August 6, 201510 yr Hello everyone, looking for some sage advice on migrating to UnRAID 6. My goal is to migrate my home server box to UnRAID 6, and run a couple of VM's off of it. I'll detail what I want it to do, as well as my existing setup. Expectations: 1. House my 12+TB of home storage. Some media, a lot of work related stuff, personal files, etc. Easily shareable within my house, and hopefully remotely when needed. 2. Ability to run VM's. The box I have is powerful, I would like to make use of it to run: - The storage server(UnRAID) - Linux VM(Minecraft server for the little brother and his friends) - Media Server running: Plex, Sabnzbd, sickbeard, couch potato, headphones - Media Player: A VM running, probably Windows, with a USB port and full graphics card passed through for home theater viewing. Must be able to bit stream DTS-HD off of the graphics card HDMI. 3. All VM's have access to the storage files. Plex for instance will need to pull my DVD rips. Minecraft will need to have access to mass storage for backups. My Current Hardware and Setup: Proc: e3 1345v3 MoBo: ASRock C226WS RAM: 32GB ATI 6750 ATI 6450 LSI controller programmed to JBOD mode, IT mode whatever its called haha 8 Hard drives of various sizes 2 SSD's Spare but not installed: Intel dual port ethernet and a USB 3.0 2 port controller OS: XenServer 6.2 installed to USB drive VM1: Media Server, Windows Server 2012, houses FlexRAID with all my drives VM2: MineOS, Minecraft server VM3: Windows 7 with the 6750 and a USB port. The point of this is to server up Plex content to my home theater, and I occasionally game on it with a USB Xbox controller. VM4: Windows 7 with the 6450 and a USB port(currently not using this VM, no need for it) If anyone could give any thoughts, suggestions for how exactly to migrate myself, etc, I would greatly appreciate it. This box is on 24/7. She currently eats about 55 watts when idle, 175 when FlexRAID is doing parity checks etc, and bounces around 250 when I am doing minor gaming on the main VM. The server sits in a media closet, with HDMI router through the walls to various locations. It runs well, however I am not 100% happy with FlexRAID, server shares are wonky. I also upgraded from XenServer 6.2 to 6.5, and my graphics card passthrough quit working, so I had to downgrade. Annoying. XenServer is kind of getting on my nerves. Would like more robust GPU passthrough, VM management and maybe the ability to pass Nvidia cards at some point. I am not a linux or command line noob, however I really prefer working with VM's via a GUI, I don't want to have to do a ton of configuring or turning the VM's on/off, or checking status whatever via command line.
March 23, 201610 yr I see nobody answered. Anybody using XenServer? I want to go the other way and make unRaid 6.1 / 6.2 a guest on xen server 6.5. The reason is that my webserver is using xen, and I have lots of spare power with dual Xeon 2670 and 128 GB RAM. How difficult to pass-through the USB key and an Areca raid controller and run unRaid as a guest?
March 23, 201610 yr Author I see nobody answered. Anybody using XenServer? I want to go the other way and make unRaid 6.1 / 6.2 a guest on xen server 6.5. The reason is that my webserver is using xen, and I have lots of spare power with dual Xeon 2670 and 128 GB RAM. How difficult to pass-through the USB key and an Areca raid controller and run unRaid as a guest? Hello. I was unhappy running unRaid in my Xenserver, which is why I made the jump to just an unRaid host. Why not migrate your webserver over to a VM on unRaid, as I did? I am also running dual Xeon e5's, and unRaid has been an absolute pleasure. 5 VM's, 9+dockers, multiple plugins, all co-existing incredibly smooth.
March 23, 201610 yr My web guy knows xen. And it is a heavy duty production site. Actually several sites. I would miss snapshotting. Do you think unRaid is ready to go data center yet? I'll be glad when it is. But I would rather not be the first to test it.
March 23, 201610 yr I don't think UnRaid is ever going to 'go datacenter' its not going after that market, its for home users and maybe small business users, but thats a maybe.
March 23, 201610 yr My web guy knows xen. And it is a heavy duty production site. Actually several sites. I would miss snapshotting. Do you think unRaid is ready to go data center yet? I'll be glad when it is. But I would rather not be the first to test it. Without something like Open vSwitch, I think it's not doable. If you isolate the networks by passing through a NIC, then it can be an acceptable solution, but again, I wouldn't switch the proven solution for unRAID.
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