[[SOLVED] HP Proliant N40L MicroServer native support]

It will see them directly as correct model hard drives. You can configure any supported RAID. Temperature will show, but SMART information will not. Performance on this hardware is comparable between VM or bare metal.

Drives most likely will be migratable back to direct hardware installation should you choose to boot from USB with DSM Synoboot instead of USB with ESXi.

 

Thanks for your advice. Got it working in ESXi 5.5. Data migrated over fine. Now I'm just having the internal debate of trusting my data without SMART. It's a little bit scarey. There are lots of non DSM posts about people losing their data using RDM. I have crashplan for backups, but a 6TB crashplan restore would not be fun. Think I'm going to go back to bare metal DSM. Really shouldn't play with ESX without VT-D.

[Synology DSM 4.3 comming?]

Is DSM 4.3 comming so we can use on pc's?

 

have you not read this thread just a few posts down?

 

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1082

 

synology has put in key encryption into the kernel modules and without actually breaking that some folks are trying to figure out a work around. It doesn't seem very trivial so I venture to guess that at this point it's a toss up if it ever gets released.

4.2 works very well. i don't think anyone will be crying until 5.0 is released and none of this works past 4.2.

[[SOLVED] HP Proliant N40L MicroServer native support]

Just FYI: for microserver users. Here is VMWare vSphere 5.5(esxi) packaged for HP servers.

https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/deta ... ductId=352

 

I'm not sure if there is support in the hardware monitor for microservers but it can't hurt to use this version.

[[SOLVED] HP Proliant N40L MicroServer native support]

 

Originally I had wanted to set this up with vSphere(esxi) but it seems like DSM won't give me the nice SHR functionality as it will only see the disks when I create VMDKs rather than direct hardware access. You could use all the drives with direct access via RDM.

 

And SHR will work with RDM?

[[SOLVED] HP Proliant N40L MicroServer native support]

I've bought a hp n54l with no extras installed. I'm running trantor v1.2 of 3211 and everything seems to work fine. I saw how at one point people had USB device issues with the microservers but I don't. Is there any reason I should be using the x64-microsever-20130612 build instead of trantor v1.2?

 

Originally I had wanted to set this up with vSphere(esxi) but it seems like DSM won't give me the nice SHR functionality as it will only see the disks when I create VMDKs rather than direct hardware access. Oh, well. Still not a bad little device as a standalone DSM machine. I honestly don't see why I need to go above the stock 2GB of RAM when running DSM on bare metal.

[4.3 issues]

Just thought I'd pass on these 4.3 vulnerabilities.

 

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/528543