I am hoping this is right place to ask this question since it related to VM

 

I am very new to this and I have never attempted anything like this before (please bare with it might be long)

 

I have Mediasonic HF2-SU3S2 and I would like to run unRaid on it.

 

Currently I am running Mac OS 10.9.1 with server app on Mac Mini 2012 with via FW800 OWC Elite Pro (1x2TB HD and 1x3TB HD) On server I run plex, transmission, sickbeard anime edition, NzbDrone, headphones, couchpotato, sabnzbd all media is collected on internal hd of Mac mini and when it reaches over 300gb I have Hazle app move excess media to Elite Pro periodically. Server app manages user share access (FTP, SMB, etc)

 

I have installed 2 WD Red 4TB drives to Mediasonic HF2-SU3S2 have not initialized them.

I wanted to move all 4 HD’s in Medisonic box (running out of space external HDDs) and still have some kind of protection for media on there? [with help of unraid]

 

From what I understand unraid is that it needs flash drive to run but mediasonic box doesn't have USB input. then I came to forums and learned that it can run in virtual machine. I have VMWare Fusion 6 (run windows 7 sometimes) on mac mini and 16 gb of ram.

 

Other thing I would like to know is that does unraid change file system? will it format to something else? can Hazle app still access it like regular drives?

 

Can some please help me achieve this?  I am willing to go with another methods too as long I can have same apps running and other users can FTP into server.

 

 

Any thought or help will greatly appreciated.

 

Unraid can run in a virtual environment but still needs the usb drive to do that, its license structure is based on it.

 

So if you do not have usb available on the box you want to run unraid on you can basically stop, it will not work.

 

Your mediasonic box is also not a pc or server but just a storage enclosure, it cannot run unraid.

 

Unraid needs to run on a pc/server system and what you are using at the moment for that is that mac mini.. If you want to play around with this you could run a virtualisation platform on your mac mini and start a vm in that for linux that boots from a usb drive you have in the mac mini..

 

Think about it though, that is not the easiest way to start using unraid and it also makes it necessary for your mac mini to be allways on..

 

 

 

Thanks Helmonder i understand it bit better now.