bmilcs

@StevenD Your storage hardware makes me smile.

I love these USB sticks. Dirt cheap, USB 3.0 and reliable as far as I can tell.

ESXI is fussy with what USB drives you use. I failed to install it twice with older drives. Try adding it this way if you haven't already. Here's what you want to pick up: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077Y149DL/ref=twister_B078VKF48F?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.ostricher.com/2012/09/setting-up-unraid-vm/ This is the guideline I used to get it going. What issues are you facing?

Quick update: All is well :). Finally went through a full parity check and UnRaid is running better than it ever has. It goes to show any 'old hardware' does not beat a decommissioned enterprise level server. Of course it I'm such a dummy.

Life can be beautiful sometimes. Time to move my servers into the basement -- this R730xd IS LOUDDD with 5 drives in it.

@doron So scared! Booting for the first time w/ production USB & drives installed. Sorry for the lack of responses. I've been mounting plywood & 6u network rack in my closet, running 2 lines of CAT6a to each room of my house, with an epic cable management tray in my attic & over-the-top sch40 6" PVC leftovers through the ceiling :). DOH. I don't have my ESXI's vlan setup properly on my R730XD. Edit: Patch Panel fail.

Alright. So, my unraid server finally stayed up long enough to do a full parity check with zero errors. I turned off autostart, took some screenshots of it's current configuration, and am taking it down now for the transplant! Wish me luck.

Thanks man. Is there an easy way to keep my old array with a new copy of the installer? I'd ideally like a fresh clean start, without losing my data. I can't even remember all of the customizations and tweaks I've tried over the years and forgot about.

Hello! I began my journey with UnRaid 3-4 years ago, with a crappy old AMD desktop and zero working knowledge of networking, storage or virtualization. Aside from the obvious, this OS opened my eyes and fueled an ever-expanding homelab and desire to learn... while slowly draining my bank account :). Here's where I am: - R730XD LFF, running Dell's custom ESXI 7.0 iso - Crossflashed H330 Mini to HBA330 Mini - Unraid VM configured & tested with: - HBA330 Mini direct passthrough - Unraid Trial > USB Flash Drive direct passthrough - Unraid WebGUI works great, added Unassigned Drives(+) Plugin - Successfully added a 850 Evo 250gb & a 2.5" 10k SAS Drive - Formatted / mounted one as unassigned drive - Created a 1 drive array w/ other, formatted and mounted it - SMB Shares are working swimmingly and all seems to be well How can I "safely" dismount my existing & nearly full 20tb array from an older rig and transfer it into this virtualized state? Are there any other things I need to check within Unraid to ensure I have a successful move? Am I missing anything??? All and any feedback welcome! Thanks -bmilcs

I want to have optimal drive throughput and read/writes, but beyond that, low power is clutch. Thank you for the suggestions.

I believe I'm in the clear. Everything seems to check out. Can you take a look and review my final diagnostics? - I regularly get the 'my CPU may be running at 100% 24/7' message via Fix Common Problems (which would explain 123W while idle right now) - Any other issues worth fixing? unraid-diagnostics-20200218-1437.zip

Quite possibly. Before I posted, I double checked all my cables. I am guilty of having my case open. I've been testing several old SATA hdd's using unassigned drives.

After running xfs repair again w/o -L, the Unmountable Disk Error disappeared and I was able to begin a rebuild. Here's current diagnostics. unraid-diagnostics-20200218-0609.zip