Phoenix19

I forgot about being able to access the web gui from another PC. I actually did that before when I had first started using unRAID. Accessing the GUI is very smooth. So I just bought the unRAID Server plus. I also understood the pass-through somewhat and now after your explanation it does make more sense. Once again rookie mistake. Lol. . The only way I was able to use the 10 Gbit network adapter was by enabling it in pass through and then was able to select it as a pci device.Hopefully that I'm going to look into the VMware tools. It wouldn't let me install the tools through the default install procedure. I got the following error below.I looked into a little and some of the forums say it could be an issue with the flash drive or it could be an issue with the tools where it maybe didn't install from the ISO image. However as you mentioned It sounds like unRAID requires maybe some special tools after looking at the link - https://forums.lime-technology.com/topic/36603-open-vm-tools-for-unraid-6/ Mount Tools Installer Key haTask-1-vim.VirtualMachine.mountToolsInstaller-198814473 Description Mounts the tools CD installer as a CD-ROM for the guest Virtual machine: unRAID State Failed - The required VMware Tools ISO image does not exist or is inaccessible. Errors Unable to install VMware Tools. An error occurred while trying to access image file "/usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/linuxPreGlibc25.iso" needed to install VMware Tools: 2 (No such file or directory). Please refer the product documentation or KB article 2129825 for details about how to get VMware Tools package for this guest operating system. vix error code = 21001 You have been an awesome resource. I didn't think I was going to be able to do all this in the time frame that I did. You were a huge help. Thank you so very much. I'm sure I will probably have more questions and I won't hesitate to ask.

So I seem to keep digging deeper and playing around. As I do so I seem to be answering my own questions.Lol. So now I got unRAID to see the array drives. I still don't know why the mouse emulation isn't working . That is very bothersome. I'm going to see how it goes with assigning the drives and see if it will work out for me.At least the drives are showing up. I'll see how it goes from there. Let me know about the mouse emulation ,if you see anything in any of the screenshots that I may need to change.

So now I tried to see if I could now assign the drives are plugged into the backplane ,but it doesn't show up with any of them. I think it could be that I may need to add the LSI PCI device. Not sure if that will allow the drives to be detected. I post added screenshots of the system devices and also the pci device option I was

Well I have network connectivity now. I changed the network adapter in the vm to use the E1000 adapter type. I still can't actually move the mouse around. I thought it might be a lagging issue ,but I have moved the mouse around to see if the mouse arrow moves ,but I waited about 10 to 15 minutes and it never moves. I can move around a little by using the tab key.

I attached the settings to my unRAID vm and also the pci pass through devices that come up . I was reading other forums talking about how there AMD(Advanced Micro Devices) network card wouldn't work in vmware ,but they got it to work in virtualbox by changing the chip set to Intel . I also see the speed difference between having a datastore on a hdd and sdd. The boot up of unraid is slow. There is probably something that I didn't do right , such as selecting the wrong pass-through device or not selecting the correct one. hopefully and maybe you'll be able to see it.

I have already performed a clean install on it,so at this point I have to register it. Before I did a clean install on the flash drive , I installed the drives for the array. The drives had a message that said they were missing. I then shut down the VM, then restarted the vmware server and then logged back into vmware and then started the unRAID vm up again and they still weren't showing up. I think this might have to do with the pass-through options possibly. Also I can't move the mouse around to click on anything. It appears as though I can use the tab key and go up and down,but still no mouse. I just found out that I'm not getting a network connection within unRAID. I tried to copy and paste the register key ,but it gave me an error. I then tried to go out to several websites such as google and yahoo ,but wasn't able to. I then restarted and then went to the command line unRAID OS. I then get Tower Login: Device "eth0" does not exist. When I run the ifconfig eth0 I get error fetching interface information:device not found. I tried to edit the syslinux.cfg file ,but that didn't work. Sorry for laying all of this information out on you. It seems like it is more work to try to get unraid to work through vm.Lol

Thats a good question. That makes sense. I don't have the Marvell ,but I thought it was a generic option to put in. I swear everytime something goes right ,something else goes wrong with this process. So I did a clean install on unRAID and now when I login to unRAID I can't use the mouse ,but I can use the tab key. After doing the clean install it is now having me register the trail key. I will register it later and let you know if it shows the drives. Thanks !!!

