Rajkumar

Solved. Cant believe my eyes. How stupid!!! It was an htpp / https issue. Thank 4 all the help.

No. u mean at boot time? Need to be physically close to the server then? Can I clean the Cache_dirs? The system has been rock solid. But have multpile VMs running heavy load. Kindly let me know what is to be done. File services etc. All working like a song. So why can I just login using any browser? I am Totally disgusted. Its my main Office Server.

Hi, ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED. Cannot log in using any browser from any machine. Everything Works. Ping, Telnet, putty, smb and all the shares. But cannot log in. Any help is appreciated. tower-diagnostics-20220216-1948.zip

Issue is resolved. I have been able to recover ALL the Data. And Buying a New License. Keeping the Old One. So will have 3 separate Servers. 1. Freenas 100TB 2 and 3. Unraid Basic. T U.

Yes have heard, I can put my drives into another system 1 at a time on a mac, on a PC with paragon etc, but Since I own an Unraid LIC and also upgrading and now falling in luv with it, wish to avoid the nonsense. And since now ZFS coming in probably in a native config, maybe will add another LIC and convert (my 100TB Xeon) from FreeNas (not upgraded) Still on 11.3 to UNRAID. Its doing the job superbly, do not feel the need to try truenas, as unraid is my calling now. t u again

Finally got my machine hardware setup. Got 3 drives working as a test. all worked okay. Then threw the old drives out. DRIVES FORMATTED AND SOLD. Installed all new 4TBs, 3 then 6. Got everything working. But the some system folders like iso, etc, were on the old array. BUSTED. Got the New array started with 6 4 TBs new. Did a full preclear 2 times (on the safer side) Then (kinda).. follows ::::: instead of a copy, moved 8TB from another server of valuable data onto the new one. All was fine, extended the trial and and the works! The Array was A O Okay. Then Machine was off for a few weeks. Not cannot extend my trial. Now, 1. Have a registered unraid BOX. Running currently,... fully and properly. 2. have another box with data (important) which has not access to the data (as drives cannot be mounted after the trial is over, with a Poorly installed unraid, due to my error. What I want to do. 1. Keep my new Data. 2. Reinstall UNRAID properly. 3. Transfer my LIC to the new System. 4. Upgrade from the 6 drive to the 89USD version. Any help will be welcome. Thank you.

How do I rebalance. Do I use the rebalance plug in?

T u so much for this information.

Would it be a good idea to put my 2 x 500GB 960 NVMEs as a cache pool in mirror Mode? Array will be 6 x 4TB (All New). Still contemplating how to make a XFS RAID 5 for 4x480GB SSDs!!!??? Thank you all for your patience and replies. Rajkumar.

Yes, I always watch all his videos. They are good. thx.

Then I guess the issue is resolved. But I will need a Howto to make the 2nd separate pool. Maybe when installing uraid will see the balance disks. I really don't know as yet. Planning the install this Sunday. Will have time for installing the whole system at 1 go. Currently using all hdds in single parity array. Too section. I think the second tab. Thank u 4 your kind suggestion. This will really help me, I guess if 2 raid5/6 pools are allowed. I as the main array and a second one for the ssds. Hope they will perform like the array, smart and disk failures etc....

This I know but then we are wasting ssd space. 4 x 480 = 3 x 480gb raid 5. 4 x 480 = 2 x 480gb raid 1. So why should I waste space and ssd money if only 1 array is allowed. I am sure that there maybe a work around. After all it's linux. Maybe something else has round around. I remember something like mdadm or something like it. Used it years ago when we have 8gb drives, long long ago, lol. T u 4 your interest and comment.

I wanted to eventually make this mainly into a nas, nvr and a VMs server. So I need cheap hdds with 1 to parity drives. Furthermore, wanted to have a saparate set for my ssd, which I buy every month. We already have about 4 VMs running simultaneously Ona 10x2 core xeon, (40 threads. So mainly 2 separate arrays with parity. One for hdd and 1 for the SSDs. I don't trust and storage. My boss insists on parity. Our stand-alone boxes also have a push system to the server. The data HAS to be on the node due to some legal issues. But backups can be in 1 place. Thus the push system. Everything in the user directory is rsynced to a smb share every 1 hour. Thus the SSDs for the push and the VMs. Hope this answers your question.

