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hi! I don't think there are many people who have done this, but maybe I stumble upon one or two people. I put together my XPEnology server before 6.0.. half a year or so (bad timing), knowing that it'll be smooth sailing from there on out. Expand the server as I see fit and when... I use it for other purposes as well. Labs and stuff, various servers. But then 6.0 came... but Hyper-V support did not. I've waited a while and it seems it's either way too difficult, next to impossible or no one cares, because it's not really the popular choice when it comes to hypervisors. I'm still running on the ancient 5.2-5967 Update 6. 6.0 on Hyper-V seems to run a bit. It is able to boot at times.. without network, I'm unable to assign macs to NICs or something like that. Or unable to generate valid serialnumbers.. or both. Dunno really. So the issue is. I'm planning to buy DS3617xs. My 6x8TB array (RAID6), running 5.2... what happens when I just place the drives in the Syno box? Will I blow up all my data? I don't have a buffer to store 23TB of stuff temporarily.

I have a dream that one day even the Hyper-V option, a much hated and disregarded hypervisor, greatly improved over the years, will be made available to the DSM users around the world.

Hi I have currently 4x6TB drives in RAID10. I'm planning to add 2x8TB drives to the array, will this be ok ?

Another one here very interested in this. Unfortunetaly my knowledge of linux is minimal and nonexistant when it comes to building stuff PS If you have something for testing, but don't have time, I could help with that I have alot of it

Hi I don't have a Synology product to test whether this is a general DSM bug or something to do with XPEnology... or my setup. Anyway.. This is the 3rd time, last time I tried to use docker apps was about 2 versions ago. XPEnology simply crashes and restarts when I manage, stop, start a Docker app.. which sucks alot. My 10TB array started checking parity consistency again.. that will take some time Where can I see what happened before the crash I don't really want to reproduce the crash

Feel free to make it work with Hyper-V aswell Simply converting vmdks to vhd, unfortunetaly, did not work

Hello I would like some info on this aswell.

Thanks, but "wrong cpu" is certainly not how I would've searched it

Hello I have Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 in my box and I gave XPEnology 4 cores, but DSM Info Center shows that I have INTEL i3-4130 and 2 cores. It had 2 cores at first, but converting tons of stuff I have, took it a bit out of breath, so I added 2 more and it was ok after that. So it seems that it shows 2 cores, but really uses all 4 I gave it ? Any experience ?

- Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 - ASRock X99M Extreme4 - 2x16GB Crucial 2133MHz CL15 DDR4 ECC (running at 1866 due to Xeon limitations) - Integrated: 1x Intel I218-V; 1x Qualcomm Atheros AR8171 - 1x Samsung SM951 128GB M.2 PCI-E SSD; 4x Western Digital Red Pro 6TB; 1x Samsung 840 Pro 256GB

DO NOT use WD Greens in NAS's WD Greens are absolute crap, which is why they're very cheap. They are meant for very mild usage, certainly not for NAS's and/or 24/7 usage. They are good for old people who rarely use the computer or kiosks where there is no data on-site, temp drives or something like that. If you value your data that is on the disk, don't put it on a WD Green drive. PS I don't have anything against WD. It's just you get what you pay for. And I don't say that just by looking at the price. I have had many Greens die in NAS's, so I have first hand knowledge and I've read similar stories online. And when you check what's the purpose of Green drives, you'll understand why they die.

You need 2 SSDs if you cache read AND write. This article should help you out: SSD Cache You can mount SSD anywhere, just use double sided tape or something, they have no moving parts in them. If you're short of SSD ports on motherboard, your only solutions are either to buy a HBA card, a SATA card or buy a new motherboard with more SATA ports. A MOLEX to SATA power Y splitter - didn't know these things exist. Appearantly, they do.

I'm using Gen1 VM, as Gen2 is not compatible.. some UEFI issue and all drives are on SCSI controller.

