Brendon Ramos

Hi All, Thanks for taking the time to read this, I hope its posted in the right place. I am looking at upgrading my system with the hardware below: CPU - AMD RYZEN 9 3900 Motherboard - X570-A PRO RAM - Corsair 32GB (16GB x 2) 2666MHz I will be running a windows 7 VM (For FTP file transfers of movies, uTorrent downloads, plus a 24/7 Dropbox upload, I have about 20TB to upload) I will be running a Linux VM, probably Ubuntu (NGINX w/RTMP Module transcoding & uploading +- 4 video streams) A few docker containers (Radarr, Sonarr, Unify Controller) The system will be running headless in a server cabinet, all VM's accessed via VNC only. I need full IOMMU support so I can hotplug USB devices (This is a must & basically the reason I need to see that this hardware will work, there is not much documentation online to see that this system supports it). My current system doesn't support it & is struggling with just the Windows 7 VM, so its time to upgrade. Are there any downsides to running AMD? Will I need a GPU for my use cases? I've been doing fine without one so far. Thanks! If I'e missed anything please do let me know, I don't post often here. Happy computing!

Hi All, Thanks for taking the time to read this, I hope its posted in the right place. I am looking at upgrading my system with the hardware below: CPU - AMD RYZEN 9 3900 Motherboard - X570-A PRO RAM - Corsair 32GB (16GB x 2) 2666MHz I will be running a windows 7 VM (For FTP file transfers of movies, uTorrent downloads, plus a 24/7 Dropbox upload, I have about 20TB to upload) I will be running a Linux VM, probably Ubuntu (NGINX w/RTMP Module transcoding & uploading +- 4 video streams) A few docker containers (Radarr, Sonarr, Unify Controller) The system will be running headless in a server cabinet, all VM's accessed via VNC only. I need full IOMMU support so I can hotplug USB devices (This is a must & basically the reason I need to see that this hardware will work, there is not much documentation online to see that this system supports it). My current system doesn't support it & is struggling with just the Windows 7 VM, so its time to upgrade. Are there any downsides to running AMD? Will I need a GPU for my use cases? I've been doing fine without one so far. Thanks! If I'e missed anything please do let me know, I don't post often here. Happy computing!

Warnings aside, has anyone got any advice as to how to reach anything on my server through my DDNS address? I'm unsure why it isn't working...

Thank You Dwight for the suggestion, I will definitely look into this if I am unable to resolve it the way I would like to. Is there something I am doing wrong? Or something I'm overlooking in unRaid that is not allowing me to see it through my DDNS address? And to BRiT, thanks for the warning, I do realise the vulnerability of it as I mentioned, I wouldn't suggest anyone else do this, as I have quite an isolated network at the moment, once I know it works the way I would like, I will look into securing it. I opened everything in the hope I could solve the issue, but alas I have not...

Hi There, First off, I am a newbie to unRaid, but it is setup and running fine as a storage server. My issue is as follows: I want to access my unRaid web ui from outside my home, as well as Couch Potato, Sickrage and a few other programs running on a Windows Server VM within unRaid, and VNC viewer for my VM. First off, don't worry about security issues, I know how vulnerable I am making my server. Heres the catch - I want to use the existing DDNS on my router (****.asuscomm.com), which I can ping just fine. (Please note, my previous server running only windows server 2016 as the main OS, worked great with this and I was able to access everything I wanted). I've forwarded all ports (1:65000) on my router to the unraid IPv4 address (192.168.1.2), and the VM Address (192.168.1.3) in an attempt to rule out port forwarding as an issue (I know this is unsafe, I don't plan on leaving it like this, plus there is quite literally nothing currently on my network of importance). I would like to not have to use a DDNS or a VPN docker or plugin on my unraid server if possible, I liked my old config, I am hoping I can adapt unraid to this. I suspect I'm missing something in my unraid configuration which is preventing me from accessing it. Also, am I typing in my URL's correct? Below is what I have tried: Unraid Web Ui - http://****.asuscomm.com:80/Main (I have checked my port, it is 80) Couch Potato - http://****.asuscomm.com:5050 (This always worked when running Windows Server as my only OS, before I got Unraid) VNC Viewer - ****.asuscomm.com:5700 I suspect I'm doing something really stupid, but I am stumped, hence why I'm asking for help

Hi All, First off, I am new to this, I hope this thread is posted in the right place, I am totally new to VM's and unRaid, hence the shout for help (Mainly for my concerns about unRaid). I am seriously considering unRaid, and need some advice/suggestions. Here is my situation: I currently run a media server in my home, running windows server 2012 R2 on a 500Gb HDD. I have 2 x 4TB HDD's currently in Raid 0 that holds all my media on it. I have an extra 2 x 4TB HDD's which I want to utilize (They are currently not in the server). Here is my end goal: To keep my Windows Server 2012 OS running as is, and to install some VM software to run unRaid and create a +-12TB volume consisting of 3 x 4TB HDD's and 1 x 4TB HDD as parity. And have my current media apps (Couch Potato, SickRage, MySQL, FileZilla etc) use the volume as a normal volume on windows. Here are my questions & concerns: Can unRaid run as a VM? If so, is there a preferred VM software that I should use? I was thinking ESXi Will the 12TB Volume show up on my Windows Server 2012 OS and be usable to the full extent by windows? In the case of a drive failure within the 12TB Volume, will I be able to still salvage my data using the parity drive within the VM version of unRaid? And lastly, am I able to backup my VM containing unRaid? In the event my windows server OS drive fails, I would like to restore my windows and unRaid VM, as well as the 12TB volume created by unRaid with all the data on it. (Basically a full restore of the whole system). Any advice is appreciated, I am very proud of my media collection, and would like to keep it intact for many years to come, as well as expand it in future (Which I think unRaid is good for), I just want to make sure any and all events of failure are catered for.