[[SOLVED] Install on vmware ESXI]

Hi,

 

I'm trying to install on esxi 5.1 U1. I followed the idiots guide and made an RDM to my 2TB disk which was installed in my old ds212+.

The VM boots and I find the DS in Synology assistant. When I try to install the DSM using the .pat file, the installation shows an error. It says I should forward the telnet port 23 on my router. I'm directly connected from my pc to my esxi server with LAN, no router in between. Tried stopping the firewall service and antivirus services but no luck..

 

Does someone has an idea how to solve this?

 

Grtz,

Kenny

Same issue here. Works great under 3202, but when I try with the 3211 .pat file I get prompted to forward port 23. BTW - I've tried that too but same result. Guess I'll go back to using 3202 for now.

 

I had this problem as well initially. I configure the VMFS disk to be type IDE instead of SCSI and it works for me.

[[SOLVED] Install on vmware ESXI]

Looks like the default "DS3612xs_4.2-3211_x64_Microserver-20130612.vmdk" is too small ? After conversion the size is 124,928KB

How do I expand the size when I create a new VM and import this vmdk ?

 

How I got it working is create a 2nd VMFS on IDE0:1 (10Gig). It than went pass the install process. After the first reboot, I did get "GRUB error 22". I restore the original "DS3612xs_4.2-3211_x64_Microserver-20130612.vmdk" file from backup and it booted fine.

 

Thanks

That is just a boot loader leave it alone small and add other drives for storage like you have done.

 

When I tried to use "SCSI0:0" for my VMFS disk. It did not work. I get an error when it tried to start the installation after providing the 'pat' file and putting in password. I had to use "IDE0:1"

[[SOLVED] Install on vmware ESXI]

 

 

Hi

 

Can you please detail how you install the vmdk onto the ESXi after you did the conversion. I tried to follow the guide and always get

 

GRUB Loading Error 22

 

Thank you.

 

Ok, now I get to the point with the "Synology Web Assistant" " Installing DiskStation Manager" "Initializing" and I get the following error :

 

"An error occur during installation. The telnet service of DiskStation is turn on ...."

 

The difference is that I am using a 20 GB VMFS virtual disk on SCSI0:0 with Type: Paravirtual

 

Thanks

 

Can you post a screenshot of the VM settings properties window

 

I manage to get it to install and working after some trial and error. Btw, I am using the following guide "Idiot's Guide to DSM 4.2 and ESXi 5.1.pdf" by Tuatara

Looks like the default "DS3612xs_4.2-3211_x64_Microserver-20130612.vmdk" is too small ? After conversion the size is 124,928KB

How do I expand the size when I create a new VM and import this vmdk ?

 

How I got it working is create a 2nd VMFS on IDE0:1 (10Gig). It than went pass the install process. After the first reboot, I did get "GRUB error 22". I restore the original "DS3612xs_4.2-3211_x64_Microserver-20130612.vmdk" file from backup and it booted fine.

 

Thanks

[[SOLVED] Install on vmware ESXI]

Is this still running 3202 or has 3211 been patched to run on ESXi yet?

 

I converted the 3211 image in the link below to vmdk using starwind v2v image converter. It works perfectly in the ESXI and passthrough and NFS are now working. Using passthrough, I assigned a Nic and my onboard sata controller to my DSM VM and the performance is amazing.

 

3211 x64 microserver .img/pat

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_Edi7OdbFZla2NPa3MtNkFia3c&usp=sharing

 

Starwind v2v image converter

http://starwindfreev2vconverter.en.softonic.com/

 

Make the folowing selection in starwind

Image format: VMware pre-allocated image

Virtual disk type: IDE

 

 

Hi

 

Can you please detail how you install the vmdk onto the ESXi after you did the conversion. I tried to follow the guide and always get

 

GRUB Loading Error 22

 

Thank you.

 

Ok, now I get to the point with the "Synology Web Assistant" " Installing DiskStation Manager" "Initializing" and I get the following error :

 

"An error occur during installation. The telnet service of DiskStation is turn on ...."

 

The difference is that I am using a 20 GB VMFS virtual disk on SCSI0:0 with Type: Paravirtual

 

Thanks

[[SOLVED] Install on vmware ESXI]

Is this still running 3202 or has 3211 been patched to run on ESXi yet?

 

I converted the 3211 image in the link below to vmdk using starwind v2v image converter. It works perfectly in the ESXI and passthrough and NFS are now working. Using passthrough, I assigned a Nic and my onboard sata controller to my DSM VM and the performance is amazing.

 

3211 x64 microserver .img/pat

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_Edi7OdbFZla2NPa3MtNkFia3c&usp=sharing

 

Starwind v2v image converter

http://starwindfreev2vconverter.en.softonic.com/

 

Make the folowing selection in starwind

Image format: VMware pre-allocated image

Virtual disk type: IDE

 

 

Hi

 

Can you please detail how you install the vmdk onto the ESXi after you did the conversion. I tried to follow the guide and always get

 

GRUB Loading Error 22

 

Thank you.