Moving unraid to esxi

[smartkid808]

Hey guys, hoping I can get some help.  I had to virtualize my unraid server due to rising eclectic costs. I got it running on esxi 7.03 for the most part. I did have one kernal panic so far.  I got everything up, but not able to get dockers to bridge right using br0 (so i can set my own IP for the docker container). .  I reset the network config and redid it. I pulled a offsite backup of the docker backup (as I accidently delete all of it when i was messing with everything), and tried to restore that and reinstall all the docker containers to no avail. I am able to access ones that are on the same ip as unraid, just not the one using br0.. 

Power costs is is about 45 cents a kwh if I remember right, and is going up 7-10% this coming month due to a coal plant shutting down.  I know its not really recommended or supported, but hoping i can get this to work.  Thanks for any help or suggestions.  I am also attaching my diag log

beast-diagnostics-20220822-1954.zip

[ChatNoir]

I moved that to a more relevant section.

Hopefully more people with knowledge in the matter are watching here.  

[smartkid808]

9 hours ago, ChatNoir said:

I moved that to a more relevant section.

Hopefully more people with knowledge in the matter are watching here.  

Thanks, I wrote it right before bed, and didn't see the virtualizing unraid category

[StevenD]

I've been running unRAID on ESXi for around 10 years now, so there are no inherent issues in doing that.  That being said, I have never seen your issue.  I just looked at my config, and I have bonding and bridging off. I assume thats required to run dockers on their own IP.

[smartkid808]

23 minutes ago, StevenD said:

I've been running unRAID on ESXi for around 10 years now, so there are no inherent issues in doing that.  That being said, I have never seen your issue.  I just looked at my config, and I have bonding and bridging off. I assume thats required to run dockers on their own IP.

Thanks, ill try that after parity drives rebuild.  I think I tried that and didnt work.  Do you run any dockers with their own IP?  Do you have anything special setup on the esxi host? Right now I just have a single nic attached to it, which is also used by other esx vms.  I had it set to 10gb adapter, but changed it to 1gbe to see if that changes anything, and it didnt. 

[StevenD]

2 hours ago, smartkid808 said:

Thanks, ill try that after parity drives rebuild.  I think I tried that and didnt work.  Do you run any dockers with their own IP?  Do you have anything special setup on the esxi host? Right now I just have a single nic attached to it, which is also used by other esx vms.  I had it set to 10gb adapter, but changed it to 1gbe to see if that changes anything, and it didnt. 

I do not have any dockers set up with their own IP.

 

Nothing special on the ESXi side, except I pass through all of my hardware:

Edited August 23, 2022 by StevenD

[smartkid808]

I have a test instance running at work, it was only used for Docker, but don't really use it for that anymore.  Anyways, I think I may have found the issue.  I needed to change the 'Docker Custom Network Type' from 'macvlan' to 'ipvlan'   I will test after my parity rebuilds on production server.  (I was non 6.9 at lab, upgradede  tp 6.11rc3, so need to verify on 6.10.3

[smartkid808]

1 minute ago, StevenD said:

I do not have any dockers set up with their own IP.

 

Nothing special on the ESXi side, except I pass through all of my hardware:

Thanks.  Same here, I just pass everything thru.  I'll update above response once I try and verify it more

[smartkid808]

well that didnt fully work.  I cant talk directly to my mysql docker for one, which is on the unraid ip.  time to play more with it

[smartkid808]

So, I think I got it all to work.  I'll continue to test.  Hope this helps someone some day

 

Enable Host access to custom Network in docker settings

use ipvlan for Docker custom network type in docker settings