[Installing New Hardware Stops Docker & VM's]

Yes these were the diagnostics when I had the nvme in. Some months ago I also installed a second  graphics card and had the same result. Really strange behaviour. 

[Installing New Hardware Stops Docker & VM's]

Yes I tried installing 2 weeks ago, only just got around to the forum post!

[Installing New Hardware Stops Docker & VM's]

I have an unRAID server running without any faults for over 2 years. It's running 6.8.3 and has an array of 5 drives and a cache pool of 2 SSD's for VM's and dockers.

 

I decided to install an m.2 NVME drive to move all my VM's onto the NVME drive, leaving the cache pool for docker.

 

Installed the drive and rebooted. The login screen displayed a white background when it normally was black. I could log in and normally, the unRAID UI is black but now it's white and the machine logo in the description box has changed. Docker and VM's will not also run and there is a parsing error?

I rebooted the server and then I am unable to even see the UI for unRAID, although the shares were all running and available on the network.

 

I also looked in the bios and made sure that the nvme was not in any of the boot priority menus, just in case this was causing the problem, it made no difference.

 

I decided to take the NVME drive out of the server and rebooted and everything went back to normal, colour scheme, server picture, VM's and dockers all running perfectly.

 

I am completely baffled! I have added the log files to this post.

 

Could anyone help at all, it would be really appreciated?

pcserver-diagnostics-20210104-1742.zip

[Install nvme drive - Unraid behaves strangely. Remove drive, then works again!]

My server has been running superbly for 150 days and never missed a beat, it's a new machine (12 months old). It has a cache pool of two SSD and several WD red hard drives. All works well.
 

I decided to add an nvme drive to run my VM's separate from the cache pool. Installed the drive and the board sees it and Unraid boots. However, the unraid UI is now white (it was black) and the drives are all mounted, including the NVME drive and is showing in 'unassgined devices' which is correct. However, docker won't start and it says errors 'parsing'. I can access the data on all the drives and my cache pool has all the VM and docker data.
 

I reboot and then I can't access the unraid UI at all.
 

Shutdown, remove the nvme drive and it all boots up correctly and everything is running.

 

The server booted up correctly but does say 'cannot connect to hypervisor' but this has said this for many months and the server runs fine, teh screenshot below shows this. The second image is a quick image of the server shutting down with the nvme drive installed.
 

I am running version 6.8.3.
 

Any ideas or help is greatly appreciated.

[Interview with Spaceinvader One]

Great interview! Fantastic videos, they got me into unRAID and I watch every one you release @SpaceInvaderOne. A live stream would be great, you should do a regular slot! Neat setup with the servers, it gave me some ideas for my three servers.

Keep up the excellent work.

[Server Layout Plugin for unRAID v6]

tower-diagnostics-20181102-1224.zip

 

Here you go. Thanks for any help you can give

[Server Layout Plugin for unRAID v6]

I am using a dell Poweredge T610 and can't seem to get the hard drives 'seen' by the plugin? Any help would be greatly appreciated.