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#Unraid setup tips how to
#Unraid setup tips install

#Unraid setup tips how to

Let's make a gaming VM! Spaceinvader One has great info: How to dual boot baremetal windows and unRAID then boot the same windows as a vm Good to know for next time!! If you don't, adding new disks takes hours. try wake on lan - yes! wakeonlan -i 192.168.6.255 aa:a1:61:23:01:ddĪ note, in the future I should preclear before adding disks - how to preclear your disks.I didn't see a way to prevent that, so I've disabled S3 Sleep for now. Much later, the array went to sleep while I was in a Windows VM.installed dynamix system stats, s3 sleep, system info, temp (including required nerdpack gui, use tdie).At the time they felt throwaway, but I think they were helpful. I didn't use the Unraid docs as much, or I don't remember them being as helpful, but regardless they're available: īased on those resources, I went through these steps.

#Unraid setup tips install

General Unraid Setup - How to setup and install the best plugins for unRAID (really, everything on YouTube from Spaceinvader One is super helpful).

(also detailed steps, used it for cpu pinning information, network info, among other setup) maybe more to read again later.

I enabled AMD-V, and IOMMC (did I mean IOMMU?) in my BIOS. To make the flash drive boot on my machine I had to rename the "EFI-" folder to "EFI" (I'll undo this later). Instructions and recommendations are in Unraid's docs. Weirdly (at least to me), Unraid boots off of a flash drive. Notably (foreshadowing!), I started with a ROG Strix B550-F and an old AMD graphics card. I had a mix of new and old hardware without clear Unraid support, but decided to forge on. Since this was an idea I had after upgrading the machine, I hadn't looked into Unraid support when choosing hardware. It wasn't all clear sailing, but I tried to record the steps I took and challenges I faced. The graphics card passthrough support with Unraid was much clearer, and I had friends that liked it, so I went with that. Virtualization software like Unraid or Proxmox would let me combine a gaming PC with some homelab server interests.

I'd been interested in working on a homelab for a while, and when I accidentally bought a case that was way too large - a Fractal Design Define 7 - I began to think about expanding that machine instead of going to a rack. As part of my pandemic coping, I started upgrading a PC I'd had for a few years.