[Convert virtualized Unraid from ESXi to Bare Metal]

What is the simplest way to convert my installation of Unraid from a VM on ESXi to just running on the bare metal?

 

So it's been a few years since I've really dug into the details of my install, and I was just reaching the threshold of my abilities to follow the tutorials and get unraid set up as a VM along with some windows and linux VMs. I've since transitioned most of the apps that were running on the other VMs to Dockers in Unraid, and I'm finding I have no use for keeping unraid virtualized. Unfortunately, over the years, there are a few performance issues I'm noticing that could be attributed to it being a VM, but I'm apprehensive about swapping out the USB stick and trying to just run it directly from the MB. I'm assuming there are some settings to be changed, and backups to create just to make sure I don't lose my settings or my data.

 

Does anyone have a simple tutorial for what steps need to be taken to move to bare metal?

[ESXI: usb 1-1: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci]

Updated ESXi and still have the errors.  Any other ideas?

[ESXI: usb 1-1: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci]

 

So I'm experiencing the same USB reset issue when I updated to the latest version of Unraid.  It had been running fine for years, and just decided it was time for an upgrade. I never noticed if the USB reset was happening before the upgrade. I'm still getting the reset message and lagging on the entire system every 30-40 seconds, and lots of excess reads on the flash drive.  None of the discussions and workarounds in this thread have been able to solve the problem for me. Server Specs are below.

 

I've tried adding a second USB device to the guest OS (APC Back-UPS), and the issue persists.  I've also added a second flash drive, which only made the number of PHP warnings increase.  I tried updating the Guest OS type to Ubuntu 64-bit, and every combination of the addition of extra USB devices.  Is it possible that my flash drive might actually be failing?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Software:

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VMware ESXi Version 5.5.0 (Build 1331820)

Unraid Server Pro Version 6.5.3 (2018-06-12)

    Linux Kernel Version 4.14.49

    openVMtools_auto plugin Version 2016.03.09

    Preclear Disks plugin Version 2018.07.09

    Statistics plugin 2017.09.22

    Unassigned Devices plugin 2018.06.01a

 

Hardware:

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Supermicro MBD-X9SCM-F-O
Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 Ivy Bridge 3.3Ghz LGA 1155 69W

Kingston ValueRAM 8GB 1333 MHz DDR3 PC3-1066 ECC CL9 (KVR13E9/8I)

IBM SERVERAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller (46M0861) (IT Flashed to LSI 2008)

 

Lexar JumpDrive Firefly 8GB (Unraid Flash Drive)

    Connected to MB via:

    StarTech USB A to USB Motherboard 4-Pin Header F/F 2.0 Cable (USBMBADAPT)

 

Guest OS Setup

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Booting with PlopkExec.iso

Guest OS set to FreeBSD (64-bit)

PCI passthrough of SATA controller card

4 CPU cores allocated

2GB memory allocated

USB controller added

USB device added (UNRAID USB Flash Drive)

USB device added (APC Back-UPS)

 

 

Log while two USB flash drives are added to the Guest OS. One is the UNRAID flash drive and the other is a generic empty drive (unmounted):

Jul 30 17:09:41 Tower kernel: usb 1-1: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
Jul 30 17:09:47 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 15663104 512-byte logical blocks: (8.02 GB/7.47 GiB)
Jul 30 17:09:47 Tower rc.diskinfo[7270]: SIGHUP received, forcing refresh of disks info.
Jul 30 17:09:47 Tower rc.diskinfo[7270]: PHP Warning: Use of undefined constant ID_MODEL - assumed 'ID_MODEL' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /etc/rc.d/rc.diskinfo on line 470
Jul 30 17:09:47 Tower rc.diskinfo[7270]: PHP Warning: Use of undefined constant SERIAL_SHORT - assumed 'SERIAL_SHORT' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /etc/rc.d/rc.diskinfo on line 470