Shigo_Naito

Hello, I'm overly paranoid about the write limitations on an SSD (Its just the way I am) and to lessen the R&W load on them and the array, I want to setup a temp cache RAM disk for my camera system so that it can encode video then move it to the array after its done. The camera software is running on a Win10 VM, ideally I would like to have a RAM disk mounted to the VM. Just to say it my sever has about 256GB of free RAM currently when everything is running. I am not a linux person so maybe this is really easy, but can I create a 20GB Virtual disk in unraid so that I can mount it to a VM? Being that unraid is already in RAM having a command to create virtual disk in (for example) the temp dir on boot of unraid would be all that I need....I think?

Hello, I am looking to see if anyone has some general real world power usage differences between using SSDs vs. HDD in Unraid. Mainly being that I run a simple 20 drive storage server and when not in us each HDD drive sleeps, would I see any real differences in usage upgrading to SSDs? Thank for the help

Hello, So I have a good working setup with my 2 VMs, I am just wondering if there is a best practice on connecting VMs to shares on the array? Also is there a way to connect the VM to the array outside of using IP? I would like to be able to move the physical PC to a friends house or just not have it on a network and still have the VMs connected to the array. Thanks for the help

Hello, So I happen to have a x399 1950x setup that I can play with and wanted to try setting up a few gaming VMs. After reading the forums here (thank you BTW) and think I know how I want to setup the CPU and MEM, but I dont really have a clear picture on the best why to setup storage. For example, if I have a STEAM Share can multipel VMs use it at the same time? I am planing if I can to have a m.2 dedicated to each VM OS, ether direct access or VM file created in each. What do other users do for game installation storage? Thank you for the help

yep I am hopping to use 1.5m-2m 8088 cable to the box and then .5m from the expander to the bay.

Hello, I want to add an external hard drive 4u enclosure to my Unraid here is the basic data cable conections: SAS HBA controller -> SAS expander -> SATA drives My question is from the controller to the expander can I go by SAS cable lengths or do I still have to go by SATA? I think the expander ups the signal to SAS standards but I am not to familiar with SAS and SATA aside from general information. Basic list of devices (not everything just the items for this part): LSI M1050 Controller Intel Res2cv360 Expander NORCO RPC-4220 Thanks for the help

I am looking to segment what data goes through what group. So I want group A to be just Plex(Plugin) and Unraid, and group B to be VMs and Docker. So I don't know if I missed it in 6.3 but when I updated to 6.4 I found how to get the 2 separate bridges setup. KVM sees both bridges but docker only sees the one, also is there a setting to have Unraid NAS only use one group?

Looks like you have two options with the information you gave. Add it to the array and you wont be able to see the fast write speeds you will see good read speeds on what ever files you store on it (You never said what files you are storing or if they require faster access). Or remove the disk and put it to better use in another system. Hope this helps

Hello, I would like to segment my VMs & Docker from my Plex plugin & UnRaid. I have search before and have not found a clear way to do this with my setup. I know vary basic Linux commands, but give me some examples and I think I can figure it out. Knowing my luck its two easy commands and everything is good to go. I already have one pair of SPF+ 10gb lines setup in UnRaid to the Switch, and is working great. I would like to group my 4 extra Ethernet ports I have, and setup as a separate bridge. 1. How do a setup four NICs to Bond with 802.3ad Link Aggregation in the command line (GUI?)? 2. How do a setup a bridge to this group in the command line(GUI?) so Docker and KVM can see it? 3. How do I set priority for Unraid to use one bond over another? Sorry if this seems like a Noob question, just cant seem to figure out how to get this to work. Thank you in advance for any help you can give

Was playing around with it just the other day and yes they are on different cores and I still have the sound issue.

Hello, I am running multiple VMs in Unraid and was wondering if there was a way to prioritize one VM’s network traffic over another? Or limit the bandwidth to a VM? The main VM I am running on the server is a living room MC/Gaming VM and it works fine until the other VM’s start sending data (moving files to another PC on the network). When this happens my Plex audio will go out of sync with the video and I have to stop and start the movie to get everything working again. On a side note I am now running SFP+ 10Gbs to the server but I still had the problem when I was running Ethernet. Shouldn’t the increase in bandwidth help this from not happening? Thanks

Wonderful, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing. I will look into the direct_io when I leave work Thank you

Sorry its going Unraid to Unraid and from array share to array share. All HDD and I do not have cache drive setup right now.

Sorry for the delay kids and the holidays take up alot of time. So I have the network setup and it looks like both Unraid servers are seeing the hardware just fine. All the other computers are seeing the server to. The problem I am now having is that if I am moving files from one server to the other (SMB mounted share) with MC I am only getting about 40MB/s. Am I missing something? Shouldn't it be faster then that?

Found a good picture on the 8F model: http://www.servethehome.com/supermicro-x10sdv-7tp8f-high-end-xeon-d-platform/ Those ports are SFF-8643 so you will need to convert them to SFF-8087