Dane Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 So, I am wanting to reinstall stablebit scanner and have a slight dilemma. The machine that the pool is installed on is on is a Hyper-V VM. Should I install scanner on the VM or on the Host? Does it even matter? Any help appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Depends on the specific setup. If you're going to be passing through disks, then .... ideally both. The host can get SMART data from the drives (even if they're offline), but it can't easily scan the drives (there is away, but there is absolutely no throttling when scanning, which can be a problem). However, the guest OS can scan just fine and throttle the drives properly. But it can't get SMART data from the passed through disks (HyperV's doesn't support this, unfortunately). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dane Posted June 18, 2015 Author Share Posted June 18, 2015 Ok, so best bet for me is to install on the guest since I have never been able to get smart data from the drives, not sure if it is the raid card or sas expander. Thanks for the help. Sent from my SGH-I337M using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Ah, okay. That makes thing simple. And it would be the RAID Card, not the Expander that influences this (it's basically just a "SAS" switch for the controller card, allowing more drives). And you were using the LSI based controller still, right?And the Unsafe DirectIO option never worked? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dane Posted June 19, 2015 Author Share Posted June 19, 2015 Dell perc H310 now, which I believe is still an LSI based card. No I could not get the data, but that was several years ago, so might try again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dane Posted June 19, 2015 Author Share Posted June 19, 2015 Well never mind lol, just tried enabling unsafe io and guess what, I am getting SMART data now. Admittedly, last time I tried was a long time ago, when I had to edit a file to enable unsafe io. Thanks for the poke on trying that again Drashna. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Dell perc H310 now, which I believe is still an LSI based card. No I could not get the data, but that was several years ago, so might try again. Yeah, it is a rebranded LSI card, basically. Well never mind lol, just tried enabling unsafe io and guess what, I am getting SMART data now. Admittedly, last time I tried was a long time ago, when I had to edit a file to enable unsafe io. Thanks for the poke on trying that again Drashna. And ... well, glad to hear it. And yeah, a lot of people were having issue with the config file, and got Alex to move it to the UI. And glad that it works now. (shamelessly:) And you can get a second license for a discounted price. https://stablebit.com/Buy/Scanner/#existing_customers Though, no obligation to do so though. Just in case you want to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dane Posted June 19, 2015 Author Share Posted June 19, 2015 Well I did buy another license, to find out that I already had a second scanner license. Is there an easy way for me to unregister the license that I forgot about so I can use it on another computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Well I did buy another license, to find out that I already had a second scanner license. Is there an easy way for me to unregister the license that I forgot about so I can use it on another computer? Yeah, shouldn't be a problem. If you could open a ticket at https://stablebit.com/Contact, we'll handle it there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dane Posted June 20, 2015 Author Share Posted June 20, 2015 Done, thanks again for all your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Glad to hear it, and you're very welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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So, I am wanting to reinstall stablebit scanner and have a slight dilemma. The machine that the pool is installed on is on is a Hyper-V VM. Should I install scanner on the VM or on the Host? Does it even matter? Any help appreciated.
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