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Hello ! Eh, are you really confident about this repo? 😕

That's the ESXI version I used, but I didn't installed the HPE addon pack, I'll try tomorrow but I'm not sure it will change anything. But I'm pretty sure the issue is on the server side since I found some "interesting" elements on the technical sheets: The Storage Controller controller is an Intel VROC SATA Software RAID. Maybe I have to dig on how to deactivate it for good, IF it's possible since I just discovered on the specs that... 🤦‍♂️OMG. But I'm not sure on how VROC works with the "Essential RAID Controller: HPE Smart Array E208i-p SR Gen10 Controller". I have to try some BIOS settings I guess. Anyway, I'm a it disapointed of the lack of support between the different components. As I said, I'm using a QNAP QM2-2P10G1TB with a 10Gb port and the 10 Gb chipset, AQC113C, is not supported by VMware and will probably never be... I guess I missed some critical points when building this 🤣

Hello! I'm facing a lot of issue with my new hardware... So I'm testing some setups but with no success for now I just received an HPE Proliant Microserver gen10+ v2 to which I added a QNAP M.2 card (the QM2-2P10G1TB, 2 M.2 NVMe slots and a 10Gb ethernet port). I put a SSD on one of the NVMe port, and have 4 disks on the native SATA's ports. First of all I wanted to install Arc on an ESXI VM, and I successfully installed ESXI on the M.2 SSD, but I can't get my disks in passthrough, so I tried some other configurations. So, I tested to install Arc in baremetal. I removed all 4 SATA drives to install DSM on the M.2 SSD. First steps went well but when the DSM installation arrived... The NVMe disk is missing (while ESXI hadn't any issue seeing it...) Am I missing something? Do I need to configure anything special on the BIOS? Is the NVMe card not adapted to my configuration? (And maybe there is another topic I should move this subject to?) Thanks a lot!!

Hmm I've found some leads which could explain my issue. I'm using a QM2-2P10G1TB QNAP card (2 NVMe + 10Gb) and My ESXI is installed on the NVMe disk. I found someone who seems to have the same issue: And I don't have any IOMMU option on my BIOS (I'm using a HPE Proliant Microserver Gen10+ v2)

So I entered lspci -v | grep "Class 0106" -B 1 The result of the commande gives me 0000:00:17.0 Mass storage controller SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device 43d2 Class 0106: 8086:43d2 I added this line at the end of the file /etc/vmware/passthru.map to add the controller into passtrough list 8086 43d2 d3d0 false So the final file looks like this: # Intel 82579LM Gig NIC can be reset with d3d0 8086 1502 d3d0 default # Intel 82598 10Gig cards can be reset with d3d0 8086 10b6 d3d0 default 8086 10c6 d3d0 default 8086 10c7 d3d0 default 8086 10c8 d3d0 default 8086 10dd d3d0 default # Broadcom 57710/57711/57712 10Gig cards are not shareable 14e4 164e default false 14e4 164f default false 14e4 1650 default false 14e4 1662 link false # Qlogic 8Gb FC card can not be shared 1077 2532 default false # LSILogic 1068 based SAS controllers 1000 0056 d3d0 default 1000 0058 d3d0 default # NVIDIA (FLR issue on Ampere and Hopper GPUs) 10de ffff bridge false # AMD FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode] 1022 7901 d3d0 default 8086 43d2 d3d0 false Before activating "Relay" on the manage / hardware tab, I do have all my disks but all the disks disappear when I activate it and reboot the server. BUT... I do have an error when activating relay: And if I hit refresh, the message is different...

Well I followed the tutorial but the 2 disks disappeared 🤣 (and the SATA controller is still here) I think I made a mistake somewhere.. To be clear, I need to add both part of configuration, or just the first one? (Obviously personnalized with the right vendor ID) And if I need to put the second part, is there not a problem on the second line, where there is not the device ID mentionned? And do I need to remove the "(in hex) (ffff can be used for wildchar match)" part since it seems to be just a comment? Thanks a lot... (I feel like a zero 🤦‍♂️)

Thanks, I will test all of this tonight!!

Hello dj_nsk, If I have well understood, if I want to use ARC to automate the installation on ESXI, I just have to follow the exact same tutorial than for the classic Redpill (configuring SATA controllers, gunzip the vmdk etc., until booting on Redpill?) Thanks!

Ok ! Well I'm confused now if I'm using VM or going back to baremetal...

Oh wow so it's a full passthrough and I will get all informations about HDD (SMART, serials etc) directly into DSM? Are they any pro and cons about this configuration? Thanks a lot!!!

Hello, You have really observed a performance issue with ESXI? With data transfer? Or raw power?

Hello guys, Just an new question / update on the disks sleep with ESXI, but in a different configuration than I used on this topic: I just bought an HPE Microserver gen10+ v2 and I think I won't use a SAS card since I don't need a lot of storage, so the setup will be like this: - 1 PCIe card with 2 NVMe drives: 1 for the ESXI and the datastore, I have not decided yet for what I'm going to use the second NVMe slot - 4 HDD on the SATA bays I'm going to install ESXI on 1 SSD NVme of the PCIe card, with the Synology VM (And probably other VMs, but not using the HDD) I will to configure the 4 HDD in passthrough to manage the RAID with Synology. Since it's directly connected to the mainboard, do I need to configure anything else to get a real passthrough? I can perform multiple installations to test it but I'm sure you'll be able to provide a lot of good advices Thanks for your help!

Hello! Sorry by advance for the noob question but... I'm looking for a step-by-step upgrade guide to upgrade my DSM (I'm on DSM 7.1.1-42962 Update 1, and I guess 7.2 is now supported by TCRP?) but I can't find how to upgrade it without crashing my server and start again ^^' I really need to test this on a preprod server, I know... Could you point me to the right direction? 😅😅😅 Thaaaanks!

Wow thanks, was stupid to not test this... AME activated, it seems I don't need to change my serial eventually.. Thanks again! (I guess I don't have AAC since I didn't install Audio Station, but I have a doubt on the version?)

Wow thanks for the tip. I guess I have the possibility to use the passthrough mode: And if I follow your advices, I have to rebuild everything from scratch I guess, Since I'm on my production NAS, I have to backup everything, move everything... not for today ^^' I have to test all of this on another machine first 😅 When you say I won't be able to revert to RDM, what case do you reffer to? Are there pros and cons to the passthrough mode and RDM mode? Thanks again for all your help!