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I have a server running unraid but am replacing the motherboard, CPU and ram. Reusing all existing components including drives and the LSI extension card. Is this just a matter of shutting down, installing new hardware and rebooting? Will unraid handle this all seamlessly? (If it matters, I’m switching from a Xeon E3 CPU and Supermicro motherboard to a Asus LGA1200 and Intel Core i5 10th Gen CPU)

I'm in middle of researching upgrades and found this thread. Wanted to check in now 6+ months later with unraid upgrades amuck to see if this now works without hoop jumping.

My Unraid server has evolved over time and my requirements don't fully apply anymore when I originally built it. At that time, I didn't have a GPU nor did I have a LSI RAID card. So I looked for a CPU with a built in GPU and a motherboard with a ton of SATA connectors since my Rosewill case has support for quite a few drives. 4 years ago, it was hard to find a motherboard that fit all the requirements. Lastly, I wanted IPMI support for remote administration. I ended up with: Motherboard: Supermicro X10SLM-F motherboard CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1246 v3 3.50GHz RAM: Crucial 32GB ECC RAM (4 x 8GB, PC3-12800) Since that build, I've added: LSI 9201-8i RAID card that was flashed to IT mode. I'm running 8 drives off of it, and the other 4 drives directly connected to my motherboard. NVIDIA Quadro P2000 GPU primarily for plex hardware acceleration I've been plagued with issues lately with bios chip problems on this motherboard. I've swapped the chip and while it runs fine, if I reboot, I have a 50% chance something is messed up and I have to jump through hoops to reset the bios (by shorter 2 pins on the motherboard), etc. It's a total pain. I looked to replace the motherboard with exactly the same one, but then it's like $300 due to it being older and shorter in supply. I'm hesitant to just buy another bios chip because I think there is something else wrong. Rather than mess with this still, I just want to fix it and upgrade at the same time to get more current with hardware. I'd love recommendations on what to look at. My usage is relatively light: Plex server, serving both local viewers and remote 2 VMs -- one for Home Assistant for all the automation in my house, and one Win10 that I use for a few random things when i need to run windows app NAS file storage for plex, photos, sync'ing google drive etc I run about 15 different dockers for a variety of things such as MQTT server, Radarr, Sonarr, nzbget Requirements: Replace both CPU and Motherboard Motherboard RAM support: While I'm not in a business environment, I figure ECC RAM isn't a bad thing to have, so would like to continue to use my RAM unless for some reason my ECC RAM isn't fast enough or something with changing requirements. So if I need to replace RAM I will, and looking for suggestions if I should not use ECC for some reason Motherboard size: My case will support up to E-ATX, so I'm good with basically any size Motherboard slots: Need at least one PCIe 3.0 x16 slot (for my Nvidia P2000) and one PCIe x8 slot (for my LSI). Motherboard SATA: At least 4 SATA connectors, but the more the better. IPMI support preferred but not a deal breaker if missing Gigabit LAN Built in USB port to plug small USB key into it for Unraid boot drive (I'm not sure what this port is exactly called but I'm sure all of you know what I mean). My first debate is whether to continue on the Xeon or go with the non-Xeon platform. In fact, should I just look at AMD now? I keep reading rave things about their latest CPUs.

In my example where my setup is this: unraid server has IP of 192.168.1.2 VM has IP of 192.168.1.100 When connected via wireguard my unraid server is 10.253.0.1 If i make the change to "Remote access to LAN", what is the IP of the VM? Is it just addressed with 192.168.1.100 still and counts on no network conflict?

I have wireguard setup with "Remote access to server" so my laptop can access my unraid server. I'm trying to understand how to access a VM that's running on unraid, but has it's own IP. For example, my unraid server has IP of 192.168.1.2 and my VM has IP of 192.168.1.100. For my wireguard tunnel and client setup, my unraid server then is accessible via 10.253.0.1. How do I access the VM? Do I need to have it also connect as it's own Wireguard client? I'm confused because when I read the first post it talks about VMs being accessible but I'm not sure how that works exactly becuase how can my laptop (when I'm away from my LAN and connected via Wireguard) be able to access the VM without an addressable IP?

I'm getting same error "Unable to connect to backup.unraid.net:22". I don't see anythign obviously wrong anywhere in my firewall.

