. Is there also a way to reboot/shutdown the server? After you're done with the Mac app, please build the iOS companion to it!

Hello friend I know thread is bit old but were you able to build such an 24 drive system? It seems very exciting to me so can you provide some information? Waiting for reply thanks in advance:) Would it even matter? The hardware would be three years out of date. You're better off just creating a new thread and asking for advice on low power hardware.

Crazy that Canada, with a population less than half the size of the UK, has more users than the UK.

1. Download and install the VMWare VDDK (Virtual Disk Development Kit) located here. You will need to provide your email and password you used to get your free ESXi license. https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?productId=285&downloadGroup=VSP510-VDDK-510 2. Once installed, from the command prompt, navigate to the path shown in the screen shot and enter the command in the screen shot to mount the older version of the vmdk. I used "J" for the drive letter but you can use any unused drive letter. You want to mount unRAID.vmdk, not unRAID-flat.vmdk which won't mount. 3. Replace the bzroot, bzimage and syslinux.cfg files in the drive you just mounted with the latest versions available. 4. Unmount the mounted vmdk drive using the following command. Replace "j:" with whatever drive letter you chose. 5. Shutdown your unraid VM. Browse your datastore that your unraid VM is stored on and browse to the unraid VM's directory. Upload both the unRAID.vmdk and unRAID-flat.vmdk like in the following screen shot. Choose yes when it asks if you want to replace the file. 6. Inflate the unRAID.vmdk like shown in the screen shot. That's it. Boot your unraid VM and you should now be running whatever version of unraid you upgraded your vmdk to. I would recommend you browsing to your flash drive once its booted and updating the unraid system files there as well in case you ever need to run unraid on bare metal for whatever reason.

That explanation above was way more complicated than it needed to be. This way can be done from a Windows VM or any Windows PC with the vSphere Client installed. Install the VMWare Virtual Disk Dev Kit, mount an older version of the vmdk with VMware-mount.exe, replace bzroot, bzimage and syslinux.cfg with the current version, unmount the vmdk, shutdown the unraid VM and upload the vmdk to the datastore via the vSphere client to replace your old vmdk, right click it and hit inflate, and then boot up your unraid VM. That's all you need to do. A lot simpler. As for updating the vmtools, there's no need to pull the flash drive for this. Just use wget while unraid is running to download the file to the corresponding directory in /boot/ and install it.

Nice shot of your crotch in the bottom of the third picture haha

Or just not update the syslinux.cfg at all and leave the one from RC12a or RC13. That's what I did.

Updating the vmdk oneself is really not difficult.

This is what I do. I use SMB for now because of said NFS issues. With the vmxnet3 10Gb virtual NIC you're going to get reads and writes as fast as your unraid disks can perform. Performing iperf speed tests between the two VMs show me getting 10.8 gigabits per second so we've got plenty of headroom before even the fastest SSD makes the network connection between the two VMs a speed bottleneck.

Holy smokes! For a 100MB zip? It would take me less than 30 seconds to upload that, even on my LTE iPhone. Sounds like the NBN can't come soon enough for you guys out there in OZ.

An OVA would require you to reconfigure your entire unraid setup in vSphere though. With the vmdk you can just add a hard disk to your existing setup. And wouldn't an OVA require you to redo it every time there was a new release of unraid?

It has been a lot more than 4-5 hours patiently waiting.. Not quite sure I understand the need to for this when you can make a .vmdk file yourself and use a program like winimage to inject the new bzimage/bzroot. And besides rc13 uses a different kernel so you will likely need to wait for a new vmtools package. Edit: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=7914.0 I used the vmware-mount utility included in the VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit mount the vmdk and load the new bzimage/bzroot but same concept. Also, the RC-12a VMware tools are working fine for me.

If my money were burning a hole in my pocket I'd pick one up to make a pfSense router with a Squid proxy and a few SSDs in a ZFS pool. Sorry, getting way off topic here.

I was going to say there could be some interesting uses for it with the 4 onboard NICs but I just looked it up and it's going for ~$715 bucks! I know it includes the CPU but damn! Low power stuff sure ain't cheap.

Is here a reason you want to use the Adaptec card vs. the 24 port RocketRaid 2760A that is used in the thread you linked to? Since we know that card is working. I'm going to go out on a limb and say at this time this controller will not work. It looks like it's a brand new controller chip so it's doubtful the drivers have been included. You can ask Tom if he could include them and see what he says. I would say, though, unless you have a specific reason to use this card, just go for the 2760A since it already works.

Any chance of instead of the website being worked on to add slideshows we can get 5.0 finalized?

Unraid does support USB 3.0. It's supported it for about a year now actually. So if ESXi is passing it through properly it should work in theory.

Boot times for bare metal and virtualized are basically the same. The USB drive is passed through to the VM so you're limited by how fast it can load from the USB drive. Yes, you could do this with an SSD or even a spinner. Just set the boot priority to that disk in the BIOS. I guess the reason more people don't do this is because on a bare metal machine that disk would take up a slot that could be used for an array disk. When it's virtualized you already have a disk being used for a datastore so taking up a disk slot doesn't really enter in to the equation. You could also just buy one of those super fast USB 3.0 thumb drives and get Tom to switch your license to the GUID for that drive.

Are the files too big to host on Dropbox? Never tried to upload something that big to my Dropbox account so I don't really know.

Can't believe I waited so long to do this! Boot times go by in the blink of an eye now. This may have already been mentioned elsewhere in the thread but you can use your existing unraid VM with this vmdk, you don't have to create a new one. Just disable or remove the CD drive that was loading the plop ISO. Remove your current hard disk. Then add the vmdk as an existing hard disk. Works fine. Side note: it's annoying you have to use a web browser to download these files. wget doesn't work with Google Drive shared files with their obfuscated URL.

i would highly recommend for you to use ssh. assuming you are not linux power user, here are the steps 1. download and install openssh plugin by overbryn https://github.com/overbyrn/ssh/raw/master/openssh_overbyrn.plg info here http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=20848.0 2. make sure ssh service is up(manage plugin in unraid webui) 3. install winscp http://winscp.net/eng/index.php 4. run winscp 5. select new -> put unraid ip/hostname at host name. make sure file protocol is sftp 6. enter root as username and your password 7. login 8. you will see ftp like interface. since you log as root, you can do what the hell that you want. 9. if you want to quick edit a file, right click and edit. im a windows user(though i use linux at work, a lot) and i hate to use command line. winscp/ssh is my saviour. I was actually just going to post this same thing.

Have to agree. I don't like the idea of putting all your eggs in one basket, so to speak. It is still pretty damn cool though.

I just use the plugin from this thread. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=11449.0

What do you need to access in those folders? You can edit text files from right within a telnet/ssh session.