June 14, 201412 yr Hi community, "Invented" following plan... I want to build-in unraid NAS into my existing system. It's Windows XP based, running VMWare Workstation on it. Planning to attach several new SATAs to my hardware, then create unraid VM on WMWare and connect new SATA drives as RAW directly to unraid VM. What it gives to me - I want to have one system and not separate machine for NAS; I suppose there will be more quick connection and data transfer rates, compared to ethernet; Could anyone tell me please, will this scheme provide SATAs spin down, when access is not needed? Is Vt-d absolutelly needed for all this? Thanks in advance!! JJ
January 2, 201511 yr Can anybody weigh in on this? I am about to start the process for building my unRAID in a VM as well. I have an exsisting unRAID using 15 year old hardware, but I am wanting to build one using all the new hardware I got this past Christmas. I have Windows Server 2012 ans VMWare Workstation 10 running on top of that. From there I will create a windows 8 VM running Plex, SAB, and sickbeard. I am working now on building the VM for unRAID and finding that VMWare workstation is asking me a lot of questions that I do not know the answer to. I have looked far and wide for some kind of documentation on this, but I am not finding anything relating to Workstation 10, just ESXI. Will it work the same way as workstation 10 for creating this VM that I want to make? Eventually I want to just move the drives over into this tower once everything works as I need it to. I want to just pass the needed SATA ports right through to the unRAID VM so it, and only it, can control them.
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