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Hi! I made a little tool which can help you to get your XPEnology up & running without installing any software. It contains (as portable versions): - Nirsoft's USB device view (helps to identify the VID & PID of your USB boot media) - V2.76 - XPEnology Serial Generator for DS3615XS, DS3617XS and DS916+ (a converted version of the HTML site) - Win32 DiskImager (to write your modified synoboot.img to your USB boot media) - V1.0 (only available in V1.4.1) - OSFMount x64 (to mount the synoboot.img and modifiy it) - V1.5 - Notepad++ (best editor for changing values inside grub.cfg) - V7.5.3 - Synology Assistant (useful tool from Synology to find your XPEnology and install DSM) - V6.2-23733 - TFTP/DHCP portable (a small TFTP, DHCP and Syslog server by Ph. Jounin) - V4.6.2 - MiniTool Partition Wizard 10 (helps assigning already formatted/written USB devices to modify existing grub.cfg) - V10.3 - SoftPerfect Network Scanner - V6.2.1 - USB Image Tool - V1.75 - New: Rufus - V3.3 In the section "Downloads" all links open corresponding websites to download the files. For beginners I added a small HowTo for bare-metal installation. Update New link for download: https://mega.nz/#F!BtViHIJA!uNXJtEtXIWR0LNYUEpBuiA The download link/folder also contains @IG-88's extra.lzma (V0.6) for the DS918+. You'll have to run it "As Administrator" because some of these tools (like Win32 DiskImager) need to be executed with higher rights. It's possible that the SmartScreen filter will give you a warning, because the EXE isn't signed. Bug reports and comments are welcome Cheers Current version: V1.4.2 (2018-11-19)

Video tutorial on how to get XPEnology to run on an HP Microserver Gen8 via ESXi 6.7, and install DSM 6.2 on SSD drive on ODD port, and pass drivebays to VM with RDM (Raw Data Mapping) MANY Thanx go to the great tutorial already posted here by @luchuma [ Tutorial: Install/DSM 6.2 on ESXi 6.7 ] I just always prefer to watch a video

Which loader and DSM are you trying to use? Recommended VM type is "Other 3.x Linux 64-bit" for ESXi, but I don't know if that translates to VMWare Workstation. EDIT: It would appear from topic that you have tried both 1.04b/DS918 and 1.03b/DS3617. I recommend 1.04b/DS918 and vmxnet3-equivalent NIC (not sure what VMW "host" type is), or 1.03b/DS3615 and e1000e NIC type