Esxi was able to see the 4 tb drive. There is a SFF cable connected in every port in the back plane which then goes to the HBA card.So there is a total of 8 drive bars and 8 connectors. I just disconnected one of the SFF cables and connected a sata data cable from the drive bay that the 4 tb wd black drive is in and connected the other end to one of the onboard sata ports. I posted pictures of the inside of server. The black sata data cable is the one that is connected to my 4 tb wd black drive. I was able to setup the passthrough This whole process is definitely an adventure.I was able to install Esxi 6.5 . I then followed the instructions that ATLAS had to download PLOP,WIN SCP and Putty. I was able to boot into unRAID and login to the previous setup. However it doesn't detect any of my drives. I was looking at one article that the guy had a similar issue where it wasn't seeing the license file and he had to rebuild the unRAID usb stick with a clean version. I'm going to try that ,but I don't know if that would be why I'm having issues with unRAID not seeing the drives. I didn't understand the part below . I was able to open my passthru.map file and added the false entry ,but I wasn't able to find the volumes folder where the vmx file was at. I posted my pass through file. I also was able to toggle passthrough the LSI HBA card in vmware as well. Applying the MV8 Hack Quote from: gfjardim on June 20, 2011, 04:07:46 PM Now open your VM's .vmx file and change this: Quote to this: Quote The catch is force the use of IOAPIC mode with the "pciPassthru0.msiEnabled = 'FALSE'" statement. Reboot the hypervisor and start your unRAID VM! Good luck. * Note, the pciPassthru0 # could be different depending the number of cards you have passed though. For my last rebuild, it was pciPassthru3

I'm trying it out. I'll let you know how it goes. So far it has detected the drive.

So this might sound like a stupid question . It's in regards to power. I know one way for sure that I can provide power to the 4tb datastore drive ,but wanted to see if you ever heard of or have tried this. So there are three molex psu cables ,two of the molex cables plug right into the Back Plane. The third one isn't plugged into anything. I know that I could buy a molex to sata adapter cable. I was wondering if I could connect the 4tb hard into one of the hard drive bays ,use the power connector that is already provided from the back plane ,then disconnect the sata cable that is coming from the HBA JBOD controller and connect a sata cable that will be connected to one of the onboard sata ports and the other end into the sata port where the 4tb drive is connected ? Unless this is the way that it should be connected ?? Hopefully I'm not making this more difficult than it should be.Lol. Thanks.

I'm still trying to go through the ATLAS Virtual documentation. I have been kind of busy working on other stuff. I purchased another hdd. I bought a wd 4 tb black drive. I know you've read the article so I don't want to repeat what you already read ,but I'm trying to gather what I need to use for my own build.:) You sound patient. Hopefully you will be after my 100 questions. Lol. I see in the article the guy talks about having 2 SSD drives for ESXI Datastore Drives. I only have one 128 gb cheap SSD drive that I can use. He mentioned that running ssd's in ESXI will wear them out and a fast rate. Then he mentioned about getting certain drives that have a chipset will utilize the advanced garbage collection and is designed for this. Do I need to get any special ssd drive/drives ? I already downloaded ESXI Version 6 update 2 and created a bootable esxi 8gb flash drive You mentioned I would have to connect additional hdd/ssd drives to my internal sata ports ,correct ? Is this for the passthrough or is this for the datastore ? I'm googling and using the ATLAS article as a base ,but I'm still trying to prepare for everything . Thanks.

Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I have the unRAID trail version for now. In regards to connecting the hard drives ,they are connected to the jbod controller. When you ask how I plan to connect my HDDs/SSD, do you mean in ESXI ? If it would be in ESXI, I'm not sure I'm a little new to ESXI.I have used it a little for work. I was just starting to look at the links. My specs are below. I attached my raid array config as well. Server Chassis/ Case Supermicro 2u SC825TQ-R720UB Back Plane BPN-SAS-825TQ (8x 3.5" SAS/SATA Hot-swappable Drive Bays) Motherboard X8DTU-F Motherboard CPU Processor Dual Intel Xeon E5645 Six core RAM Memory 64GB DDR3 ECC REG Memory (8 x 8GB) Hard Drives/ Caddies None. come with 8 3.5" Caddies RAID Controller 8 Ports are connected to LSI 9211-8i 6GB/S HBA JBOD IT-MODE controller IPMI Management Onboard dedicate IPMI 2.0 Management port Intel X520-DA2 dual 10GB SFP+ (no optics) Expansion Card PCI-E Installed Onboard Dual 1GBE NICS Power Supply Dual Supermicro 720W REDUNDANT POWER SUPPLYPWS-721P-1R Gold Certified RAILS come with Rail kit EXTRA Slim DVD Rom drive, SuperMicro RSC-R2UU-UA3E8+ Left Slot Riser Card PCI Express x8 unRAID system: unRAID server Trial, version 6.3.2 Motherboard: Supermicro - X8DTU Processor: Intel® Xeon® CPU E5645 @ 2.40GHz HVM: Enabled IOMMU: Enabled Cache: L1-Cache = 384 kB (max. capacity 384 kB) L2-Cache = 1536 kB (max. capacity 1536 kB) L3-Cache = 12288 kB (max. capacity 12288 kB) Memory: 68 GB (max. installable capacity 192 GB) BANK0 = 8192 MB, 1333 MHz BANK1 = 8192 MB, 1333 MHz BANK2 = 8192 MB, 1333 MHz BANK4 = 8192 MB, 1333 MHz BANK6 = 8192 MB, 1333 MHz BANK7 = 8192 MB, 1333 MHz BANK8 = 8192 MB, 1333 MHz BANK10 = 8192 MB, 1333 MHz ROM0 = 4096 kB, 33 MHz Network: bond0: fault-tolerance (active-backup), mtu 1500 eth0: 1000Mb/s, full duplex, mtu 1500 eth1: not connected eth2: not connected eth3: not connected

So with the latest version that I have 6.3.2 ,will I be able to install ESXI 6.5 and create an unRAID VM and take advantage of the array ? Is that the original issue as to where it couldn't virtualize or pass through the hdd's and that's why some recommendations are to use bare-metal only ? Hopefully this doesn't get confusing too fast , I can see how it might . I would like to accomplish various tasks - 1.) I would like to setup a test lab where I can get comfortable with a VM os such as ESXI,KVM or Xen,etc. 2.) Utilize the unRAID OS and use it how I am now as a network attached storage. 3.) With my test lab I would install Windows Server 2012 or another Linux distro possibly 4.) Eventually set this up a media server. I appreciate you giving your insight.I'm very excited about this and want to continue to learn and have fun doing this. Thanks.

Thanks for getting back to me. If you don't mind me asking , If it is bare- metal only ,why are you using it as a virtual machine or is there another reason you setup unRAID as a VM instead of the main host os ? Thanks.

Hi All, I am a newbie to unRAID. I was able to setup unRAID with no problem via the normal step by step instructions.I see there are some posts that I read that seem to help with installing XenServer ,but they seem outdated. I was looking for advice for how to setup XenServer and then setup unRAID as a VM. I also wanted to have a test lab for other os's such as Server 2012 and wanted to play around with different virtual os's. I know you can setup VM's via the unRAID gui with unRAID version 6.3.2. The posts that I read are - https://lime-technology.com/unraid-6-virtualization-update/ https://forums.lime-technology.com/topic/29082-guide-virtualizing-unraid-in-xenserver-62-updated-to-504/ Also there are posts that seem to say that KVM is better than XenServer. Just like anything it might come down to a matter of opinion. I'm sure both can do what I'm looking for ,but I'm looking for a stable option. It appears that most of if not all of my hardware for the server I bought is supported to install XenServer. Here are some of the specs for the server I have - Motherboard: Supermicro - X8DTU Processor: Intel® Xeon® CPU E5645 @ 2.40GHz HVM: Enabled IOMMU: Enabled Cache: L1-Cache = 384 kB (max. capacity 384 kB) L2-Cache = 1536 kB (max. capacity 1536 kB) L3-Cache = 12288 kB (max. capacity 12288 kB) Memory: 68 GB (max. installable capacity 192 GB) Network: bond0: fault-tolerance (active-backup), mtu 1500 eth0: 1000Mb/s, full duplex, mtu 1500 Please advise . Thank you.