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Hardware recommendations for unRAID servers with VM's

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1 hour ago, bastl said:

@RJ59 Put the following in the "go" file on your Unraid USB flash stick under config and reboot your server


#!/bin/bash
# Start the Management Utility
/usr/local/sbin/zenstates --c6-disable
/usr/local/sbin/emhttp &

 

It looks like this solution is working. I keep my fingers crossed and will wait for 24 hours if it lasts.

Thank you very much!

  • 3 months later...

Is there any USB PCIe x1 card that have multiple usb controllers ? So that I can add one card but passthrough two groups of usb slots to two different VM's ?

I have only found the Sonnet "Allegro Pro USB 3.0" that have multiple controllers and works in unraid. But it is PCIe x4 

Edited by Cliff

  • 2 weeks later...
On 2/2/2018 at 9:28 PM, CHBMB said:

USB Card roundup for Windows 10 and High Sierra Virtual Machine Use

 

1st Card - AUKEY 4 Ports PCI-E To USB 3.0 Expansion Card

Chipset: VL805

Findings:  Got an error in my syslog during boot and card was unable to be used either natively in Linux or passed through to Windows or OSX VM

 

2nd Card - Anker Uspeed PCI-E to USB 3.0 2-Port Express Card

Chipset: VL805

Findings:  Got an error in my syslog during boot and card was unable to be used either natively in Linux or passed through to Windows or OSX VM

 

3rd Card - Sienoc USB3.0 7Port PCI Express Card

Chipset: - Renesas D720201

Findings: Worked natively in Linux or passed through to Windows, but not detected by OSX VM

 

4th Card - Inateck KTU3FR-5O2I

Chipset: Fresco FL1100

Findings:  Worked natively in Linux, and worked beautifully in Windows or OSX VMs, able to use my hardware KVM switch with either, but unable to power my server off with the card plugged in, as soon as it powered off, it powered on again.  @aptalca has had the same issue with a Fresco FL1100 card and we both have Supermicro motherboards.

 

5th Card - ORICO USB3.0 4 Port PCI Express to USB3.0 Host Controller Card (PME-4U)

Chipset: Fresco FL1100

Findings:  Worked natively in Linux, and worked beautifully in Windows or OSX VMs, able to use my hardware KVM switch with either, but unable to power my server off with the card plugged in, as soon as it powered off, it powered on again.  @aptalca has had the same issue with a Fresco FL1100 card and we both have Supermicro motherboards.  I ordered this one to try and exclude the possibility it was an inherent Inateck fault, but after testing this one, I think we can conclude there is an issue with the FL1100 chipset and Supermicro boards.

 

6th Card - KALEA-INFORMATIQUE Controller Card PCI Express (PCI-E) to 3.1 USB

Chipset: Asmedia ASM1142

Findings:  Success!!  Works in Windows 10, works in OSX natively both, without installing extra drivers, allows my server to powerdown and stay down.

 

Other possibilities:  Well I'm running out of chipsets to try, only thing I could consider is an expensive Sonnet card which uses the Fresco FL1100 chipset but had four controllers on the card which can in theory be split amongst VMs so one controller to each VM.  I don't hold out much hope this will actually work well given it's got four of the damned chips that won't let me powerdown in the first place. :o

 

One other thing I did try was using the Renesas based chipset to boot from and passed through my native USB ports, that didn't work well.  Not sure why, but I might investigate that a bit more if I have no other options.

 

Conclusion

If youi've got a Supermicro motherboard, then Asmedia ASM1142 based USB cards are the way to go, for any other motherboard, then either the Asmedia ASM1142 chipset or the more common Fresco Logic FL1100 based cards would be fine, but if you notice that you have issues with powering down, the card may well be the culprit and try an Asmedia card instead.

 

It's been..... emotional

Thank you very much for the valuable information. I plan to set up a MAC and Windows VMs on my unraid server and this is very valuable.

I plan to get x570 aorus master mother board and use Asmedia ASM1142 usb card since it seems to have the least amount of problems.

However the listing you linked doesn't have international shipping, but this one does and it uses the same chipset. Do you think it would work similar to the kamelar controller card since it uses the same chipset?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/SIIG-USB-3-1-2-Port-PCIe-3-0-Host-Adapter-1x-Type-A-10Gb-s-JU-P20B12-S1/132839040135?epid=1840656469&hash=item1eedd2e487:g:aZAAAOSwVRBb2Phx

 

Thanks for advance.

  • 4 months later...

Looking for a sound card that plays nicely and has SPDIF. Cheaper is better. The CM8888 chipset does NOT work (see post history). Anyone running something like this successfully?

  • 1 year later...

For anyone looking for a currently available FL1100 based USB Controller that works with Unraid, Linux and Windows 10 VMs (haven't tested a macOS VM) check out this one from YEELIYA.

