NeoDude

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Just out of interest, what's the application?

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The issues were flagged in the "Fix Common Problems" plugin. You might want to look there first. For the cores issue have a read through of this thread regarding Docker Core Pinning.

Ok, so I noticed there was some issues your docker share? You had it set to Cache only but there was also files on the array in this share. Have these issues been fixed?

I'm assuming you have dockers and VMs running. When you assign cores to these it's a good idea to leave the first couple of cores free for UnRaid to use. Checking through your logs just now...

1. Unsure without more info, logs etc. Have you left a core free for UnRaid to use? (Preferably core 0) 2. You could use the Unassigned Devices plugin (Available from CA, see below) to do this but there is no issue with what you are doing currently. 3. Nope, what you are doing is fine. First off, if you haven't already, install the Community Applications plugin and then from there Install the Fix Common Problems plugin. This should highlight any obvious issues in your config.

I currently have the reset button on my case disconnected as it is largely useless (and dangerous with young fingers in the house) within UnRaid. It would be awesome if the reset button could somehow be retasked as a VM power button.

Cool. Copying stuff over now. Fingers crossed for tomorrow when I pull the plug.

Further to my original question, when I create a new config this won't destroy my shares will it?

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So I just have to move all the data off the drive to another using MC, and then create a new config?

Is there an accepted procedure or method for changing a Data Drive to a Second Parity drive? Thanks in advance

A picture tells a thousand words. Here's all my docker mappings... As for you Blu-Ray drive, I have mine running on a passed through SATA controler within a Win10 VM. I then just use MakeMKV in my VM, allows the drive to be used for other things too.

Copy has now finished. Server is back to normal performance but USB drive is now missing from the unassigned devices list. Still accessible from within MC though.

He folks, strange issue here. About an hour ago I started copying around 16GB of files from an UnRaid share to a USB stick mounted using the Unassigned Devices plugin. I'm copying using MC. Initially the copy zipped along nicely at 80MB/s and I had 7 of the 10 files completed within 10 minutes. I'm now sat at over an hour and the copy has slowed to 500 kB/s and my UnRaid server has virtually frozen, the UI takes around 5 minutes to load and all my dockers are unresponsive. Any ideas?

You can also pass through an entire USB controller to the VM. This would allow you to hot plug usb devices to your VM the same as you would with a physical machine.

Cache drives are organised into a cache pool using btrfs. Think of it kinda like RAID 5, If you have 2 drives they will act like a RAID 1 mirrored array. So if you have 1 250GB drive you will have 250GB total. If you add a second 250GB drive you will still have 250GB total but it will now be protected with a mirror. In your case if you now added a 3rd 250GB SSD to the cache pool your total should go up to around 500GB.

Best method would be to run a VPN server on your router if it supports it. Then you can connect to it from anywhere and your machine will act like it is on the LAN. If you're in the market for a new router anyway I would recommend any of the ASUS ones loaded with Merlin firmware. Sent from my LG-D855 using Tapatalk

The RAID controller will work fine as a general disk controller, but understand that UnRaid does not support RAID of any type. If you wish to use UnRaid you will sooner or later need to copy your data off your old RAID array and in to UnRaid. Dockers are really the way to go with UnRaid. I have a similar system to the one you are looking at with 32 cores. I assign 8 cores to my Windows 10 VM, 8 cores to my Plex Docker and 8 cores to the rest of my dockers, they include Couch Potato, Sonarr, Crash Plan & NZBget amongst others. The whole setup just works. Couch Potato, Sonarr & NZBget take care of automatically downloading Movies & TV shows and the Plex docker has enough grunt to stream them all around the house as well as transcode for clients outside the network. As far as the 2 gaming VMs go, you don't need any extra technology as it's already supported in UnRaid. You will need to make sure that UnRaid is setup to use your onboard VGA and then each of your VMs can have a GPU each.

Ah, gotcha, you want to run FreeNAS as a VM. Ok, first things first, you won't need a RAID controller for UnRaid, a JBOD controller will do. Search the forums on which ones to get. Any reason why you want to run Plex server in FreeNAS and not as a docker?

I apologise if I offended you, but to be fair, your original post does state that you are planning on building a Dual Xeon machine with a RAID controller and a RAID 5 array. You also state that you want to run a Plex Server using FreeNAS. None of this actually suggests that you want to use UnRaid for anything. Not once in your original post do you mention UnRaid. I'm not a mind reader.

Confused as to why you are mentioning FreeNAS and RAID on an UnRaid forum Sent from my LG-D855 using Tapatalk

Nope, those should cover it. Obviously you need to have enough cpu cores to dedicate some to the VM while retaining some for UnRaid and any dockers. Expect roughly a 10% decrease in performance on your GPU when running in a VM. Sent from my LG-D855 using Tapatalk

You mention accessing your server from outside your local network. UnRaid is unfortunately not secured against being openly connected to the internet. I would recommend only accessing it via a VPN. Sent from my LG-D855 using Tapatalk