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    DSM on ESXi 6.5 and using RDMs

    in General Questions

    Posted · Edited by captainfred

    Hello,

     

    Those of you who are running DSM on ESXi 6.5 and using RDMs, which mode did you use for your disks (Dependent, Independent - persistent or Independent - non persistent) and which disk compatibility (physical or virtual)? and why?

     

    I'd like to use Dependent so I can create a snapshot before an update for rollback, but does this work when they are large RDM drives? Anyone tried?

     

    Thanks

    DSM 6.2 Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted

    On 8/18/2018 at 10:35 PM, ygor said:

     

     

    you should add     disable_mtrr_trim     to the grub.cfg

     

    Example: set common_args_3615='disable_mtrr_trim syno_hdd_pow ......

     

    it is know issue, also required on G7 (amd)

     

     

    what does this actually do? what does MTRR Trim stand for/mean?

    SSH to 1.02b loader not DSM?

    in Answered Questions

    Posted

    Oh, very odd. Yeah I did a reboot, still works but disabled in the GUI. 

     

    How do you see more about what the loader is doing/reporting then? I saw something about serial port but can I use the HP Gen8 MicroServer's ILO virtual serial port to see it somehow?

     

     

     

    SSH to 1.02b loader not DSM?

    in Answered Questions

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    I'm using Jun loader 1.02b - DSM 6.1.3-15152 Update 8 on HP Gen8 MicroServer baremetal.

     

    Telnet and SSH are definitely not enabled in Control Panel > Terminal & SNMP tab. But when I try to SSH to the IP, it responds with login as prompt!  So is it possible to SSH to the loader itself?

     

    I have searched and searched forum and can't find clear answer to this or way to get in.

     

    Thanks

    DSM 6.1.x Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted

    @dasis, you have to boot from USB. Check the Advance or other tab for "Boot Order", or "Boot option". You can even try to manually select boot device by pressing F11, F12, or other F-keys, depending on your system. Also, your computer is fairly old, and likely don't support UEFI, which is needed for this bootloader.

     

    Is it UEFI only? I thought either would work

    DSM 6.1.x Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted

    FYI: I just finished installing DSM 6.1-15047 Update 2 on my Baremetal Microserver Gen8 with a Xeon E3-1220v2 and 10gb ram (2+8).

    I used viewtopic.php?p=74492#p74492

     

    However, I did not download a seperate PAT file, I just used the default setup. I made a small edit to enable root login in SSH and made it possible to create SHR diskgroups. Small note on the enable SHR trick. I had to reboot to enable the creation of SHR diskgroups.

     

    When I was done, I installed the latest update that was available. Now I just have to see if this keeps running stable in the coming week.

    Where did you get the shutdown file from that post mentions to get WOL working?

     

    Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk

     

    With the new 6.0.x DSM my WOL is finally working, don't need any fancy SN + MAC address magic to make it work (using ASUS Merlin to send the command, even over Internet).

    Do you mean update 10 for 6.0.2 ?

    DSM 6.1.x Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted

    FYI: I just finished installing DSM 6.1-15047 Update 2 on my Baremetal Microserver Gen8 with a Xeon E3-1220v2 and 10gb ram (2+8).

    I used viewtopic.php?p=74492#p74492

     

    However, I did not download a seperate PAT file, I just used the default setup. I made a small edit to enable root login in SSH and made it possible to create SHR diskgroups. Small note on the enable SHR trick. I had to reboot to enable the creation of SHR diskgroups.

     

    When I was done, I installed the latest update that was available. Now I just have to see if this keeps running stable in the coming week.

    Where did you get the shutdown file from that post mentions to get WOL working?

     

    Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk

    Jun's Alpha Loader for DSM 6.1

    in DSM 6.x

    Posted

    I have install Jun's Loader v1.02a on my HP Microserver Gen8 but everytime when I restart server I can't find Xpenology on my network then I need to change SN and MAC in order to work again. Does anyone know why this is happening and is someone has a fix for this issue?