 

I haven't tested throughput to see what I can get out of it in a real-world test to really push the PCI-E 1x bus, but I have no issues with a keyboard, mouse, webcam and 2 USB sticks working simultaneously.

  • 3 months later...

ASUS X299-E II
Excellent IOMMU groups, everything except the sound is in a separate group. 3 x USB controllers passed through to 3 separate VM's without problem.

ASUS 2080ti Advanced Dual
ASUS 2070 Super Dual

Both passed through with multifunction='on' without problem

Sonnet Alegro USB 3
Renesass 
  USB 3

Gave up on these cards. Detected in Unraid, but code 10 when passed through to windows 10 VM

 

Edimax Bluetooth 5.0 Dongle

Got code 43. Resolved by unplugging all other usb devices and installed driver from manufacturers website. Works fine

Creative Sound Blaster X3

Works passed through and natively 

 

On 5/21/2022 at 3:47 PM, PeteyBoPetey said:

Sonnet Alegro USB 3
Renesass 
  USB 3

Gave up on these cards. Detected in Unraid, but code 10 when passed through to windows 10 VM

 

 

you may try the solution from

it sounds like the same issure regarding an usb device having error code 10, which was resolved in this thread

 

 

  • 2 years later...

Dell 5820 Xeon 

Pros:

-Price can be had cheap used on ebay

-C422 chipset has more pcie lanes vs x299

-Ecc 2666mhz registered ram its a real 24/7 machine and great for zfs users and fear of ram flips

-Passthrough works great zero issues 

-Slot configuration of all full x16 sized, 8x 16x x1x 16x 4x pci 32bit layout allows for my config of lsi 9300-8i, next P1000 nvidia quadro, next Fresco fl1100 usb3 and next 2.5 slot asus strix rx 5700xt

-4 hot swap bays and 1 free full 5 1/4 bay

-950watt PSU with a gpu add on cable ebay gives you 4x8pin gpu plugs

-8 ram slots up to 256gb skylake-w or 512gb cascade, running 8x16gb 2666mhz ecc reg for 128gb in quad chennel

-Extremely well ventilated added 2 rear 92mm fams to the stock 2x92mm front which cool hot swap bays and ram along with bottom 92mm gpu/pcie fan, keeps drives, cpu, ram cool along with multi gpu's.

-Compatible with imac w-2140b, w-2150b, w-2170b and w-2191b currently using a w-2150B which out preforms w-2155

-Has 2 pcie mini sas ports on mb for use with u.2. nvme though right cable needed still tinkering

-Vroc key support if you have the money to purchase a key for cpu nvme raid, though non raid nvme still gets to use direct cpu passthrough :)

-Frequent BIOS updates and rollback ability if needed

-Enough single threaded speed with w-2150b w-2135 w-2191b and w-2195 to enjoy gaming with single threaded around 2600 passmark, you wont see 200fps in starfeild but you will always get over 60fps in anygame :) close to i7 8700 single threaded.

-Upgradable cooler run a Noctua NH-U9DX i4 on mine keeps its nice and cool with 10cores 20 threads going hard at it

-Onboard usb port for your unraid usb stick so it never goes missing :)

-Chassi intrusion alarm for those dodgy environments or lan partys

-Can be configured easily as a 2 in one lan rig with double width gpus or one double one tripple slot.

-Extremely well built and extreme quality being a Dell

-Hot swap PSU

-Caring handles for Lans or just movement as once loaded up it weighs well over 25kg

-Can run in uefi secure with tpm 2.0 or in real legacy mode which i use.

-BIOS is full configurable right down to ram snoop ect, no oc'n but kills the p520

-It simple just works, the p520 wouldn't allow 2 gpus and nvme at the same time.

 

Cons:

-No onboard nvme

-Used cpu prices on the rise as more start to buy c422 chipset based machines for cheap gaming rigs

-No sas controller onboard i bought a lsi 9300-8i going to a lsi 9400-16i shortly for nvme's

-Alot of w-2123 systems on ebay prices for higher core go up sharply

-Latest bios update brings up dell resolution and testing every time something minnor is wrong easy fix to rollback

-Price of ddr4 ecc reg ram is gone up a little due to more buying the platform

 

  • 10 months later...
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MB: MSI Z890-A WIFI

  • It works but bad USB Controller, all USB are in one controller

  • IOMMU, Resize BAR, and other needed functions for VM is good!

  • You may end up with D3cold state with your GPU if you passthrough it to your VM.

  • It has 4 M.2 slots and 4 DDR5 Ram slots

GPU: RTX 5050 and RTX 4060

  • Supported, just had some quirk, if you end up with D3cold state, there are instructions in this forum from me.

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