hawihoney Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 Can please somebody explain, why this server does report that 28 devices count against the license? I do count 24 ... Thanks in advance. tower-diagnostics-20190303-0914.zip Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 Unassigned devices also count, and that number is from when the array was started, it won't change if you remove devices until next start. 1 Quote Link to comment
hawihoney Posted March 3, 2019 Author Share Posted March 3, 2019 Thanks. But then there is something wrong. I did restart that machine 3 days ago and did not change anything. 2 Parities, 20 Data Drives, 2 Cache Drives and 2 Unassigned Devices are 26 in total - not 28. In addition I do have three USB unRAID license sticks in this server. One for this server and two for two unRAID VMs. Plus one USB TV stick. These can't count, no? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 Any extra flash drives also count as devices, PROIicence has unlimited devices, so it doesn't really matter in this case. Quote Link to comment
hawihoney Posted March 3, 2019 Author Share Posted March 3, 2019 Funny. The unRAID USB device with a Pro license for that server does not count, but two extra unRAID USB devices with each having a valid Pro license do count? Why? There must be a reason, but I don't see one. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 The flash drive with that server licence never counts, any extra ones do, as they can be assigned as array or cache devices, for example, this is one of my servers: I'm only using the cache pool and an unassigned pool, but Unraid needs at least one array device, so I have a flash drive assigned instead of wasting a SATA port, but for this the flash drive has to count as a device, now I would like to be able to start the server without any assigned array devices, but that's a different discussion. Quote Link to comment
hawihoney Posted March 3, 2019 Author Share Posted March 3, 2019 I see that 16GB USB device attached to your array, but I don't think that this USB stick contains the Unraid code nor a valid Pro license ... In my case both extra USB sticks, that are counted as devices, do contain just Unraid and the license files. It's no problem for me, as you already said, but I would remove these sticks from the count of devices, if a check of the GUID and the license files reports a paid license. Consider two paid sticks (one server, one VM) with a smaller license. If the VM stick counts for the server too, it might hurt. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 12 minutes ago, hawihoney said: do contain just Unraid and the license files. But Unraid doesn't check that, it only doesn't count the flash drive where that server licence is, the server you're booting. Quote Link to comment
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