That's kinda sad. Will try some config. Else will have to use something else. Dunno. Thx for all your help

okay, I meant just below where it shows array devices. Its call pool in some other OS. So, for now will go with single parity, later on definitely add 2 parity drives. I already have 4x4TB HDD and 4x480SSD. So Can I have 2 arrays on 1 unraid box? I have done this on my 120TB Freenas Box. 8x4TB Raidz2 8x8TB Raidz2 4\8x2TB Raidz2 (old drives lying around. so have 2 diff devs. Can I do this in unraid? if so how? Regards. Rajkumar.

So just "typing it aloud", will put 4 drives x 4TB into Pool A Will put 4 Drives x 480GB into Pool B Will remove the NVMEs for other Systems. Hope this is best case scenario. Hope NVMEs should not be put into a cache pool? Thank you for your reply. Other seniors could also reply. Thank you once Again.

Hi, Building a new server with relatively new hardware. Ryzen 2700x Asus Mobo. 64GB Corsair Vengense RAM (but onlly @ 2400Mhx) 3 Windows VMs) Corsair 360 AIO. Corsair AXI PSU Full Tower Cabinet. My question for Storage..... Have 2 x NVME x 512GB each. 4 x SSD Kindston 480GB each. 6 x 4TBs WD Purples Okay I know the 6x4TB will be 1 Array. How should I setup the SSDs and NVMEs??? Any help will be appreciated, also cache drives??? can i use SSDs smaller ones like a 120gb lying around as boot.... in mirror. Just as Freenas Does? Running the latest stable on an older system, i-e i5. Regards, Rajkumar

I would like to also mention that UNRAID was a 1 day affair. Freenas was over a week. for a newbie for a particular system/OS/Enviorment, unraid felt like a breeze. i Day includes other activities. LOL. So far UNRAID is KEWL.

Question 6. Wanting to install a Cache drive. Want to go with an M.2 Form Factor. question is NVME or SATA. Also incase there is some data on the cache, and if (for whatever reason the machine goes off), what happens to the data in the cache drive. Can I make sure somehow that its written to disk? Can we have some system as in (sorry) freenas that there is "cop", hope term is (correct)? Also for the first 3-6 months can I backup to a normal external USB drive every night for the whole system (data) No music No videos, just pure data, Say aboout 500GB MAX MAX zipped. The files can be zipped and copied off. Once all is well then okay. Even Incremental will do. Thanks in advance.

Thank you all 4 your kind replies. With this kind of help, I am sold on unraid. The system so far is working super. No issues so far. Space invaders videos are very good, informative, to the point, clean, etc etc (just super) So with all that has been said, (lol, paid through my nose for the i350T4 directly from intelm due to fakes available in the market, which apparently die.) will keep the RAM,MOBO,CPU and all. Have just upgrade to the 2700x Prism cooler on my 1500x as my 2700x is a open loop LC. RAM prices have shotup by 25% in India in the past 7 days or so. will hold on the RAM. Most of all will not install the GPU on this machine as it is being discouraged by all. Will probably wait for the either the 3950x or the 9900KS for my Gaming/prodn rig. Thank you all once again. Once I have a proper USB stick will be making the purchase. Have another question. Will post Separately to avoid any confusion. Thx again. This forum ROCKS.

thank u all 4 your replies. Appreciate it.

Eager to receive reply for questions 1 through 4!

Thanks Jonathanm, for your kind reply for question No.5. Appreciate it.

Question 5. Wish to Run pfsense as my primary router in a VM within unraid. Currently I have a Trial version on. do the Array does not start as there is no internet and pfsense is not loaded. Once I purchase a License, Will pf sense and unraid work?

Question 4. The Purpose of the Machine is as follows: a) Need to install pfSense. have a 100mbps unlimited (no FUP) plan for routing to about 10 machines... b) WIndows 10 for an accounts Package that need to validate LIC. (the Windows 10 is the Pro version 1903 - Licenced) {{{ Any activation Issues???}}} c) Unraid will be used to server about 10 nodes with Not a very heavy load. Just Office docs and Accounts Database, database size about 1GB. d) Later on with CPU upgrade, Windows 10 Daily computing, Internet along with some AAA Games.... Will the Hardware Setup Mentioned Above function adequately/ Fast???