Due to the associated costs of adding & maintaining another build of plex, we need to show that there is an interest in having a 64bit build of plex media server for unRAID to make it worth their while.

 

If this is something that you are interested in can you please click on the green "like this" button on the first post in each thread and also add a reply to keep it at the top of the forum.

 

Direct link here: https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/96024-plex-media-server-for-unraid-60-x86-64/page-2#entry584233

 

For those that are plexpass members can you also do the same in the voting forum (this one carries more weight)

 

Direct link here: https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/97815-64bit-pms-support-for-unraid/?p=584132

 

 

If we get enough votes, plex will hopefully make this reality!

 

cheers

 

141 views but not 141 votes. We are going to be bound to compiling our own every time or using a supported VM distro at this rate.

 

Please vote and make this official.

 

Also, people have voted my post, the top post of page 2 and various other places. These don't count, please make sure you vote on the very first post of each thread.

I thought tests by some people here showed that Plex ran better in a Xen VM in UNraid 6.0 then it did as a plugin running within Unraid.

it might very well do, but for those that want to stay on the plugin system wouldn't it be nice to have a build available for unRAID?

 

(although clearly not with the lack of uptake )

I have zero intention of running Xen.  I have unRAID working VERY well on a VM hosted on ESXi.  I will stay with the plugin system.

I have zero intention of running Xen.  I have unRAID working VERY well on a VM hosted on ESXi.  I will stay with the plugin system.

 

in that case my question would be why do you need to run plugins on unraid?

if you have a working VM server with unRaidVM any functionality you need you can have running a dedicated VM for the app(s)

plug in system is for people running pure UnRaid systems and who want to expand usefulness of theat system by adding other tasks to unraid to run.

having an ESXi server with unRaidVM not require such complications. just add a VM and install a commercial app for anything you want and point to a VM share for storage.

 

or am I missing something?

I have zero intention of running Xen.  I have unRAID working VERY well on a VM hosted on ESXi.  I will stay with the plugin system.

 

in that case my question would be why do you need to run plugins on unraid?

if you have a working VM server with unRaidVM any functionality you need you can have running a dedicated VM for the app(s)

plug in system is for people running pure UnRaid systems and who want to expand usefulness of theat system by adding other tasks to unraid to run.

having an ESXi server with unRaidVM not require such complications. just add a VM and install a commercial app for anything you want and point to a VM share for storage.

 

or am I missing something?

 

Because the whole point of my unraid server is to serve TV shows and movies.  Inside my house I access them via SMB and outside I use Plex.  I have no desire to run yet another VM just to run the Plex Media Server service. 

 

I built my current unraid server as an ESX host just to provide extra capacity to my current VMWare DataCenter.

or am I missing something?

 

Freedom of choice

 

Even if this isn't something you use, if everybody on this forum voted for it, it would help the few that do use it. Apparently that empathy for others is what separates us from the animals!

I have zero intention of running Xen.  I have unRAID working VERY well on a VM hosted on ESXi.  I will stay with the plugin system.

 

Not judging or anything, but can you explain the logic behind having a unraid vm, i work with an EXSI cluster everyday at work, as a matter of fact in the near future all of our physical servers will be vm's. I understand the capabilities of vmware. What i don't get is if you have esxi running you have vm and those vm's you create virtually disk that are not going to fail  unless your actual hardware fails then how do you recover? Which in my mind i dont see the logic of unraid vm i would see the logic in the reverse form, unraid the base and exsi but like i said i just wanted to know since i;ve seen plenty of post of people using it to host an unraid vm.

 

thanks, I voted

I have zero intention of running Xen.  I have unRAID working VERY well on a VM hosted on ESXi.  I will stay with the plugin system.

 

Not judging or anything, but can you explain the logic behind having a unraid vm, i work with an EXSI cluster everyday at work, as a matter of fact in the near future all of our physical servers will be vm's. I understand the capabilities of vmware. What i don't get is if you have esxi running you have vm and those vm's you create virtually disk that are not going to fail  unless your actual hardware fails then how do you recover? Which in my mind i dont see the logic of unraid vm i would see the logic in the reverse form, unraid the base and exsi but like i said i just wanted to know since i;ve seen plenty of post of people using it to host an unraid vm.

