I had just started playing around with Unraid last week-end with the free 3 server license to see if I liked it, and I was very pleased except at the idea of having to sacrifice a box to unraid alone or having to resort to getting it setup on dev environment with VMware server....
Needless to say, when I saw this thread I was jumping around as this is exactly what I was looking for. I have ESXi 4.1 up and running just fine thanks to Bryanr's greatly detailed setup and I also have my unraid vm working just fine to.
Here is my setup:
ASUS P5K Deluxe
6 GB RAM
2 * 1 TB WD caviar black
1 * 500 GB WD (500AKS series)
1 * 250 GB WD (this one is the one that is being used as the data store)
Initial parity sync was at ~58000K
I was wondering if anybody else has come across what I am seeing: the unraid console does not display the Hard Drive temperatures, and although they are marked as "spinned down" I have my doubts that they are and was wondering how to check that. (the doubt is based on the physical heat I feel the drives emiting, as well as the fact I don't hear them spin up or down when I request it via the console).
Initially I had my SATA adapter in the BIOS set as IDE rather than AHCI, and the drive temperature was showing up as "*", when I changed it to AHCI the drive temperature now shows up as "0 C". I was under the impression that via pass through the drives would be communicating directly with the VM.
I've been looking around to see if I can get does details directly from the vSphere console but it seems to only give me data on read/write outputs and other measures that aren't linked to the temperature or the current drive state (spinned down or not).
Any thoughts ?