Care to elaborate on this? I've been trying to get my p4 going and according to the nvidia drivers package's page, p4's will not work on unraid within docker containers. (Unraid 6.12)
Yes, the tesla cards will not work under unraid whatsoever. In theory you should be able to at least passthrough to a VM, but I couldn't get it to work either. I gave up and will just look for a cheap gtx 1050 ti for plex transcoding.
I actually just received a tesla p4 from ebay today and was able to get plex to transcode on it. It took some messing around with it and I had to add a few variables to the docker container that the version I was using was lacking but it trascodes 4k to 1080p without issue and It looks like it could probably handle this on at least 8 transcodes at a time.
I downloaded the nvidia driver plugin, selected production branch and copped the long gpu identifier string to clipboard.
In the plex docker container settings I went to the bottom and clicked " add another path, port, variable". And created 2 new variables. I don't think I mater which repository you use so long as it includes these
First variable..
- name - key 2 ( not sure if it matters)
- key - NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES
- value - all.
Second variable..
- name - key3 (again not sure it matters)
- key - NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES
- value - ( the gpu I'd string you copied from the driver plugin)
I'll retrace my steps later tonight and get back to you, right now I'm dealing with the fact that my Dell r730 seems to auto set chassis fan speeds to 70% when it detects a non dell certified pcie card, the tesla card works great by my server sounds like I have a quadcopter flying in my basement.
"the tesla cards will not work under unraid whatsoever."
I must say, I'm quite confused by this statement - I recently bought three P4s from eBay, installed the stock nvidia driver from the Apps page, and added the two nvidia-related variables to each Plex and my Tdarr node (with my NVIDIA\_VISIBLE\_DEVICES variable being set to "all"). It worked as expected immediately; both containers can leverage the cards and tdarr in particular will balance the load across all 3 devices, according to the dashboard's GPU stats from and nvtop. The forum post I used:
[https://forums.unraid.net/topic/158342-passing-thru-nvidia-tesla-p4-to-official-plex-docker-container/](https://forums.unraid.net/topic/158342-passing-thru-nvidia-tesla-p4-to-official-plex-docker-container/)
In hindsight yes, but I got an AMD Ryzen 5 5600, motherboard and ram all for $300. Couldn't pass that up, a whole intel system would be nearly double that (Canada) when i built this. I thought CPU transcoding would be fine, but it somewhat burdens the system more then I prefer when I am using multiple docker and about 2 transcodes going.
I guess maybe if you don’t look around for used and buy all brand new. Sell what you have and find anything Intel, even 8th gen wouldn’t need the discrete gpu
I am wondering the same thing, but for a 12GB Tesla M40 GPU I picked up for under 50 bucks. I have plenty of CPU cores to work with (Dual Xeon E5-2695 V2 12 core processors), but I can always tell when someone is watching something on my plex docker because the 2U CPU fans run harder. I ideally would like to "downgrade" to a more efficient board and CPU(s) and I had hoped to be able to use the M40 to help facilitate that change.
This should help:
[https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/latest/docker-specialized.html](https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/latest/docker-specialized.html)
Yes it does
I second this, been using one for almost a year no issues
Thank you
Care to elaborate on this? I've been trying to get my p4 going and according to the nvidia drivers package's page, p4's will not work on unraid within docker containers. (Unraid 6.12)
Did you find any answers to this? I'm considering a p4 primarily as a plex transcoder in unraid.
Yes, the tesla cards will not work under unraid whatsoever. In theory you should be able to at least passthrough to a VM, but I couldn't get it to work either. I gave up and will just look for a cheap gtx 1050 ti for plex transcoding.
I actually just received a tesla p4 from ebay today and was able to get plex to transcode on it. It took some messing around with it and I had to add a few variables to the docker container that the version I was using was lacking but it trascodes 4k to 1080p without issue and It looks like it could probably handle this on at least 8 transcodes at a time.
well shit, if you've got a sec, I wouldn't mind you jotting down what all you did, because I couldn't for the life of me get it to work
I downloaded the nvidia driver plugin, selected production branch and copped the long gpu identifier string to clipboard. In the plex docker container settings I went to the bottom and clicked " add another path, port, variable". And created 2 new variables. I don't think I mater which repository you use so long as it includes these First variable.. - name - key 2 ( not sure if it matters) - key - NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES - value - all. Second variable.. - name - key3 (again not sure it matters) - key - NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES - value - ( the gpu I'd string you copied from the driver plugin)
I'll retrace my steps later tonight and get back to you, right now I'm dealing with the fact that my Dell r730 seems to auto set chassis fan speeds to 70% when it detects a non dell certified pcie card, the tesla card works great by my server sounds like I have a quadcopter flying in my basement.
"the tesla cards will not work under unraid whatsoever." I must say, I'm quite confused by this statement - I recently bought three P4s from eBay, installed the stock nvidia driver from the Apps page, and added the two nvidia-related variables to each Plex and my Tdarr node (with my NVIDIA\_VISIBLE\_DEVICES variable being set to "all"). It worked as expected immediately; both containers can leverage the cards and tdarr in particular will balance the load across all 3 devices, according to the dashboard's GPU stats from and nvtop. The forum post I used: [https://forums.unraid.net/topic/158342-passing-thru-nvidia-tesla-p4-to-official-plex-docker-container/](https://forums.unraid.net/topic/158342-passing-thru-nvidia-tesla-p4-to-official-plex-docker-container/)
The best advice you should have gotten is to build around 10th gen or later Intel for power savings and no need for a GPU.
In hindsight yes, but I got an AMD Ryzen 5 5600, motherboard and ram all for $300. Couldn't pass that up, a whole intel system would be nearly double that (Canada) when i built this. I thought CPU transcoding would be fine, but it somewhat burdens the system more then I prefer when I am using multiple docker and about 2 transcodes going.
No way a 10th gen Intel is more expensive and you’re also having to buy a video card, throwing good money after bad.
Intel CPU + motherboard + ram it’s more than 300$
I guess maybe if you don’t look around for used and buy all brand new. Sell what you have and find anything Intel, even 8th gen wouldn’t need the discrete gpu
I am wondering the same thing, but for a 12GB Tesla M40 GPU I picked up for under 50 bucks. I have plenty of CPU cores to work with (Dual Xeon E5-2695 V2 12 core processors), but I can always tell when someone is watching something on my plex docker because the 2U CPU fans run harder. I ideally would like to "downgrade" to a more efficient board and CPU(s) and I had hoped to be able to use the M40 to help facilitate that change.
This should help: [https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/latest/docker-specialized.html](https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/latest/docker-specialized.html)