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@limetech Please see above, replaced my flash drive back on 12/26/22 with a device that is causing multiple errors. I now have a new Kingston flash drive that appears to be working. Since it has been less than 1 year since updating the license key how do I update the key on this new Kingston flash drive?
The registered GUID does not match the USB Flash boot device GUID
The Registration key file does not correspond to the USB Flash boot device. Please copy the correct key file to the config directory on your USB Flash boot device. If you do not have a backup copy of your key file, Contact Support.
Registered to:
TMCI
Registered on: Mon 26 Dec 2022 08:50:53 AM EST
Registered GUID: 13FE-4500-BCB5-5D066C88DF80
Flash GUID: 0951-1666-C1EE-E6A1994415EF
Flash Vendor: Kingston
Flash Product: DataTraveler_3.0
Replaceable: Tue 26 Dec 2023 08:50:53 AM EST
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I've been using unRAID since late 2008 and have not had any issues with the original flash drive. Unfortunately, I ran out of space on my original 2009 flash drive and tried to replace/upgrade it with a new one over Christmas week 2022. Over the last 5 weeks it has been one problem after another:
- Multiple kernel: usb 1-1: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
- Multiple Directory Bread errors.
- Multiple errors that state the drive is not read-write
- Multiple errors stating the drive is disconnecting
I have tried running chkdsk on it multiple times and each time it finds some type of corruption, which ends up creating multiple "FOUND.00X" directories and FSCK00XX.REC files. I have also tried reformatting the drive with a full format and starting over from scratch, but to no avail. II upgraded my license key to this drive only a few weeks ago; what is the process to obtain a new license key once I obtain yet another flash drive?
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Attempting to get the "Parity Check Tuning" plugin working on my unRAID installation. When I click on the "History" button in the "Parity Check Tuning" plugin page a new dialog window opens but it says "File not found." I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin but still see the same "File not found." message. I'm on unRAID v6.11.5 and the version of the plugin is 2022.12.05.
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16 hours ago, dlandon said:
Post your diagnostics.
Here are the diagnostics from the server.
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I have three drives that are not part of my array and am expecting that all three would show up under "Unassigned Devices", but only one of the drives is showing up as "dev 1". Can someone point in the right direction as to what I must be missing? How do I get the other two drives to show up under "Unassigned Devices"?
Thanks in advance.
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Hi adminmat,
I started using unRAID back in 2008 on bare metal and moved it over to ESXi in 2013 and it has been rock solid. My ESXi server is a SuperMicro X9SCM-F with a Xeon E3-1230v2 and 32GB RAM. I have a dedicated LSI 9201-16i that I pass through to unRAID to manage 16 drives just for unRAID, and a separate LSI 9201-16i for drives that ESXi manages for VMs.
As for your questions:
1 - Are there performance impacts doing this, if so what?
I am using unRAID just to store files; I am not using it for docker or running other VMs in unRAID. I have not noticed any performance issues.
2 - Is there a trick to setting up shares in ESXi for the unRAID disks?
I pass through a dedicated LSI 9201-16i to the unRAID VM and manage all unRAID drives on it.
3 - Is it difficult to migrate to a bare metal unRAID instance from unRAID on ESXi? (ya know... after the panic sets in)
It was very easy. I pulled the original unRAID drives out of their dedicated server and plugged them into the dedicated LSI-9201-16i for unRAID on the ESXi server and started unRAID on ESXi.
4 - Are there issues with GPU pass-through when unRAID is on ESXi?
I just have the GPU on the motherboard and have not run into any issues. I run the system headless.
5 - Are there other pass-through issues?
There have been some performance issues in the past with passing through the unRAID USB drive. If I remember correctly it had to do with an upgrade moving to 6.0 and some of the config data didn’t get setup properly. Once fixed I have not had any issues.
6 - Is there a version of Open-VMware-Tools for the latest version of unRAID 6.7.2?
I am currently running unRAID 6.7.2 and I have the OpenVMTools plugin installed and it appears to be working properly.
7 - Are the custom Open-VMware-Tools available in the Community Applications?
It is available as an unRAID plugin.
8 - Do I just use two separate, physical USB drives for boot? One for ESXi and second passed through to unRAID (PlopKExec)?
Yes, that is how my system is setup and I also use PlopKExec for speed and simplicity. I originally started with Plop, but it was rather slow to boot. At some point I moved to the pre-built VMDK unRAID guest drive model that only reads the USB drive for the key; much faster than plop, but it made upgrading unRAID more difficult. After a couple of years of that I migrated to PlopExec, which boots just as fast and makes upgrading unRAID a breeze.
9 - Does running on ESXi make managing IOMMU groups any different than unRAID on bare metal? (this part scares me)
I don’t manage unRAID drives in ESXi. I pass through the controller and then manage unRAID drives in unRAID; faster, cleaner and easier.
10 - Is viewing and managing VMs on unRAID as easy as using VM Remote Client (VMRC) and VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)?
I don’t run any VMs on unRIAD; I still use ESXi to run all of my VMs. You could run VMs in unRAID but then you are running through 2 hypervisors, which I would expect to impact performance.
11 - Anything I'm missing? (bonus question😉)
If you are still unsure and have not read the ATLAS thread, I suggest that you review it.
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As some others have mentioned, the only way I got it working on 6.2 was to pass-through a second USB controller. You can pick one up fairly cheap (well worth it get rid of the headache if you ask me
).Can you provide a link or brand and model number for the the second USB controller you have working in your system?
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I'm not sure what you mean "unassigned devices plugin". Can you provide additional info on how to configure this? Attached is an image of the ESXi settings screen for my VM.
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I upgrade from unRAID 5.0.4 to 6.1.7 back in January with no issues what so ever. In fact the system has been rock solid for the last 10 months. The last few weeks I have tried to upgrade to 6.2.1, 6.2.2, and 6.2.3, but the WEB GUI is extremely slow to the point of being unusable. With 6.2.1 or 6.2.3 it typically takes 2 to 3 minutes for one of the unRAID menu pages to refresh (Main, Plugins, Stats, Tools, etc.).
I was getting the “usb 1-1: reset” error so I tried adding a second USB to my 6.2.3 configuration as others have tried. It no longer has the “usb 1-1:reset” errors, but the WEB GUI is still extremely slow to the point of being unusable.
Current setup:
Motherboard - SuperMicro X9SCM-F
ESXi version 6.0.0 - build 4510822
unRAID boots off a VMDK drive
Guest Operating System setting in ESXi – I have tried both Ubuntu Linux (32-bit) and (64-bit)
I am attaching the log file that was collected with 2 USB sticks configured for the VM. It is not showing the “usb 1-1: reset” error, but the system is still unusable.
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I'm running Unraid 6.11.5 and just applied Dynamix System Statistics 2023.02.14 and unfortunately the System Stats is still not working properly on this machine.