Unraid
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 pressstart 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 theCommunity 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
- Add this variable to the template:
1
NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=GPU-b39df49c-2a34-29f1-d923-b57c615d22eb
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
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