[Reinstalling Xpenology to apply a valid SN]

I've been running the same Xpenology instance since 5.something and it's been through several upgrades.  I also have a valid serial number that I'd like to apply to my system.  From my understanding, changing the serial number must be done with a reinstall of the system.  I have an extra Surveillance Station license that I'd like to use, but need to apply the valid serial number first.

 

I'm using Jun's 1.03b bootloader, and running DSM 6.2.3.  I tried changing the serial number and MAC addresses via the grub config file, but that doesn't seem to update whatever is necessary for Surveillance Station to accept a new license.  Maybe I Just need to reinstall the surveillance station package?

 

Has anyone successfully reinstalled DSM while maintaining data?  Fairly painless?  Additionally, has anyone applied a valid serial number using this method?

[DSM 6.1.x Loader]

21 hours ago, Error404 said:

Yes, that's right, you understand me correctly. Mobile applications were unavailable too. SMB, Plex and others were working.

I have reinstalled DSM again and it's working about 5 hours.

I had a similar issue with DSM 5.2, but it was because the root partition had run out of disk space.  Possible this was the case?

[DSM 6.1.x Loader]

16 hours ago, Benoire said:

Sorry the arg ihd_num=0 has to go in the grub.cfg.  You can create edit the grub file from the img using PowerISO before conversion to the VMDK.

Thanks!  I'll give that a shot.

[DSM 6.1.x Loader]

On 6/21/2017 at 7:47 AM, leavelost said:

Used the 1.02b to flash installing DSM in ESXI，

 

I have edit the grub.cfg to add "rmmod=ata_piix",

 

But DSM also can recognize the booting vmdk.

 

Has anyone met and solved this problem?

I've not been able to figure this out either.  I have tried IDE and SATA disk types in ESXI 6, disk mode is independent non-persistent, but the DSM installer still wants to format my boot disk.

 

I have tried adding rmmod=ata_piix to the end of the loadlinux line in the grub config.

[DSM 5.2-5967-1 - safe to install?]

Installed and running fine on my ESXi VM running 5.2-5592.2.

[Surveillance station can't add extra license]

Henrik,

 

I think the answer (unfortunately) is to downgrade (see the bottom of this thread: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9329&p=50501&hilit=surveillance+license#p50501) to version 7.0 of Surveillance Station.

[Poor SHR performance vs single-disk]

SHR with only 2 disks is in security mode similar to mirror

 

The speed is the same with only one disk

 

My speeds aren't the same, though . The single disk is faster than the 2-disk SHR array.

 

crookedview, if you really need need higher speed for IO operation you can use PCI HBA controller like LSI 9211 or LSI 9207.

 

I am using a PCIe controller (m1015 flashed to LSI firmware). All 3 drives (2 SHR 1 single disk) are connected to this controller.

 

Did you set up RAID1 (redundancy)? This doesn't give you any speed advantage compared to a single drive.

 

RAID1 = mirroring of 2 (or more disk)

 

There are only 2 choices for a RAID setup when you have 2 drives: RAID0 (striping, this is where you would get more speed at the risk of a total data loss if only one drive crashes) or RAID1.

 

Speed and safety would be RAID10 (which are two RAID0, mirrored) but you would need more disks (minimum 4).

 

Yeah andale, I set up SHR for 2 disks, which from what I read sets the drives up in a RAID 1 array. I was hoping that SHR would perform striped reads between disks (ZFS will stripe reads across disks, writes are mirrored).

[Poor SHR performance vs single-disk]

I'm running Xpenology in a VMWare 6 ESXi environment with an IBM m1015 RAID controller flashed to LSI firmware in IT (HBA) mode. I have 2 disks (4TB) attached to the controller that are running as Synology Hybrid Raid (SHR) and a single disk (5TB) also attached to the controller that is running in single-disk mode.

 

My read speeds from the SHR configuration are between 80-110MB/s, while the single disk read speeds are usually >110MB/s read speed.

 

Is there something in Xpenology that I can tweak to achieve better SHR read speeds? I thought RAID1 read speeds would be much higher than what I'm getting.

 

I should mention I'm using XPEnoboot 5592.2.