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Cheers! My remote backup server, connected via OpenVPN, had suddenly lost its connectioction on 14.07. somwhere around 22:00. When checking out what was wrong, I saw that the OpenVPN docker had suddenly stopped - which has never happened before in 1+ year. After starting it again manually, every was up and running remotely again. I took a look at the logs, but they didn't enlighten me... Logs attached, thanks in advance! 🙂 backupserver-diagnostics-20210719-0715.zip backupserver-syslog-20210719-0515.zip

Cheers! I've set up a Gaming VM to use via Steam Remote Play a couple of month ago, and so far it's working really smooth. The problem is, after an extended amount of use or a couple of days, performance suddenly seems to drop and gameplay as well as sound become extremely laggy and choppy. This is only resolved with a reboot of the VM. CPU and network load seem to be fine, and I'm unsure if this is an UnRAID, Windows or Steam Remote Play issue. I've had other Windows 10 installations (baremetal) run 24/7 and never had any performance issues there. Logs and Diagnostics are attached. Thanks in advance! 🙂 homeserver-syslog-20210715-0511.zip homeserver-diagnostics-20210715-0712.zip

Hi! To help speed up copying large amounts of data, go to Settings -> Disk Settings and set "Tunable (md_write_method)" to "Reconstruct write" for the transfer process. I've never used Unbalance myself, but when copying files over directly I would advise to copy to the UnRAID-managed share, not directly to a single disk - this way unRAID will manage the balancing itself according to you settings. The target directory would then be /mnt/user/SHARE/. You could also take a look at the Krusader docker, which adds a nice GUI to help with file management directly in UnRAID.

Settings -> Management Access

This is an awesome and comprehensive guide on setting up a Gaming VM on UnRAID, which helped me a lot: https://forums.serverbuilds.net/t/guide-remote-gaming-on-unraid/4248 For me personally, the setup was extremely easy and straightforward (Ryzen 9 3900X + GTX 1070) without changing a single line of code. First of all you need to make sure to have virtualization as well as IOMMU enabled in your BIOS. On top of that you should set your iGPU as default, so that the system won't assign one of your GPUs for itself and make passing them through to your VM problematic. In UnRAID under Tools -> System Devices check the GPUs you want to pass through to your VM, to isolate them from the host system. I would also suggest to isolate the CPU cores pinned to your VMs (Settings -> CPU Pinning) since I had a huge performance degradation of my Gaming VM before isolation the associated cores. When setting up your VM first, don't assign a GPU and do the inital installation and setup via VNC, then install something like AnyDesk (my favourite) or Parsec to remotely access it after assigning a GPU. When assigning a GPU to the VM, make sure to assign all parts of the GPUs IOMMI group to it, like USB-controllers or (very importantly) the audio controller. You might also need to add a BIOS file (described in the guide above). I just fear that your CPU is a bit on the low end to support 2 simultaneous Gaming VMs. With the first Core left free for UnRAID itself, you have a mere 2 respectively 3 cores for each VM...

Try something like Teamviewer, Anydesk or even Windows Remote Desktop - they all should do the trick with a GPU passed through.

Cheers! I've got a problem with your OpenVPN-Client docker. I've been using it for quite some while now, but today I rebuilt my OpenVPN-server and thus had to add new authentication files. At first I had some problems with old and/or wrong shortcuts, but (presumably) got it to work. While the connection seems to get established and I can ping the VPN-IP, the tun-interface doesn't seem to be created and I can't access the server GUI. This is what the log says: Doing an "ifconfig" from UnRAID terminal doesn't show that tun0-interface though, which previously had worked. EDIT: Accessing the Container via Console and doing an "ifconfig" the tun0-interface showed up. After a tad more tinkering, I changed the default network type "Bridge" to "Host", and now everything works as intended! 🙂

Try using a different CDRom Bus (IDE has worked perfectly for me so far concerning installing any Windows OS) to possibly mitigate the first screen. Upon reaching the UEFI Interactive Shell, type "exit" without the quotation marks, and then again leave the UEFI settings to boot into the Windows installer.

Have you installed the drive into another Windows or Linux system and tested it out over there, with the same problems?

I'm a tad lost regarding the OpenVPN Client Docker - where would I have to put the *.ovpn file to? Thanks! 🙂

Is there a way to automatically reconnect the OVPN-Client after it has lost its connection?

I found a solution to my problem! I've added the following line to my .ovpn-file: askpass /boot/openvpn/auth.pass Then I created the auth.pass file besides the .ovpn-file and just added a single line with my OVPN-client password to it. In the plugin, I deactivated the login option, startet the connection and - voila - I successfully connected my unRAID client to my OVPN-Server. 🙂

Hi ljm, thanks for your response! 🙂 The thing is that I don't want to connect the whole two LANs with one another. Baically the Home Unraid server just needs to reach my Remote Unraid server for daily backups, but I also want my Home LAN to reach the "Remote Unraid" server for config and monitoring and stuff, without the Remote LAN having access to my home LAN. At the moment I'm using two Windows 10 Server connected via OpenVPN for this task, and this works exactly is I wish. No need to open any ports at the remote location, and no access of any device at the remote location to my LAN. Sadly, the OpenVPN Clients on Unraid are a huge pain and none of them connect correctly, which is why I thought Wireguard might be my solution here. From what I can see, the closest config for my needs would be "Remote access to LAN", where my Remote Unraid server would be able to see my Home Unraid server as well as my Home LAN. Would just setting up a static route in my home router to the Wireguard network be the solution, or does Wireguard block the routing from other networks into the VPN network in this configuration?

Using "Server to Server acces, is it also possible to reach the WIreguard Client from the network behind the Wireguard Server, having set up a corresponding static route in the router of the LAN?

Hi! Trying to get the Client Plugin to work, I always get the following error: neither stdin nor stderr are a tty device and you have neither a controlling tty nor systemd - can't ask for 'Enter Private Key Password:'. If you used --daemon, you need to use --askpass to make passphrase-protected keys work, and you can not use --auth-nocache. Being new to UnRAID, I have no idea what this means. Connecting to my OpenVPN server from Windows or Android works without problems. Thanks in advance! 🙂