jesseasi

I have a Norco 4224 with Super Micro X9SCM-F, Intel Xeon(R) CPU E31270, 32GB Ram - running ESXI 7.0. I run a couple VMs- 2 windows machines (one for downloading) and an unraid server. I have 24 drives populated on the server and as I need space I have been pulling smaller drives out and replacing them with bigger drives. The 24 drives are attached via SAS 3008 controller (each supporting 8 drives). I use a couple of the on board Sata ports for the ESXI OS and Datastores. I recently got an Intel NUC 12 Extreme i9 to run my Plex server - and to handle any 4k transcoding. It came with a 10GB ethernet. I have unifi aggregation switch. I added an intel X540 dual port 10Gbe switch to my server (in the 4th PCI slot). I am not getting speeds from my VM's any faster than 1GB. I passed through one of the 10gbe ports to my unraid - and I am getting 3-4gbe speeds from my Intel Nuc to Unraid. But sustained read speeds at barely over 1gbe. (when transferring a file from unraid to my intel nuc). I think the issue is that my Motherboard / CPU combo has become outdated and my PCIe slots can't handle the bandwidth. Does anyone have any good recommendations for upgrade? I don't need to do any transcoding on the server - at least not part of my plan. I would like a motherboard that supports 10GBe networking, can run ESXI 7.0 with a few VM's - and support the higher throughput from my SAS 3008 cards. As for the case - I am open to upgrading the whole case to something more robust. Appreciate any suggestions.

So far so good! Thank you so much!!!!!

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? I would like parity check to run once every 2 months - start at 11:30PM each night and run for 12 hours till about 11:30am - then repeat until the whole process is finished. I have attached what all my settings are. Right now parity seems to start around 10pm and stops every night at 12:30am. I have 18TB drives - so at this pace - it will probably take 3 months to finish a parity check. Anyone have any ideas?

Thank you so much! Renaming that secrets file has got me back online. Still dealing with slower than normal transfer rates. But I am making progress again.

Ok. I can’t even find this file to rename / delete it.

The computers that were the source was a windows 10 VM running on an ESXi Server. yes shares were mapped - this is my fault. I have since turned off that VM. I deleted every encrypted file from unraid that I could find. I will look into that secrets suggestion. Thank you so much for the response - I will report back later.

I was hit with with a ransomware virus. Phobos. They wanted $20K USD to decrypt everything. Over 15 years of data lost. I am not paying that. I have started the process of restoring what I have from backups and downloading stuff again. But I was so worried about my server still being infected. Data transfers were painfully slow - only 20mb/s. I removed the parity drive and it got up to 38mb/s. But back before this virus I was able to transfer to 110mb/s to my cache drive and much faster than 20-38mb/s to non-cached shares. So I became worried maybe there was still a virus.... I found a post there this command was to be run: docker run --name ClamAV -v /mnt/user:/scan:ro tquinnelly/clamav-alpine -i I did it - it did some stuff. But suddenly all my drives and shares started disappearing and reappearing. I did a shutdown and rebooted. Now all my drives and shares show up - everything looks ok. But I can't access any shares over the network. I have no idea what is going on. Where do I start - what do I do? tower-diagnostics-20221009-0702.zip

I guess if it ain't broke - don't fix it. My main computers are Mac - so I always have to run a virtual windows just to run the Vsphere Client or RDP into one of my virtual Windows machines to run Vsphere. My CPU is not that old - it is an Intel Xeon E31270 3.4gh. Running on a super micro mother board. So I just thought maybe newer ESXI would have features to make it easier to manage / maybe an iOS app? Otherwise everything has been rock solid. Up to 80TB of storage space. I love unraid.

It has been a LONG time since I have been back to these forums. I like the new clean look. I guess that is a testament to how reliable ESXI 5.5 and Unraid has been. I am thinking about upgrading from ESXI 5.5 to the latest version 6.7? Will Unraid still work under 6.7? Are there any tricks or tips to doing this? Sorry if this has been covered - I am just not sure where to look for find this. Thanks!

Well that was super easy. I bought some Tapcon tape - arrived today - took me 10 minutes with some reading glasses and tweezers to cut and apply the tape. Plug it in and spun right up!

Ok. well if you have a Norco 4224 older model - not sure when they updated them...but when installing one of these power disable drives - they do not spin up. Now I need to find a hack? an adapter? or see if Norco can sell me an updated backplane? Anyone here can point me in the right direction?

I am looking to purchase some 10TB drives to upgrade my 24 drive unraid system. Ideally once I have a 10TB parity drive in position I could add a few more and pull out 7-8 of my 10 year old 1.5TB drives. The case is not that old though. Probably 4-5 years. As documented here - https://www.hgst.com/sites/default/files/resources/HGST-Power-Disable-Pin-TB.pdf . Many new drives are coming with a new Power Disable Feature. Apparently you need a power supply that supports this feature or you buy an adapter than removes Pin 3. However my older Norco cases has a back plane that supplies all the connections for the drives. Does anyone know if I get drives with this Power Disable Feature - will they work? I prefer not to have to cut wires or put tape over pins. If you are in the know - please let me know. Thank you.

Any plans for 5.05? My old way of using the plpbt.iso does not seem to work anymore - I have to manually select the boot process each time the VM ever needs to be restarted. Currently running 5.05 and anxious to give this a try. Thanks!