Hi Finished building my new server (NAS+VM Host on Hyper-V 2012 R2) yesterday. It's awesome Build setup Installed XPEnology today with no problem during installation process, at least I think so. However when I started creating volumes and checked SSD Cache readyness.... It's scrubbing 4x6TB RAID10 volume right now, but when I go to SSD Cache page, it says: "No available SSDs to create cashes." Nor is it showing drives S/N, Firmware, temps, S.M.A.R.T, yet it recognizes the SSD drive. Did I do something wrong during XPEnology install, is it Hyper-V quirk or is this how it is in XPEnology Could this be why it recognizes the SSD drive, but doesn't understand that it's an SSD, because the lack of drive information it receives ? Can I point XPEnology to the SSD First time using XPEnology. Thanks --- edit: Image too

Hi iSCSI is broken since 5.2-5644.1. 5.2-5592.1 should be ok, I think. This will be the build I'm going to install on my new NAS. You can read the changelog here: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=5026 and see if it's ok for you.

Hi there people Next month I will be starting with my new NAS build, which will also be a VM host, so keep that in mind. NAS will use a fraction of the resources. At first I thought of just replacing my DS211+ with a homegrown, a bit bigger, NAS. But then I thought.. why run VMs in my PC, when I could do that in my new, no doubt awesome, server, so I expanded the scope of my project a little and went with NAS+VM host setup. Specs are as follows: 1x Intel Xeon E5-2620v3 1x Scythe CPU Cooler Katana 4 1x ASRock Socket 2011-3 X99M Extreme4 (I did not find out what SATA controller this motherboard has, I hope it's compatible. I also hope that the controller holds. Having to buy an HBA card would add several hundred euros to the build cost) 2x Kingston DDR4 PC4-17000 2133MHz 16GB CL15 (15-15-15) ECC Reg (Should be enough for starters) 1x Fractal Design Node 804 (Smallest case I found that has necessary amount of 3.5" drive bays and I like the zone segregation) 1x Corsair AX760 - Platinum Fully-Modular PSU (I already have that lying around) 4x Western Digital Red Pro 6TB (+2 in the future) 1x Samsung SSD 840 PRO 256GB SATA 6Gbit/s (For SSDCaching in Synology, have that already) Some things are still not decided. I will first try installing it on Hyper-V (preferred hypervisor). If that doesn't give me desired results, I will go with unRAID. With Hyper-V setup I would add a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 120GB SATA 6Gbit/s drive for Hypervisor storage and OS images With unRAID I would have to buy a 32GB USB 3.0 Flash drive + unRAID Plus license. I would mostly want to know if anyone recognizes any compatiblity issues that may arise.

Hello Since http://xpenology.me/compatible/ page is currently broken, I hope someone can tell me here if IBM ServeRAID M5110 (FRU 90Y4449) is compatible with XPEnology. It doesn't show it supports JBOD. Will it let the drives simply pass through without doing a hardware RAID ? I want to do a software RAID in DSM later.

Thanks 8GB should do it then.

Hi I'm not really interested in FreeNAS, but people in FreeNAS videos tell that: "Get as much memory as you can get." How memory hungry is Synology regarding this matter I'm planning a NAS build with XPEnology and I would like to know this before I start spending. Usage case would be: 6 x 6TB WD Red Pro's and perhaps a 256GB SSD for caching. I've heard this feature might not work very well, but I'm going to give it a try. Services: Transcoding, DLNA server, Mail server, Audio server, Download Station, Photo Station, Video Station, Directory Server, DNS server, Note Station, Mail Station, Cloud Station. Server would be online 24/7.

+1, great idea.

Any examples as what's problematic about it ?

Hello My Synology DS211+ is full and I'm thinking of building my own NAS with XPEonology on it, instead of buying 1815+. It's going to have 6x WD Red Pro 6TB drives in SHR-2 + 256GB Samsung 850 Pro for caching. I was looking a video where Logan from Tek Syndicate built a NAS using FreeNAS, which uses ALOT of ECC memory for ZFS, RaidZ and whatever else. How about DSM and/or XPEnology ? How much memory would it need for a 6x6TB configuration + SSD caching ? I don't wanna stuff my board full of memory if Synology doesn't use it. However I will, if it does. My goal is ultimately performance.