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ATLAS My Virtualized unRAID server
Johnm:
--- Quote from: fade23 on August 17, 2011, 07:49:34 PM ---I've seen this mentioned before; what exactly is ESXi doing here? It's just claiming all the disks as datastores regardless of what's currently on them? Wondering what I'll need to do if and when i upgrade to ESXi 5
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Hit the nail on the head! that is exacly what it is doing.. so...
Don't leave your 40TB raid 6 array plugged in. it will be toast.
redia:
Johnm,
when I saw your thread and the details you are giving I got totally excited...
but then you stopped... ;)
are you planning to go through the installation of unraid to ?
I was hoping you would also go this deep in the installation of unraid, I am thinking about setting it up... and I am still trying to figure out whether to do it or not... got so many questions are still pending on how to use the HD... RDM, passthru....
anyway even if you were not to continue I still wanted to say how appreciative the whole community should be for such a detailed thread !
big up,
R
jimwhite:
I'm in the midst of a similar build on a Tyan S5512 board. I have my first 6 drives on the southbridge motherboard "Intel" controller. When raw-device-mapped to the unRaid VM, the temps don't appear to work whereas the drives mapped through from the LSI SAS controller report correct temps. Have you seen the same?
Johnm:
@Redia
Thanks,
I am not going to stop!! I needed to to some "real" work for a day or two.
My plan was to at least do:
*WHS2011 with a single drive RDM.
*Get unRAID up and running using plop and Pass the MV8's though to it. then possibly adding a PHYSICAL RDM for the cache drive. This will be new to me also.. so...
*Then walk though an automated Backup plan with GhettoVCB.
I also ordered a M1015/LSI 9220-8i (9210-8i) of ebay for this build I was sort of hoping it showed up before I got to unRAID so we can compare the two.
Then possibly at a later date, ordering an expander and showing the benefits of that.
@Jimwhite
There are two ways to RDM a drive in ESXi, there is a virtual RDM (with the -r switch) and a Physical RDM (With the -z Switch). I plan to show and test both when i get to that point. I'll have an answer for you when i get there.
The unRAID on ESXi is still newish to me. I did it once in testing. Now I am rebuilding and documenting it.
Part of the point of this thread was to show what I did, then hopefully someone with better knowledge gives us some pointers and how to fix what I did wrong :).
prostuff1:
I will be following this with interest. I am slowly gathering the parts for a server rebuild of my own and am going to explore getting everything running under ESXi.
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