     

    Regards

    Igor

     

    That's odd. For interest how are you changing the SN and MAC each time? Sounds like it's not saved permanently on your boot usb.

     

    Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk

    DSM 6.1.x Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted

    I had read that the 6.x loader uses synology model that didn't support SHR raid. Is that still true? If I do a new install using xpe 6.0.2 update 7. Would I be able to use SHR .

     

    Thanks

     

    Synology is discontinuing SHR in favor of regular RAID arrays. Newer models and pretty much 6.x on Intel-based HW removes the option to create an SHR array, and offers regular RAID instead. However, existing SHR arrays will still work.

    Really? I did not know this. SHR is one of the big selling points imo! Why they getting rid of it?

    Tutorial: Install/Migrate DSM 5.2 to 6.0.2 (Jun's loader)

    in Tutorials and Guides

    Posted

    Can you please mention which vpn are you using with your router?

    Instead of QC it is better to make port forwarding. And all mobile applications well work for me without QC. Also there is tuned VPN (pptp, strongly wasn't distorted), which integrates my home network, parents and the village since not everywhere there is real ip and it was possible to use video surveillance normally. From my main house router port forwarding to all necessary is made.

    Yeah that's another way using port forwarding.

     

    I just use PPTN VPN on my router. Not all routers can do this though.

     

    You can also run a VPN server on DSM and just forward the port for that.

    Tutorial: Install/Migrate DSM 5.2 to 6.0.2 (Jun's loader)

    in Tutorials and Guides

    Posted

    Hi all. Great tutorial and info here.

     

    Quick question about changing the sn in the grub.cfg is this only necessary to get quickconnect to work?

     

    Where should I get a sn from or just make it up?

     

    I didn't change it from default but once I did get a message in DSM that said something like "not authorised" not sure if that's related or not.

     

    Thanks in advance.

     

    No need to change the S/N. The serial number doesn't do anything much by itself. For QuickConnect to work the S/N needs to be paired with a Synology MAC address. I do no support the use of QuickConnect on Xpenology as it's a violation of Synology's service.

     

    For the MAC address just use the real MAC address of your NIC.

     

    Where do you see such "not authorised" message? When using QuickConnect? If so then it's normal because Synology uses a paired S/N - MAC as commented above.

    Ah ok thanks. Yes I'm not worried about using quickconnect as maybe a little concerned about security so just vpn into my router to access DSM.

     

    The unauthorised message appeared in DSM just moving between screens nothing in particular. Not happened since but not used it that much as only on test HP Gen8 microserver for now. I'll get screenshot if it appears again.

     

    Thanks

    DSM 6.1.x Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted

    I had similar issues on my HP gen8. After installing Update 9 the machine rebooted however, I couldn't see it in my network in any way, even Synology Assistant couldn't find it. So I had to reboot the unit manually, and after second reboot it booted properly and now working like a charm.

    Are you running latest HP fw and do you have g1610t cpu?

     

    Any chance you could install virtualbox if you don't have it already to test that?

     

    I have standard gen8 but no way of testing it all on this loader with dsm6.

     

    Thanks in advance!

    DSM 6.1.x Loader

    in Loaders

    Posted

    Wondered if someone could help me. I'm trying to get this going in VirtualBox. I've imported it using the ovf file which is what I used for VMware Workstation and that works fine.

     

    In VirtualBox it doesn't come up in the console with booting the kernel bit, so I assume it's getting stuck there?

     

    I've tried all kinds of different settings, different NICs, different CPU/storage options etc but still the same. And tried the different boot options when the loader starts, including the VMware option. It's definitely not even connecting to the network.

     

    Any ideas?

     

    Thanks

     

    Virtualbox:

     

    VB.jpg

     

    VMware Workstation:

     

    VMW.jpg

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