Unraid

Installation

• download the USB creator from the unraid website
• create a bootable USB stick with the USB creator (<= 2GB)
• enable Advanced/CPU config/SVM or VMX (virtualization) in the BIOS
• enable IOMMU in the BIOS
• boot from the USB stick (you may need to change the boot order in the BIOS and disable secure boot)
• (optional) run Memtest86+ to check for memory errors
• boot into unraid

Getting started

• access the web interface at http://<ip-address>:80
• set root password
• buy a license or use the trial
• check if all disks are detected in the main tab

Array setup

• select your parity drive(s) in the main tab (use the biggest drives)
• select the drive(s) for the cache pool (use the fastest drives)
• put the rest of the drives in the Disk pool and press start array
• now all drives have to be formatted and the array has to be built

Basic setup

• setup shares (at least on appdata cache only share for docker containers)
• (optional) setup share for time machine backups
• setup a second user to access shares from other devices
• go to Apps and install the Community Applications plugin
• install gpu drivers (if you have a gpu / nvidia recommended)

Plugins

• Fix Common Problems
• CA Auto Update Applications
• CA Backup / Restore Appdata
• CA Cleanup Appdata
• Dynamix File Manager
• User Scripts
• Enhanced Log Viewer
• GPU Statistics
• My Servers

Docker

Pass a GPU to a docker container

docker run -d \
  --name='plex' \
  --net='bridge' \
  -e TZ="Europe/Vienna" \
  -e HOST_OS="Unraid" \
  -e HOST_HOSTNAME="Tower" \
  -e HOST_CONTAINERNAME="plex" \
  -e 'VERSION'='docker'
  -e 'NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES'='GPU-b39df49c-2a34-29f1-d923-b57c615d22eb' \
  -e 'PUID'='99' \
  -e 'PGID'='100' \
  -l net.unraid.docker.managed=dockerman \
  -l net.unraid.docker.webui='http://[IP]:[PORT:32400]/web' \
  -l net.unraid.docker.icon='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linuxserver/docker-templates/master/linuxserver.io/img/plex-icon.png' \
  -p '32400:32400/tcp' \
  -p '3005:3005/tcp' \
  -p '8324:8324/tcp' \
  -p '32469:32469/tcp' \
  -p '1900:1900/udp' \
  -p '32410:32410/udp' \
  -p '32412:32412/udp' \
  -p '32413:32413/udp'
  -p '32414:32414/udp' \
  -v '/mnt/user/Media/':'/movies':'rw' \
  -v '/mnt/user/Media/':'/tv':'rw' \
  -v '/mnt/user/Media/':'/music':'rw' \
  -v '/tmp/transcoding/':'/transcode':'rw' \
  -v '/mnt/user/appdata/plex':'/config':'rw' \
  --runtime=nvidia 'linuxserver/plex'

Scripts

• Dump_GPU_vBIOS (no shedule)
• nvidia_powersave (first array start + hourly)
• unlocknvidia (remove 3 streams limit / run at array start)
• increase_log_size (increase log size from default 128MB to 2GB / run at array start)
• clear_log