How to prevent spinning up disks when accessing the Dashboard?

[brankko]

Not sure if this is somehow me problem, but when I login to Dashboard I can hear disk(s) being spun up. I can also see them with green/active in the Array widget.

 

A little bit of background

 

After checking the File Activity (plugin) I noticed that ISOs for my (1 active, 2 not running) VMs are being read.

and

 

Which is exactly aligned with disks that are woke up and VMs I have on my Dashboard

 

 

What should I do differently?

1. Should I store my ISOs share on SSD? (does not make much sense since they are only read once for the VM installation)
2. Should I hide "Virtual Machines" widget from Dashboard? (Interestingly, I spun down all the discs and refreshed Dashboard, but this time all of them stayed on 'standby' and not active)
3. Or should I do something else?

 

The main question is why is this happening at the first place? This is not an isolated case, since I noticed that it wakes up a disk or two when I open the Dashboard after a few hours of inactivity (default spin down time is 1h for me)

 

[SimonF]

On 11/29/2023 at 11:12 AM, brankko said:

Not sure if this is somehow me problem, but when I login to Dashboard I can hear disk(s) being spun up. I can also see them with green/active in the Array widget.

 

A little bit of background

 

After checking the File Activity (plugin) I noticed that ISOs for my (1 active, 2 not running) VMs are being read.

and

 

Which is exactly aligned with disks that are woke up and VMs I have on my Dashboard

 

 

What should I do differently?

1. Should I store my ISOs share on SSD? (does not make much sense since they are only read once for the VM installation)
2. Should I hide "Virtual Machines" widget from Dashboard? (Interestingly, I spun down all the discs and refreshed Dashboard, but this time all of them stayed on 'standby' and not active)
3. Or should I do something else?

 

The main question is why is this happening at the first place? This is not an isolated case, since I noticed that it wakes up a disk or two when I open the Dashboard after a few hours of inactivity (default spin down time is 1h for me)

 

The reason for the spin up is that the image file is check for size, it uses the same process and the main VM screen even thou you don't see the info in the Dashboard.

 

Will look to see if I can put a fix in.

 

Other solutions are

To move to a drive that doesn't spin down.

Remove ISOs from the VM template if not required.

[brankko]

Thanks.

I removed the ISOs from the templates for now, as it's not needed anymore.

Seems to work fine.

[eatoff]

On 12/2/2023 at 11:25 PM, SimonF said:

 

Remove ISOs from the VM template if not required.

I had noticed the same issue here, and moved the ISOs to the cache to stop it happenning, but yeah, if there is a permanent solution that would be great.

 

When i created a Windows VM, i gave it two ISOs - the Windows.iso and the virtio drivers ISO. Now that the VM is created and running fine, can i just remove those ISOs from the VM (with the little eject button in the unraid web ui)?

[SimonF]

6 hours ago, eatoff said:

I had noticed the same issue here, and moved the ISOs to the cache to stop it happenning, but yeah, if there is a permanent solution that would be great.

 

When i created a Windows VM, i gave it two ISOs - the Windows.iso and the virtio drivers ISO. Now that the VM is created and running fine, can i just remove those ISOs from the VM (with the little eject button in the unraid web ui)?

Yes you can remove them as they are only used mostly at install. You can eject or remove them from the template.