May 3, 201610 yr Morning all. I currently have my unraid NAS running on a motherboard and CPU the brand of which is not overly important (I think). I am planning on upgrading the motherboard (different brand)and fingers crossed the CPU before to long. A few questions before I do however is : What issues am I going to run into when changing motherboards if any? I run a Windows VM on my NAS. Will I have to reactivate it? Will I have any issues when upgrading the CPU? FYI the NAS consist of 1 x Parity Drive which is run off a SATA port on the Mobo, 1 x Cache Drive which is run off a SATA port on the Mobo and 8 Drives running of a LSI Card. Thanks in advance for your help.
May 4, 201610 yr Most of the time you can move the drives from one system to a brand new system and boot it right up. The same would be true of a motherboard or CPU swap. There are exceptions, but provided the new hardware is supported the move of NAS functionality should be pretty transparent. Regarding the Windows VM - I haven't done it, but I'll give you a best guess and a bump to keep the topic active. If your Windows VM is still fully virtualized and you are accessing it via RDP then my guess is that it would keep working. If you are passing through any hardware, though, then I'd expect to have to reactivate it.
May 21, 201610 yr Author Thanks for the help. Worked out perfectly. And now at least I know that if you change your motherboard and are running a Windows VM you dont have to reactivate it.
May 22, 201610 yr Author The only thing left for me to do is cross my fingers gigabyte give me a modified bios to support VT-d which they are able to do for you if you ask. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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