 

 

you are missing the point here.

even when you run unraid in VM you still use real hardware using PCI pass-through.

i.e. you build unraid VM

pass-through SATA controller and USB into it.

build array using HDD connected to the controller above.

this way unraid have direct(bare metal ) access to the drives and controller.

it is pointless to build unraid using virtual disks as you rightfully point out.

I have zero intention of running Xen.  I have unRAID working VERY well on a VM hosted on ESXi.  I will stay with the plugin system.

 

Not judging or anything, but can you explain the logic behind having a unraid vm, i work with an EXSI cluster everyday at work, as a matter of fact in the near future all of our physical servers will be vm's. I understand the capabilities of vmware. What i don't get is if you have esxi running you have vm and those vm's you create virtually disk that are not going to fail  unless your actual hardware fails then how do you recover? Which in my mind i dont see the logic of unraid vm i would see the logic in the reverse form, unraid the base and exsi but like i said i just wanted to know since i;ve seen plenty of post of people using it to host an unraid vm.

 

 

you are missing the point here.

even when you run unraid in VM you still use real hardware using PCI pass-through.

i.e. you build unraid VM

pass-through SATA controller and USB into it.

build array using HDD connected to the controller above.

this way unraid have direct(bare metal ) access to the drives and controller.

it is pointless to build unraid using virtual disks as you rightfully point out.

 

Thank you, I now see the "why."

I have zero intention of running Xen.  I have unRAID working VERY well on a VM hosted on ESXi.  I will stay with the plugin system.

 

Not judging or anything, but can you explain the logic behind having a unraid vm, i work with an EXSI cluster everyday at work, as a matter of fact in the near future all of our physical servers will be vm's. I understand the capabilities of vmware. What i don't get is if you have esxi running you have vm and those vm's you create virtually disk that are not going to fail  unless your actual hardware fails then how do you recover? Which in my mind i dont see the logic of unraid vm i would see the logic in the reverse form, unraid the base and exsi but like i said i just wanted to know since i;ve seen plenty of post of people using it to host an unraid vm.

 

 

you are missing the point here.

even when you run unraid in VM you still use real hardware using PCI pass-through.

i.e. you build unraid VM

pass-through SATA controller and USB into it.

build array using HDD connected to the controller above.

this way unraid have direct(bare metal ) access to the drives and controller.

it is pointless to build unraid using virtual disks as you rightfully point out.

 

Right!  When I built the current incarnation of my unRAID server, all the rave was running it as a VM with hardware passthrough. This was way before all the Xen/unRAID v6 talk.  I build it with WAY more resources that I ever would need for unRAID. I did this to use it as a third ESXi host for my home DataCenter.  Basically, it just makes things easier for maintenance of my ESXi hosts and for providing aditional resources when necessary.

 

Since unRAID v5 can only use 4GB of RAM reliably, Im currently using the "excess" capacity of my unRAID ESXi host for an IncrediblePBX VM and one of my Exchange servers.

 

I have a fiber channel SAN, so all of my datastores are hosted there. So, all I'm using on my ESXi hosts is memory and processor.

I have zero intention of running Xen.  I have unRAID working VERY well on a VM hosted on ESXi.  I will stay with the plugin system.

 

Not judging or anything, but can you explain the logic behind having a unraid vm, i work with an EXSI cluster everyday at work, as a matter of fact in the near future all of our physical servers will be vm's. I understand the capabilities of vmware. What i don't get is if you have esxi running you have vm and those vm's you create virtually disk that are not going to fail  unless your actual hardware fails then how do you recover? Which in my mind i dont see the logic of unraid vm i would see the logic in the reverse form, unraid the base and exsi but like i said i just wanted to know since i;ve seen plenty of post of people using it to host an unraid vm.

 

 

you are missing the point here.

even when you run unraid in VM you still use real hardware using PCI pass-through.

i.e. you build unraid VM

pass-through SATA controller and USB into it.

build array using HDD connected to the controller above.

this way unraid have direct(bare metal ) access to the drives and controller.

it is pointless to build unraid using virtual disks as you rightfully point out.

