[SOLVED] Array help


karldonteljames

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Evening all.

I've finished building my unraid machine.

 

Anyway, whilst i was building I was planning my arrays in my head, but i think i may have overlooked how unraid creates arrays.

 

I've got two 250gb SSD's for the cache,

4* 4tb Drives

4 *6tb Drives

My original plan (in my head) was to raid 5 the 4tb's, then raid 10 the 6tb's giving me around 20tb of usable space.

I wanted to use 6tb as my media backup (I need fault tolerance, as i have all my family media on there, baby photos etc.)

Then use the 4tb's with various vm's one will be the family computer, one will be a web server, and another will (eventually) be a pf sense server.

 

Can someone advise how I go about setting this up, or if there is a better solution please?

 

Thanks.
 

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That sucks.

I wanted the span of the 4 4tb drives to give me the space I required.

 

I like the idea of being able to use the hardware for a server that just runs in the background, and also for the main family PC, but it seems this will dead in the water if I can't "span" the drives using a traditional raid setup taking advantage of the multiple drives.

 

 

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4 minutes ago, karldonteljames said:

can I set up the 3* 4tb with one of the 1* 4tb as parity for those drives then setup the 6tbs at a later date?

Yes.

 

4 minutes ago, karldonteljames said:

again with a 6tb parity drive, (or two) giving me the drive setup I had in mind?

Yes, but can only have one array, but you can still have a 6TB parity (or 2) and use the other 2x6TB for a share and the 4x4TB for a another share, both would be protected by the 6TB parity disk(s).

 

11 minutes ago, karldonteljames said:

how do I go about creating the 12tb share with parity from the 4tb drives?

You just create a new share, by default it will use the 3 available disks, at any time or when you add more disks you can limit the share to use just specific disks, also note that shares are jus top level folders.

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Thanks for the info Johnnie - I really appreciate your help.

 

At the moment, my data is all on the 4tb drives radied in a dell R410, I need to copy the data to the new unraid system. 

 

So i should set up a 4x 4tb not worrying about parity for now, then once the data is transferred, add the additional drives to the system, and add the two 6tb as parity?

 

I've a couple more questions if you don't mind:

 

I'd like to backup the data to another share/drive, so I've always got a copy should the worst happen. I've not done much on Linux before so this is all new to me.

I already have Hyper-v machines running on my R410, so ideally I'd like to just migrate them to the unraid system.

Does unraid support tagged/untagged VLANs, if so how do I implement them?

unraid isn't recognizing the onboard NIC, just the quad port card I have connected, how do I go about adding drivers?

 

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1 hour ago, karldonteljames said:

Does unraid support tagged/untagged VLANs, if so how do I implement them?

I don't use that, I believe they are supported, @bonienlor anyone else who knows can chime in.

 

1 hour ago, karldonteljames said:

unraid isn't recognizing the onboard NIC, just the quad port card I have connected, how do I go about adding drivers?

Best bet it to email Limetech directly or create a feature request, if the driver is available they usually include it in the next release.

 

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1 hour ago, karldonteljames said:

Does unraid support tagged/untagged VLANs, if so how do I implement them

 

unRAID supports tagged VLANs. You can assign VLANs from the network settings page.

 

First enable VLANs and next add as many VLANs as required + plus their configuration. Remember that you need a switch + router which support VLANs too.

 

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Thank you. I will add the VLAN's in tomorrow. I've a new issue now whereby I can't start VM's I'm getting the error:

"Your hardware does not have Intel VT-x or AMD-V capability. This is required to create VMs in KVM. Click here to see the unRAID Wiki for more information"

 

I enabled VT-d in the bios before I ran unraid for the first time.

 

My processor is an i7-7700k.

 

Thank you.

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2 hours ago, karldonteljames said:

I enabled VT-d in the bios before I ran unraid for the first time.

There's usually two things you need to enable in the BIOS

 

VT-d (if you want to use passthrough of hardware)

and VT-x (or Virtualization) which is required to run any VM

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