August 30, 20241 yr Community Expert 1st, loving UnRaid (purchased the Pro version for $129 which no longer seems to exist as a price option?), best thing since sliced bread. Have a few questions. I'm primarily using UnRaid as a NAS in a custom NAS box and running Plex server from it. I'm going to be moving UnRaid drives to a different motherboard (same CPU and RAM) and SATA controller housed in a larger rack mount case. I'll move the existing 5 HDDs (10TB) over and be adding 5 more HDDs (22TB) and 2 SSDs (4TB) for total of 12 drives. Since UnRaid loads from USB stick, will it have issues recognizing the original 5 HDDs and other configuration settings? I was going to set two of 22TB HDDs for parity. And finally, I plan to run VM with UnRaid and install Ubuntu 24.04.1 Server and install MySQL on it and maybe another VM with Linux base for Microsoft SQL for Linux. I've heard that UnRaid can do VMs but isn't a good choice, sadly no one provides any details as to why it's not a good choice? FYI, this is not a "production" environment, it's entire home based and more of a technology test bed (I'm a software engineer) for various apps I develop. I don't have much Linux experience (have been mostly in the Microsoft tech path), but wanting to learn (yes even at the old age of 60). All input welcome. Cheers, Rob. Edited August 30, 20241 yr by RobAinscough
August 30, 20241 yr Community Expert Solution 1 hour ago, RobAinscough said: Since UnRaid loads from USB stick, will it have issues recognizing the original 5 HDDs and other configuration settings? Yes, usually it's plug and play. 1 hour ago, RobAinscough said: I've heard that UnRaid can do VMs but isn't a good choice Where did you hear that? Maybe you are thinking of not a good idea to run Unraid as a VM in another OS? The latter can be true.
September 4, 20241 yr Author Community Expert Happy to report, no events … plugged the USB stick back in after my build upgrade and everything just worked! Found the existing 5 drives, found the 7 unassigned drives, found the new SATA controller (well obviously), found the new 10G NIC, found new motherboard/chipset, no issues with DDR5 128GB RAM, found the new nVidia 4060, found the UPS, Plex Media server all good … all squashed into a 4U rack mount case. Super quiet, performing extremely well. Running on Intel 12th gen CPU so lucky to avoid all the Intel 13/14th gen problems. Had to tweak the UEFI a little to change the Secure Boot options, Virtual enable, IOMMU enable … good to go. Color me impressed!! Great job by the Unraid development team. Rob. Edited September 4, 20241 yr by RobAinscough
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