 

I have a fiber channel SAN, so all of my datastores are hosted there. So, all I'm using on my ESXi hosts is memory and processor.

 

You have a fibre channel SAN for your home datacenter, holy smokes!!

big money here  8)

 

You have a fibre channel SAN for your home datacenter, holy smokes!!

big money here  8)

 

Nope!  I bought all the parts off of ebay or craigslist and I run OpenFiler on it, which has a fiber-channel module.

 

I scored two killer deals to make it all happen:

    1) a 2U SuperMicro server with a Q9660, 8GB RAM, 12 x 1TB drives and an Areca 1680 for only $600!!

    2) a Brocade 2GB fiber channel switch for less than $40. They listed it on eBay as "Not working, for parts" and said it did power on.  I took a chance and bought it.  It had NEVER even been configured!

 

I bought all my fiber cards off eBay as well.  I get killer read/write speeds.  It works sooo much better than NFS.

 

You have a fibre channel SAN for your home datacenter, holy smokes!!

big money here  8)

 

Nope!  I bought all the parts off of ebay or craigslist and I run OpenFiler on it, which has a fiber-channel module.

 

I scored two killer deals to make it all happen:

    1) a 2U SuperMicro server with a Q9660, 8GB RAM, 12 x 1TB drives and an Areca 1680 for only $600!!

    2) a Brocade 2GB fiber channel switch for less than $40. They listed it on eBay as "Not working, for parts" and said it did power on.  I took a chance and bought it.  It had NEVER even been configured!

 

I bought all my fiber cards off eBay as well.  I get killer read/write speeds.  It works sooo much better than NFS.

 

Nice!

Plex pass member and unless I can get plex server preferably 64 bit working on unraid I will not be renewing or sadly no longer using unraid. I am simple as all I need it media storage, plex and sabnzbd. Unfortunately I've tried plex on unraid 5 and frankenplex ubuntu on unraid 6 both with no success. Seems to blowup the sdcard. Any who I had someone helping me with xen vm and plex seemed to be working, however I started having disk space errors with sabnzbd. I may have to go back to uing my windows laptop and scrap the whole thing. My feelings for what its worth

Plex pass member and unless I can get plex server preferably 64 bit working on unraid I will not be renewing or sadly no longer using unraid. I am simple as all I need it media storage, plex and sabnzbd. Unfortunately I've tried plex on unraid 5 and frankenplex ubuntu on unraid 6 both with no success. Seems to blowup the sdcard. Any who I had someone helping me with xen vm and plex seemed to be working, however I started having disk space errors with sabnzbd. I may have to go back to uing my windows laptop and scrap the whole thing. My feelings for what its worth

 

I know how you feel, but not enough people have responded to this to get the votes up. It's a shame, but maybe when unraid V6 is out of beta, they will begin to support it.

Plex pass member and unless I can get plex server preferably 64 bit working on unraid I will not be renewing or sadly no longer using unraid. I am simple as all I need it media storage, plex and sabnzbd. Unfortunately I've tried plex on unraid 5 and frankenplex ubuntu on unraid 6 both with no success. Seems to blowup the sdcard. Any who I had someone helping me with xen vm and plex seemed to be working, however I started having disk space errors with sabnzbd. I may have to go back to uing my windows laptop and scrap the whole thing. My feelings for what its worth

 

What are the problems you had with frankenplex?  If it was a problem with the plug-in's webgui I'm pretty sure we have that licked.  If it is a problem with scrape agents that was a known bug fixed in 0.9.10

 

@Ockingshay: indeed I don't see the Plex devs doing much until Unraid 6-Stable is released.  The "issues" with the plugin webgui that popped up in beta 3 (or was it beta 2?) alone are a good example of why I can't blame them for waiting.  Not that the problem was hard to fix (I know, I am pretty sure I fixed it) but still.

Just out of curiosity, have you tried my plugin?  Installed on unraid 5 will get the latest plex 32 bit, and when installed on unraid 6 will grab the latest 64bit plex and install.  There is no hacking and mixing txz files together to make it work either.  Just a thought, you could give it a try

 

 

My suggestion exactly.  In fact I posted the link to your plug-in thread on the Plex boards.