I noticed this entry come up occasionally in my syslog and wondering if it's anything to worry about. I'm not totally sure what it's indicating. The unraid system is not informing me of any SMART errors or anything on that drive which is in my 2 drive cache pool. Apr 19 03:27:07 Tower kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 111948688 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 126 prio class 0 Apr 19 03:27:07 Tower kernel: ata2.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED Apr 19 03:27:07 Tower kernel: ata2: SError: { HostInt PHYRdyChg 10B8B LinkSeq DevExch } Apr 19 03:27:07 Tower kernel: ata2.00: irq_stat 0x0c400040, interface fatal error, connection status changed Apr 19 03:27:07 Tower kernel: ata5.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT Apr 19 03:27:07 Tower kernel: ata5: SError: { HostInt PHYRdyChg 10B8B LinkSeq DevExch } Apr 19 03:27:07 Tower kernel: ata5.00: irq_stat 0x0c400040, interface fatal error, connection status changed here is screenshot of the SMART data: https://imgur.com/a/5BomEm8 diagnostics attached. tower-diagnostics-20210419-0926.zip

I have a working Windows 10 VM that I've been running for months. I noticed a different option for the "network model" in VM options where I now see both "virtio" and "virtio-net" options. I was using "virtio". I wanted to experiment if this would help network perf by trying "virtio-net" but if I make that change the VM cannot start. My logs show this error: 2021-04-07T17:59:45.810300Z qemu-system-x86_64: -device pcie-pci-bridge,id=pci.6,bus=pci.1,addr=0x0: Bus 'pci.1' not found Any ideas what's going on?

I’m having weird behavior when trying to update this. When I start the update process, My SMx1500 powers off, then back on. The display says something about firmware being updated for a few seconds then it powers off immediately. My windows laptop app is showing the progress at 7% with no additional progress even after waiting 5 mins. UPS still isn’t turning on.

I answered my own question. The answer is Yes

When you update the firmware on an APC UPS, I’ve got an SMT 1500 model, does it cut power to all connected devices at any point? Or is power continuous?

Do you by any chance have an ad blocker installed? If so make sure you disable it

Somewhat related to this thread since this is all about APC SmartUPS and Unraid Anyone figured out how to update the firmware from command line without connecting the UPS to a windows box? I don't have a windows PC in my house at all. I've tried to pass through the device connected to my mac into a windows VM, but it's not working. The APC Firmware updater doesn't see the device.

For those using AirConnect container: Is there a way to change the config so that I can disable some speakers? For example, i'm having some duplicates appear for my sonos speakers that support AirPlay already. Reading the AirConnect github docs, there is a mention of a config.xml file that's created but I don't see any config path set in the docker container so am assuming the file is within the docker container itself which means it's blown away each upgrade. Also, I have no idea where this file is within the container when i'm exploring via console

I used to use nvidia unraid to get hardware transcoding in plex container, but now that is broken due to changes in the nvidia unraid plugin support since it's deprecated and I am waiting on Unraid 6.9 which will have the drivers baked in. However, I'm on Unraid 6.8.3 right now, so now sure if i can get nvidia gpu acceleration working in Tdarr? I tried to run one plugin that uses NVENC and get the error: Cannot load libnvcuvid.so.1 Sorry if this is a stupid question, but do I need to get the drivers supported into unraid to get this working (so Unraid 6.9)? Or is there a way around this in the interim? In the docker config for Tdarr, i have this extra param specified: --runtime=nvidia

I just became a patreon supporter. How do I install the pro_latest version in unraid when using the tdarr_aio version?

I have a bunch of custom scripts on the flash drive through the User Scripts plugin that I'd like to backup on a regular, versioned, basis. Wondering what the best way is? I don't mind putting it on the array vs somewhere remote, but wondering what suggestions people had before I roll my own thing with rsync or something else like the following. I don't have to backup much, and would prefer a UI to do it.

Slightly off topic but related to the libraries that are installed by NerdPack: What is the best way to verify in a command line script that libzen and libmediainfo are installed? I'm new to libraries like this and have some scripts that are using mediainfo. I'm verifying that mediainfo is installed, but woudl like to verify the dependencies are also installed. Anyone that's an expert here give me a tip on what i could use in a bash script? Is a basic way just checking for existence of /usr/lib64/libzen.so and /usr/lib64/libmediainfo.so?

Just added these options to the template.

I have it only running locally, so am not the expert on this. However, some info: Look at their official docs: https://docs.n8n.io/reference/security.html You could ask in their community: https://community.n8n.io/ don't expose externally and require VPN/Wireguard?

Support for n8n docker Application: n8n Application Site: https://n8n.io Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/n8nio/n8n/ Github: https://github.com/n8nio/n8n Official Community Support: https://community.n8n.io/ Please post any questions/issues relating to this docker you have in this thread.

Ok thanks, this worked!

Ok let me try that and see if it works for me. Thanks for the tip.

Not sure where to ask this question, but where do I get documentation on how to create XML Templates for apps? I'm piecing togehter what I need by looking at existing XML templates (e..g LinuxServers) but I don't understand some pieces. Mostly around all the attributes for the <config> sections with variables. For example, what is "TARGET" attribute used for? Is there no good documentation for this? Or have I just missed it? Everything I find is super old.